Who's ready for another Hulk TV series?
As DC Comics heroine Wonder Woman, who had a TV series during the 1970s, is being prepped for a return to the small screen, Marvel and ABC are developing a TV return for the Incredible Hulk. CBS produced a memorable series featuring the jade giant that ran from 1978-82 and starred Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno.
At the end of the decade, ABC followed up with three TV movies that featured incarnations of Marvel heroes Daredevil and Thor.
"Hulk" is one of two projects that are priorities at Marvel Television, Marvel Studio's TV division, which has been operating under the radar since Jeph Loeb took the reins at the end of June. The second hot property is "Cloak and Dagger," which is being developed as a possible show for ABC Family.
Both are in the early stages of development; "Hulk" has a "showrunner wanted" placard around its neck; meanwhile, Loeb is meeting with writers to hear ideas for "Cloak and Dagger."
Marvel began narrowing its list of possible TV adaptations in May with a presentation on the Disney lot. Executives presented ABC suits with a list of titles they identified as possible series:
"Heroes for Hire" (focusing on ex-con Luke Cage offering to take on bad guys for a price);
"The Eternals" (a race of superpowered beings live amid humanity in secret, inspiring legends);
"Agents of Atlas, Alter Ego" (private investigator Jessica Jones takes on cases involving superhumans);
"Moon Knight, the Red Hood" (a low-rent criminal discovers a cloak that gives him superpowers);
"Ka-Zar" (a Tarzan-type and his saber-toothed tiger must journey to the concrete jungle to seek justice);
"Daughters of the Dragon" (a dynamic female duo, one with a bionic arm and the other a granddaughter of a samurai, open a private-detective agency); and
"The Punisher" (one man wages a war on crime; already adapted as two feature films).
"Cloak and Dagger" wasn't on the list. "Hulk" was.
Although the focus appears to be on "Hulk" and "Cloak and Dagger," "Punisher" also has been selected from the herd and is eyed as a cable entry, but that is even further away. Marvel's TV division wants to take things slow, according to insiders, focusing on one or two shows, making sure they are the best they can be and establishing a quality brand before moving forward.
Marvel is in the middle of establishing a shared universe among its movies (the plots and characters form one big story), but it's unknown whether the studio will undertake a similar path with TV. Also unknown is whether there would be a connection between the film world and TV world.
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Marvel, ABC prep TV return for "Incredible Hulk"
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Re: Marvel, ABC prep TV return for "Incredible Hulk"
Hulk will probably never air. A CG Hulk is too expensive for tv and a bodybuilder in green paint just won't cut it anymore.
And I've said this before, and I'm sure I'll say it again: The Punisher needs to be a tv series on HBO or Showtime, or one of the "edgier" networks like FX or TNT.
I firmly believe, that in the right hands, with one part Marvel Knights and two parts MAX (with the occasional hint of old school Mike Zeck), The Punisher could be an amazing, gritty crime series, which could rival the acclaim that The Sopranos or The Shield (and the like) have received over the years.
Give Frank a good cast of supporting characters like Detective Soap and Microchip, with villains like Ma Gnucci, Barracuda, Nicky Cavella, The Russian and a few others. Even hire Sam Jackson to play Nick Fury on occasion.
And don't even think of humanizing Frank. Having your family slaughtered in front of you and wanting revenge is sympathetic enough.
And hire Tom Jane to be Frank again.
And I've said this before, and I'm sure I'll say it again: The Punisher needs to be a tv series on HBO or Showtime, or one of the "edgier" networks like FX or TNT.
I firmly believe, that in the right hands, with one part Marvel Knights and two parts MAX (with the occasional hint of old school Mike Zeck), The Punisher could be an amazing, gritty crime series, which could rival the acclaim that The Sopranos or The Shield (and the like) have received over the years.
Give Frank a good cast of supporting characters like Detective Soap and Microchip, with villains like Ma Gnucci, Barracuda, Nicky Cavella, The Russian and a few others. Even hire Sam Jackson to play Nick Fury on occasion.
And don't even think of humanizing Frank. Having your family slaughtered in front of you and wanting revenge is sympathetic enough.
And hire Tom Jane to be Frank again.
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Re: Marvel, ABC prep TV return for "Incredible Hulk"
I think Spider-Man would be the perfect foundation for an ongoing weekly series. All of Peter's teenage supporting cast in a highschool setting, and having mainstays like Norman Osborn and Otto Octavius(the latter combining the sympathetic movie version with the comic subplot as potential suitor for Aunt May) being antagonists/father figures for Peter. Throw in the bare minimum of actual Spider-Man costume (hell, you could even keep Uncle Ben alivefor the first half or full season) and slow things down like on Smallville.
With courtroom dramas being all the rage right now (The Defenders,The Good Wife, etc) you could do something like Daredevil and/or She-Hulk if you minimalized the "comicy" aspects and appealed to a broader audience. I'm thinking something like Eli Stone would work for She-Hulk. And for the DD stuff, you could combine the Heroes For Hire/Daguhters of the Dragon/Alter Ego concepts above into one killer Drama with lots of great characters and actors on it.
Alas, all of Marvel's best stuff is tied up at other studios.
With courtroom dramas being all the rage right now (The Defenders,The Good Wife, etc) you could do something like Daredevil and/or She-Hulk if you minimalized the "comicy" aspects and appealed to a broader audience. I'm thinking something like Eli Stone would work for She-Hulk. And for the DD stuff, you could combine the Heroes For Hire/Daguhters of the Dragon/Alter Ego concepts above into one killer Drama with lots of great characters and actors on it.
Alas, all of Marvel's best stuff is tied up at other studios.

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Re: Marvel, ABC prep TV return for "Incredible Hulk"
I think a Falcon show would be fucking sweet personally, Sam Wilson doing all kinds of social work and shit 

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I just ripped off most of your pubes!!
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