Can Hollywood Invent A Super Hero?

[kingkoopa]

Like a Thor or superman? Instead of a comic book adaption, why can't someone create a super hero saga on film? Would it even work? Would you go see an Ivory Man, if done right? I feel like comic book super heroes can't get as dark as adult audience want with violence and language. I have no problem with the current run, just a thought that popped in my head.

 

[crazy ebw]

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[trilluminated]

they're already working on it..

 

[Master Zik]

Welll first off it'd have to have a better name than "Ivory Man" I don't even want to think about the lame powers that would entail

Secondly, Hollywood has done it before it's just that the first movie wasn't successful enough to warrant a trilogy or saga. Might as well save that for the action hero movies. Gotta keep in mind superhero movies weren't always the cash cow they have been this past decade +.

I can recall Hancock not being based on a comic or an adaption of anything and neither was Meteor Man but those were two black superheroes so that's probably not gonna be the best example since certain things will prevent success. As far as getting dark, there's plenty comicbook superheroes that if adapted and they stayed true to the story would be rated R or MA or NC-17 but Hollywood for the longest has this idea (that is supported) that a rated R superhero movie won't be as successful if it wasn't rated R.

I'd watch it if it was good. I mean Star Wars became a thing and that's all it really takes. One writer with a vision that knows how to tell a story and then has the money backing to make it in to a good film.

 

[milestailsprowe]

Maybe but the thing is Marvel and DC have that game on lock.

Hitchcock SUCKED

 

[kingkoopa]

Hitchcock wasn't a " super hero" movie IMO. You can't make a franchise off that ****. I mean its 2013, nothing's on paper. Why do super heros have to be born on paper?

 

[Master Zik]

Maybe but the thing is Marvel and DC have that game on lock.

Hitchcock SUCKED

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[Bert.]

clearly Hollywood cant come up with new idea, they are doing the same stuff over and over .

 

[kingkoopa]

Son IVORY MAN?! What is he gonna do kill elephant poachers?

Lol hell yeah, If that just randomly popped in my head imagine what I could do with a 20 mil budget!!!!

 

[Master Zik]

Hitchcock wasn't a " super hero" movie IMO. You can't make a franchise off that ****. I mean its 2013, nothing's on paper. Why do super heros have to be born on paper?

To me it was, again I'm talking about Hancock. There was definitely stuff you could mine from the story provided that could've led to much better sequels.

They don't have to be born on paper. It's just the most popular ones are, cuz you know before movies became a big thing for everybody, comics were for kids and radio was for adults. The big 2 comic publishers nutured their products and made them cash cows.

There can be non comics superheroes, we had them in The Incredibles but that was animated and that's probably the best you'll get. Live-action though? Better be going for something from Marvel or Batman and the 3rd best choice is a cult classic independent comic based hero.

clearly Hollywood cant come up with new idea, they are doing the same stuff over and over .

Also this, Hollywood comes up with original ideas less and less every year.

 

[crazy ebw]

What's Hitchcock?

 

[unknwn]

Ivory Man?

 

[kingkoopa]

What's Hitchcock?

Lol I saw a poster before say it, knew what he was talkin about and ran with it. Hancock for those out the loop.

 

[crazy ebw]

Lol I saw a poster before say it, knew what he was talkin about and ran with it. Hancock for those out the loop.

 

[kingkoopa]

Ivory Man?

Just imagine Kanye in a all white suite, Lokie helment killing all those who aren't hypebeast

 

[pr0phecy718]

Lol ivory man

Sounding like a member of meteor man's group

 

[jpthe3]

Hitchcock 

had me over here googling alfred hitchcock

 

[T Lo Sweater]

lil b should collab with hollywood

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[denni5themenace]

blankman

 

[HankHill]

There's so much material already there to adapt into a movie. Writing a completely new world would be too much work.

 

[proper english]

the XMEN movies are a Hollywood product.. they stay butchering the hell out of the characters and storylines

 

[auszero]

It seems to me that financially is not a smart move. Why not buy the rights to a character with an established fan base? Chronicle was a super hero movie but wasn't a big budget film like traditional super heroes. It had a $12 million dollar budget and made ten times that so it was a reasonably safe film to make. The new Spiderman had a budget of $230 million. If you're going to make a film that costs that much you want to make sure people will come see it.

 

[Nike Jordan]

RoboCop?

 

[frank mucus]

This dude said Ivory Man

Even if Hollywood did invent some superhero it's not going to have that large following like these established comics book have. These Batmen, X-Men, Avenger men already have backstories and history. Some Hollywood superhero would have no credibility.

 

[djyoung08]

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