Sci-Fi Options New Marvel TV Shows

[Guest raptor]

From Zap2it

LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) - If there was any doubt, "Smallville" and "Spider-Man" have proved that nothing beats the good vs. evil fights found between the covers of comic books. Sci Fi Channel has definitely gotten the message and has made a deal with Reveille (a sibling company of Universal Television Group) to develop two two-hour, back-door pilots based on Marvel comics.

 

"Brother Voodoo" will focus on psychologist Jericho Drumm, who returns to New Orleans after the death of his brother and learns that he is destined to become a voodoo priest. In addition to discovering his talents in the black arts and the responsibilities they carry, Drumm must reconcile the magic and science in his life.

 

Based on Marvel's "Strikeforce: Morituri," "1,000 Days" is set in the not-so-distant future where a group of soldiers are given enhanced abilities in order to fight the contemporary evils of the world. The gift has a price though: each new recruit will die 1,000 days after they join the special force.

 

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHA

[Guest starvenger]

Brother Voodoo as well? They're REALLY trying to make that Night Thrasher series look good, aren't they?

[Guest EdwardKnoxII]

Ok, I've never heard of these two comic books in all the years I've been reading comic books. Can someone tell me something about them?

[Guest Vyce]

I would like Sci-Fi to create new Marvel TV shows.

 

But not those two.

 

I mean, really. I get the feeling that these two shows will make "Mutant X" look good by comparison.

[Guest gthureson]

Well, you gotta figure the Brother Voodoo marketing rights came pretty damn cheap.

 

"You wanna buy the rights to what?"

[Guest MrRant]

You have to imagine that there would be some other good 2nd tier characters to do a show with. What about Dead Pool or something?

[Guest Sassquatch]

Dead Pool will most likely end up as a movie project instead of a television series.

 

These new Marvel shows look hideous.

[Guest MrRant]

I think it would work out better as a TV series personally.

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

It's too bad that Werewolf by Night is being made into a movie... that would be good for Sci-Fi.

 

If I had to pick 3rd tier characters to base shows on:

 

Shang Chi

Deathlok

[Guest Vyce]

Shang Chi and Deathlok WOULD definitely be two good characters to do series on.

[Guest Steviekick]

I find this quite amusing...I was actually being nuts and telling my friends who are comics literate that I was writing a script for a Strikeforce: Morituri movie...I really do have better things to do, I'm not. wow. someone else is as sick and demented as me.

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

Shang Chi and Deathlok WOULD definitely be two good characters to do series on.

We already *know* Shang Chi would work. What is Shang Chi? It's the TV Show Kung-Fu with the occaisonal Marvel cross-over or supernatural enemey.

[Guest Sassquatch]

Deathlok would either turn out to be like Robocop 1 or Robocop: Prime Directives.

 

Deathlok's has a limited character in the stories you could put him in which was one of the reasons why his series' were always cancelled since his debut.

[Guest gthureson]

Well, if they used Luther Manning, you could do a pretty cool TV series on Deathlok.

 

I think the problem with it is that, despite the unholy carnage wreaked by the Demolisher at times, it is a very cerebral character. Most of Luther's battles were actually going on inside his head, in an attempt to remain viewing himself as human.

 

Wheras the networks would rather just have him kicking ass.

 

 

If you wanted to have some real fun...don't even move the time period of the 'Astonishing Tales' stuff forward. Set in in 1993. Don't say '2023' or anything. Leave it in that 70s future, even though its the past now. Don't give the big expository first episode giving an alternate history. Let people know the details through the stories you tell.

 

But I guess that requires good storytelling, which network TV has always been pretty weak on.

 

Luther has always been one of my favorite characters, and I kinda wish they'd let him come back in all his brooding cybernetic ass-kicking retro-future glory.

 

I bought some of the last Deathlok series, and the 'kinder, gentler Deathlok' just didn't do it for me.

[Guest gthureson]

And to actually make an real comment on the thread:

 

Second to the probably relatively cheap rights for a Brother Voodoo TV series, I think they are also thinking of what they would need to spend to make it look decent, and what market demographics they want to hit.

 

Sci-fi already has the white geek market hands down. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd be thinking they are hoping that having a black lead will help them expand their market outside of white teenage geekdom. Add in to that the popularity of occultism in young adult programming (ie: Buffy, Angel, Charmed) and you have what appears to be, on the surface, a good bet. Black oriented occult youth programming.

 

But like most shows, its going to live and die by its writing. What I know of Jericho Drumm, he is an interesting character. However, with the premise they have to work with, it can easily lick serious monkey balls with poor writing.

[Guest starvenger]

Sci-fi already has the white geek market hands down. If I had to hazard a guess, I'd be thinking they are hoping that having a black lead will help them expand their market outside of white teenage geekdom. Add in to that the popularity of occultism in young adult programming (ie: Buffy, Angel, Charmed) and you have what appears to be, on the surface, a good bet. Black oriented occult youth programming.

You know, that might actually expain why Night Thrasher is in development and Nova isn't.

[Guest Sassquatch]

You are all forgetting one thing:

 

Deathlok has no one that could constitute being considered a "good" super villain. DLok's rogues gallery is nearly non-existant as most of the villains he fought were brought in from other books or else they were just God awful.

 

Making Moses Magnum and Siege the lead villains for a TV show would be the best way to go though. Make Moses the baddest ass motherfucker that ever lived and make Siege into a fucking kiddy killer in regards to him just being a scary bastard.

[Guest TheZsaszHorsemen]

You are all forgetting one thing:

 

Deathlok has no one that could constitute being considered a "good" super villain. DLok's rogues gallery is nearly non-existant as most of the villains he fought were brought in from other books or else they were just God awful.

 

Making Moses Magnum and Siege the lead villains for a TV show would be the best way to go though. Make Moses the baddest ass motherfucker that ever lived and make Siege into a fucking kiddy killer in regards to him just being a scary bastard.

Now that i think about it, Iron Man never had a strong Rogue's Gallery either. Nowhere near Deathlok weakness, but still.

[Guest Sassquatch]

Please.

 

IM had one of the most unique rogue's gallery in the MU. Like Spider-Man and Batman, his foes compliment his character. Iron Man is a character based on technology and was spawned from violence. Hence most of his foes are technology based with each one of them having an intricate backstory that Iron Man can relate to in some cases.

 

I suggest you go back and read any issues from Iron Man #114 to #256 to understand how well Iron Man's foes stack up in the MU.