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Stan Lee's 'Annihilator' Film Finds Producer
Just because much of the news surrounding comic book movies at present involves sequelizing and furthering established properties, doesn't mean there aren't original heroes being developed for film as well. In December of 2011, Dan Gilroy ('Real Steel') was hired to write a screenplay based on a brand new character created by the one and only Stan Lee. The character was called Annihilator, a Chinese expatriate forced to choose between prison and an American super soldier program. He undergoes a dangerous procedure that gives him enhanced abilities, and he is pitted against an old rival who has been similarly enhanced. Now it appears the film version of Annihilator has found a producer in Barry Josephson ('Bones'). He will be producing alongside Magic Storm Entertainment. Their CEO, Eric Mika, had this to say...
"Barry is the perfect partner at every level to produce a film of this magnitude that targets a global market, including mainland China. Barry’s talents combined with Dan Gilroy’s explosive script makes Stan Lee’s treatment extremely powerful and a cornerstone for a unique franchise."
This is an intriguing project. Once again, we're talking about a completely original character; one that hasn't even been in print. This is usually the point in the proceedings wherein we discuss which actor might be most apt to embody the character and/or which crucial elements of the source material the screenwriter need flesh out. Here, we don't have the luxury of source material so we must go entirely upon the conceptual logline for the character. The super soldier program obviously smacks a bit of Captain America, and there are elements of Wolverine in the manner by which he receives his powers. Hell, based on the design above, he even sort of resembles Wolverine. It's also interesting that Mika mentions targeting the Chinese market with this character. Some of the casting decisions made for 'Iron Man 3' were made with similar designs on cultivating a Chinese audience. I'm excited to see how Gilroy's script establishes this new character and allows him to stand apart from some of his Marvel brethren. And now that the project has a producer, the question becomes where will this film be released so as to not conflict with any number of other massive Marvel movies over the next few years.
What do you guys think? Are you interested in an Annihilator movie? Is it wise for Stan Lee to develop a comic hero specifically for film?
Source: Superhero Hype
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Comment by K-Bomb on February 22, 2013 at 10:25am -
Remember Stan Lee's Lightspeed? That was an "original" property that had no print precedent, and it was made into a movie too. Let's see how that turned out...
Yikes. :( It might've been the SyFy production influence that tanked it, but I just think Lightspeed was doomed to fail from the start. It borrowed liberally from the Flash and essentially reworked the Reptile villain from Spider-Man.
Hopefully Annihilator (or as Stan Lee might call it, "ANNIHILATA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" with hands thrust in your face) is being put together by a whole different team.
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Comment by JoeDrifter on February 21, 2013 at 9:33pm -
@Dr. Detfink, that's actually one character i want to see MARVEL revamp and make him more mainstream, but people aren't really looking for a 2099 revamp, sadly.
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Comment by Dr. Detfink on February 21, 2013 at 5:46pm -
Apparently Stan gave up on a Ravage 2099 movie
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Comment by Hayley Fischer the Brony on February 21, 2013 at 4:36pm -
Doesn't look too bad.
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Comment by CoffeeSpill on February 21, 2013 at 3:46pm -
Bored at work,...quick sketch up of my version of John Cho( Harold & Kumar/Star Trek) playing Annihilator!
Annihilator flees to his homeLand after he refuses to divulge his formula for super duper soldiers to a Military lab!
He is then recruited by a secret progressive organization there to use his formula( and enough for 6 others) to sneak into neighboring North Korea to destroy their nuclear projects and extract their top scientist and family to safety, only to discover the evil truth,..that the U.S. military lab has been secretly developing with NK, their own Hi-Tech flying exoskelotons!
Ok,...time to go home.
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Comment by CoffeeSpill on February 21, 2013 at 3:34pm
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Comment by patmander on February 21, 2013 at 2:58pm -
Looks stupid.
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Comment by AndrewWILLSONThe ShogunOfAustin on February 21, 2013 at 2:44pm -
that looks like a charater from final fight or street fighter
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Comment by CoffeeSpill on February 21, 2013 at 1:28pm
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oh btw,..if they truely want to target MainLand China. change
" Chinese expatriate forced to choose between prison and an American super soldier program."
to
" Chinese forced to choose between American prison and a Chinese super soldier program."
Ohhhhh.that's going too far now is it?! :p
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Comment by CoffeeSpill on February 21, 2013 at 1:18pm
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Super soldier pitted against a 'mirror' version = 'Intriguing project'? Not. I can't stand when the bad guy is just an evil version of the hero. So played.
Annihilator? that's his name? Seriously? tossing Asians into the film to target the Chinese market? Ok fine,..alittle transparent but whatevs.
" Here, we don't have the luxury of source material",..ummm,...9 times outta 10,..am I the only one wondering WTF writers/Directors did to the source material for some films!? Since when do they give a rats azz about 'Source' material?!
But unless they go campy and witty( to go along with the campy generic Title) this is gonna be worse than Wolverine:Origins, imho.
that's ok though,..Some Ol'BS makes for fun reviews.
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