We reported on this a while ago and the marketing ghuru of Avi Arad has talked about the state of these projects again and again, but it’s good to know that we’re heading towards some concerete news. From Coming Soon:
The Hollywood Reporter says that Marvel, now called Marvel Entertainment, will announce Tuesday its name change and will divulge that superheroes Captain America, the Avengers, Nick Fury, Black Panther, Ant-Man, Cloak & Dagger, Dr. Strange, Hawkeye, Power Pack and Shang-Chi will be made into movies:
Paramount Pictures, under a deal announced in April shortly after Brad Grey took the helm of the studio, will distribute and market the films, the first of which will be released in 2008 or possibly sooner.
Marvel chairman and CEO Avi Arad said he officially will begin attaching scriptwriters to all 10 projects beginning Wednesday and that, though he has a wish list, he’s unsure which movie will be released first.
Arad says that the scripts will decide which movie comes first, and that he’d personally love to tell the Captain America story first. Personally I think it’s the only one from the list I’d like to see, and even then I’m having doubts if they can pull it off considering some of the adaptations to date. What do you think? Which would you have a preference for and why?
