Marvel Wants Hulk and Punisher on TV

[DustyDrB]

The Hulk will forever be the Erica Bana trippy version. Couldn't care less about the Punshier. I remember he showed up in the 90s Spierman cartoon and basically was just captain Sourpuss.

 

[Quaxar]

Punisher for TV sounds like something that can't be done right if they want enough audience to justify their production costs. Or if they want to air it before midnight.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

If the punisher is PG-13 it will be terrible.

This made me think of the Robocop TV series.

The Hulk, if CGI, would be expensive. Not unless since it is Marvel studios, they would already have access to some of the resources of the movie. Can't really see Ed Norton doing a tv series tho. If they cant use any of the movie's elements then we won't see the Hulk that much because it would be too expensive to do on a regular basis.

I reckon Punisher would make for a better tv series.

 

[tkioz]

I think I'll watch the shows only on the following conditions;

A) The characters aren't teenagers.
B) The characters aren't "hip 20 somethings"
C) The water down the plots
D) It's not romantic dreck with a side helping of emo (smallville I choose you!)
E) Something actually happens (heroes I'm looking at you!)

 

[Ghengis John]

I could see a Punisher TV show coming off a lot like a syndicated actioner. Every week Frank Castle meets a new crook. Every week he dispatches a new crook. With the occasional larger plot arc that involves killing many many crooks. Sci-fi and USA networks can fight for syndication rights.

 

[Aisaku]

Actually Cloak and Dagger would pretty much define the whole "angsty teen hero" thing. Understand that Cloak and Dagger were both broken kids on the streets who met by chance, with Dagger buying Cloak (who was younger) something to eat in an act of charity. They wound up being abducted and used as experimental subjects for some new drugs that gave them their powers, later teaming up with a cop called "Mayhem" to track down and destroy the organization.

It's been a while, but I remember that's the gist of the story that started them. I could see it being done as a TV series, but it would lose something if the characters weren't homeless kids which was part of the point.

The Punisher wouldn't work, because to be honest there really isn't anything special about the character except for him being in a world of super heroes, where most of the super guys will not kill, which he has no hesitation about. If you remove the rest of the Marvel Universe from the equasion you wind up with what is a pretty stereotypical action hero in
the time-honored mould of Mack Bolan. I think this is why other attempts to do the character have been mediocre at best.

While I agree Cloak and Dagger would be perfect for a tv reinterpretation, being obscure yet long standing street-level characters in the MU, I disagree that Punisher can't work outside the MU. Garth Ennis' Punisher run is hands down excellent, and would make excellent miniseries material. Too bad that its excessive violence and tackling of political issues would make this highly unlikely.

So Cloak & Dagger could be ok... Though I fear what's going to become of Runaways' in Disney's hands. (Set to be turned into a movie, afaik)

 

[SomeUnregPunk]

I could see a Punisher TV show coming off a lot like a syndicated actioner. Every week Frank Castle meets a new crook. Every week he dispatches a new crook. With the occasional larger plot arc that involves killing many many crooks. Sci-fi and USA networks can fight for syndication rights.

have the punisher show on the same network as Dexter.
Have the punisher start working his way to a Dexter knockoff... killing off criminals on one side of the nation while the the knockoff is killing off heroes on the other side.

Then have the series end with the climatic battle between the two and the the nations police force as they try to stop both of them.

Have the season end with the message that crime doesn't pay and that civilians shouldn't take on the role of judge/jury/excutioner...

it might work in that way....

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Garth Ennis' Punisher run is hands down excellent, and would make excellent miniseries material. Too bad that its excessive violence and tackling of political issues would make this highly unlikely.

Yeah The Punisher v5 (MAX) is my favourite run of the Punisher and it didn't have a single super powered gimp in sight... although Barracuda and The Man of Stone did push it a touch.

I'd love to see what the production team from The Wire could do with Ennis' Punisher. That would burn my eyes out with pure awesome.