Barry Sonnenfeld attached to direct DC's Metal Men

[DWF]

I rather liked the Metal Men, I remember when Walt Simonson was the artist on the book he cetainly went on even bigger things. This could be a good movie, but of course it'll need a good script some famous voice actors and good visual effects.

 

[Greg Cox]

Because it was the idea of a Superhero in armor that made Iron Man a success.

Uhh, no, because then the 1997 Steel movie with Shaquille O'Neal would've been a success, rather than a disastrous failure that cost $16 million to make and only earned $1.7 million in domestic box office.

And this is the part where I admit to editing the novelization of Steel (by Dean Wesley Smith). And I will go to my grave insisting that it's still a better DC superhero movie than Batman & Robin, which came out the same summer.

 

[Dream]

And this is the part where I admit to editing the novelization of Steel (by Dean Wesley Smith). And I will go to my grave insisting that it's still a better DC superhero movie than Batman & Robin, which came out the same summer.

I'll agree with you even though I've never seen Steel. NOTHING could be as bad as Batman & Robin.

 

[DWF]

And this is the part where I admit to editing the novelization of Steel (by Dean Wesley Smith). And I will go to my grave insisting that it's still a better DC superhero movie than Batman & Robin, which came out the same summer.

I'll agree with you even though I've never seen Steel. NOTHING could be as bad as Batman & Robin.

Steel was bad about even with Batman And Robin, and sadly it was written and directed by Kenneth Johnson not one of the highlights of his career.

 

[Christopher]

I've only seen Steel once, ages ago, but I remember liking it okay. Shaq may not have been much of an actor, but he's certainly likeable. And the movie was written and directed by Kenneth Johnson, the man behind the Bixby Incredible Hulk series, the original V miniseries, and Alien Nation, so it can't be that bad.

 

[Greg Cox]

I've only seen Steel once, ages ago, but I remember liking it okay. Shaq may not have been much of an actor, but he's certainly likeable. And the movie was written and directed by Kenneth Johnson, the man behind the Bixby Incredible Hulk series, the original V miniseries, and Alien Nation, so it can't be that bad.

I only saw it once myself (for free at a Warner Bros. screening room), but I remember it being a likable little film with TV-movie production values, a dopey costume, but with its heart in the right place.

It was by no means a big or impressive movie, and not really aimed at adults, but if I had seen it on TV as a kid, I probably would've enjoyed it. It was the sort of thing you watched on a rainy Saturday afternoon when you were ten, back before superhero movies were zillion-dollar blockbusters--and you could slap a better movie into the DVR!

Or so I remember. I haven't seen it for ages, and was biased at the time since I was working on the book. (As I type this, I still have a copy of the novelization sitting on my shelf, only a few feet away.)

 

[Dick Whitman]

Maybe instead of making people think of Iron Man, Metal Men will make them think of Mad Men! It has the word Men in the title after all. Oh no! If the movie is a bomb it will hurt the show....

 

[Greg Cox]

Maybe instead of making people think of Iron Man, Metal Men will make them think of Mad Men! It has the word Men in the title after all. Oh no! If the movie is a bomb it will hurt the show....

Don't be silly. It's clearly a sequel to Heavy Metal.

Or maybe Real Steel.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Seriously now that I think about it setting the film in the 60s, when the comic started would be cool. It added a lot to X-Men : The First Class. Even Sonnenfeld's own Men in Black III.

 

[Christopher]

Maybe instead of making people think of Iron Man, Metal Men will make them think of Mad Men! It has the word Men in the title after all.

Anybody remember Mystery Men?

 

[Greg Cox]

Just wait until Marvel does a Machine Man movie. Then people will be really confused! Or maybe they could go with his original name: Mister Machine.

And then, of course, there's DC's Robot-Man. And G.I. Robot.

There's no shortage of mechanical comic-book heroes!

 

[Dick Whitman]

Maybe instead of making people think of Iron Man, Metal Men will make them think of Mad Men! It has the word Men in the title after all.

Anybody remember Mystery Men?

Or 12 Angry Men ?

Maybe it should be called
12 Angry, Mad, Mystery, Metal Men.... Origins

 

[Silvercrest]

Maybe instead of making people think of Iron Man, Metal Men will make them think of Mad Men! It has the word Men in the title after all.

It added a lot to X-Men : The First Class. Even Sonnenfeld's own Men in Black III.

Personally, I tend to get X-Men confused with Men In Black.