superhero T.V. series

[RobertScorpio]

Which superhero, who has never had a TV show before, do you think has enough story and would appeal to enough people to warrent a network commitment for 13 episodes; and why? If you were the executive producer and pitched this idea to the networks, how would you sell your idea to the 'bean counters'?

Rob

 

[Greg Cox]

DEADMAN. It's THE FUGITIVE meets QUANTUM LEAP, as he moves from body to body looking for the man who killed him . . . .

 

[RobertScorpio]

DEADMAN. It's THE FUGITIVE meets QUANTUM LEAP, as he moves from body to body looking for the man who killed him . . . .

^^ and a hip idea.

I might go with Dr.Fate. I have noticed that a lot of kids my son's age (6 year olds) really like all the Egypt stuff, and so does my daughter and her friends. And then you have that whole STARGATE crowd.

I would update to take place in our modern times, due to budget, but I think that whole 'egypt' magical hero thing might work.

Rob

 

[FreezeC77]

Daredevil. Hell they could even go procedural with it and have David E Kelly just deal with Matt Murdock attorney at law

 

[Checkmate]

I'd love to see a DEADPOOL show. Limit it to 30 minutes and make it the most macabre, semi-serious and fucked-up "sitcom" ever and I'd be there every week. The best part about Deadpool is that you could throw him into just about any situation or storyarc and it'd wind up as pure win. Assuming good writers who not only get the character, but know how to tell his stories properly. Which is the main problem for any kind of superhero (or non-superhero) show.

 

[Christopher]

I like the suggestion io9 made earlier today (which is similar to one I've been making for years:

Where Is Our Wonder Woman Smallville?

I also think Gotham Central would be a natural for TV adaptation, a police procedural dealing peripherally with superheroes and supervillains. I've never actually read it, but the idea seems like something TV executives would eat up.

Although I'd kind of like to see a Smallville spinoff where J'onn J'onnz heads up an SCU team. Because Phil Morris deserves his own series. Or they could spin off Sarinda Swan into a Zatanna series -- so long as Paul Dini wrote and produced.

Of Marvel characters, I agree Daredevil would be a good choice. I rather liked the '90s TV movie The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, which was really a backdoor pilot for a Daredevil show. Aside from making DD's costume less devilish (black, no horns) and having a Kingpin with hair (John Rhys-Davies, fully bearded), it was a pretty faithful translation and worked fairly well.

 

[RobertScorpio]

I like the suggestion io9 made earlier today (which is similar to one I've been making for years:

Where Is Our Wonder Woman Smallville?

I also think Gotham Central would be a natural for TV adaptation, a police procedural dealing peripherally with superheroes and supervillains. I've never actually read it, but the idea seems like something TV executives would eat up.

Although I'd kind of like to see a Smallville spinoff where J'onn J'onnz heads up an SCU team. Because Phil Morris deserves his own series. Or they could spin off Sarinda Swan into a Zatanna series -- so long as Paul Dini wrote and produced.

Of Marvel characters, I agree Daredevil would be a good choice. I rather liked the '90s TV movie The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, which was really a backdoor pilot for a Daredevil show. Aside from making DD's costume less devilish (black, no horns) and having a Kingpin with hair (John Rhys-Davies, fully bearded), it was a pretty faithful translation and worked fairly well.

On the SMALLVILLE front, I'd love to see them spinoff the recent JSA episode into a series. I don't really care for the smallville centric heroes, except for John Jonzz. I thought that JSA episode was the greatest DC live action episode...ever...bar none..for a tv show.

Rob

 

[O'Dib]

I liked Gotham's Ragman (Rory Regan), whom I was introduced to through Shadowpact and the Infinite Crisis tie-in that preceded it. A show about a guy hunting down killers, converting their souls into rags for his creepy Kabbalistic costume, and forcing them to earn redemption by drawing on their strength when fighting crime? Classic. Some of his conquests can be recurring characters via mind-trips into the suit. I envision scenes that take place inside this purgatory world, as he struggles to keep his inhabitants in check, or explores the historical stories of killers from centuries ago that were absorbed by Rory's ancestors.

 

[issreliant]

A Series based on the Green Lantern corps would be great, it would be a show like Criminal minds and CSI but in space.

 

[Jetfire]

I like the suggestion io9 made earlier today (which is similar to one I've been making for years:

Where Is Our Wonder Woman Smallville?

I also think Gotham Central would be a natural for TV adaptation, a police procedural dealing peripherally with superheroes and supervillains. I've never actually read it, but the idea seems like something TV executives would eat up.

Although I'd kind of like to see a Smallville spinoff where J'onn J'onnz heads up an SCU team. Because Phil Morris deserves his own series. Or they could spin off Sarinda Swan into a Zatanna series -- so long as Paul Dini wrote and produced.

Of Marvel characters, I agree Daredevil would be a good choice. I rather liked the '90s TV movie The Trial of the Incredible Hulk, which was really a backdoor pilot for a Daredevil show. Aside from making DD's costume less devilish (black, no horns) and having a Kingpin with hair (John Rhys-Davies, fully bearded), it was a pretty faithful translation and worked fairly well.

I'd tune in for a Wonder Woman series...if it was on a network tv.

I think Astro City would make a great tv series though.

 

[Mr Light]

Apparently there's already a Green Lantern animated series in development.

 

[Christopher]

Apparently there's already a Green Lantern animated series in development.

From what I've heard, it's to be a 3D-animated show and it's being developed by Bruce Timm. It would be his first 3D-animation project (by which I mean the type of animation used in Iron Man Armored Adventures, Jimmy Neutron, and Pixar movies, using digital characters and settings that are modelled in three dimensions -- not 3D in the sense of stereoscopic projection like Avatar).

 

[shivkala]

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Starman, James Robinson's masterpiece from the mid 90's. The tale of Jack Knight was captivating and well written, with a "retro" style and enough backstory to flesh out most of the main characters in episodes focused on them.

 

[RobertScorpio]

Apparently there's already a Green Lantern animated series in development.

From what I've heard, it's to be a 3D-animated show and it's being developed by Bruce Timm. It would be his first 3D-animation project (by which I mean the type of animation used in Iron Man Armored Adventures, Jimmy Neutron, and Pixar movies, using digital characters and settings that are modelled in three dimensions -- not 3D in the sense of stereoscopic projection like Avatar).

Huh..are they timing this to come out when the movie does?

Rob

 

[Mr Light]

I hadn't heard GL was going to be 3D CGI. That's terrible news. I really don't care for that look. I want the traditional 2D animated Justice League look.

 

[23skidoo]

I never cared for how Smallville screwed around with the established heroes (and this goes for Superman, too). But I would tune in for a Zatanna spin-off.

As far as yet-to-be-seen-on-TV characters, you'll laugh but I'd actually love to see Power Girl on TV. Never mind the, erm, physical part of the role, the current continuity would open the door for a tongue-in-cheek action series. And if I were in charge I'd steal an idea from Marvel's She-Hulk and turn the whole thing metafictional, destroying the fourth wall.

Alex

 

[Vendikarr]

Give me Adam Strange on Rann. Name it Strange Adventures, like the comic he starred in.

The only tweak I would make is have Adam be an 1930s archaeologist in the same vein as Indiana Jones. Since his first adventure started with him removing an artifact from a temple in South America and being chased by natives, I think it fits.

This might even be a good animated series, with Bruce Campbell providing the voice.

 

[Gryffindorian]

Having a superhero TV show based on a previously existing movie could prove to be a challenge for networks and producers, as viewers would expect to have the same caliber or quality as the movie(s) the show was based on. For instance, a live-action X-Men, Spider-Man, or The Dark Knight series would have to be done right and would require large budgets to produce per season.

I wouldn't be opposed to a superhero (or superhero team) TV show not based on any existing films. The series would have to be about a character or characters most viewers would care about and, at the same time, night not necessarily be known to the general public. Examples: The Justice Society of America, Nightwing, Teen Titans, Luke Cage, Namor, Captain Marvel (Shazam), Plastic Man.

 

[Jetfire]

I was under the impression a Moon Knight tv series was in the works a few years back and nothing happened...or was it a movie??? Either way Moon Knight would be great.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Knight

 

[Checkmate]

Moon Knight always comes across as a subpar Batman rip-off with a cooler costume to most people.