Rejected Marvel Designs and Show Pitches

[brodie999]

Code Red Was still planned for S2, but more faithfully adapted from the Red Zone comic arc by Geoff Johns and apparently, but unnecessarily, they wanted to make it a 2-parter.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

Code Red was still planned for S2, but more faithfully adapted from the Red Zone comic arc by Geoff Johns and apparently, but unnecessarily, they wanted to make it a 2-parter.

It's a shame that it never got made.

 

[RoryWilliams]

Given Red Zone involves hundreds of civilian deaths (including children), it likely would've needed to be changed anyway.

 

[Frontier]

Given Red Zone involves hundreds of civilian deaths (including children), it likely would've needed to be changed anyway.

Yeah, kind of like how Secret Invasion didn't see the Skrulls all get slaughtered during the final battle .

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

An animated Iron Man series almost happened in the Eighties.

Uncovering Marvel's lost '80s cartoon pitches - Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources

Marvel has long had aspirations for Hollywood. Decades before The Avengers was a mega-blockbuster, years before George Lucas produced the ill-fated Howard the Duck movie, Stan Lee and his superiors knew the heroes at the House of Ideas could sell more than just comic books. In the early ’80s...

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[RoyalRubble]

The 80s Iron Man show (and most if not all of the others mentioned in the link) were brought up in this thread from the 1st page.

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

09/03

The 80s Iron Man show (and most if not all of the others mentioned in the link) were brought up in this thread from the 1st page.

That's fair enough.

09/08:
The infamous Howard the Duck film was originally going to be animated.

'Howard the Duck': The film Marvel is too embarrassed to talk about

In many ways, Marvel’s first feature film is its most ground-breaking – which is why it likes to pretend it never happened.

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[Rick Jones]

I've never gotten around to fully watching Howard the Duck, though I somehow ended up in possession of this giant kids picture book for the movie when I was little. The thought of what it could have been like as a PG/PG13 animated movie really intrigues me. Lucas had already dipped into similar territory with producing Twice Upon a Time around then, one of the first animated movies I remember ever seeing. I imagine that his name would have been a boon as a push for more unique, and well funded, animated movies in the 80s, similar to how Spielberg's was with the Bluth movies and Roger Rabbit. I can't imagine that Disney would not have wasted nuclear war if an animated Howard movie happened.

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[AdrenalineRush1996]

Spider-Man Unlimited was originally going to be a low-budget animated adaptation of the first 26 issues of The Amazing Spider-Man.

SPIDER-MAN's Amazing(ly Bizarre) Media History, Part 2

We conclude our look at the many Spider-Man uses in other media with Unlimited and more!

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[Frontier]

Spider-Man Unlimited was originally going to be a low-budget animated adaptation of the first 26 issues of The Amazing Spider-Man.

SPIDER-MAN's Amazing(ly Bizarre) Media History, Part 2

We conclude our look at the many Spider-Man uses in other media with Unlimited and more!

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To be honest, I'm not sure if that would've been preferable to what we got with Unlimited .

 

[AdrenalineRush1996]

We almost had an Ultimate War DTV animated film adaptation.

Canceled ‘X-Men Vs. Avengers’ Animated Movie Would’ve Adapted ‘Ultimate War’ Miniseries

 

[RoyalRubble]

It's kind of funny how most animated Howard the Duck projects end up cancelled, like these plans for a movie or his more recent Hulu series which actually made it pretty far all things considering.

I don't recall hearing Unlimited started out as anything else other than an adaptation of "Spider-Man 2099" before being re-worked into what it turned out to be. Pretty interesting in hindsight.

The "Ultimate Avengers Vs. X-Men" movie could have been pretty cool. It must have been discussed on these forums before, but it's kind of a shame it was never produced. I also like how the interview mentions this would have been similar to Hulk Vs. (still one of my favorite pieces of Marvel animation), with 2 shorter movies paired together. Having a Thor & Beta Ray Bill story would have been pretty fun, too.

 

[Rick Jones]

The "Ultimate Avengers Vs. X-Men" movie could have been pretty cool. It must have been discussed on these forums before, but it's kind of a shame it was never produced. I also like how the interview mentions this would have been similar to Hulk Vs. (still one of my favorite pieces of Marvel animation), with 2 shorter movies paired together. Having a Thor & Beta Ray Bill story would have been pretty fun, too.

I'm not sure if a short would have been sufficient to really do a good story but I guess it's sort of like two episodes of a TV show if it was going to be about 44 minutes or something. Maybe they could have pulled it off. I would have been excited for X-Men versus Avengers anything though.

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To be honest, I'm not sure if that would've been preferable to what we got with Unlimited .

When I go back to Spider-Man Unlimited, I admire the style and the look so much but I'm just not a fan of the whole Counter Earth thing, at least not for the premise of the entire show. I much prefer that they tried something different though than to see them totally recreate the old comics from the '60s like that right on the heels of a long-running show that was the introduction of Spider-Man to so many already. I think it would have been too soon to go through all those motions again.

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[Frontier]

When I go back to Spider-Man Unlimited, I admire the style and the look so much but I'm just not a fan of the whole Counter Earth thing, at least not for the premise of the entire show. I much prefer that they tried something different though than to see them totally recreate the old comics from the '60s like that right on the heels of a long-running show that was the introduction of Spider-Man to so many already. I think it would have been too soon to go through all those motions again.

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Batman Beyond comparisons aside, I would've been down for a Spider-Man 2099 cartoon .

 

[Rick Jones]

Oh, definitely. I honestly thought that's what the show was initially going to be back then before I really took a good look at the promos.

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[SweetShop209]

This is a more minor thing, but it's worth mentioning. Christopher Yost mentioned how he would've done a DVD movie about The Squadron Supreme. It's more like a "I wish I could've done this", but it's worth mentioning.

 

[Rick Jones]

Can we please finally be allowed to have something cool from Marvel Animation again?

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[Frontier]

This is a more minor thing, but it's worth mentioning. Christopher Yost mentioned how he would've done a DVD movie about The Squadron Supreme. It's more like a "I wish I could've done this", but it's worth mentioning.

I'm curious if EMH would've leaned into the Squadron as Justice League analogue's more or less like Assemble did...

There's a lot of stuff Assemble ended up doing that I would've liked to have seen EMH's take on (Thanos, Thunderbolts, Squadron, the Inhumans, etc.).

 

[Rick Jones]

For all its flaws, Assemble had a great Squadron. I can't imagine EMH not having a great one too.

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[SweetShop209]

I'm curious if EMH would've leaned into the Squadron as Justice League analogue's more or less like Assemble did...

Maybe. I mean, Scott Menville essentially voiced a very Robin like Bucky. He even used a very similar voice. I could imagine something similar for the Squadron with casting some Justice League voice actors in the roles .