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Marvel Entertainment reported its second quarter earnings this morning for 2007 and, as usual, included the company's upcoming slate of projects. Here's the movies, TV shows, DVDs, musical and games in the works:

Licensed Marvel Character Feature Film Line-Up
Wolverine, Fox - Director engaged (Gavin Hood)
Punisher 2, Lionsgate - Director (Lexi Alexander) and lead actor engaged (Ray Stevenson)

Film Projects Being Developed by Marvel - partial list
Iron Man, Marvel - Completed principal photography; May 2, 2008 release
The Incredible Hulk, Marvel - Commenced principal photography; June 13, 2008 release
Ant-Man, Marvel - Writer (Edward Wright, Joe Cornish) and director (Edgar Wright) engaged
Captain America, Marvel - Writer engaged (David Self)
Nick Fury, Marvel - Writer engaged (Andrew Marlowe)
Thor, Marvel - Writer engaged (Mark Protosevich)
The Avengers, Marvel - Writer engaged (Zak Penn)

Marvel Character Animated TV Projects
"Spider-Man," Sony - In development; US distribution agreement with Kids' WB
"Wolverine and the X-Men," First Serve Toonz (India) - 26, 30 minute episodes in development
"Iron Man," Method Films (France) 26, 30 minute episodes in development

Marvel Character Animated Direct-to-DVD Projects
Doctor Strange, Lionsgate - August 14, 2007 release
Teen Avengers, Lionsgate - Targeted July 2008 release
Hulk Smash, Lionsgate - Targeted October 2008 release

Marvel Character Live Stage Projects
"Spider-Man the Musical," Hello Entertainment/David Garfinkle, Martin McCallum, Marvel Entertainment, Sony Pictures Entertainment - In development/opening date to be determined; Julie Taymor director; music & lyrics by U2's Bono and The Edge

Marvel 2008 Video Game Releases (Release dates controlled by Publishing partner)
"Iron Man," Sega - Targeted 2008
"The Incredible Hulk," Sega - Targeted 2008

Sounds pretty cool.

Spider Man: The Musical!

Seriously, must be a typo or something...either that or it will be along the lines of Dora, the Wiggles, Thomas, etc...

Ant-Man? Um..... I should have seen this one coming. Anyone remember the failed Avengers Cartoon in which he was in charge?

Wolverine and the X-men. Yep, he's the whole team again. I liked the X-men when it wasn't just Logan and this weeks X-man vs. this weeks villian.


The rest looks alright.

You know....I really think Marvel should give it a rest.

Honestly, it's like they're throwing out all this stuff to make up for dropping comic sales or something.

I love Marvel, but damn, it's just getting ridiculous. I mean, honestly, we're getting a Moon Knight tv show.

Moon Knight aka White Batman

Next thing we know, the Falcon will be getting a tv show or movie.

At least Ironman is gonna rock, past that, I'm not sure I have faith in any other Marvel films.

Senor Hugo wrote:You know....I really think Marvel should give it a rest.

Honestly, it's like they're throwing out all this stuff to make up for dropping comic sales or something.

I love Marvel, but damn, it's just getting ridiculous. I mean, honestly, we're getting a Moon Knight tv show.

Moon Knight aka White Batman

Next thing we know, the Falcon will be getting a tv show or movie.

At least Ironman is gonna rock, past that, I'm not sure I have faith in any other Marvel films.

Have faith in PYM!

I have faith in Ant-Man, but I may be a little biased since i love Henry Pym.

Original Sin wrote:Have faith in PYM!

I have faith in Ant-Man, but I may be a little biased since i love Henry Pym.

But an entire movie? There are so many other characters they could use ahead of him.

Burn wrote:

Original Sin wrote:Have faith in PYM!

I have faith in Ant-Man, but I may be a little biased since i love Henry Pym.

But an entire movie? There are so many other characters they could use ahead of him.

Pym is a thousand superheroes in himself though

Original Sin wrote:

Burn wrote:

Original Sin wrote:Have faith in PYM!

I have faith in Ant-Man, but I may be a little biased since i love Henry Pym.

But an entire movie? There are so many other characters they could use ahead of him.

Pym is a thousand superheroes in himself though

I love Ant-Man as well. But from a live action standpoint.

The movie will turn out one of two ways.

At best it will be a comedy version of Willard

At worst, it will be Blade Trinity all over again, only this time staring Will Ferrel.(Which if you think about it, that is highly possible)

tigertracks 24 wrote:Spider Man: The Musical!

Seriously, must be a typo or something...either that or it will be along the lines of Dora, the Wiggles, Thomas, etc...

Well, Evil Dead the Musical was fantastic...

Senor Hugo wrote:

Original Sin wrote:

Burn wrote:

Original Sin wrote:Have faith in PYM!

I have faith in Ant-Man, but I may be a little biased since i love Henry Pym.

But an entire movie? There are so many other characters they could use ahead of him.

Pym is a thousand superheroes in himself though

I love Ant-Man as well. But from a live action standpoint.

The movie will turn out one of two ways.

At best it will be a comedy version of Willard

At worst, it will be Blade Trinity all over again, only this time staring Will Ferrel.(Which if you think about it, that is highly possible)

If Ferrel gets attached to this then I am staying far away from it.

I hate..HATE...HATE Will Ferrel. I don't see how people find him funny. Everything he does seems so forced.

But, I happened to like Blade Trinity. It wasn't as good as Blade, but it was a lot better then Blade 2

Cyber-Kun wrote:

tigertracks 24 wrote:Spider Man: The Musical!

Seriously, must be a typo or something...either that or it will be along the lines of Dora, the Wiggles, Thomas, etc...

Well, Evil Dead the Musical was fantastic...

Wha?!? I never knew. It may have a chance. I'd still rather go see 'Holy Grail' any day!!!

Ant-Man is awsome. I don't know why, I just always thought the idea of a guy who could shrink and talk to ants was really cool. But I will admit he's probably not that mainstream, and an odd choice for a movie. Also, who's he gonna fight?

Avengers live action sounds awsome. One thing I've found disapointing in the Marvel movies so far(haven't seen Blade 2/3 or Fantastic Four 2 yet) is the lack of continuity between films. I know they're supposed to be seperate entities, but a nod to another superhero movie would be nice, and it'd be cool if the Daily Bugle was the established New York newspaper you always see like in the comics. At least Franklin Richards name appered in a database in X2, that was cool.

And here's hoping Hulk 2 is better than the first one! The first one was just way to boring in my opinion, and the origin sucked.

Any idea when Moon Knight TV is suppsoed to start in 2008? I didn't really like the Blade TV series cause I'm not a Blade fan, but Moon Knight might be more my style.

Nick Fury.
Bout time, I've waited all my lif...

Wait didn't they already do that with David Hasslehoff?
Ahhh!! This is gonna be crap.

If they are gonna make garbage like that,
the least they could do is give us another Killer Tomato movie.
At least those had substance.

Duke of Luns wrote:And here's hoping Hulk 2 is better than the first one! The first one was just way to boring in my opinion, and the origin sucked.

From what i've read (and someone can correct me on this), it's not really Hulk 2. I've gotten the impression they're simply not acknowledging that OTHER Hulk movie and that this is a fresh start again.

Burn wrote:

Duke of Luns wrote:And here's hoping Hulk 2 is better than the first one! The first one was just way to boring in my opinion, and the origin sucked.

From what i've read (and someone can correct me on this), it's not really Hulk 2. I've gotten the impression they're simply not acknowledging that OTHER Hulk movie and that this is a fresh start again.

Now that I think about it, think I heard about that too. I guess that proves that the general consensus was that the last Hulk movie was pretty poor. I mean, some kind of variation of Absorbing Man being his father, come on!! Would have been cooler if Bill Goldberg(the former wrestler) would have been Absorbing man, cause I do remember reading years ago he was being considered for the part.

Nick Fury.
Bout time, I've waited all my lif...

Wait didn't they already do that with David Hasslehoff?
Ahhh!! This is gonna be crap.

Actually, I watched that movie again earlier this year. That was my first reaction too, but when I watched it again and took it for what it was(a low budget made for TV film), it's actually pretty entertaining and quite comic accurate. And Gary Chalk, the good old voice of Optimus Primal/Prime guest stars in it, so that's always cool.