10 Great Marvel Characters Yet To Appear In A Movie
A cavalcade of Marvel stars who have yet to see cinematic glory.
The MCU is already bursting with characters (thanks in part to an inherent desire not to kill anyone off). After 13 movies, we have enough lead characters to have an actual war between only some of them, and there was some suggestion that Infinity War could feature up to 75 characters. That's a hell of a number.
But Marvel isn’t content to stop there and head honcho Kevin Feige has promised that the MCU could be boundless in scope. This opens up a world of opportunities from more than half a century’s worth of printed stories.
There’s always a risk in moving away from Cap, Stark and company but with Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man, and Fox’s Deadpool movie, there is precedent that it is possible. And there is a market for almost any Marvel film, it seems.
And not only that, but Marvel NEED more characters: they face ageing actors, accusations of safety and a lack of diversity and it's time they looked to their source to bring more characters to the MCU. Here's who they need to consider...
10. Namor The Sub-Mariner
The MCU could easily write Namor into their storylines if Earth - including Atlantic - rather than just New York, was threatened. Even now, Namor could be peacefully tucked away undersea somewhere, having not been troubled.
Part of the reasoning for Namor not featuring, as yet, is down to tricky contractual issues between Marvel and Universal pictures. Universal bought the rights from Marvel to make a Sub-Mariner film in the 1990s but despite the success of the superhero brand Universal could never quite find the right script and creative team to bring Namor to the screen.
In 2014 the hopes of Namor returning to the Marvel fold seemed to become genuine once again. Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige confirmed that a deal with Legendary Pictures had lapsed but that “there are older contracts that still involve other parties that mean we need to work things out before we move forward on it.”
Live action Namor endeavours have been attempted before. In the 1970s Patrick Duffy starred The Man From Atlantis, which was roughly based on Sub-Mariner and featured four TV movies and a thirteen episode series before being dropped in 1978.
Philip Kaufman, director of The Right Stuff and the 1970s remake of Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, was also due to adapt Sub-Mariner to the big screen in the late 1990s but that movie fell through. Surely it's time they went back to the table to get a deal sorted?