10 Great Marvel Characters Yet To Appear In A Movie

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?