Hollywood's Fascination with the Comic Book Superhero
by:
Comics Galore
Flick creation companies and TV have been creating feature length movies, flick serials and TV shows for years exploiting the public fascination with Superheroes. But as special effect technology and costume designs became better and better, Hollywood kicked it up a notch with feature-length high budget productions. Superman, the Flick and the 3 sequels started in the Decade and the '90s and on the far side
brought us Batman, The Hulk, the X-Men and the now disreputable Spider-Man, to name a few. Why all this interest in producing Superhero movies? Big bucks!! The two Spider-Man movies alone have netlike just about 800 million dollars for each one in global ticket sales. That's not chicken feed. This kind of financial gain
could not be generated without an avid public interest in Superheroes. So if you feel you are alone in your voracious passion for your own comic book collection, think again.
And now a new twist has been added. Directors, book writers, and even as actors are writing for, of all things, comic books now. Big name Hollywood writers are serving to sell more comics. For example, God Whedon, maybe better best-known for creating Buffy the Evil spirit
Slayer, has written stories for Marvel in the series Astonishing X-Men. Back in the 90s, who would-be have best-known that all these fan boys had been activity in the Hollywood woodworks waiting for comics to gain several cultural credibility?
If you haven't followed several of the comic news of the last several months, Stan "the man" Lee has been fighting his personal battle with His life long employer, Marvel Comics. Stan is probably one of the most well best-known character creators in the comic book industry. He has characters like Batman, Spider-Man and the Hulk attributable
to his creative imagination. Seems Stan had a written agreement
agreement with Marvel for 10% of any revenue nonheritable
by Marvel from movies and TV projects centered on Stan characters. But apparently the high dollar construction
of the corporate mind doesn't want to part with all their income. Now this is nothing new, but Stan Lee managed to win the 1st round for the little guy. The judge presiding over Stan's case united
that Stan should obtain his share of the united
on profits. Now mayhap Stan wish get his share and mayhap he won't. Sounds like Marvel wish be appealing the decision. At any rate, if there weren't big bucks involved in the creation of comic book Superhero movies, this case would-be not have been such an issue.
I believe the near futurity is going to bring many a more of my favorite heroes to the silver screen. I have already started my own DVD collection and as more heroes get transferred from the screen to round disc, I wish continue to increase the size of my collection. Do you think a DVD superhero collection wish be worth as more as a comic book collection in the future? Probably not, but that won't finish me from building my collection anyway.
Dave Gieber, a former rocket engineer, has definite
to take up residency on the Internet. He is the owner and editor of several websites, one of which was built about one of his childhood passions; www.comic-book-collection-made-easy.com . You can visit here to support up to date on the earth of comic books and comic book collecting. Feel free to sign up for my comic book ezine at www.comic-book-collection-made-easy.com/comic-book-ezine.html
