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http://www.ew.com/article/2016/11/14/marvel-inhumans-tv-series-imax-abc


Marvel Entertainment’s television offerings just got bigger. The company has announced that Marvel’s The Inhumans, a new superhero series about Black Bolt and his royal family, will debut in Imax theaters next year and then air weekly on ABC.

The first two episodes of the series will run exclusively on the big screen for two weeks in September, with the weekly series premiering in the fall.

Filmed entirely with Imax digital cameras, the series is to focus on the titular race of superhumans first introduced by Marvel Comics legends Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1965. In the comics, the Inhuman royal family is led by Black Bolt, whose voice can level a city, and also includes such colorful characters as prehensile-haired Medusa, element-controlling Crystal, and teleporting dog Lockjaw.

Inhuman characters have appeared on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., which also airs on ABC, although the new series is not billed as a spin-off. Presumably Inhumans will further flesh out the mythology of the larger Marvel cinematic universe, which encompasses movie franchises like Iron Man and the Avengers as well as Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Netflix shows such as Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage.


Marvel previously had an Inhumans film scheduled to hit theaters in the summer of 2019, but the studio delayed the film earlier this year. A new release date has not been announced, and it’s currently unclear whether or how the Inhumans series might affect the Inhumans film. A spokesperson for Marvel’s film division did not respond to EW’s request for clarification.




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Marvel has just announced a new Inhumans TV show for ABC starring the Royal Family, characters created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for the Fantastic Four comics in the sixties before spinning off into their own title and fan following.

It’s been a long road here. And Bleeding Cool has been pulling back the curtain for some of it.

Marvel Studios announced The Inhumans as a movie planned for 2019 at an event that also announced Avengers: Infinity War, Black Panther and names Captain America: Civil War and Thor: Ragnarok. It was quite a day and the logos filled the screen at the event. That was in October 2014.

In October 2015, the bloom had come off the rose. The big “Civil War” at Marvel had split the company asunder. Kevin Feige has rupped the film making side of the company, Marvel Studios, away from the rest of Marvel Comics, and was now reporting directly to Alan Horn at Disney. The logo changed to reflect the movies more. The Marvel Creative Committee including Alan Fine, Brian Bendis, Joe Quesada and Dan Buckley were dismissed from giving any notes of input into any movie past Captain America: Civil War. The theme of that movie reflected what was going on at the company.

After some opportune meetings with Marvel sources from both East and West Coasts at New York Comic Con, Bleeding Cool broke the story, heavily denied at the time, that Marvel Studios had cancelled the Inhumans movie – or rather as we would later hear it phrased in a memo that went round Disney, “depriotised” the film.

It was explained to Bleeding Cool, that The Inhumans as a movie property had always been pushed by the Marvel Comics/TV/Toy/Games side of the company, rather than being one of Marvel Films boss Kevin Feige’s own projects, one he couldn’t get to work – and that Marvel had been trying to do for a very long time before Feige was even around.

But Marvel Comics had been pushing Inhumans titles, with Ms Marvel, Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur, Karnak and more swelling the ranks and getting their own titles. The TV show Marvel’s Agents Of SHIELD made the Inhumans the focal point. But they weren’t using the main cast members of the original comic book Inhumans, the Royal Family of Black Bolt, Medusa, Gorgon, Karnak, Lockjaw and more. Those were off limits.

Indeed, one heavy critic of Bleeding Cool’s reports on The Inhumans movie “deprioritisation”, Drew McWeeney at HitFlix said

I went directly to an unimpeachable source, who told me that the film division is still planning to make the film, and there are certain elements of the “Inhumans” universe that have been declared off-limits to the “SHIELD” people as a result.

And specifically,

Here’s how you will know that Marvel has cancelled the feature film. If you see the royal family, including Black Bolt, show up on the TV show, then there’s a good chance the feature division has finally changed their mind.

He wasn’t alone in that kind of criticism. But our story was pretty well sourced, and subsequent events seemed to back it up.

Meanwhile, the writers of Marvel’s Agents Of SHIELD were given hardly any access to what was going on in the big movies they were meant to be tying into. They had scant information for Captain America: Civil War, resorting to dropping in references to Sarkovian Accords whenever they could and for Doctor Strange, they just did their own supernatural story with Ghost Rider and Darkhold hoping it might thematically tie up.

Earlier this year, The Inhumans was shuffled then dropped from the slate of Marvel films, though it was promised it was still happening. Sometime. And classic Inhumans appearing on TV was mooted.

But with this news, it is clear that Marvel Television have got full access to the Inhumans. That Marvel Studios won’t be making an Inhumans film. As before the new TV show starts, Marvel TV will be able to premiere the first two episodes on cinema screens with IMAX.

So Marvel gets its Inhumans movie after all. It’s just Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios will have nothing to do with it. It’s all Marvel Television – as will be telling, with the big just-the-comics logo that will appear at the beginning.

And, yes, the Royal Family will be all over the TV show…





..well.. yeah.


I've always had something of a soft spot for Black Bolt as a character and was quite cool with the earlier rumours about Vin Diesel playing him on screen.


.. This.... well.... give it a go I guess.

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This is the end of the MCU as a combined TV/movie universe. Once this show hits the MCU movies and the TV shows will forever more be unlinked.

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 H.B.M.C. wrote:
This is the end of the MCU as a combined TV/movie universe. Once this show hits the MCU movies and the TV shows will forever more be unlinked.


It's interesting how DC and Marvel are evolving to be more like one another. The DCEU film franchise has moved to more centralized control under Geoff Johns, like the MCU under Kevin Feige. Meanwhile, the MCU's television universe is separating from the film universe, where DC has obviously always kept their film and TV universes strictly separate.

It's almost like both sides are figuring out what works.

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We'll find out soon enough eh.

It seems pretty clear that the TV/Movie split at Marvel isn't about what works in any absolute sense, but what works in the context of two corporate bigwigs and their respective toadies engaging in a willy-waving contest.

Daddy Disney evidently just got sick of the kiddies squabbling and divided up their toys between them to shut them up.

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As long as the Netflix Marvel series are still good I guess I don't really care how ABC's misadventures go.

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I'm actually glad they're divided, for several reasons.

1) Keeping track of everything going on in the MCU is already a chore to some extent...I enjoy it, but I'm also a big comic book movie fan
2) I don't have the time or interest to watch the plethora of MCU shows out there...and don't really want them spilling over into the movies as a result
3) One of the strengths of the movies is that they are much more grounded than the comics. Of course they can't be 100% realistic...it's about alien Norse gods, magic, etc, but both Marvel and DC suffer from having a massive shared universe, too many characters, too many plotlines, too many writers that write characters differently, it's a mess. A bit like the Star Wars EU snarl. Both universes are complicated, but not complex.
4) There is a big drop in quality IMO from the films to the series. I'll give shows like Jessica Jones respect for dealing with "taboo" subject material, but that doesn't automatically make a rather boring show good.

As it stands the MCU has a whole lot to deal with and the shows just make it excessively complicated. They have over 10 different superheroes now...and are adding in more.

Off the top of my head:

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Released:

Iron Man trilogy
Thor 1 and 2
The Incredible Hulk
Avengers films
Captain America trilogy
Ant-Man
GotG
Doctor Strange

That is 14 films...28 hours+ of material already...and I feel like I've forgotten something.

To be released:

Captain Marvel
Black Panther
Ant-Man sequel
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Infinity War films (2)
Doctor Strange sequel
GotG 2
Thor: Ragnarok

That's at least 9 more films...

Then we also have the possibility of a Black Widow stand alone as well.


Then there is also the issue of so many heroes...and how they impact Earth

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Hulk
Thor/Vision/probably Doctor Strange
Scarlet Witch
Spider-Man
Iron Man/Iron Patriot/Black Panther
Captain America/Winter Soldier/Ant-man
Falcon/Black Widow/Hawkeye

So...I can understand Hulk not being involved in much because of his internal conflict. Captain tier and below are limited in what they can react to. Thor has issues with Loki tied into Ragnarok that prevent him from reacting to much.

That still leaves a lot of heroes that can react to a global crisis...which makes writing a global crisis and not involving them kind of questionable. It's the issue again of where was Iron Man during TWS? Where were Hulk/Thor during Civil War? Scarlet Witch deals in magic, yet she wasn't involved at all in Doctor Strange?

Which is my biggest issue with TWS...you have a global crisis where potentially millions are going to be killed and freaking Tony Stark is clueless? Nobody thought hey, maybe we should get Iron Man and Iron Patriot out here to stop this?

Just like having Hulk and Thor not be involved in Civil War...of course they're both so powerful they can basically laugh at any attempt to regulate them...just like Strange will...

The MCU is digging a hole where they keep trying to one up the previous film with some kind of global crisis and then ignore players that it would impact. Thankfully Ant-Man differed from that...

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There's a lot to be said for crossovers - but I do ultimately get the "everyone is related to everyone else" kind of day time soap opera feel from comics and comic-based properties and I think it undermines the sense of scale. The older I get, the more I favor limited series set in one-off "alternate dimensions." I was reading up on the Gotham TV show and it just OTT how this city of millions comes down to same couple dozen people again and again.

   
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There's a lot to be said for crossovers - but I do ultimately get the "everyone is related to everyone else" kind of day time soap opera feel from comics and comic-based properties and I think it undermines the sense of scale.


I never actually felt this until well, the past couple of days, when I've been watching the second half of Luke Cage. See, I'm pretty much ok with Claire Temple running around providing the link between all the series. She actively seeks out that sort of thing.

However, the way the main plot all goes together really stretched credulity for me. Everyone knew everyone, or was related to everyone else somehow in someway, despite there being a thousand miles linking the various locations involved in the plot. In a TV show about a bulletproof superhero, that I found really far fetched.

   
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It seems pretty clear that the TV/Movie split at Marvel isn't about what works in any absolute sense, but what works in the context of two corporate bigwigs and their respective toadies engaging in a willy-waving contest.

Daddy Disney evidently just got sick of the kiddies squabbling and divided up their toys between them to shut them up.


In one corner, a highly successful producer that worked his way up through the ranks on multiple movies (including a bunch of real stinkers) to become the driving force of one of the most successful movie studios in history.

In the other corner, a reclusive, penny-pinching tight-ass who changes things in the comics to spite other companies, thinks female toys won't sell, and caused such a problem over budgets with the guy in the other corner that their parent company actually split them apart so that the first guy could get on with his job.

I wish the first guy ran the TV side of things as well.

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 Manchu wrote:
There's a lot to be said for crossovers - but I do ultimately get the "everyone is related to everyone else" kind of day time soap opera feel from comics and comic-based properties and I think it undermines the sense of scale.


I never actually felt this until well, the past couple of days, when I've been watching the second half of Luke Cage. See, I'm pretty much ok with Claire Temple running around providing the link between all the series. She actively seeks out that sort of thing.

However, the way the main plot all goes together really stretched credulity for me. Everyone knew everyone, or was related to everyone else somehow in someway, despite there being a thousand miles linking the various locations involved in the plot. In a TV show about a bulletproof superhero, that I found really far fetched.



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It's definitely weaker than the first half, but I thought it was pretty serviceable. I really wonder though if TV can make the jump to Inhumans power levels without getting too ridiculous.

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Here's a first look at the cast and a teaser. Neither fill me with hope. :(






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Everyone in that cast photograph looks massively constipated.


Yep.

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Here's a first look at the cast and a teaser. Neither fill me with hope. :(



Medusa's hair is so bad, it's unreal. She's always drawn with huge, dynamic hair, and here it's dead flat. Awful.

Also, Black Bolt's War Face is not good.

Crystal looks OK.

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The guy on the right looks ok, the rest not so much. I'll still watch it either way though

 
   
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Why couldn't they have just made a movie? Emily Blunt would have been amazing as Medusa.


 
   
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 Breotan wrote:
Here's a first look at the cast and a teaser. Neither fill me with hope. :(



Medusa's hair is so bad, it's unreal. She's always drawn with huge, dynamic hair, and here it's dead flat. Awful.

Also, Black Bolt's War Face is not good.

Crystal looks OK.


Imagine how quickly the effects would bankrupt the studio to truly do justice to Medusa's hair.

 
   
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Looks like they are starting to scrape the bottom of the barrel here.

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How so?

The Inhumans are a classic cast of characters, and have figured heavily into current Marvel storylines as well.

Agents of Shield did their take on them, but it wasn't a particularly good one.

Sure, they became the MCU's version of "mutants" as the MCU 'can't' use that term because Marvel sold it to Fox back in the bad old days...

   
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The Inhumans certainly had potential, but looking at that cast shot I'm not sure they're going to fulfil it. Given how SHIELD has been on fire with both the scripts and the effects this series I had quite high hopes for this, but those costumes just look cheap.

In hindsight, I reckon they possibly made a mistake taking the Inhumans from a film slot to a TV series, just due to budgetary reasons. These guys could have looked awesome with film standard effects.

 
   
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How so?

The Inhumans are a classic cast of characters, and have figured heavily into current Marvel storylines as well.

Classic if you red comics. To a TV viewer that looks bottom of the barrel. Maybe the comic characters are great but these look like shoestring budget ass.

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Once upon a time Iron Man was all Marvel had, and look what they did with that? Bottom of the barrel talk is premature.

Anyway, that publicity shot is so strange. How they managed to make Serinda Swan look 15 years older and as stiff as a board is anyone's guess.


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I don't think that's true at all.

Outside of the really serious comic book fans, noone has heard "Cloak and Dagger" and yet, the response to the trailer is very much 'cautious optimism' with various comments of, "I think it'll work out for teens and the audience they're going for."

People seem broadly positive about "The Gifted" too. (Most common phrase: "I hope it's like Heroes season 1")

Cautious optimism and 'wait and see' seems to be the default for New Warriors and Runaways, not enough details have emerged yet.

Conversely, the general buzz about Inhumans is, "this just looks plain bad."

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Her hair just looks super dead. Lockjaw was pretty sweet though.

 
   
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I'll give it a try. I think that show Gifted looks way better though.

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An Inhumans trailer without a single shot of Medusa doing cool gak with her hair.

Good job...

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An Inhumans trailer without a single shot of Medusa doing cool gak with her hair.

Good job...


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