"12 YEARS A SLAVE" SCREENWRITER REPORTEDLY WORKING WITH MARVEL ON TV PROJECT

[Jello Biafra]

I'll be watching this because I check out all super-hero stuff but I absolutely hate American Crime though.
So hiring Ridley isn't a major plus for me.

 

[BXKingPin82]

I thought this was a Marvel "12 years a Slave" tv show when i first read the title.
Came in this bytch like

Then i read the article

yo what the fukk is wrong with you?

 

[I AM WARHOL]

yo what the fukk is wrong with you?

Thought Marvel was about to make Catcher Freeman

 

[Bigbigguy]

Cloak & Dagger seems tailor made for ABC.

Funny enough Cloak & Dagger were one of the ten properties Marvel were initially going make a movie on with Paramount.

The ten Marvel characters in the arrangement are Captain America, The Avengers, Nick Fury, Black Panther, Ant-Man, Cloak & Dagger, Dr. Strange, Hawkeye, Power Pack, and Shang-Chi. Each film is expected to have a budget of up to $165 million dollars and a rating no more restrictive than PG-13. Although the financing allows for the production of animated films, Marvel currently intends to use the financing to make only live-action films.

More on Marvel.com: http://marvel.com/news/movies/158/m...on_non-recourse_credit_facility#ixzz3XgT4I0ys

A few years ago they were developing a tv show set in post Katrina New Orleans for ABC family

 

[satam55]

On Friday, the future of Agent Carter came into question when it was revealed by EW John Ridley was hired by ABC to write a new, currently under-wraps Marvel project. Given the fact EW specified ABC and not ABC Studios in its report, one’s left to assume the series in question isn’t one of the two remaining Netflix NFLX -0.56% shows still in need of a writer (Iron Fist and The Defenders), but a new series for ABC proper. Now, while still in major speculation territory, a new rumor floating around online suggests that project is in fact an adaptation of the current Ms. Marvel comic line starring a lead that would serve the network well considering its current rate of success with diverse casts.

ComicBookMovie.com managed to save the since deleted Reddit post that originally stated, “originally, ABC pitched [Ridley] Cloak and Dagger, since they’ve tried to develop it in the past, but Ridley took more interest in a certain Kamala Khan and decided to incorporate her into the MCU.” For the uninitiated, Kamala Khan has served as Marvel Comics’ Ms. Marvel since February 2014 while Carol Danvers (the original Ms. Marvel) – a character confirmed to be receiving hew own feature film as part of the MCU’s “Phase Three” – has held on to the Captain Marvel name since 2012. In the same Reddit post, it’s claimed Marvel’s going to announce – presumably at the ABC upfronts in May – that Ridley is on Ms. Marvel, a project that will air in the winter break of a new Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. spin-off being developed by two of the show’s writers, while Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Agent Carter return for another round on the schedule for seasons three and two respectively.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillbarr/2015/04/20/agent-carter/

 

[TheGodling]

Man, I don't want to see Kamala Khan in the MCU at this point. I love the comic but the book is only like two or three storylines deep so they would have to make a whole bunch of shyt up to even get a full series, especially because there's no way they're going to keep the tone of the book (which is why it's such a great book).

 

[Lannister]

How are they going to introduce Kamala before Carol though? Danvers is basically Kamala's idol and plays into her origin.

 

[satam55]

IGN Discussion:

With news about a SHIELD spinoff and yet another Marvel series from John Ridley, we discuss what the overall plans are for Marvel at ABC.

 

[satam55]

John Ridley Offers Update on Marvel TV Series

9 JAN 2016 BY TERRI SCHWARTZ

Ridley is looking forward to making projects that are about "straight entertainment.

John Ridley is still hard at work on his unannounced Marvel TV project.

The executive producer of American Crime and Oscar-winner offered an update on the top secret series, which was revealed to be in the works in April 2015. Though all is still quiet on what the project is or when (and if) it could go into development, Ridley confirmed at ABC's 2016 winter Television Critics Association press tour that he's still working to make it happen.

"The Marvel project is still very much alive," he said, declining to offer more clarification than that it's "still in development." Ridley also denied that his new ABC detective drama pilot Presence is related to this Marvel series.

Ridley said he is looking to bring some of the socially conscious nature of American Crime, which presented during ABC's press day, to his Marvel project, while also saying he's looking forward to making something that is "straight entertainment."

"You look at Jessica Jones, and [Marvel's] doing an interesting job of integrating [social consciousness]," Ridley said. "I would say in general, graphic novels, their reason for existence is a little different. It's about wish fulfillment, whether you're talking about Peter Parker, a young, misunderstood kid trying to figure out his way; if you're talking about Bruce Wayne, a man who's dealing with the loss of his parents; whether you're talking about Clark Kent, an orphan who's trying to figure out what he's meant to do without the guidance of his parents.

"That's not unusual for the graphic novel space, so I would just say I hope that I would bring an appropriate amount of reflective sensibility to whatever project I may or may not be involved with in the Marvel universe. But I do want it to be entertaining in its own right. American Crime is its own thing, I hope to continue with American Crime. I would relish the opportunity to work in spaces where it really is about straight entertainment."

Earlier during ABC's press day, ABC President Paul Lee confirmed that the networkordered a pilot of a new Marvel series, Marvel's Most Wanted. ABC is also the home to Marvel's Agents of SHIELD and Marvel's Agent Carter.


Link: John Ridley's Marvel Series is 'Still Very Much Alive' - IGN

 

[Ziggiy]

Because he didn't write it yet he got the credit. So I guess there was some bad blood between him and Steve McQueen

What do you mean when you say he didn't write it? For him to get any type of credit for the screenplay he'd have had to have SOME type of creative input right?

 

[MartyMcFly]

What do you mean when you say he didn't write it? For him to get any type of credit for the screenplay he'd have had to have SOME type of creative input right?

Yeah you can get credit for like coming up with the idea or a scene but from what I read, Steve McQueen wrote most of it but was uncredited. Same thing with Ava and Selma. Like I said earlier ( I think lol) that he wrote a version but not the version that they shot

 

[Ziggiy]

Yeah you can get credit for like coming up with the idea or a scene but from what I read, Steve McQueen wrote most of it but was uncredited. Same thing with Ava and Selma.

That's kind of fukked up.

 

[MartyMcFly]

That's kind of fukked up.

Yup. Sucks. Both ways actually. You get credit for something you didn't do and the director has to sit and eat it lol

 

[TheGodling]

What do you mean when you say he didn't write it? For him to get any type of credit for the screenplay he'd have had to have SOME type of creative input right?

Yeah you can get credit for like coming up with the idea or a scene but from what I read, Steve McQueen wrote most of it but was uncredited. Same thing with Ava and Selma. Like I said earlier ( I think lol) that he wrote a version but not the version that they shot

This has been discussed earlier in this very thread, lol.

He did write a draft but McQueen himself made a lot of changes. There are regulations however to how much a writer must've added to the screenplay in order to be credited, and Ridley used those to his advantage forcing McQueen out of the co-writer credit.

 

[MartyMcFly]

This has been discussed earlier in this very thread, lol.

Yeah we both answered the question. But m man asked I answered him. You just couldn't help yourself could you