During a certain
Gillette/Stark Industries event at Boston,
Toronto Sun got to catch up on
Stan "The Man" Lee, veteran writer and fromer president of Marvel, and what he thinks of DC's progress with their own cinematic universe.
"DC, of course, is trying to catch up to Marvel. More power to them. It's good if everybody does well, but they're certainly starting from a ways back."
"Marvel has so many heroes. DC just has Superman, Batman and maybe Wonder Woman. Perhaps they'll use The Flash. Green Lantern wasn't very successful, but we'll see."
And I thought you knew your history, Stan!
On Spidey joining the MCU, Stan was nothing but
excited to finally see one of his own
original creations becoming an
Avenger.
“I think it’s one of the best things to happen! It means now SPIDER-MAN will be part of the team, in the Avengers, or however else they want to use him. Now he’ll be able to appear in AVENGERS 3, or any of our other movies. It’s going to be great!”
And on what he has to say about
DAREDEVIL, his other classic creation:
“I wanted to do that many years ago, but at the time the people who owned (Marvel) were very foolish. There was a beautiful actress who wanted to play BLACK WIDOW alongside DAREDEVIL in the TV show. I forget her name, but she was gorgeous; you’d know her.
I came to the person who at the time was the CEO of Marvel and I said, ‘We have a chance to do this as a series.’
And this idiot said, ‘If it bombs, that’ll hurt the character.’
And I said, ‘If that was the case we’d never do anything.’
He didn’t want to do it, but the idea of putting these characters on TV and the movies is wonderful.