Could a Dr. Doom solo film work?

as for a solo movie, im sure theres some political thriller type story that you can make with latveria involved.

IIRC, there was a Mephisto story involving Doom's mother as well?

DAVID FINCHER to direct it!

I'd watch it. Now, 'Would I enjoy it?' is another question in itself.

Toby Stephens as Victor Von Doom!

only if he's involved in trying to take over the world :)
also, nobody named "Toby" is ever going to play Doctor Doom. ever.

You're basing that off of what? Ed Brubaker's limited series? A retcon/expansion on his origin? 50 years and one story makes him entirely sympathetic?

You might as well consider Hannibal Rising definitive because Thomas Harris decided to give Hannibal a victimized origin story.....AFTER all has been said and done.

I'll grant you that he's entitled to be misunderstood, but once you start down the "one bad day" road, you might as well make it an interstate for every supervillain. It might humanize the character to you, but it detracts from how larger than life he's supposed to be.

Darth Vader was awesome until the prequel trilogy....

@ Tainted

I'm basing it on the fact that Books of Doom is canon. Also on the fact that it has no effect whatsoever on Doom as a character. After that story was released, its not like he suddenly became pussified. He's just as evil as he ever was.

Also, the things that were explored in Books of Doom were already things that were set up and canon long before the story was ever written. Books of Doom just shows it in detail.

It was already known that Doom tries to save his dead mother from hell once a year. It was already known that he was oppressed by the Latverian government as a kid. It was already known that he went to college with Reed Richards. None of that was new, or Brubaker's decisions.

You clearly still consider Doom to be the greatest Marvel villain ever created, and I can't say I disagree with you. But the things you are mentioning happened, or were at least mentioned in the comics long before Books of Doom came along.

there has been a few dr.doom books.

-super villain team up
-doom 2099
-books of doom
-doomwar

@ Dethpillow

To add on to that, every villain THINKS they are right. No villain is saying, "Hey, I'm a dick and I'm doing this evil deed just to be evil and wrong." The only villain I can really think of that is like that is Joker.

Every other villain feels justified in their actions. Even people as evil as Red Skull. He honestly believes in what he's doing and thinks he is right. So trying to show people WHY these villains believe they are right, or what happened to them to make them think this way, should not be considered a bad thing.