After stepping away from conducting polls for several months following the incredible success of my First Avenger: Captain America casting poll (over 1700 comments!) and its related polls, I decided to cast a broader net for my return by asking the question...
Which comic book superhero is most deserving of a big-screen adaptation?
CBM fans are some of the most passionate fan(atic)s in the world, and over 3500 of you cast your vote for the character that you most wanted to see on celluloid--in this case,
return to celluloid. So, without further ado, here are the results...
Silver Surfer
722 Votes (19.45%)
Black Panther
619 Votes (16.68%)
Green Arrow
597 Votes (16.08%)
Nightwing
471 Votes (12.69%)
Cable
353 Votes (9.51%)
Moon Knight
258 Votes (6.95%)
Luke Cage
224 Votes (6.03%)
Power Girl
152 Votes (4.09%)
Hawkman
109 Votes (2.94%)
Deathstroke
92 Votes (2.48%)
Blue Beetle
65 Votes (1.75%)
Grendel
50 Votes (1.35%)
So, those are the results, but "What's the deal with the planned
Silver Surfer spin-off?"
At one time,
Alex Proyas (
I, Robot) was linked as director to the spin-off, but he quickly
smothered that rumor in an interview with
MTV:
"It’s like the origin of Silver Surfer was in that movie, and I’m going, 'This is such a f--king great story, why throw it away?'
"I think they messed it up.
"Silver Surfer would have been something I would have loved to have done. He’s one of the last cool ones left, really."
Doug Jones, the actor who brought the Silver Surfer to life says that he doesn’t know if there will be a spin-off, but he would
love to revisit the character:
"There are still a couple of years left on their option for two more pictures with me, as a three-picture deal is quite standard when starting a franchise-potential character. But with all the 're-boot' talk of the Fantastic Four, I have no idea where that leaves the Silver Surfer end of things. I would love to re-visit this character. I do love Norrin Radd."
Acclaimed comic book and screen scribe
J. Michael Straczynski made a statement that had fanboys declaring the
spin-off film dead:
"What happened was when FF2 didn’t do as well as they hoped it would do, it caused them to call into question a Silver Surfer movie. The script that I wrote picked up right where FF2 left off. So if they do a Silver Surfer film down the road, it’ll have to be its own separate things."
But, then he quickly
clarified that statement:
"Guys…guys…GUYS…whoa, slow down, back the bus up a second.
When I was asked about the Silver Surfer script, I responded about the one I’d written around the time that FF2 was launched, and was designed to pick up where that one left off.
"When FF2 didn’t do as well as hoped for, that script was set aside, but that has NOTHING to do with the Silver Surfer script that is NOW under development at Fox with other folks. As far as I know, that is proceeding apace. So the hysteria that’s gripped the nets about 'ohmygod the Surfer movie is dead!' is not correct, as I was again referring to only that one specific script tied into FF2, NOT what’s being done now."
So, I guess the final answer to our question, according to Straczynski, is that there
is a
Silver Surfer spin-off movie in the works and that it
will not be tied to the
Fanstastic Four movies!