INHUMANS: New Details Revealed About Why Kevin Feige Scrapped The Movie And TV Show's Failure

INHUMANS: New Details Revealed About Why Kevin Feige Scrapped The Movie And TV Show's Failure

Some fascinating new details about Marvel Television's ill-fated Inhumans TV series have been revealed, including why Kevin Feige scrapped plans for a movie and how its failure impacted 2021's Eternals...

By JoshWilding - Oct 11, 2023 09:10 AM EST
Filed Under: Inhumans
Source: TV Line

MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios has just arrived in bookstores and it takes a deep dive into the origin and evolution of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. 

TV Line recently shared an excerpt regarding Marvel Television and ABC's ill-fated Inhumans TV series, reminding us that the original idea had been for it to be a movie released in theaters back in July 2019. Despite comparisons to Game of Thrones, the big screen project was scrapped, but why did it never happen? 

It turns out Marvel's Creative Committee made the decision for characters like Daredevil, Blade, Ghost Rider, and Luke Cage to be handed over to Marvel Television, primarily because they felt Kevin Feige was busy enough working on The Avengers

It was in 2014 that former Marvel Entertainment CEO Ike Perlmutter and Creative Committee chair Alan Fine decided to take the spotlight off the Fantastic Four and X-Men in an effort to avoid giving 20th Century Fox free publicity for movies featuring those characters. As a result, the focus shifted to the Inhumans. 

According to the book, "Marvel Studios had been developing an Inhumans movie for years, but Feige was never satisfied with the script and wasn’t eager to do battle with Fox on Perlmutter’s behalf. As soon as Feige pulled the Inhumans movie from the release schedule (in April 2016), Marvel Entertainment ordered Loeb to fast-track Inhumans content on TV. Just two months later, the Inhumans appeared on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D."

From there, the decision was made to launch an Inhumans TV series in IMAX theaters and then on ABC. Reviews were abysmal and both the two-part premiere and subsequent episodes were pulled from the giant-sized screens. Alas, on television, Inhumans was a ratings flop and later scrapped.

It's explained that, "Because of budgetary constraints, many of the Inhumans were swiftly depowered. Medusa, the Inhuman queen, had her prehensile red hair — expensive to render in CGI — shaved off her head. The teleporting dog Lockjaw had to be grievously wounded so most of the action could stay in a single location (the show filmed on the Hawaiian island of Oahu)."

Oh, and for those of you who remain convinced that Marvel Studios will one day bring Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. into the MCU, it's emphasised that they were and still are keen to distance themselves from Marvel Television as much as possible.

In fact, "When it developed a movie starring another obscure superteam, the Eternals, the creators were instructed that none of it could take place in Hawaii. The studio didn’t want any risk that audiences might be reminded of the Inhumans."

Last year, Marvel Studios released Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and gave Anson Mount the opportunity to play a comic-accurate version of Black Bolt. That version of the hero hailed from Earth-838 and ultimately had his head blown up from the inside; whether he or the rest of the Inhuman characters exist on Earth-616 is hard to say.

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HammerLegFoot
HammerLegFoot - 10/11/2023, 9:52 AM
To this day I've still never watched the Inhumans show. Might give it a go this weekend.
slickrickdesigns
slickrickdesigns - 10/11/2023, 10:20 AM
@HammerLegFoot - expect the worst and hope you have enough greens.
RitoRevolto
RitoRevolto - 10/11/2023, 10:21 AM
@HammerLegFoot - Don't waste your time unless you're doing it to experience just incredibly cringe it was.
Goldboink
Goldboink - 10/11/2023, 12:25 PM
@HammerLegFoot -
Don't do it. It will damage you permanently.
WarMonkey
WarMonkey - 10/12/2023, 6:02 AM
@HammerLegFoot - The 2 greatest questions I have in life are "what is the meaning of life" and " why did I watch the entire season of Inhumans?!"
bobevanz
bobevanz - 10/11/2023, 10:01 AM
This was such a fail, and it sucks because they'll need Inhumans down the road. New article on DD, firing their writers amd directors last month, learning their lesson lol
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/daredevil-marvel-disney-1235614518/
thedrudo
thedrudo - 10/11/2023, 10:19 AM
@bobevanz - That's a pretty big piece of news!
bobevanz
bobevanz - 10/11/2023, 12:23 PM
@thedrudo - I always break the news first on here, they're lucky I don't write articles haha
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 10/11/2023, 10:09 AM
the movie sucked but at least we got to see the sexy cgi gimp suit https://i.ibb.co/5xpgsKn/tumblr-359aa3ce30fd09f1454946144972e650-c1897544-540.webp
RitoRevolto
RitoRevolto - 10/11/2023, 10:20 AM
I'd still love an Inhumans movie with a good script. It's basically Game of Thrones in space, how can you [frick] that up??
slickrickdesigns
slickrickdesigns - 10/11/2023, 10:20 AM
I can remember when Inhumans movie was announced and everyone thought Vin Diesel was going to be Black Bolt.
Goldboink
Goldboink - 10/11/2023, 12:26 PM
@slickrickdesigns -
He was going to be.
FearTheLiving
FearTheLiving - 10/11/2023, 10:30 AM
It's really sad because Inhumans has the potential to be really good. It was just a matter of too much too soon, for the comics anyways, and even then they were doing some pretty interesting stuff just some of the execution was bad. Especially since it basically was viewed as the Inhumans assassinating the X-Men, Mutants, and the Fantastic Four. I guarantee you if that wasn't happening and they got a similar push people would have been a lot more open to them.

As for the show... well that was a shit show rush job from start to finish. Also had potential to do tv/movies differently but instead the dropped the ball and we ended up getting Disney+ instead which has been its own can of mess...
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 10/11/2023, 10:46 AM
Oh well , it is what it is.

The show was a dud but it had potential , especially with the cast assemble but what is done is done.

I do hope we get a version of these characters in the future though , they are too cool not to do imo especially Karnak.

JDL
JDL - 10/11/2023, 10:55 AM
"It was in 2014 that former Marvel Entertainment CEO Ike Perlmutter and Creative Committee chair Alan Fine decided to take the spotlight off the Fantastic Four and X-Men in an effort to avoid giving 20th Century Fox free publicity for movies featuring those characters."

That wasn't it at all. Under the terms of the sale Fox had access to any new F4 and X-Men content. So anything new and good in the comics they lost the rights to for Movies or TV for those 2 IP's.
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