Month: March 2013

I’m still trying to figure out how a TV series based on some of the characters and situations from the movies Manhunter (1986) and Silence of the Lambs (1991) can work as a TV show? It seems to me that those two movies worked because they were self contained, with a beginning, middle and end. Which is kind’a the opposite of a series.

I suppose if the creators of Hannibal do each episode CSI style, ala the murder mystery of the week, it won’t be very good. However, if they do something more like the murder mystery if the season then it might be interesting.

The most famous of these unmade movies is Spider-Man that would have been written and directed by James Cameron (Aliens, Avatar). James Cameron’s Spider-Man would have been released sometime after his smash Terminator 2 (1991) and would have featured Spider-Man battling Sandman and Electro. Unfortunately, the company that owned the film rights to the webhead went bankrupt and legal issues with the character would only be settled in the early ’00s.

For a time Cameron was also attached to produce a The X-Men movie in the 1990s too.

Click here to read this column on lost & forgotten superhero movies of the 1990s.

Here it is. Our one shot to see a Veronica Mars movie happen. Kristen is in. I’m in. Let’s do it!