When Disney bought Marvel back in 2009, the venerable comic company was already pumping out three films a year. Since then, the movies have gotten better, and the plans for forthcoming titles haven become more ambitions, but the sheer quantity hasn't changed much. We're still looking at about three Marvel superhero films per year through 2015. Here's what has changed, though: for the first time since Mutant X went off the air in 2004, we'll soon see a live action TV show based on Marvel comics. And this time the show will have tie-ins (or at least the potential for tie-ins) to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The show? Why that would be Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and it will debut on ABC—which of course is also owned by Disney—in September of 2013.
The most interesting thing about the show from the comic nerds' perspective, of course, is the fact that it will be centered around the character Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg), despite the fact that it sure as hell seemed like [SPOILER ALERT] he was killed in 2012's The Avengers. So, what, was he not really dead? Was there some rip in the space time continuum caused by Thanos's Infinity Gauntlet? Who knows. Comic books storylines are like soap opera storylines on acid. All we know for sure based on the first teaser is that Coulson is back...and that this show might be awesome.
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‘Zombieland’ the TV Show Isn’t Happening, and According to the Franchise Creator It’s All Your Fault
Now here's a great idea: come up with an idea for a TV show, film a pilot, let people watch and rate it, and then use those ratings to decide whether or not to make a full first season.
Unfortunately, when Amazon tried this with a TV adaptation of Zombieland, it didn't quite work out as imagined...for anybody. You see, according to franchise creator and writer Rhett Reese, Amazon has decided not to go forward with this project because of terrible reviews from fans.
"I'll never understand the vehement hate the pilot received from die-hard Zombieland fans," Reese vented on Twitter. "You guys successfully hated it out of existence."
But here's the thing: the viewer ratings for the Zomblieland pilot were actually really good. It's got an overall rating of three and a half stars and, of the 5,000+ reviews, over 3,500 of them gave it either four or five stars.
So as nice as it would be if we really could hate things out of existence (every movie Tyler Perry ever made would be a goner), the reality is that there is obviously more to the axing of the Zombieland TV show than the viewer feedback.
So get off our back, Rhett Reese.
H/T – [EW]