Animated Supers on the Way! - The Orange Mane

Old Dude · 12-09-2005, 10:04 AM

Justice League Animated - Entire Season 1 - and Batman Beyond - Season 1- will both be released in box sets on March 21. Estimated price for each set will be around $45.00.

Meanwhile, Ultimate Avengers is slated for a February 2006 release. The Ultimate Avengers movie is based on the first six issues of The Ultimates by Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch. The film will run to around 75 or 80 minutes in length and be in a letterboxed format.

EARTH, 1945. Humanity was on the brink of annihilation. Sinister forces pushed to seize control of the free world, and only one man rose up to stop them. A man who sacrificed his life to save us all. History remembers him as our one and only Super-Soldier.

We know him as Captain America.

When a nuclear missile was fired at Washington in 1945, Captain America managed to detonate it in the upper atmosphere. But then he fell miles into the icy depths of the North Atlantic, where he remained lost for over sixty years. But now, with the world facing the very same evil, Captain America must rise again as our last hope of survival, and lead a strong-willed team of today's superheroes:

IRON MAN, the billionaire bachelor used to doing things his own way.
THE HULK, the destructive force Bruce Banner hopes to turn into a useful member of the team.
THOR, a hero who has responsibilities to both the world of man and the world of gods.
WASP, a petite powerhouse who sees the team as a fresh start for her and her husband, otherwise known as:
GIANT MAN, sixty feet tall with an equally large chip on his shoulder.
And CAPTAIN AMERICA, a star-spangled idealist resurrected from a 60 year deep-freeze because this team needs a super-soldier to lead them.

Ultimate Avengers is the first of eight proposed animated films. A second Ultimate Avengers feature will hopefully follow in the second quarter of 2006 with an Iron Man film coming in the third quarter.

-Slap- · 12-09-2005, 10:30 AM

I would go to an Avengers movie.

Old Dude · 12-09-2005, 10:33 AM

Old Dude · 12-09-2005, 10:42 AM

Script By Mark Millar
Art by Bryan Hitch

...
20th December 2001

Page One

1/ Full page splash. Open high above the North Atlantic and a formation of Allied planes make their way towards a secret Nazi base on an island in the frozen north.

CAPTION : The North Atlantic, 1945:

Page Two

1/ Cut to interior and we get a head and shoulders of Bucky looking a little disgusted with the cigarette he's just taken a puff of. As discussed, the Ultimate version of Bucky should look more like a regular soldier than the domino-masked original and I thought we might make him a War Photographer (which gives him some kind of reason to be knocking around with a propaganda machine like Captain America). Imagine a feisty, little nineteen year old version of James Cagney. Being a photographer, he should have a portable camera somewhere on his person for the drop.

BUCKY : You know, I still can't believe the Germans would do
something as evil as shoot down a plane filled with CAMEL
CIGARETTES.

2/ Pull back and see Bucky sitting with his parachute on and sitting here waiting for the drop with all the other American troops. A bigger, slightly older and more cynical guy called Kowalski sits opposite and the others listen as a little tension develops in their dark, dank environment.

BUCKY : These French things'll KILL you.
KOWALSKI : No, cigarettes just stain your TEETH, Bucky. Whatever
they've got down there on that ISLAND'S gonna kill us.

3/ Closer on Bucky, sneering a little.

BUCKY : Hitler wiring you DOLLARS or DEUTSCHMARKS to knock
Allied morale, Kowalski?

4/ Cut back to Kowalski as he retorts. He obviously isn't happy about the fact that this mission has gone all showbiz.

KOWALSKI : Mister, morale couldn't be any lower in here if my MOTHER-
IN-LAW was on-board. You ASLEEP during that mission-
brief or what, newspaper-boy?

Page Three

1/ Pull back for a wider shot as this conversation goes back and forward across the aisle and we get a slightly wider shot, allowing us to see the other nervous troops.

KOWALSKI : The Krauts are building a super-weapon that could end the
war in a matter of DAYS. All that's standing between jack-
boots and Madison Avenue is grunts like you and me-
KOWALSKI : --and the closest thing they have to a plan is throwing as many
of us at this secret base as they can find in the vague hope that
somebody BREAKS it.

2/ Switch angles and we see this conversation taking place with the cockpit visible in the background. Sitting on a chair up ahead with his back to us is Captain America. He's sitting backwards on this chair and looking at something we can't see. Shield should be strapped across his back. He's very Miller-esque and iconic in this sequence.

KOWALSKI : Exactly which part of that scenario sounds like our morale
should be anything higher than FREEZING POINT, moron?
BUCKY : How about the fact that we got a secret weapon of our OWN
up here, wise-guy?

3/ Reaction shot from Kowalski. He obviously doesn't believe all this propaganda stuff they have in the newspapers, reckoning it's all a big stunt to scare the Hun. Nobody sitting here really believes these guys are for real.

KOWALSKI : What? CAPTAIN AMERICA?
KOWALSKI : Dressing some clown in a CIRCUS COSTUME and calling
him a SUPER-SOLDIER might be a hit with the
RECRUITMENT PEOPLE, but what age do you think we
ARE, Barnes?

4/ Closer on Kowalski and we see how scared and serious he looks. Everybody here thinks they're going to die.

KOWALSKI : This ain't just another PICTURE OPPORTUNITY you can
fake to get eighteen year old boys excited about JOINING-
UP.
KOWALSKI : This BOMB they're working on can flatten cities in seconds
and that star-spangled PHONEY they pay you to hawk
around's just gonna DIE down there like the REST of us,
fella.

Page Four

1/ Cut to the cockpit and a shot of Captain America sitting backwards on the chair and facing us as he looks at a photograph in his hands. The camera should really be at the mid-way point here and, to keep him mysterious and iconic, I'd like to only feature Cap's face from half-way down.

CAPT AMERICA : Bucky, would you do me a favour and assure these fine
gentlemen that I've never lost a crew in THREE YEARS of
these covert operations?

2/ Close on the picture and we get a shot of Gail Richards, Cap's sweetheart back home. ...

CAPT AMERICA : In fact, just to hammer home the point, you're all invited to my
IMPENDING NUPTIALS in six months time.

3/ Pull back as Cap sticks the picture in his helmet.

CAPT AMERICA : One minute to DROP ZONE, boys.

4/ Cut back to Bucky sitting side-by-side with the soldiers again and the guy next to him pipes up, slightly more good-natured than the guy opposite was.

SOLDIER ONE : I hate to say it, but your friend in the flag's just as crazy as
YOU are, hot-shot.
SOLDIER ONE : How's he gonna HELP us on the ground when he ain't even
wearin' a PARACHUTE?
BUCKY : Don't you READ the papers, pal? Captain America practically
NEVER wears a parachute…

4/ Close on Bucky glancing sideways around at the off-panel guy with a good-natured smirk and his eye-brows raised slightly.

BUCKY : He says PARACHUTES are for GIRLS.

SoCalBronco · 12-09-2005, 08:27 PM

Old Dude's been a good boy this year. Santa will not stuff his stocking with Anime DVDs.

anthonypacino · 12-09-2005, 10:05 PM

I've been waiting for things like this since I was 8 years old. I never understood why they didn't convert comic storylines into animated movies. I hope they will market this to a adult crowd like the book is. It truly is the best way to make large team movies, they can stick to the source and all the heroes don't have to wear black leather or rubber. I think a Crisis on Infinite Earths animated movie would kick ass. I would love to see Batman Year One as well.

-Slap- · 12-09-2005, 11:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by anthonypacino

I've been waiting for things like this since I was 8 years old. I never understood why they didn't convert comic storylines into animated movies. I hope they will market this to a adult crowd like the book is. It truly is the best way to make large team movies, they can stick to the source and all the heroes don't have to wear black leather or rubber. I think a Crisis on Infinite Earths animated movie would kick ass. I would love to see Batman Year One as well.

See, to me, one of the things that turned me away from comics was the crass commercialism behind ventures like Crisis on Infinite Earths. Crossovers that encompassed multiple titles were all about increasing sales of weak books at the expense of strong ones.

I also despised the idea of some Jim Shooter vanity piece hijacking every title in the DC Universe for several months, until he "resolved" all the continuity issues. Like that could ever happen. As a result, more talented writers were forced to play along and incorporate that storyline into their titles.

Hated it. Hate all big crossovers.

This Avengers/Defenders crossover from 1973 ruled, though.

anthonypacino · 12-09-2005, 11:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by -Slap-

See, to me, one of the things that turned me away from comics was the crass commercialism behind ventures like Crisis on Infinite Earths. Crossovers that encompassed multiple titles were all about increasing sales of weak books at the expense of strong ones.

I also despised the idea of some Jim Shooter vanity piece hijacking every title in the DC Universe for several months, until he "resolved" all the continuity issues. Like that could ever happen. As a result, more talented writers were forced to play along and incorporate that storyline into their titles.

Hated it. Hate all big crossovers.

This Avengers/Defenders crossover from 1973 ruled, though.

Those are good points. In my eyes Crisis was the first company wide maxi, and there were many crossovers but they were not nessecery to tell the Crisis story, and IMO it is so far the only one to do it right. Marvel jumped in with Secret Wars and since it seems like every summer you get a very crappy one. DC's current on Infinite Crisis is not bad and is continuing the original maxi. But so much is going on they are trying to make it where you gotta buy everything, I hate that too with comic costing $2.50 to 3.99 nowadays. I got out of comics in the late 90's when all the gimmicks took over and it became way to commercial. I got back into them about 3-4 years ago and I have a very limited reading list, it was different 3 years ago but with all the comic movies the book companies are trying to cash in and it is slowly reverting back to the ways of the 90's in the old days you might get two to four issues to reslove a plot line now they spread it out over 10 or more. Just recently Frank Miller returned to Batman with artist Jim Lee on All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder, it is bi-monthly so only two issues have come out the entire 2nd issue was a car chase...nothing happened to move the story...it was like he watched The Blues Brothers before he started typing. I expected more out of Miller than that, all the books seem to have become too "episodic" like a soap opera.

-Slap- · 12-10-2005, 09:28 AM

Thank you.

The great Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introduced the Silver Surfer and Galactus in a three issue story arc, issues 48-50, and Reed managed to save the whole freaking planet in the process.

This story arc was wedged between the introduction of The Inhumans in issue 47 and the first appearance of the Black Panther in issue 52.

Stan and Jack weren't much for sitting on their hands and the comics cost 12 cents each.

Excelsior!

12-09-2005, 10:04 AM	#1
Old Dude Host Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: As if I'd tell you crazies! Posts: 14,146	Animated Supers on the Way! Justice League Animated - Entire Season 1 - and Batman Beyond - Season 1- will both be released in box sets on March 21. Estimated price for each set will be around $45.00. Meanwhile, Ultimate Avengers is slated for a February 2006 release. The Ultimate Avengers movie is based on the first six issues of The Ultimates by Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch. The film will run to around 75 or 80 minutes in length and be in a letterboxed format. EARTH, 1945. Humanity was on the brink of annihilation. Sinister forces pushed to seize control of the free world, and only one man rose up to stop them. A man who sacrificed his life to save us all. History remembers him as our one and only Super-Soldier. We know him as Captain America. When a nuclear missile was fired at Washington in 1945, Captain America managed to detonate it in the upper atmosphere. But then he fell miles into the icy depths of the North Atlantic, where he remained lost for over sixty years. But now, with the world facing the very same evil, Captain America must rise again as our last hope of survival, and lead a strong-willed team of today's superheroes: IRON MAN, the billionaire bachelor used to doing things his own way. THE HULK, the destructive force Bruce Banner hopes to turn into a useful member of the team. THOR, a hero who has responsibilities to both the world of man and the world of gods. WASP, a petite powerhouse who sees the team as a fresh start for her and her husband, otherwise known as: GIANT MAN, sixty feet tall with an equally large chip on his shoulder. And CAPTAIN AMERICA, a star-spangled idealist resurrected from a 60 year deep-freeze because this team needs a super-soldier to lead them. Ultimate Avengers is the first of eight proposed animated films. A second Ultimate Avengers feature will hopefully follow in the second quarter of 2006 with an Iron Man film coming in the third quarter.

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12-09-2005, 10:30 AM	#2
-Slap- Ring of Famer Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 31,895	I would go to an Avengers movie.

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Old Dude Host Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: As if I'd tell you crazies! Posts: 14,146

12-09-2005, 10:42 AM	#4
Old Dude Host Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: As if I'd tell you crazies! Posts: 14,146	Script By Mark Millar Art by Bryan Hitch ... 20th December 2001 Page One 1/ Full page splash. Open high above the North Atlantic and a formation of Allied planes make their way towards a secret Nazi base on an island in the frozen north. CAPTION : The North Atlantic, 1945: Page Two 1/ Cut to interior and we get a head and shoulders of Bucky looking a little disgusted with the cigarette he's just taken a puff of. As discussed, the Ultimate version of Bucky should look more like a regular soldier than the domino-masked original and I thought we might make him a War Photographer (which gives him some kind of reason to be knocking around with a propaganda machine like Captain America). Imagine a feisty, little nineteen year old version of James Cagney. Being a photographer, he should have a portable camera somewhere on his person for the drop. BUCKY : You know, I still can't believe the Germans would do something as evil as shoot down a plane filled with CAMEL CIGARETTES. 2/ Pull back and see Bucky sitting with his parachute on and sitting here waiting for the drop with all the other American troops. A bigger, slightly older and more cynical guy called Kowalski sits opposite and the others listen as a little tension develops in their dark, dank environment. BUCKY : These French things'll KILL you. KOWALSKI : No, cigarettes just stain your TEETH, Bucky. Whatever they've got down there on that ISLAND'S gonna kill us. 3/ Closer on Bucky, sneering a little. BUCKY : Hitler wiring you DOLLARS or DEUTSCHMARKS to knock Allied morale, Kowalski? 4/ Cut back to Kowalski as he retorts. He obviously isn't happy about the fact that this mission has gone all showbiz. KOWALSKI : Mister, morale couldn't be any lower in here if my MOTHER- IN-LAW was on-board. You ASLEEP during that mission- brief or what, newspaper-boy? Page Three 1/ Pull back for a wider shot as this conversation goes back and forward across the aisle and we get a slightly wider shot, allowing us to see the other nervous troops. KOWALSKI : The Krauts are building a super-weapon that could end the war in a matter of DAYS. All that's standing between jack- boots and Madison Avenue is grunts like you and me- KOWALSKI : --and the closest thing they have to a plan is throwing as many of us at this secret base as they can find in the vague hope that somebody BREAKS it. 2/ Switch angles and we see this conversation taking place with the cockpit visible in the background. Sitting on a chair up ahead with his back to us is Captain America. He's sitting backwards on this chair and looking at something we can't see. Shield should be strapped across his back. He's very Miller-esque and iconic in this sequence. KOWALSKI : Exactly which part of that scenario sounds like our morale should be anything higher than FREEZING POINT, moron? BUCKY : How about the fact that we got a secret weapon of our OWN up here, wise-guy? 3/ Reaction shot from Kowalski. He obviously doesn't believe all this propaganda stuff they have in the newspapers, reckoning it's all a big stunt to scare the Hun. Nobody sitting here really believes these guys are for real. KOWALSKI : What? CAPTAIN AMERICA? KOWALSKI : Dressing some clown in a CIRCUS COSTUME and calling him a SUPER-SOLDIER might be a hit with the RECRUITMENT PEOPLE, but what age do you think we ARE, Barnes? 4/ Closer on Kowalski and we see how scared and serious he looks. Everybody here thinks they're going to die. KOWALSKI : This ain't just another PICTURE OPPORTUNITY you can fake to get eighteen year old boys excited about JOINING- UP. KOWALSKI : This BOMB they're working on can flatten cities in seconds and that star-spangled PHONEY they pay you to hawk around's just gonna DIE down there like the REST of us, fella. Page Four 1/ Cut to the cockpit and a shot of Captain America sitting backwards on the chair and facing us as he looks at a photograph in his hands. The camera should really be at the mid-way point here and, to keep him mysterious and iconic, I'd like to only feature Cap's face from half-way down. CAPT AMERICA : Bucky, would you do me a favour and assure these fine gentlemen that I've never lost a crew in THREE YEARS of these covert operations? 2/ Close on the picture and we get a shot of Gail Richards, Cap's sweetheart back home. ... CAPT AMERICA : In fact, just to hammer home the point, you're all invited to my IMPENDING NUPTIALS in six months time. 3/ Pull back as Cap sticks the picture in his helmet. CAPT AMERICA : One minute to DROP ZONE, boys. 4/ Cut back to Bucky sitting side-by-side with the soldiers again and the guy next to him pipes up, slightly more good-natured than the guy opposite was. SOLDIER ONE : I hate to say it, but your friend in the flag's just as crazy as YOU are, hot-shot. SOLDIER ONE : How's he gonna HELP us on the ground when he ain't even wearin' a PARACHUTE? BUCKY : Don't you READ the papers, pal? Captain America practically NEVER wears a parachute… 4/ Close on Bucky glancing sideways around at the off-panel guy with a good-natured smirk and his eye-brows raised slightly. BUCKY : He says PARACHUTES are for GIRLS.

12-09-2005, 10:05 PM	#6
anthonypacino off season mode Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Colorado Springs, CO Posts: 2,283	I've been waiting for things like this since I was 8 years old. I never understood why they didn't convert comic storylines into animated movies. I hope they will market this to a adult crowd like the book is. It truly is the best way to make large team movies, they can stick to the source and all the heroes don't have to wear black leather or rubber. I think a Crisis on Infinite Earths animated movie would kick ass. I would love to see Batman Year One as well.

12-10-2005, 09:28 AM	#9
-Slap- Ring of Famer Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 31,895	Thank you. The great Stan Lee and Jack Kirby introduced the Silver Surfer and Galactus in a three issue story arc, issues 48-50, and Reed managed to save the whole freaking planet in the process. This story arc was wedged between the introduction of The Inhumans in issue 47 and the first appearance of the Black Panther in issue 52. Stan and Jack weren't much for sitting on their hands and the comics cost 12 cents each. Excelsior!