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What could have been...really, really bad

With all the talk about scriptwriters and other studio's rights to Marvel movies, it might be fun to take a deep breath about how Marvel Studios (with maybe some help from Tom Cruise) saved comic book movies (at least on the Marvel side). Take a look at what I mean here.

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By TheSchemer - 12/22/2010
With Ghost Rider, Spider-man, X-Men, and Wolverine all getting reworked again for studios other than Marvel, there has been a lot of discussion about script quality and staying true to source material.

Most, myself included, call for Marvel to hopefully get all their film rights back. This is happening little by little as this year the Punisher was once again brought under the Marvel umbrella.

But if we take a look back to one of the original Iron Man scripts, before Marvel got the rights back, we might just have to realize how lucky we are. This script called for the movies main villain to be Tony Stark's father, Howard. Howard stole Tony's tech and used it to become War Machine.

There are more details in the linked article, including what Tom Cruise evidently thought of the father v. son plotline.

"Tom Cruise has been forever attached to this thing and he wanted to do a marvel character movie different than from what has come before. I guess he read this, saw THE HULK, jumped on Toby Emmerich's couch and was like, 'Oh...No! They did that whole father vs. son thing in The Hulk!'"

That was awhile ago, thank goodness Marvel got the rights back and started from scratch!

http://web.archive.org/web/20080205070555/http://latinoreview.com/scriptreview.php?id=22
Source: Web Archive
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Ibz - 12/22/2010, 1:11 PM
was it new line or universal that owned the rights to iron man before marvel got it back. thank god it never happened. david fricking hayter should just stick to voicing solid snake although he did do a good job on X2 and Watchmen
SeaSerpentine - 12/22/2010, 1:18 PM
New Line.
elcaballerooscuro92 - 12/22/2010, 1:26 PM
it was the exactly the same in the hulk, the father stole from the son to become the absorbing man
marvelguy - 12/22/2010, 8:19 PM
That would have been painful to watch. I think Cruise as Stark would be a stretch. They'd have to give him a fake goatee. I just think he would be too much of a a distraction aside from the silly story line. You know when you have someone as 'big' as Cruise, you try to put him in every scene.
logicoflame - 12/23/2010, 4:11 PM
Only role I liked for cruise was tropic. He was made for comedy
comiccow6 - 7/2/2011, 4:44 PM
That Iron Man...that..would...be scary. RRRREEEEEAAAALLLLLLYYYYY scary.

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