8. The Punisher
What’s so risky and/or controversial about The Punisher? Well, considering the fact that each of his movies have been a complete failure (both tried too hard to be either serious or went way over the top with silly violence), it’s obvious that another movie starring the vigilante would be a hard sell.
The rights to Frank Castle are now back at Marvel Studios, and their family friendly comic book movies wouldn’t exactly make for a great fit with The Punisher. A PG-13 Punisher movie is possible, and if handled the right way, it could work. Unfortunately, Marvel don’t seem too interested in rebooting failed properties.
Daredevil was spectacularly screwed up by Fox in 2003 and Marvel are now giving the character a series on Netflix rather than his own movie, so would they risk trying to retool a character who has failed to connect with audience time and time again? Perhaps then they would be better off bringing The Punisher to the small screen as well, alongside others they’ve regained like Ghost Rider and Blade.
There have been three attempts at making a Punisher movie.
The big problem with your list is that Marvel can’t make half of these movies. Only Sony or Fox can.
Moon Knight. All day.
What wrote off Catwoman and Electra wasn’t that they were female superheroes – it was that they were shit films.
Just look at all the crap comic book movies that were made before things like Blade, Spiderman and X-Men came along. I’m pretty sure that the studios could make a decent comic book film about a female superhero if they actually tried – they just aren’t willing to do that. Apparently it’s much easier to bring a raccoon and talking tree to life than it is to make a woman the lead. 🙂