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Here's some info about the only so far rumoured movies:
*Director not yet known*: Black Panther
- After receiving favorable reviews for the adaptation of 1998's Blade, Wesley Snipes' company Amen-Ra will produce another Marvel comic, Black Panther.
- Though Snipes has confirmed to play the title role if the movie goes to production, no directors have been attached to the project yet.
*Director not yet known*: Captain America
- Captain America centers on a U.S. soldier who becomes a superhero after being injected with a secret government serum.
- After a recent deal with Marvel and Artisan Entertainment, Captain America will be one of several Marvel characters to be featured in a film.
Lee Tamahori: Deathlok
- A suburban family man is unwittingly made a test subject for technology research that slowly turns him into a living computerized assasin for the government.
*Director not yet known*: Doctor Strange
- Often referred to as Marvel's Master of the Mystic Arts, Dr. Strange follows a former surgeon who loses his ability to operate, but who contacts a mysterious figure, the Ancient One, and with his help, becomes designated as the next Sorcerer Supreme.
*Director not yet known*: The Fantastic Four
- Four astronauts return to Earth from outer space with newfound powers.
- Reed Richards, the mastermind of the team, turns into Mr. Fantastic, a stretchy figure, similar to a rubberband.
- Susan Storm, later Susan Richards, turns into The Invisible Woman.
- Johnny Storm, Susan's brother, turns into Human Torch, a figure who can fly and burst into flames by not burning himself of course.
- Benjamin Grimm, the muscle of the team, turns into The Thing (not related to the horror movie(s)), similar in behaviour with Hulk.
Steve Carr: Iron Fist
- Tells the story of Danny Rand, an orphan raised in an Asian temple who can magically turn his hand into an iron weapon.
- Ray Park is said to play the title role Danny Rand/Iron Fist.
*Director not yet known*: Iron Man (2005)
- Billionaire Tony Stark, previously one of the world's most imaginative weapons defense technology creators, decides to retire from weapons manufacture.
- A powerful competitor attempts to kill Stark, and almost succeeds.
- To keep himself alive, Stark must build a modern-day suit of armor.
- He then begins to build more agile and powerful versions of the suit, and uses it to fight crime as the Invincible Iron Man!
*Director not yet known*: Luke Cage
- Luke Cage was once was a gang member, growing up surrounded by crime.
- At one point, he found himself framed for a crime he did not commit.
- While in prison, some scientists offered Luke his freedom if he would agree to go through with medical experiments.
- These experiments not only gave him his freedom, but they also gave him superhuman strength.
- From there, Luke went into the world to become a mercenary.
- He became a man who would fight crime, but only for a price.
Brett Leonard: Man-Thing
- Man-Thing tells the story of scientist Ted Sallis who injects himself with an untested serum to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands.
- The serum transforms Sallis into the mindless, ambling swamp-matter beast (*cough* Swamper *cough*) known as Man-Thing, who is empathically drawn to the fear of others.
- Man-Thing prowls the Florida Everglades in search of the fearful... for whatever knows fear burns at the Man-Thing's touch!
*Director not yet known*: Silver Surfer
- Norrin Radd was once a scientist on the planet of Zenn-La.
- He lost all that as well as his human form when he pledged himself as the herald of the all-powerful Galactus, a being who threatened to annihilate his homeworld and must consume planets to sustain himself.
- Changed by Galactus and imbused with cosmic energy, Norrin Radd's body was transformed into a metallic scout capable of flying across the cosmos - the Silver Surfer.
- The Surfer betrays his master, however, when he falls in love with one of the doomed planets; a planet known as Earth.
Sam Raimi: Spiderman 3 (2006)
- The main villains in this one are rumoured to be Eddie Brock/Venom & Cletus Kassady/Carnage.
- Mark "Vin Diesel" Vincent & The Rock are early options for Eddie Brock, Sam Rockwell & Christian Bale for Cletus Kassady.
*Director not yet known*: The Submariner aka Namor
- One of Marvel's oldest superhero, The Sub-Mariner, will join his comic compatriots in diving onto the big screen.
- Prince Namor is a short-fused half-human/half-amphibian from the lost island of Atlantis.
- In the past, he has helped the human race but also fought alongside the Atlanteans against human invaders who brought waste to his underwater world.
- Caught between two identities, Prince Namor displays the classic angst that comes with being of mixed species and is widely regarded as one of the first anti-heroes.
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The walking discography.
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