Marvel's Pre-MCU Movie Slate: Every Unmade Film Explained (2004-2006)
Marvel's pre-MCU movie slate from 2004 to 2006 recently resurfaced online as a reminder of several canceled projects that never saw the light of day. Many of the listed films, including Iron Man, Captain America, and X-Men 3, did eventually get made, albeit perhaps differently from what was originally intended. However, others on this list were scrapped entirely when the MCU officially began.
The MCU was formally launched with the highly successful Iron Man movie in 2008, and has since extended to 27 movies to date that have consistently broken box office records and multiple TV shows. Marvel, under Disney's ownership, has been slowly reacquiring the movie rights to more of its characters to continue expanding its cinematic universe. According to several promotional photos from a 2004 event, however, multiple film studios were making movies based on Marvel characters. The planned movies represented in the list include projects from Sony Pictures, 20th Century Fox, and Paramount.
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Audiences eventually saw a version of most of these movies, which include The Punisher, Spider-Man 2, Blade Trinity, Elektra, Fantastic Four, X-Men 3, Ghost Rider, and Spider-Man 3. However, plans for six of them — Man-Thing, Namor, Silver Surfer, Fury, Daredevil 2, and Deathlok — were disrupted entirely. Here's every unmade Marvel film explained.
Unlike the other titles on this list, a Man-Thing movie did technically get made, just not in the way Marvel — and Artisan Entertainment, who owned the rights at the time — originally intended. Based only loosely on the comics written by Steve Gerber, Man-Thing followed a Louisiana sheriff as he investigated a series of
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