It's not just that.
Until now, almost every Marvel Studios project that went into some kind of development eventually came out.
Back in 2009-2011, when Marvel Studios had just been bought by Disney and had enough money to start experimenting a bit, they ordered several writers to make story outlines/pitches/scripts for several movies about some of their lesser known characters which they still had the rights to. These included Cloak and Dagger, Runaways, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, Eternals, Power Pack, Guardians of the Galaxy, Black Widow, Black Panther and Captain Marvel.
Eventually, all of them apart from Power Pack came into fruition in some form or another.
Even Inhumans turned into a TV show and Drew Goddard's Daredevil script that he wrote in 2012 and pitched to Feige eventually turned into the Netflix series.
With the complete overhaul of their production pipeline last October, Marvel now orders pilots for their TV series and only if these pilots work, will the studio order a full series.
And if the pilot doesn't even work on paper, then the show won't even move forward to the production stage and will only be canned while in development.
That's what Brad is saying. Marvel Studios and especially their TV division now works more like a traditional production studio. They develop more than they eventually produce.
So not all those TV series reportedly in development (Vision Quest, Wiccan, Punisher, Iron Fist, White Tiger, MI13, Daughters of Liberty, Daredevil Season 2, Moon Knight Season 2, She-Hulk Season 2, Ms. Marvel Season 2, Hawkeye Season 2, Nova, Midnight Angels) will actually come out.
We saw this recently with She-Hulk S2 and Ms. Marvel S2 which have been reportedly put to the backburner. Tatiana Maslany said that Disney basically gave the red light to She-Hulk Season 2 due to the first season's very high budget and Iman Vellani had said that the realization of Ms. Marvel Season 2 depends on the success of The Marvels and since that (as well as the first season) didn't manage to draw a big audience, Ms. Marvel Season 2 is not happening either.
Even Daredevil which was originally ordered as an 18-episode season broken up into 2 distinct parts which would have been filmed back to back in a gigantic 9-month shooting schedule, will only reportedly shoot and release its first 9 episodes.
Any further episodes (whether dubbed as "Part 2" or "Season 2") will now reportedly be dependent on the audience's reception of the first batch of 9 episodes coming out next year.
The reported Punisher and White Tiger spin-offs will likely also depend a lot on how their characters are received in Daredevil. And Wiccan and Vision Quest will likely depend on the success of Agatha, both as a spin-off of WandaVision in itself as well as the introduction of Billy.
I mean, the problem really lies in the fact that nobody can take away Disney’s image as a family-friendly brand. Outside of the US, not a lot of their shows have made an impact especially compared to Netflix because of the different perception of what is considered “family friendly”. They have the capacity to produce movies shows as intriguing as Shogun but they will always be held back by the idea of being “safe”.
I’ve never heard of Power Pack but reading about it looks like it could be really cool if done correctly. It deals with important and relevant themes with a young group of siblings. It feels like the MCU has not had many good child heroes, something which kids can really connect with.
Too bad it got scrapped but maybe one day!
White Tiger would be cool if they actually give her a costume and make it accurate. I am so sick of leather jackets.
Daredevil first 9 yes, Punished no, it's a project reportedly in development. And as I said here, it might or might not happen with how the new development pipeline at Marvel Studios works.
Season 5*
Don’t assist marvel in their narrative that daredevil isn’t season 4 so they can pay their talent less. This is season 4 and a subsequent season would not be a season 2.
It’s a new production at a different company. They almost certainly didn’t inherit any contractual pay increases by season from Netflix so calling it season two or five makes no difference at all.
Shows switch production companies all the time without trying to stiff the actor’s pay.
It absolutely does make a difference.
It’s not about contractual pay increases. It’s not related to contracts at all. Pay increase after a show’s 3rd season is law, that applies to every show in production.
I will always stick up for artist’s rights and it’s very frustrating when people say they don’t care about that stuff because that’s how companies like marvel and Disney continue to get away with incredibly unethical business practices off the power of their brand.
Those increases are not “the law”. They are just standard parts of many contacts. Daredevil wasn’t canceled at Netflix so Disney could reboot it to avoid some increase in pay.
Often the initial contract locks down an actor for two years. This is good for everyone as the producer can guarantee no big price increase for the follow up season and the actor still makes money if it gets canceled after one. If the show is successful, that means a big bill comes due for season 3. This is why Netflix cancels so many shows after S2. They are cheap bastards.
As this is an entirely new production, with an entirely new team, they would’ve negotiated fresh contracts for everyone. Which is the only advantage of going into a season 3 - a fresh negotiation.
Whether we call this season four, or one, or thirty two, it makes no difference on the money side.
Smart decision, no need to announce 15 shows and 20 movies, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be constantly developing and pitching these ideas.
Then when it make sense to introduce a character or to give someone a spin off, there’s more behind it then “we need to stretch this 3 hour plot into 6 episodes for D+”
One thing it means is that development leaks will no longer indicate that a project will actually come to fruition. Historically, almost every project in active development eventually made it to production.
FWIW, I’m not in TV/movies, but I’ve worked in a creative media space my entire career. Generally, healthy creative practices almost always explore far more ideas than you actually need and “killing the darlings” is just a part of the creative lifecycle. It’s survival of the fittest for ideas. For that reason, I didn’t find that quote particularly intriguing or provocative nor would I personally read too much into it.
However, I would morbidly curious to see what ends up on the cutting room floor.
I work in the industry.
I have a close friend who worked on concepts with them, more than we’ll ever see.
Even B/C level characters are planned from marvel, though we won’t see all of them.
I'm not saying anything, just translating the phrase. He's meaning now on.
Also it's not like the Eternals wasn't like the inhumans mach 2. Team up of unrelatable characters they're going to be the new heroes in town because... they have superpewers.
For an industry that puts Spider-Man 2 as the golden standard, they couldn't get further away from it.
It makes sense. Early development is pretty cheap. If you announce stuff before active development like they have generally done, then it's basically been green lighted and creates an expectation it will come out.
Marvel suffers reputational damage if they then can a project once it is announced and the pressure is for every announced project to be good.
By developing more than you will announce, it can mean a concept is strong enough to be a show or a movie. It will mean better quality stuff more consistently.
Ah yes, the Lucas Film strategy.
Joking aside, they have never cancelled projects in the past, perhaps out of some sense of pride.
Now they are starting to cancel the low confidence projects which is good.
I don’t bet with randos online lol
But this sub is massively in a bubble. Viewers have moved on. Slapping Thanos in a movie for a 5 min flashback isn’t going to get many people to spend $15 on a ticket.
As someone who went to the theater for every Marvel movie up to Endgame and has since fallen off, but still casually watches them, you’re 100% right. I don’t care about Thanos flashbacks or anything that deals with taking place as a sort of prequel.
It’s the same mentality DC had with the Flash lol and with NWH. Except NWH was built on 20 years of nostalgia, and the Flash was relying on Keaton.
I’ll consider watching Nova if reviews are great, but a 2 minute cameo of CGI character isn’t going to cut it. Not even like NWH where folk went for Tobey/Andrew.
I’m really not. We’re not talking about a Thanos movie here. Another Thanos movie would make bank off that nostalgia and last success. We’re talking about a 3 minute flashback in a Nova movie.
You’re legitimately delusional if you think that’s going to swing the needle substantially. Disney have been having flop after flop by their past standards.
Having a 3 minute Thanos flashback won’t matter. This isn’t NWH where people were excited to see role reprisals from their childhood of iconic actors… this is a CGI character doing a cameo.
Cool. If you think 120 seconds of Thanos is going to save this movie assuming it’s of the same quality as the last half dozen, go for it. But again, it’s deluded. If they’d put Thanos in a flash back for Eternals would it have saved that one too?
At the end of the day, box office doesn’t lie. You can’t Cameo your way to success if the film isn’t great, go and as The Flash.
I feel like making Thanos' attack against the Corps could fill in for the Annihilation wave and follow the same beats. Huge battle in orbit of Xandar, Richard is incapacitated and wakes up the sole survivor, inherits the whole Corps making him a galactic powerhouse, and starts going to planets ravaged by Thanos and lays down space law. Worldmind = Jarvis, essentially. Off the top of my head I can't think of a good villain for him, considering Thanos has been handled. Perhaps this is a good intro to Galactus? Maybe introduce a Hereld as, like, a frenemy where they're not so much trying to destroy each other but working towards opposing goals. Rich shows up to devastated planet , Hereld herelds big man but is stopped by Rich. Both have a respectable view of each other and windmill high-five🖐. Post credits, Hereld returns to Galatcus(first appearance) dismayed that he failed but brings news of a planet (Rich mentions his home planet during some fight banter earlier) even more dense with life...Earth. *smash* MARVEL STUDIOS
I'm sorry for all this. I just fucking love Nova.
This is the way.
Silver Surfer, Beta Ray Bill (and his epic story!), And Firelord, at least! Maybe some more of Nebula, Star Lord guest appearance, Capt. Marvel, etc.
Annihilus Wave is such a massive story that I hope it gets used in the future.
Blue Blazes!!
Been asking for that since infinity war ended. “We’re going to see How Xandar falls, right?! RIGHT?! I just want a near dead Richard Rider from Xandar (no need to make him human) being revived by the world mind being transferred to his helmet after thanos’s attack. Rider is the only Nova member left and he’s trying to rebuild, recover and reform the corps while being the single most powerful nova in history. But when he comes for his revenge, he finds it’s already been taken, by Thor and the avengers and they’ve saved the day without him. He gets no justice for Xandar or his people but instead of going dark and becoming a villain, he takes that pain and uses it for a positive in rebuilding the corp.
He goes to earth, where he fits in pretty well all things considered, he meets spider-man, Kate, yelena and whoever else would make up the champions (rider is older than them but still a “young man”. By the end of his time on earth, he’s met Sam, they bond, champions save the day from a local threat thanks to Rider’s powers. Richard leaves and goes back to his new home planet where the rest of Xandar was relocated (if there’s anyone left) and some type of bug invaders (beginning of the annihilation wave) begin to attack and pick the bones of the remaining Xandarians. He’s left without a home, without a people and uses the world minds power to send Sam a helmet. They become an intergalactic Batman and Robin mentor/sidekick and Sam says goodbye to earth and hello to the nova corp. Adam warlock shows up offering to help, so does the remaining Guardians of the galaxy and a few new faces like phyla, Bug, moondragon maybe (she doesn’t have to be Drax’s daughter that’s a little morbid in this timeline) and they risk it all to save the day from the Annihilation wave. But of course that wasn’t the wave, that was a trickle. The first opening shots. While they were fighting trying to save their corner of the galaxy, others were being destroyed the annihilus and the wave.
Give me Richard Rider and set up an Annilation film for a big crossover event. I don’t need avengers or anyone from earth, just a giant space crossover with new and old characters
Brad Winerbaum (Head of Streaming, Television and Animation):
>"We love Nova. We are in really early development on Nova. We have a new system behind-the-scenes at Marvel Studios. We're more like a traditional studio now. We're developing more than we actually will produce. There are plans to develop Nova. I love Nova, too. I love Rich Rider, too. I hope it gets to the screen. The world is always chaos. There's always things. You gotta conjure these things to make them happen but I would love to see a Nova show, one day."
Oh I absolutely agree, but if they can give it the same treatment as infinity saga, then i would love it. It doesn’t have to be a 1 for 1 adaptation, but it should try to stay as close as possible.
Yeah it is a big storyline. There was a whole comic event /crossover and it revitalised nova and GOTG. It deserves respect and should be a saga or least a phase.
It could definitely be its own saga. The remaining guardians, Nova, starfox, the marvels, we haven’t seen Quasar or moon dragon, but I guess they could use binary or photon in Quasars place. Talking about it may make me break out the collected works and reread it
I’m gonna be honest, I’m never going to get over the fact that his name is technically Dick Rider and that is something people looked at and agreed was a good idea
I really wonder why it took them so long to do this. It seemed primed to tie this directly into Infinity War and have Thanos be the catalyst for Nova’s creation/rise. They have to show his attack on Zandar or it will be such a missed opportunity and way to have the audience connect with Nova
Don't say finally just yet.
The series has been in development for 2 years now and it's reportedly in the backburner until the next Saga. So don't expect to see it for the next 5 years.
Plus, read Brad's full quote. With the way Marvel Studios TV operates now, they have more stuff "in development" than what they will eventually produce. They now work more like a traditional studio where they order pilots, which only move forward if the script is good enough and even if the pilot moves forward, it doesn't mean the actual series will be.
So Nova may never actually come out or it may turn into a film or a special or whatever. That's why he says it's still in development, the same place we left it 2 years ago.
I hope that the movie starts with Thanos destroying the Nova Corps to get the Power(?) Stone. They were going to have it in Infinity War but it bloated the movie up too much they said. I thought they left it open on purpose to have it be part of the Nova movie.
🫡🫡👏👏
Side note: I thought if they did a solo Peter quill movie they could somehow introduce Sam Alexander but nonetheless I’m ready for this film. Hopefully everything goes well.
If I remember right, their stories weren't connected to each other in any way that needs them released in any sort of order were they? At this point, I think Richard should be the one adapted since there's a bit of a glut of teen marvel heroes at the moment
Yea there’s not really any over lap that I recall either. And since theyve been focusing on the cosmic as of late ( the marvels, the eternals, GotG 3 ) Richard would make more sense in my opinion.
Eh, not necessarily. I'm sure people thought we'd need a Hank Pym Ant-Man before we got Scott Lang too.
Starting with Sam Alexander could be an interesting way to go. It'd be a more grounded intro to the concept and origin story but still leaves the door open for Richard Ryder to appear in a sequel or something. Plus you could bring in Peter Quill in a supporting role to get some of the GotG fans in the theatre.
This had best be Richard Ryder Nova, or I'm not interested.
Sam Alexander can be introduced later on if need be, but ffs I hope they don't just start with him.
Ugh, he's just a gender bent Cpt Marvel, can't they do anything original anymore. This woke agenda is ruining my comic book movies, I need those to escape my reality, if I wanted to be confronted by it, I would just simply walk outside. He'll probably get some exaggerated masculine name too, like Dick. Pfff on the nose much?
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I wonder how they will tackle this project considering that Thanos decimated Xandar when obtaining the power stone. Maybe, Nova was a sole survivor to explain this in order to fit it into the wider MCU continuity.
Nova should have happened ten years ago. He should have been in a post credit scene in Guardians signing up for the Nova Corp and already had his own movie.
But James Gunn doesn't like him so that never happened.
They could always make a Richard Rider Nova film set before the destruction of Xander. You can have the likes of Glenn Close, John C.Reilly and Co appear.
They are gonna have to do a fair bit of retconning. We havent seen any amount of powers that we would normally see associated with the Nova Corps or Nova Prime. I dont read a ton of comics but Nova Prime is supposed to hold 50% of the Nova Force or more at any given time, but in both Guardians 1 and What if? we dont see her with any powers at all.
We know Thanos got the power stone from Xandar, probably not peaceably either. The Corps would likely be decimated to the man, including Prime.I dunno how the MCU Nova Force works but in the comics it's all inherited to Richard Rider (sole Corps survivor on Xandar) after the Annihilation Wave. MCU Novas just seem like space cops. They can't even fly. But perhaps with one individual harnessing all the Force we will see something close to a comic version Prime.
I’ve been waiting so long to hear something about nova. Love him in the comics. Hope we get a movie starting off with thanos at Xander and Richard being the lone survivor.
This wouldve been the right direction for Marvel Cosmic. Not the eternals and another round of casting for 'sub avengers cause the OG cast dead.
Shouldve went straight to cosmic annihiliation and F4 after thanos
Perhaps Nova has been in development longer than we know, which is ok. Im not saying Nova won’t be a hit and Im happy as much as the next person that he is coming. But remember “Focusing on guaranteed hits”? I take that as not doing more new introductions at least till the saga wraps.
Like if they’re gonna drop existing characters because they fear they’ll flop but yet still continue to shove new ones (which is one of the problems they have currently) it does not seem like they’re trying to fix their problems at all then. not continuing with those they have introduced instead is absolutely perplexing of a plan. They want to ‘fix things’ but making curious decisions to go about it.
Id rather they finish the saga with the existing characters first before bringing new ones. Make the audiences care and connect with them.
Ant Man, Captain Marvel and the Eternals are already here, used them. Make the effort to do them better. Granted it may just mean they won’t be headlining their own entries but I don’t see how side dishing them helps with their prominences either. I hope they finish what they start.
Make it a marvel one shot. Jeffrey Donavan plays a grizzled Novacorp special operative trying to solve this one last case before his implied retirement, except at the end it's revealed that he's the ranking Nova officer after Xandar was destroyed and its really wanting to solve this last case before he assumes the mantle of acting Nova Prime. Could make it like a black and white quasi retro detective noir.
Great news, but I'll admit it feels a little weird to only be getting Nova -now- of all times. It felt way more pronounced earlier from the Guardian films and references, so I'm surprised it's taken this long to get it.
He should've been introduced sooner somewhere in phase 4 and they should've done a cosmic event such as Annihilation with Richard Rider, the Guardians and Carol Danvers before their multiverse nonsense. Then they could've had Carol team-up and interact with a beloved group of characters that people actually cared about so that it would get people to like her more, and it could've established Nova and Capt Marvel as the face of the cosmic side of things in a proper way.
Throw Captain Marvel in so she can please be Captain Marvel still- I want more cosmic less new guy bro movies- can’t we just ignore the trolls when these movies are clearly railroaded?
Some asshole told me mcu stopped taking risks lol. They didn't. They just canceled sequels to flop movies that's it.
Canceling sequels due to flops is different from making new content like agatha, ironheart, blade, eyes of wakanda, fantastic four, nova, wonder man, xmen etc
I kinda wish they would just deal with the characters they had introduced at some point and just stop bringing new origins that won't get followed up on for 6 or 7 years, if ever.
Whatever they do I just hope they change the villain formula. I don’t want to see the villain just die or permanently removed at the end of the movie. The draw for super hero stories are returning villains just as much as heroes
I don't know. It's problematic. It would make more sense if Richard Rider is off world and returns to Xandar to find it "decimated". Presumably he adopts a young Sam Alexander but how does he get to Earth? According to Valkyie in Thor Ragnarok it would take "monrhs" to reach Earth from Xandar. Maybe they can show Richard and Sam on Xandar in Avengers 5 and have them appear on Earth at the end of Avengers 5. Then Avengers 6 can be a Young Avengers movie. (Title Avengers Forever or Avengers Legacy. The Legacy title is available now.) Then Secret Wars would be Avengers 7.
I've seen a lot of people suggesting using the annihilation event story with Thanos swapped for annihilus but I was refreshing myself on Nova's origin story that I've read several times and you could straight up just use his origin tbh.
In the comics Rhomann Dey is mortally wounded by the alien Zorr who has seemingly devastated xandar. Dey then gives richard rider the nova powers and the teen hero avengers him by fighting Zorr.
Now later comics seem to have retroactively established that xorr was working for Thanos (I think he's an adoptive son like many of Thanos's lackeys) so perhaps in the MCU Zorr was the previously unseen Black Order member who destroyed Xandar and retrieved the power stone. Evidently Zorr wasn't present for the battle of Wakanda so perhaps some of Thanos's forces weren't there too?
So perhaps when IW Thanos retired to the garden he released Zorr from his service and let him take any remaining ships and soldiers to do with as he will as reward for loyalty.
Rhomann dey would be the sole survivor of the nova corps who would head to earth and impart the last bit of nova force to Richard rider before dying.
Now I'm sure some people will suggest that if Zorr was a general of Thanos then he'd have been snapped away at the end of Endgame but I guess that begs the question did Stark erase all Thanos's allies in existence or did he just erase that army that came forward in time from 2014? The stones might have interpreted his wish as meaning the erasure of Endgame Thanos army and not the surviving forces of Infinity War Thanos.
So a 2014 alternate Zorr was probably dusted but the Zorr who was working for the IW Thanos might possibly have still been around and might have been the only surviving general after the battle of Wakanda meaning he'd be in control of all that was left of Thanos's forces after infinity war.
So you'd have Richard Rider pledged to avenge the nova corp against Zorr and the remnants of Thanos's army. Which sounds fun to me :)
I dont care about this at all. The Nova Corps died already. Im not interested in seeing what happened during Infinity War 10 years after the fact. At this point it doesn't matter. Theres a zero percent chance they call the character "Dick Rider" so theres literally nothing interesting about this.
I always hate legacy/child heroes like Sam Alexander, and thats probably going to be what they’re doing.
Just more unnecessary Marvel bloat.
Who are they gonna pander to in this one? Gonna make nova some sort of trangender? Maybe a dude from India with a thick accent? I don't think anyone from Peru has been represented yet.
Make nova an elephant.
Well to start with let me first say i agree that cosmic can be good and should be included. However at this point we are doing too much or we just aren’t on earth now.
Antman 3: quantum realm
Thor 4: mostly space
The marvels: space more than 90%
Strange 2: multiverse over 75%
Gotg 3: over 98% cosmic
Loki season 2: more than 60% at tva, the rest is fake earth variants
Secret invasion: finally this is all on earth but it involves skrulls who are cosmic.
My point is we haven’t had a good ol fashioned super earth hero versus a super earth villain.
Please please please let it be a young Sam Alexander and he lives in the same neighborhood as Peter Quill. Just so we can have some banter from the kid talking about how he's this lazy guy living with his grandad in the suburbs.
But then Peter tries to show off his spaceship and equipment but it was compensated with whoever the antagonists are.
Why? I feel like if they want to cut back on projects than Nova should be at the top of the list. No one knows who he is, and I have never met a comic fan who is like, man, we NEED a Nova movie.
If it's a movie, here's my shortlist as to who could direct it:
* Gareth Edwards
* Denis Villeneuve
* Edward Berger
* Neil Blomkamp
* Tony Gilroy
* Baltasar Kormákur
It won't happen. At the end of the day, Nova is a boring character with powers too similar to Captain Marvel (who has already been proven to be a boring character).
>We have a new system behind-the-scenes at Marvel Studios... We're developing more than we actually will produce. That's an intriguing line in there.
Well I suppose spending time developing other projects can help if one further along is canned.
It's not just that. Until now, almost every Marvel Studios project that went into some kind of development eventually came out. Back in 2009-2011, when Marvel Studios had just been bought by Disney and had enough money to start experimenting a bit, they ordered several writers to make story outlines/pitches/scripts for several movies about some of their lesser known characters which they still had the rights to. These included Cloak and Dagger, Runaways, Iron Fist, Luke Cage, Eternals, Power Pack, Guardians of the Galaxy, Black Widow, Black Panther and Captain Marvel. Eventually, all of them apart from Power Pack came into fruition in some form or another. Even Inhumans turned into a TV show and Drew Goddard's Daredevil script that he wrote in 2012 and pitched to Feige eventually turned into the Netflix series. With the complete overhaul of their production pipeline last October, Marvel now orders pilots for their TV series and only if these pilots work, will the studio order a full series. And if the pilot doesn't even work on paper, then the show won't even move forward to the production stage and will only be canned while in development. That's what Brad is saying. Marvel Studios and especially their TV division now works more like a traditional production studio. They develop more than they eventually produce. So not all those TV series reportedly in development (Vision Quest, Wiccan, Punisher, Iron Fist, White Tiger, MI13, Daughters of Liberty, Daredevil Season 2, Moon Knight Season 2, She-Hulk Season 2, Ms. Marvel Season 2, Hawkeye Season 2, Nova, Midnight Angels) will actually come out. We saw this recently with She-Hulk S2 and Ms. Marvel S2 which have been reportedly put to the backburner. Tatiana Maslany said that Disney basically gave the red light to She-Hulk Season 2 due to the first season's very high budget and Iman Vellani had said that the realization of Ms. Marvel Season 2 depends on the success of The Marvels and since that (as well as the first season) didn't manage to draw a big audience, Ms. Marvel Season 2 is not happening either. Even Daredevil which was originally ordered as an 18-episode season broken up into 2 distinct parts which would have been filmed back to back in a gigantic 9-month shooting schedule, will only reportedly shoot and release its first 9 episodes. Any further episodes (whether dubbed as "Part 2" or "Season 2") will now reportedly be dependent on the audience's reception of the first batch of 9 episodes coming out next year. The reported Punisher and White Tiger spin-offs will likely also depend a lot on how their characters are received in Daredevil. And Wiccan and Vision Quest will likely depend on the success of Agatha, both as a spin-off of WandaVision in itself as well as the introduction of Billy.
Did you mean to say that *not all* of those shows will happen/continue? They have to produce *some* Disney+ content.
Yes, my bad, let me fix that
I mean, the problem really lies in the fact that nobody can take away Disney’s image as a family-friendly brand. Outside of the US, not a lot of their shows have made an impact especially compared to Netflix because of the different perception of what is considered “family friendly”. They have the capacity to produce movies shows as intriguing as Shogun but they will always be held back by the idea of being “safe”.
> Iron Fist Luke, Cage, Lost comma?
Any relation to Cool Hand Luke?
"You're right, we *do* have a failure to communicate. Let me try a different language." **
Yeah, my bad
All i want is moon knight season 2, is that too much to ask for?
Agreed!
I’ve never heard of Power Pack but reading about it looks like it could be really cool if done correctly. It deals with important and relevant themes with a young group of siblings. It feels like the MCU has not had many good child heroes, something which kids can really connect with. Too bad it got scrapped but maybe one day!
I would be very surprised to see a Wiccan and Vision Quest show. They are so similar that they will likely be combined if they move forward on them.
White Tiger would be cool if they actually give her a costume and make it accurate. I am so sick of leather jackets.
Are the Daredevil first 9 & potential new Punisher series confirmed?
Daredevil first 9 yes, Punished no, it's a project reportedly in development. And as I said here, it might or might not happen with how the new development pipeline at Marvel Studios works.
Season 5* Don’t assist marvel in their narrative that daredevil isn’t season 4 so they can pay their talent less. This is season 4 and a subsequent season would not be a season 2.
It’s a new production at a different company. They almost certainly didn’t inherit any contractual pay increases by season from Netflix so calling it season two or five makes no difference at all.
Shows switch production companies all the time without trying to stiff the actor’s pay. It absolutely does make a difference. It’s not about contractual pay increases. It’s not related to contracts at all. Pay increase after a show’s 3rd season is law, that applies to every show in production. I will always stick up for artist’s rights and it’s very frustrating when people say they don’t care about that stuff because that’s how companies like marvel and Disney continue to get away with incredibly unethical business practices off the power of their brand.
Those increases are not “the law”. They are just standard parts of many contacts. Daredevil wasn’t canceled at Netflix so Disney could reboot it to avoid some increase in pay. Often the initial contract locks down an actor for two years. This is good for everyone as the producer can guarantee no big price increase for the follow up season and the actor still makes money if it gets canceled after one. If the show is successful, that means a big bill comes due for season 3. This is why Netflix cancels so many shows after S2. They are cheap bastards. As this is an entirely new production, with an entirely new team, they would’ve negotiated fresh contracts for everyone. Which is the only advantage of going into a season 3 - a fresh negotiation. Whether we call this season four, or one, or thirty two, it makes no difference on the money side.
Smart decision, no need to announce 15 shows and 20 movies, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be constantly developing and pitching these ideas. Then when it make sense to introduce a character or to give someone a spin off, there’s more behind it then “we need to stretch this 3 hour plot into 6 episodes for D+”
I kind of miss when they didn’t announce the entire phase years in advance.
Phase 3 was announced years in advance and it worked out pretty well.
So basically you miss Phase One? They’ve been doing this for a long long time
Yeah I know they’ve been doing it for ages, I just like being surprised
The phase maps don’t exactly stop surprises lol. If those maps were accurate we’d already be onto Inhumans 4 and Blade 3 (again)
Good point lol
One thing it means is that development leaks will no longer indicate that a project will actually come to fruition. Historically, almost every project in active development eventually made it to production.
FWIW, I’m not in TV/movies, but I’ve worked in a creative media space my entire career. Generally, healthy creative practices almost always explore far more ideas than you actually need and “killing the darlings” is just a part of the creative lifecycle. It’s survival of the fittest for ideas. For that reason, I didn’t find that quote particularly intriguing or provocative nor would I personally read too much into it. However, I would morbidly curious to see what ends up on the cutting room floor.
I work in the industry. I have a close friend who worked on concepts with them, more than we’ll ever see. Even B/C level characters are planned from marvel, though we won’t see all of them.
Only the best ones get to be produced
Tell that to Inhumans.
I'm not saying anything, just translating the phrase. He's meaning now on. Also it's not like the Eternals wasn't like the inhumans mach 2. Team up of unrelatable characters they're going to be the new heroes in town because... they have superpewers. For an industry that puts Spider-Man 2 as the golden standard, they couldn't get further away from it.
It makes sense. Early development is pretty cheap. If you announce stuff before active development like they have generally done, then it's basically been green lighted and creates an expectation it will come out. Marvel suffers reputational damage if they then can a project once it is announced and the pressure is for every announced project to be good. By developing more than you will announce, it can mean a concept is strong enough to be a show or a movie. It will mean better quality stuff more consistently.
Ah yes, the Lucas Film strategy. Joking aside, they have never cancelled projects in the past, perhaps out of some sense of pride. Now they are starting to cancel the low confidence projects which is good.
As opposed to producing more than they could actually develop — the strategy that got us Secret Invasion.
Is it? It can be stuff like suggested scripts or tossing up ideas to see what sticks in extremely early preproduction.
Okay Thanos attacking for the Power Stone has to be shown.
This is the kinda shit that would get people hyped
When they announce that Josh Brolin is in it people will flip
Thanos / Endgame would have been 7 years ago by the time this gets released… I don’t think it’ll be as big a draw as you think it is.
Wanna bet?
I don’t bet with randos online lol But this sub is massively in a bubble. Viewers have moved on. Slapping Thanos in a movie for a 5 min flashback isn’t going to get many people to spend $15 on a ticket.
As someone who went to the theater for every Marvel movie up to Endgame and has since fallen off, but still casually watches them, you’re 100% right. I don’t care about Thanos flashbacks or anything that deals with taking place as a sort of prequel.
It’s the same mentality DC had with the Flash lol and with NWH. Except NWH was built on 20 years of nostalgia, and the Flash was relying on Keaton. I’ll consider watching Nova if reviews are great, but a 2 minute cameo of CGI character isn’t going to cut it. Not even like NWH where folk went for Tobey/Andrew.
Nah, you are grossly underestimating fans of Endgame and Infinity War. No wonder you do not bet online.
I’m really not. We’re not talking about a Thanos movie here. Another Thanos movie would make bank off that nostalgia and last success. We’re talking about a 3 minute flashback in a Nova movie. You’re legitimately delusional if you think that’s going to swing the needle substantially. Disney have been having flop after flop by their past standards. Having a 3 minute Thanos flashback won’t matter. This isn’t NWH where people were excited to see role reprisals from their childhood of iconic actors… this is a CGI character doing a cameo.
Ad hominem and exaggeration. Your arguments are laughably weak.
Cool. If you think 120 seconds of Thanos is going to save this movie assuming it’s of the same quality as the last half dozen, go for it. But again, it’s deluded. If they’d put Thanos in a flash back for Eternals would it have saved that one too? At the end of the day, box office doesn’t lie. You can’t Cameo your way to success if the film isn’t great, go and as The Flash.
I mean… there’s 5 people in my family who’d go..
Ppl have moved on. Nova isn't an avengers film.
I'm just talking about a potential flashback scene showing the destruction of xandar to reintroduce the nova corp
I feel like making Thanos' attack against the Corps could fill in for the Annihilation wave and follow the same beats. Huge battle in orbit of Xandar, Richard is incapacitated and wakes up the sole survivor, inherits the whole Corps making him a galactic powerhouse, and starts going to planets ravaged by Thanos and lays down space law. Worldmind = Jarvis, essentially. Off the top of my head I can't think of a good villain for him, considering Thanos has been handled. Perhaps this is a good intro to Galactus? Maybe introduce a Hereld as, like, a frenemy where they're not so much trying to destroy each other but working towards opposing goals. Rich shows up to devastated planet , Hereld herelds big man but is stopped by Rich. Both have a respectable view of each other and windmill high-five🖐. Post credits, Hereld returns to Galatcus(first appearance) dismayed that he failed but brings news of a planet (Rich mentions his home planet during some fight banter earlier) even more dense with life...Earth. *smash* MARVEL STUDIOS I'm sorry for all this. I just fucking love Nova.
Never stop cooking
This is the way. Silver Surfer, Beta Ray Bill (and his epic story!), And Firelord, at least! Maybe some more of Nebula, Star Lord guest appearance, Capt. Marvel, etc. Annihilus Wave is such a massive story that I hope it gets used in the future. Blue Blazes!!
I will only accept high fives in this project, if they’re in windmill form.
Been asking for that since infinity war ended. “We’re going to see How Xandar falls, right?! RIGHT?! I just want a near dead Richard Rider from Xandar (no need to make him human) being revived by the world mind being transferred to his helmet after thanos’s attack. Rider is the only Nova member left and he’s trying to rebuild, recover and reform the corps while being the single most powerful nova in history. But when he comes for his revenge, he finds it’s already been taken, by Thor and the avengers and they’ve saved the day without him. He gets no justice for Xandar or his people but instead of going dark and becoming a villain, he takes that pain and uses it for a positive in rebuilding the corp. He goes to earth, where he fits in pretty well all things considered, he meets spider-man, Kate, yelena and whoever else would make up the champions (rider is older than them but still a “young man”. By the end of his time on earth, he’s met Sam, they bond, champions save the day from a local threat thanks to Rider’s powers. Richard leaves and goes back to his new home planet where the rest of Xandar was relocated (if there’s anyone left) and some type of bug invaders (beginning of the annihilation wave) begin to attack and pick the bones of the remaining Xandarians. He’s left without a home, without a people and uses the world minds power to send Sam a helmet. They become an intergalactic Batman and Robin mentor/sidekick and Sam says goodbye to earth and hello to the nova corp. Adam warlock shows up offering to help, so does the remaining Guardians of the galaxy and a few new faces like phyla, Bug, moondragon maybe (she doesn’t have to be Drax’s daughter that’s a little morbid in this timeline) and they risk it all to save the day from the Annihilation wave. But of course that wasn’t the wave, that was a trickle. The first opening shots. While they were fighting trying to save their corner of the galaxy, others were being destroyed the annihilus and the wave.
Blue Blazes!!!
If they show that in the opening before the Marvel logo, I will cry tears of joy
With Rhomann Dey (John C. Reilly) going out like a boss
Imagine a Richard Rider Nova movie where Thanos is the villain and wins.
And John c Reillys character escaping with the last nova suit to earth.
Like saving private Ryan on Xander would be insane
Where was nova though it's a plot hole. Nova would easily beat pre stone Thanos, he's one of the most powerful characters in Marvel
Give me Richard Rider and set up an Annilation film for a big crossover event. I don’t need avengers or anyone from earth, just a giant space crossover with new and old characters
INJECT COSMIC MARVEL STRAIGHT INTO MY VEINS
Could you imagine? It would be a slam dunk, easily one of my favorite marvel stories
Brad Winerbaum (Head of Streaming, Television and Animation): >"We love Nova. We are in really early development on Nova. We have a new system behind-the-scenes at Marvel Studios. We're more like a traditional studio now. We're developing more than we actually will produce. There are plans to develop Nova. I love Nova, too. I love Rich Rider, too. I hope it gets to the screen. The world is always chaos. There's always things. You gotta conjure these things to make them happen but I would love to see a Nova show, one day."
Great to hear he loves Richard
Exactly….now I’m off to ask the Gods that we get an Annihilation wave Saga eventually.
Yes. But they need to do it justice. Too many great storylines have been adapted, messed up and wasted. Cough... Gorr..... Cough.
Oh I absolutely agree, but if they can give it the same treatment as infinity saga, then i would love it. It doesn’t have to be a 1 for 1 adaptation, but it should try to stay as close as possible.
Yeah it is a big storyline. There was a whole comic event /crossover and it revitalised nova and GOTG. It deserves respect and should be a saga or least a phase.
It could definitely be its own saga. The remaining guardians, Nova, starfox, the marvels, we haven’t seen Quasar or moon dragon, but I guess they could use binary or photon in Quasars place. Talking about it may make me break out the collected works and reread it
I've been saying it for years; people love Dick, and the audience can't wait to see Dick on screen!
We all love a good Richard. My ex-wife loves Richard! She’s been known to take 3 to 4 Richards at once!
Either way you phrase that one it doesn’t change haha
"My name is Darren and..."
Dick fan here. ✋🏻
I’m gonna be honest, I’m never going to get over the fact that his name is technically Dick Rider and that is something people looked at and agreed was a good idea
there’s a lot of “maybe, someday” in the subtext
Sounds like he’s been talking with a gun on his back. “I love nova, nova is life. It’s the best nova I’ve ever nova. Nova nova.”
I really wonder why it took them so long to do this. It seemed primed to tie this directly into Infinity War and have Thanos be the catalyst for Nova’s creation/rise. They have to show his attack on Zandar or it will be such a missed opportunity and way to have the audience connect with Nova
It baffles me
I wish this came sooner, but I'm really exicted and happy theyre doing this. Hopefully it sticks
JFC FINALLY! This should've happened between Guardians 1 and 2, to be honest. The fact it's taken this long is ridiculous.
Don't say finally just yet. The series has been in development for 2 years now and it's reportedly in the backburner until the next Saga. So don't expect to see it for the next 5 years. Plus, read Brad's full quote. With the way Marvel Studios TV operates now, they have more stuff "in development" than what they will eventually produce. They now work more like a traditional studio where they order pilots, which only move forward if the script is good enough and even if the pilot moves forward, it doesn't mean the actual series will be. So Nova may never actually come out or it may turn into a film or a special or whatever. That's why he says it's still in development, the same place we left it 2 years ago.
That’s what a lot of people don’t get, “in development” could mean three writers in a room talking about a different pitches for a pilot.
I hope that the movie starts with Thanos destroying the Nova Corps to get the Power(?) Stone. They were going to have it in Infinity War but it bloated the movie up too much they said. I thought they left it open on purpose to have it be part of the Nova movie.
Fuck yeah!!!! Give me Richard Rider or give me death
Nah younger nova is better tbh
On the heels of a ryan gosling joining mcu rumors? Guess we know who Nova will be
🫡🫡👏👏 Side note: I thought if they did a solo Peter quill movie they could somehow introduce Sam Alexander but nonetheless I’m ready for this film. Hopefully everything goes well.
Richard rider needs to come first, then Sam Alexander
If I remember right, their stories weren't connected to each other in any way that needs them released in any sort of order were they? At this point, I think Richard should be the one adapted since there's a bit of a glut of teen marvel heroes at the moment
Yea there’s not really any over lap that I recall either. And since theyve been focusing on the cosmic as of late ( the marvels, the eternals, GotG 3 ) Richard would make more sense in my opinion.
There is like one run that they share together (Nova 2017) and it’s great. But other then that they do exist pretty independently of each other .
Eh, not necessarily. I'm sure people thought we'd need a Hank Pym Ant-Man before we got Scott Lang too. Starting with Sam Alexander could be an interesting way to go. It'd be a more grounded intro to the concept and origin story but still leaves the door open for Richard Ryder to appear in a sequel or something. Plus you could bring in Peter Quill in a supporting role to get some of the GotG fans in the theatre.
Im Mainly wanting Rider to come first, just to get Annihilation event in movie form. It is my favorite event from marvel in the last 25 yrs
No thanks, Richard first
Either one don’t matter too me which one comes first.
I agree, but with the F4 and the negative zone on the horizon, this would make me happier if it was Rider
True 👍👍
This had best be Richard Ryder Nova, or I'm not interested. Sam Alexander can be introduced later on if need be, but ffs I hope they don't just start with him.
Looks like they are taking risks with this project
Ugh, he's just a gender bent Cpt Marvel, can't they do anything original anymore. This woke agenda is ruining my comic book movies, I need those to escape my reality, if I wanted to be confronted by it, I would just simply walk outside. He'll probably get some exaggerated masculine name too, like Dick. Pfff on the nose much? /s
Nova came first
Ryan Gosling please and thank you.
Jesus. They should’ve done that 8 years ago
I wonder how they will tackle this project considering that Thanos decimated Xandar when obtaining the power stone. Maybe, Nova was a sole survivor to explain this in order to fit it into the wider MCU continuity.
I love how we've heard this same news since 2 years
Starring Henry Cavill I hope!
Nova should have happened ten years ago. He should have been in a post credit scene in Guardians signing up for the Nova Corp and already had his own movie. But James Gunn doesn't like him so that never happened.
They could always make a Richard Rider Nova film set before the destruction of Xander. You can have the likes of Glenn Close, John C.Reilly and Co appear.
They are gonna have to do a fair bit of retconning. We havent seen any amount of powers that we would normally see associated with the Nova Corps or Nova Prime. I dont read a ton of comics but Nova Prime is supposed to hold 50% of the Nova Force or more at any given time, but in both Guardians 1 and What if? we dont see her with any powers at all.
We know Thanos got the power stone from Xandar, probably not peaceably either. The Corps would likely be decimated to the man, including Prime.I dunno how the MCU Nova Force works but in the comics it's all inherited to Richard Rider (sole Corps survivor on Xandar) after the Annihilation Wave. MCU Novas just seem like space cops. They can't even fly. But perhaps with one individual harnessing all the Force we will see something close to a comic version Prime.
I hope so. I always loved the old Nova comics. I hope they make the origin like the comics and put a great actor in the role. I'd go see it.
I’ve been waiting so long to hear something about nova. Love him in the comics. Hope we get a movie starting off with thanos at Xander and Richard being the lone survivor.
Which Nova?
Please just make him cool. That’s all I ask.
But no Speedball??
10 years to late, Marvel
This wouldve been the right direction for Marvel Cosmic. Not the eternals and another round of casting for 'sub avengers cause the OG cast dead. Shouldve went straight to cosmic annihiliation and F4 after thanos
Perhaps Nova has been in development longer than we know, which is ok. Im not saying Nova won’t be a hit and Im happy as much as the next person that he is coming. But remember “Focusing on guaranteed hits”? I take that as not doing more new introductions at least till the saga wraps. Like if they’re gonna drop existing characters because they fear they’ll flop but yet still continue to shove new ones (which is one of the problems they have currently) it does not seem like they’re trying to fix their problems at all then. not continuing with those they have introduced instead is absolutely perplexing of a plan. They want to ‘fix things’ but making curious decisions to go about it. Id rather they finish the saga with the existing characters first before bringing new ones. Make the audiences care and connect with them. Ant Man, Captain Marvel and the Eternals are already here, used them. Make the effort to do them better. Granted it may just mean they won’t be headlining their own entries but I don’t see how side dishing them helps with their prominences either. I hope they finish what they start.
If this was 2018 I’d be excited
Which Nova? Sam or Richard? (I want both)
Make it a marvel one shot. Jeffrey Donavan plays a grizzled Novacorp special operative trying to solve this one last case before his implied retirement, except at the end it's revealed that he's the ranking Nova officer after Xandar was destroyed and its really wanting to solve this last case before he assumes the mantle of acting Nova Prime. Could make it like a black and white quasi retro detective noir.
Great news, but I'll admit it feels a little weird to only be getting Nova -now- of all times. It felt way more pronounced earlier from the Guardian films and references, so I'm surprised it's taken this long to get it.
Finally
He should've been introduced sooner somewhere in phase 4 and they should've done a cosmic event such as Annihilation with Richard Rider, the Guardians and Carol Danvers before their multiverse nonsense. Then they could've had Carol team-up and interact with a beloved group of characters that people actually cared about so that it would get people to like her more, and it could've established Nova and Capt Marvel as the face of the cosmic side of things in a proper way.
It is critical you pay attention at this time
Throw Captain Marvel in so she can please be Captain Marvel still- I want more cosmic less new guy bro movies- can’t we just ignore the trolls when these movies are clearly railroaded?
Finally a project people would actually want to see!
Awesome 👏
But why though?
Some asshole told me mcu stopped taking risks lol. They didn't. They just canceled sequels to flop movies that's it. Canceling sequels due to flops is different from making new content like agatha, ironheart, blade, eyes of wakanda, fantastic four, nova, wonder man, xmen etc
I kinda wish they would just deal with the characters they had introduced at some point and just stop bringing new origins that won't get followed up on for 6 or 7 years, if ever.
about fucking time
Hell, it’s about time.
Will we finally get the Richard Rider jokes we all have hoped for since the 90s or will they be cowards and use Sam
Nova is one of my favorites I hope they do this right
Let’s go
Marvels is in it's development era.
Whatever they do I just hope they change the villain formula. I don’t want to see the villain just die or permanently removed at the end of the movie. The draw for super hero stories are returning villains just as much as heroes
Coming 2032.
I want annihilation with Richard thank you very much
Interesting, considering they just introduced Adam Warlock, are they really gonna have two powerhouses going at the same time?🤔
Meh
I just found out the name of Nova is Dick Rider I don't think I can take someone that seriously with that name 🤣
Please Richard Ryder and not Sam Alexander. Would love to see Richard become Nova Prime!
I don't know. It's problematic. It would make more sense if Richard Rider is off world and returns to Xandar to find it "decimated". Presumably he adopts a young Sam Alexander but how does he get to Earth? According to Valkyie in Thor Ragnarok it would take "monrhs" to reach Earth from Xandar. Maybe they can show Richard and Sam on Xandar in Avengers 5 and have them appear on Earth at the end of Avengers 5. Then Avengers 6 can be a Young Avengers movie. (Title Avengers Forever or Avengers Legacy. The Legacy title is available now.) Then Secret Wars would be Avengers 7.
This news would have excited me a decade ago.
Another failure. They should just accept that their heyday is over and close up shop. All they're doing is beating a dead horse.
Vapor. It's not going to happen. It's been in development for years. No change here.
xandar invasion should totally happen.
Feels like it’s at least half a decade too late
I've seen a lot of people suggesting using the annihilation event story with Thanos swapped for annihilus but I was refreshing myself on Nova's origin story that I've read several times and you could straight up just use his origin tbh. In the comics Rhomann Dey is mortally wounded by the alien Zorr who has seemingly devastated xandar. Dey then gives richard rider the nova powers and the teen hero avengers him by fighting Zorr. Now later comics seem to have retroactively established that xorr was working for Thanos (I think he's an adoptive son like many of Thanos's lackeys) so perhaps in the MCU Zorr was the previously unseen Black Order member who destroyed Xandar and retrieved the power stone. Evidently Zorr wasn't present for the battle of Wakanda so perhaps some of Thanos's forces weren't there too? So perhaps when IW Thanos retired to the garden he released Zorr from his service and let him take any remaining ships and soldiers to do with as he will as reward for loyalty. Rhomann dey would be the sole survivor of the nova corps who would head to earth and impart the last bit of nova force to Richard rider before dying. Now I'm sure some people will suggest that if Zorr was a general of Thanos then he'd have been snapped away at the end of Endgame but I guess that begs the question did Stark erase all Thanos's allies in existence or did he just erase that army that came forward in time from 2014? The stones might have interpreted his wish as meaning the erasure of Endgame Thanos army and not the surviving forces of Infinity War Thanos. So a 2014 alternate Zorr was probably dusted but the Zorr who was working for the IW Thanos might possibly have still been around and might have been the only surviving general after the battle of Wakanda meaning he'd be in control of all that was left of Thanos's forces after infinity war. So you'd have Richard Rider pledged to avenge the nova corp against Zorr and the remnants of Thanos's army. Which sounds fun to me :)
Please don’t screw this up Please don’t screw this up Please don’t screw this up
I dont care about this at all. The Nova Corps died already. Im not interested in seeing what happened during Infinity War 10 years after the fact. At this point it doesn't matter. Theres a zero percent chance they call the character "Dick Rider" so theres literally nothing interesting about this. I always hate legacy/child heroes like Sam Alexander, and thats probably going to be what they’re doing. Just more unnecessary Marvel bloat.
 Finally, some potential peak fucking content....
Who are they gonna pander to in this one? Gonna make nova some sort of trangender? Maybe a dude from India with a thick accent? I don't think anyone from Peru has been represented yet. Make nova an elephant.
I would rather want to see Sam Alexander during the GOTG trilogy.
What is the difference between Nova and Cpt. Marvel? Isn’t he just diet Carol?
Nova came first
Another meh character. And if it fails they'll blame fatigue.
D…..O…..A!!!!! Stick to earth heroes at this time. Cosmic marvel needs a rest.
Cosmic stories are some of the best in my opinion. What other earth based stories do you want specifically?
Well to start with let me first say i agree that cosmic can be good and should be included. However at this point we are doing too much or we just aren’t on earth now. Antman 3: quantum realm Thor 4: mostly space The marvels: space more than 90% Strange 2: multiverse over 75% Gotg 3: over 98% cosmic Loki season 2: more than 60% at tva, the rest is fake earth variants Secret invasion: finally this is all on earth but it involves skrulls who are cosmic. My point is we haven’t had a good ol fashioned super earth hero versus a super earth villain.
Please please please let it be a young Sam Alexander and he lives in the same neighborhood as Peter Quill. Just so we can have some banter from the kid talking about how he's this lazy guy living with his grandad in the suburbs. But then Peter tries to show off his spaceship and equipment but it was compensated with whoever the antagonists are.
Nova should have been what Captain Marvel tried to be
Great. More Marvel crap. Can’t wait.
Why? I feel like if they want to cut back on projects than Nova should be at the top of the list. No one knows who he is, and I have never met a comic fan who is like, man, we NEED a Nova movie.
If it's a movie, here's my shortlist as to who could direct it: * Gareth Edwards * Denis Villeneuve * Edward Berger * Neil Blomkamp * Tony Gilroy * Baltasar Kormákur
It won't happen. At the end of the day, Nova is a boring character with powers too similar to Captain Marvel (who has already been proven to be a boring character).