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NICK FURY will scream 'Get off my SHIELD plane!!!'
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. In that very same article that announced Jon Favreau as directing IRON MAN for Marvel/Paramount that also dropped a ton of mini-bombs. Some stuff we already knew like David Self writing CAPTAIN AMERICA and Edgar Wright is directing ANT MAN. Some we didn't know. You'll see a series of of these minis hit the site today. The thought is give each specific property its own talkback, not jumbled up all in one.
This one is about Nick Fury and who is putting words into Fury's mouth. AIR FORCE ONE's Andrew Marlowe is scripting at this very moment. Not too sure what I think about that. I think AIR FORCE ONE is a lot of fun, but Marlowe also put out END OF DAYS and HOLLOW MAN. I'm willing to forgive both because they really do have some fantastic ideas in them and so much can happen between script and screen that I'm a little hesitant to lay the blame of the finished product on Marlowe's shoulders.
I'm also pulling for the classic gruff and badass agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. I'm not a huge fan of The Ultimates line, although I know it is insanely popular. I just don't want Hasselhoff to be the only classic Fury to be seen translated into a live action feature. What are your thoughts?
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Nope. Not possible. Okay, stick a fork in the comic book adaptation subgenre, will somebody? Please?
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im number dose
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SUCK IT
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check out his nick fury in astonishing x-men. kicks ass.
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at first i thought you were being sarcastic. i mean, no one else on this site likes joss whedon *cough cough*
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'Cause that'd be sweet...
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That's who they are obviously modelling Fury after in the comics now. Will they go that route or will Fury be more like the old version with the technology everywhere and floating sky station. If it's between Jackson and Hasselhoff, I gotta go with the former.
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Laziest writing in the Ultimate Universe. Bendis couldn't write Nick Fury so he wrote Sam L. Jackson being Nick Fury & it sucked. Don't be lazy, do your job & get someone munching those cigars in every frame of the film!
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I want to see the real, classic Nick Fury (and no, Hasslehoff didn't count)...but with the Sam Jackson connection so easy to pull off I doubt that there's any chance at all of getting that. Jackson would do this in a new york minute and we all know it, and that's the easiest (laziest) and most hollywood way to go so ten to one that's exactly what we'll get. Pity. And it probably won't even have Black Widow in it either just to run further salt into the wound, given how insanely "every character is it's own franchise" over the top Marvel has gotten movie wise of late.
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from ever producing anything for cinema ever again.
He has his moments in specific mediums but cinema just doesn't fit him. -
Got a big geek tingle at the possibility of Harrison Ford doing something I'd actually like to see for a change...
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I don't get the attempted spin into "deli" sandwiches either YackBacker. Anyway, you'd think thet Nick Fury: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. would be a comic adaptation that could be managed quite well. As a techno-spy-thriller, perhaps with a war-flick first act. And yet... who knows what we'll actually get.
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The only thing good in that one is Gary Oldman's performance.
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... off my motherfuckin' SHIELD plane!
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can we just skip the requisite origin story and exposition? By now we know all the conventios and it hamstrings the first act.
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..even I'm tired of these movies. Spiderman, X-men, Batman, and maybe Superman, are the only comic book movies that should still be made, since thay have already established themselves. PS: X-men 3 looks pretty damn sweet to me. It's trailers are the best I've seen for any X-men movie.
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I wouldn't touch it at all. All they are going to do is screw it up and we all know this! Don't do it for a little while until the right director with a history of badass movies is available! Like Darren Aronofsky. He would make it supreme.
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Snake Plisskin with short har.
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replacing ALL the 'CGI Farting Animal' movies next year? Good. At least *one* out of all of them being made has to be good, you'd think... And I'd rather see these than talking/farting animals.
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ass, Though I thought END OF DAYS was a great comedy. AIR FORCE ONE, though? Please. I guess you can like it if you're American but my eyes hurt 15 minutes into it from having to roll them constantly and in ways that would give friggin Sadako a seizure. HOLLOW MAN ended Verhoeven's career. 'nuff said.
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Give me original Fury, original Cap, and original IM or don't bother.
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They could examine different genres. Iron Man can be a tech-heavy FX movie with a bit of busniess intrigue. Captain America can be half WWII movie, half anti-terrorism hoo-ha. Fury should be a straight espionage thriller. Hell, even Ant-Man could be a wacky, trippy tribute to the psychedelic 60's comics. But they don't have to be striaght-up "superhero" movies. Of course, that was also said about Blade and Daredevil and Elektra and they all turned out the same.
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George Clooney as Fury.
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Goodman's Walter Sobczyk as Dum Dum Duggan.
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hasslehoff is starring again
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Hasselhoff made for a great Nick Fury (which really surprised me), and I wouldn't mind seeing him reprise the role. Add me to the list of people who have no interest in seeing an Ultimate Nick Fury movie.
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Sweeeeeet. And use only Hasselhoff's previous songs for this sucker. Only this way they can bring some life in the already dying comic book genre. Get ready for the Marvel overkill in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...
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"Show me your war face!"
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Is because people are tired of having only shit food for their options.McDonalds, Burger King, all their food is crap and only offer fries as their sides. Wendy's offers any side you want , a salad, potato, hell you can even get fruit salad with yogurt..mmmmmm.
It's great that I can go to a fast food restaurant thats not subways and get a good fresh meal .
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from that title. I think it could work.
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Hasselhoff gave a great performance as Nick Fury. H8 on the script, but not him for it. Although I admit that Uncapie has a great idea with Russell as Nick Fury, even if it is stunt casting. Probably would confuse the audience and motivate Sony MGM into a suit over damaging their revenues for the Blu-Ray release of *Escape from New York*.
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Bendis wrote Fury as just a black guy. It was Mark Millar and Bryan Hitch that came up with the Sam Jackson look for Fury.
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all three of those scripts are uninspired turds.
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The article should have been titled "Get off my HELICARRIER!!!"
Sorry, I'm a SHIELD dork. -
I know where you are going with that but Ford is not right. Nor is George Clooney, although he's a lot closer. You wanna know what I think? Robert DeNiro. If he can do BS comedies he can do superheroes. And I'd buy him as both WWII vet and intelligence bigwig, but still with some action chops. No, seriously.
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...Parents", why not cast him as Nick Fury. Right on Capt. Roe!
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But yeah. DeNiro can do badass while seeming sympathetic. He's old enough but not too old to be a superhero. Fury has got to be believably ancient yet physically well preserved. Still, if any Marvel characters demand crossover films, isn't it Cap and Fury? Not sharing the spotlight but acknowledged to be in the same universe with cameos.
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if its the Ultimate universe then obviously it should be Samuel Jackson. but if its the 616 universe which i hope it is then the perfect Nick Fury would be Fred Ward from Tremors. Picture him with an eye patch and tell me he wouldnt be perfect.
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In Remo Williams "The Destroyer," and it didn't work out so good. Like Harrison Ford he is too "affable." I'd buy Ward as Jack Ryan, but Fury needs to be believable as the head of SHIELD, and a WWII Sergeant, but still a man of fairly superheroic action. Fred Ward could play a WWII Sergeant but I don't think I'd buy him as the other two. A GMan, sure, but not the absolute greatest international GMan who has nations wrapped around his finger.
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Wouldn't be so bad if he brought more Syriana and less Peacemaker to the role. And didn't even let us remember his Batman.
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Okay, we can all agree that Andrew Marlowe is not the new Ben Hecht, Ernest Lehmann or Frank Pierson - but all of the mentioned movies were to some extent rewritten by script doctors (especially Hollow Man), so it's not really fair to judge him with what we see of these movies.
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I don't literally mean that if Clooney were cast as Fury that he or the film should literally resemble Syriana more than Peacemaker. What I mean is that the character in Syriana was not as much of a cartoon as Peacemakers. Because, when adapting comic characters to cinema, it is important not to go in the opposite direction and make them cartoon characters.
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with a hairpiece, eyepatch and cigar. Just as long as it isn't that awful rumor about Will Smith doing it. "Hydra? Awww hell no!"
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I don't hate the man at all. But I don't think he'd take the role seriously. Know what I mean? Does anyone enjoy movies where the actors and crew don't take them seriously? Even the movies that are fun to laugh at are only fun on that level if the creators took them seriously. And Bruce Willis again has that problem of not seeming like he could believably be in charge of something that big. You've gotta figure that in any continuity, WWII or no, Nick Fury largely built SHIELD with his bare hands and a lut of shrewd puppeteering... Not just pulling strings hard, but manipulating world governments. I just don't think Bruce Willis has got that role in him.
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Because Subway's really having an impact on fast-food sales. As to my vote for Nick Fury: Nick Nolte!
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But, barring that, there are lots of actors who could play him. This will probably get made because it'll be such a good part for an actor. The only guy in comics who had the balls to kick Hitler in the ass, yet was sensitive enough to cry like a baby when his girlfriend got killed (then, of couse, he killed the nazi who did it and kicked hitler in the ass again)
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Him or his soul brother Gary Busey. Or Mick Foley, come to that, although that would hopefully be preceded by a demonstration of dialogue-based acting skills by Foley.
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Than the ideal Dum Dum Dugan would be Harvey Keitel. Yes... I'm serious. Remember assuming we aren't talking about some lame-assed reinvention, Ultimates or no, these dudes are WWII vets kept alive by inhaling the super-soldier-serum vapors of Captain America's perspiration.
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Ah well!
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What about 24's Glenn Morshower ("Aaron Pierce, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.")? Aaron would kick Nick Fury's one-eyed, steroid-enhanced ass from here to ICM. It'd be a bold casting choice. Of course, if the producers really wanted to go for broke, they could cast Hillary Swank as Nick Fury. That has some real possibilities. It'd either be Academy Award material or so awful that it would drive the audiences insane. Either way, it'd be a classic.
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Ant Man of the Dead. Night of the Living Ant Man. ANT MAN! Actually as a comic character Ant Man is lame as shit but with Edgar Wright directing this could be as HILARIOUS as the Jack Black/Green Lantern non-happening. DananananananannanananananananananaaaaaaANT FUCKING MAN!
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Sgt. Barnes would make a badass Col. Fury.
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1. Why You think that a Sam Jackson version of Fury would be bad. 2. Who would see a Nick Fury movie anyway? 3. Why does anyone one who isn't German like Hasselhoff? 4. Who thought that an Ant Man movie would be cool? 5. Why the backtalkers insist that certian things suck, but don't ever give a GOOD reason why?
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Supreme Hazard Idiotic Entertainment Licensing Drivel>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>It would be great if they'd do Nick Fury right, but they won't. You know already they'll mess it up, but you'll be paying your money.>>>>>>>>>>>>>Hail Hydra!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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THERE'S your Nick Fury, folks. Yeah, he's a little old for the role, but I can't think of anybody who'd be better if he really wanted to get in shape for the role. Just the right combo of bad-ass and beat-down.
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A HELLCARRIER... Get off my Hellcarrier...
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Apr 29, 2006 12:44:00 AM CDT
Here's some inside news: It will be Sam Jackson as Fury
by r.c. the "wise"
the official announcement will be at the San Diego Comic Con this July.
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if that's true. I'll just hate Bendis for the various other reasons he's given me to hate him & will poo-poo Mr. Millar. I was just sure Fury showed up in USM first...
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Several reasons really. ....#1#: Sgt. Fury of the Howling Commandos fought in World War II. Heads up people, WWII is still a very current bit of culture, always referenced in existing conflicts and popular as a setting particularly for games. It's badass. ....#2#: As a superhero, Fury's only "power" is the fact that he is a very well-preserved WWII badass. He's no James Bond, and he's no GI Joe. He's a WWII GI in a brave new world whose experiences give him a clarity and a reserve of true grit that put him at an advantage in a compromised modern world. ....#3#: SHIELD makes sense if it has WWII and the early UN as its referenced roots. SHIELD has the look and feel of future-ized WWII hardware. None of that stuff has the same heroic appeal if it doesn't explicitly references times when the Western World (SHIELD is not US, remember) were squared off against fascists and communists who could match or more than match it's raw firepower and even its cool factor. And yet, of course, as a UN-era international organization this was not NATO, SHIELD would also be drawing talent and tech from the USSR and CHINA and squaring off against HYDRA just as Bond did against SMERSH, because it was part too of a hopeful, unified era, or at least striving for it. Less a Cold War artifact than evocative of that with an escapist set of enemies. ....#4#: Jackson, however, because of his schtick and past military roles, and not because as a black man he references a latter-day era, is too modern. Specifically too much the sneering, self-congratulator, Mission Accomplished era. Basically he should be of the era that the "Mission Accomplished" (and that includes Clinton's NATO efforts in the former Yugoslavia by the way, Republicans) generation tried to evoke, instead of inspired by a somehow less inspiring era. ....#5#: Now, all that said, if Marvel and Jackson can somehow overcome or sidestep those issues then it could be great. I like Jackson. My concern isn't that it will smack of "propaganda," because of course it should, it has too. It should just work to make sure that it is effective propaganda with the right balance of good motives for SHIELD, stakes, and a diabolical enemy that frankly does a better job than AIM or HYDRA ever did, or COBRA or SMERSH for that matter, at being starkly, believably, and truly threateningly evil. ....The easy way out of course is to have HYDRA infiltrate, or appear within the ranks of, SHIELD, pitting Fury against SHIELD ala Bourne but with the cool hardware.
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That is the first thing that popped into my head upon reading the heading, and DAMN THAT WOULD KICK ASS!
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Ideally, I'd want Kurt Russell or Michael Madsen if they were about fifteen years younger, but at the moment, the only big-name actor out there at the moment with the acting chops and the screen presence to pull off Nick is George Clooney. As for Sam Jackson, I dig Sam and I dig Ultimate Nick Fury, but Ultimate Fury only works as a supporting character to the Ultimates or Ultimate Spider-Man. An entire movie centered around Sam as Ultimate Nick Fury would be cool for about thirty minutes and then you'd end up counting the number of times Sam says the word "motherfucker" or "I don't think so" or you start looking for Ultimate Captain America to show up. No, the 616 Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. is definitely the way to go. It doesn't have to be set in the '60s (although that would be sweet if it was), but Helicarriers, sportscars with wheels that fold out into MACH-pressure fan engines, H.A.W.K. Harness glider-wings, L.M.D.s...That's the way to go, baby.
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He wouldn't do it though, because sadly he just seem to pick a cool role these days to save his damn life. It's all generic cookie cutter parts with Ford, has been for far too long. Depressses me. As for who I'd pick, Michael Biehn (yeah, like that'd ever happen), or even Kiefer Sutherland.
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If "Alias" didn;t completely burn him out on '60s espionage fantasy/parody/homage, get JJ Abrams to script and direct. Have Steranko sketch the breakdown drawings (I keep forgetting the technical term for those) no matter how much he costs or how long he takes. Gulacy could halp him. Boreanaz as Fury, Kanakaredes as the Contessa, make David Caruso grow a Selleck moustache to play Dugan, with The Rock as Gabe Jones and Seth Green as Jasper Sitwell. Get Sienkiewicz to do the posters.
Just make sure you have a helicarrier, a flying Porsche, glider suits, LMDs and the barber shop. And for a sequel do a crossover with the cast from that master of Kung fu movie that was rumored here last year. -
They both really really hate snakes, especially on a plane. Fact.
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He will confetti Hydra's asses!
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There are still people who are Heartbroken 4 the victims of the Hasselhoff "Nick Fury." Haven't you seen their bumper stickers? They're everywhere. TOO SOON.
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I'm still waiting for a good Punisher, Daredevil, Hulk, Iron Man, and the Avengers movie. That's the Avengers, not the fucking piece of shit Ultimates.
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