"The Ultimate Avengers" DTV Speculation Thread (Spoilers)

[screw on head]

Avast Ye Avid Evo Fans!

Hot of the heels of Lions Gates annoucing thier 9 Direct To Video animated features, Steve Gordon, of X-Men: Evolution fame announced 2 days ago this on his website, Updates Page:

Something that has been brewing for awhile has finally happened. It's turned into an offer better than I originally imagined. My friend Boyd Kirkland (the producer of X-Men: Evolution and much more) has landed a gig producing a series of Direct-to-Video features for Marvel and LionsGate. The deal to make these videos was announced a little bit ago so I don't feel I'm saying anything that many of you don't already know (or, at least, those of you who follow these types of things) and they offered me a chance to co-direct and do character design work on, at least, the first two - it was an offer that was hard to resist and DreamWorks was very gracious in letting me accept this opportunity.

At this time I can't go into anymore details about the projects accept to say many will be thrilled and delighted with what is planned. I am.

Nice piece of news, eh? I'm glad Boyd Kirkland and Steve Gordon are back at it again, and I'm sure they'll be cooking up another great Marvel translation. I'm willing to bet that they'll be traditionally animated features, can't wait for these.

Comments?

[Obsidian]

Sweeeeet. I really hope at least one is Evo-related(fingers crossed!), but honestly I'll take any feature that has Boyd and Steve involved.

[Nick K.]

Pretty cool news. Evo was pretty good, so I don't see where these DTVs can go wrong now... Well, maybe I can, but they won't go wrong.

[EJill34]

Good news. I'll be sure to pick these up, especially with the lack of DCAU DTVs. Damn The Batman.

[Spider-Man]

Do we have any ideas on what some of these DVDs will be and what characters we can expect? Has anything been remotely confirmed?

[Wayman Tisdale]

Avast Ye Avid Evo Fans!

Announced 2 days ago on his website, Steve Gordon mentioned the following on his Updates Page:

Nice piece of news, eh? I'm glad Boyd Kirkland and Steve Gordon are back at it again, and I'm sure they'll be cooking up another great Marvel translation. I'm willing to bet that they'll be traditionally animated features, can't wait for these.

Comments?

We'll see, I just hope if they do a Captain America project Boyd Kirkland gives Captain America an actual speaking voice this time. His appearance on X-Men Evolution(Operation Rebirth), if anyone noticed he didn't utter ONE WORD the whole episode. VERY STRANGE.

[Icer]

Good, hopefully one of them is an X-Men: Evolution DTV.

[Mysteryinfoman]

A X-men Evo DTV would be very cool, Boyd and Steve, good team. Also not just one but at least 2, sounds even better.

[GL2k2]

So can someone tell me what this guy worked on other than X-Men Evolution?

[Spidey2099]

So can someone tell me what this guy worked on other than X-Men Evolution?

Boyd Kirkland? He's worked on Batman: The Animated Series and Gargoyles, as well as other series.

Steve Gordon's work can be seen on the link listed in the first post.

[Batgirl Beyond]

I hope they change their mind regarding animation style and do ALL the DTVs in 2D animation in the X-Men: Evo style. I'd love to see the X-Men: Evo universe expanded on through other superheros, and I'm hoping for some continuity through out all the DTVs.

[Spider-Man]

It would be neat for them to use X-Men: Evolution as a groundbase to spin off further animated Marvel comics. I really think Marvel needs to have a set universe for their characters. I do want to see a new version of Spider-Man eventually but I want to see some other heroes get the spotlight first. What characters do you think will get spotlihgt in these DTVs?

[Spidey2099]

What characters do you think will get spotlihgt in these DTVs?

An Avengers 'toon seems like the most obvious step for Kirkland and Gordon to take. They'd give it that nice clean style just like they did for Evo.

[EddieTheEditor]

An Avengers cartoon in the Evo style would be fantastic!And the Guest stars they could have! I can see it now...

"The Howard the Duck Saga: Part one: The Cosmic Squish Principal"
"Part Two: And a Duck shall lead them!"
"Part Three: Trapped in a world he never made"

And let's not forget the other possibilities!

"The Mutant Saga P. 1: Enter The X-men!"
"P.2: God Loves, Man Kills"

And everyone loves a little:

"The Spider-Man Saga: The Menace of The Goblin!"
"The Spider-man: There can only be Six!"

And maybe a bit of:

"Slapstick:How Bizarre!"
"Illuminator: We're not making this religious, really!"
and
"Moon Boy: Now we've gone too far."

I went a little nuts on that last batch.

[bigddan11]

Marvel has so many potential projects thatthey could do including:

X-Men spinoffs
Spider-Man
Captain America
Iron Man
Fantastic Four
Silver Surfer
Blade
Avengers
the list could go on forever. Which project would do the best though? I think a Spider-Man series made for Toonami would be great, but Turner probably doesn't want there rivals on their networks.

[EJill34]

Over at www.superherohype.com they posted news about the first of these DTVs. It will be a 66-minute Avengers film starring the heavy-hitters like Captain America. It's currently being scripted and should be out in early 2006. Everything sounds good so far.

[Wayman Tisdale]

Over at www.superherohype.com they posted news about the first of these DTVs. It will be a 66-minute Avengers film starring the heavy-hitters like Captain America. It's currently being scripted and should be out in early 2006. Everything sounds good so far.

GREAT POST MAN, good lookin out! That makes my week, this sounds so cool! My only concern is I'm a tad circumspect about the "Ultimate" in the article. I hope it stays true to regular continuity and stays away from the Ultimate universe which doesn't do anything for me.

[Spider-Friends]

I hope it stays true to regular continuity and stays away from the Ultimate universe which doesn't do anything for me.

Don't count on it. The article says:

The animated feature, based on the Marvel Comics series "The Ultimates," is still in the script phase.

I'm a HUGE fan of The Ultimates, so I'm thrilled!! It sure would be nice to get some confirmation that this is what Mr. Kirkland & Mr. Gordon are working on.

[Spider-Friends]

I'm a HUGE fan of The Ultimates, so I'm thrilled!! It would be nice to get some confirmation that this is what Mr. Kirkland & Mr. Gordon are working on.

[screw on head]

I'm very pleased with this announcement. Glad to hear their sporting the big guns for this DTV, rather than going up with second tier characters, not that there's anything wrong with that .

I do hope that Kirkland and Gordon are working on this, because if so, it's going to be a stunning interperatation of the characters, potentially the best translation of the characters ever. I haven't read any of the Ultimates in a long time, so I can't really judge that material, but from what I have read, it won't be a bad foundation to base the movie on.

All in all, Great news to hear .