Marvel's Man-Thing goes straight to cable....then video

[cqb101]

Fangoria has learned that Lions Gate Films and Marvel Studios' Man-Thing, directed by Brett Leonard, will indeed by-pass theaters and will air on Sci Fi Channel in April. The movie will then come to DVD on June 14.

:evil:

Well, this blows.

[DrSpengler]

Heard about it a month or so ago. Even then I wasn't all that surprised. I mean, Man-Thing? He doesn't really have the box office draw of, say, Spider-Man.

I'm sure Man-Thing fans are just happy a movie is being made, period. However, from what I've read in Fangoria and at Superhero Hype, Man-Thing won't be appearing until the very end of the movie. This is gonna be a horror movie, not a comic book movie.

Think The Alligator People with Boris Karloff. The giant alligator monster (a guy with a mask on that looks like an alligator) doesn't appear until the last 5 minutes of the movie and quickly gets swallowed up by quicksand. That was the big "shock".

I'm assuming it'll be the same with Man-Thing. You won't get a good look at him until the very end. If only they'd done that with those God-awful Swamp Thing movies...

[Brodie]

Yeah I read about this in Wizard, whats funnier is the fact that the movie cost 30 million to make. And they're sending it straight to cable. Ha. Well, I had heard that it was to be rated R, I figure they just think it'll find a better audience on DVD, since no one really knows Man-Thing.

It'll be a good rental.

[cqb101]

Yeah I read about this in Wizard, whats funnier is the fact that the movie cost 30 million to make. And they're sending it straight to cable. Ha. Well, I had heard that it was to be rated R, I figure they just think it'll find a better audience on DVD, since no one really knows Man-Thing.

It'll be a good rental.

$30 million is considered low budget nowadays.

[DrSpengler]

Still, without a theatrical release, $30 mil is gonna be hard to make back.

[KROW]

It might not be so bad. It could be a cult hit, like Weekend at Bernie's.