Yes, the iconic co-creator of Marvel Comics characters has made countless appearances in movies but this time, it’s a slice of Lee’s life that is getting the cinematic treatment. But not in the way you might expect.
Twentieth Century Fox, the studio behind the most Marvel movies after Disney and the studio behind the X-Men and Fantastic Four franchises, has acquired Lee's life rights with a goal of creating a period action adventure movie, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey, the producers behind such movies as Twilight, The Maze Runner and the upcoming Power Rangers, are attached to produce what is being described as being in the tone of Kingsman: The Secret Service, or as one insider put it, “Roger Moore’s 007,” with Lee as the hero with an alter ego.
Lee and Gil Champion, Lee's partner at POW! Entertainment, will executive produce the project.
The story of Lee has been well-documented. Lee, born Stanley Lieber, grew up poor in the Bronx, and entered the comic book publishing world at the age of 17 in 1939, working for his uncle at Timely comics.
Lee’s dream was to write the “Great American Novel” and he was considering quitting when his wife, whom he considers the great love of his life, convinced him to give write the comic ideas he wanted to as one last shot at the business.
Thus, in his 40s, Lee co-created The Fantastic Four, which launched the Marvel Age of Comics. Lee, and mostly with artists Kirby and Steve Ditko, created hero after hero – Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, The X-Men, Iron Man, The Hulk, among many others – revitalizing the decaying publishing house and changing the face of pop culture forever.
In the 1970s, Lee moved to Hollywood, where he wanted to pursue a dream of seeing his characters adapted for the big and small screens and hobnobbed with the town's luminaries.
But this will be no biopic but rather an adventure with Lee as the main character. Kingsman and Roger Moore James Bond movies had dapper heroes who quipped one-liners, and in Moore’s case, flirted with the ladies, as they parried with larger-than-life evildoers.
No writer has been hired to flesh out the story so the projects existing details could morph. Exec Matt Reilly is overseeing for Fox.
Fox is making a Stan Lee action movie set in the 70s.
I wonder what role Kirby will play.
Andrew Sullivan
Stan Lee A Movie About Stan Lee By Stan Lee Featuring Stanley Stevens as Stan Lee
Blake Evans
Reminds me of Kojima
Gavin Foster
Will Stan Lee have s cameo?
Luke Gomez
>they will show Jack Kirby as the bad guy Calling it now.
Dominic Mitchell
>mfw Marvel starts DELETE DELETE DELETE Stan Lee from everything
Christopher Garcia
Fuck yeah, Perlmutter still hates his guts.
Aiden Adams
So it's a horror movie?
Jaxon Allen
Will Stan have a cameo?
Matthew Edwards
The role of a cuck who watches Stan fuck his wife.
Angel Brown
Stan Lee confirmed for Marvel's Bob Kane.
Aiden Brown
The movie sounds too positive. Stanley Lieber is a piece of shit and more people should know it
Kevin Reed
Probably won't show him as anything but a background person since the Kirby estate will Reeeeeeeeeeeee if they show Jack in any bad light.
Camden Evans
Cast him!
Andrew Richardson
I can hear Roy Thomas fapping.
>the King of Comics as anything but a background person Typical Lee.
Ryan Thompson
Lee is worse
Isaac Richardson
Oh that's bullshit.
Those rights belong to Marvel! It's not fair!
Gabriel Flores
Stan was already in his fifties by the 1970s'. Why not set it in the 60's and make it similar to the Silver Age? It'd be more fun that way.
Michael Campbell
>create lol
Isaiah Brown
Isn't he a pedophile? I read that on Sup Forums
Daniel Wright
If they're going full Bond I can see Kirby being a Q like character.
Ryan Fisher
Because having him peddle movie and TV rights seems more interesting than him stealing from Kirby and Ditko.
Xavier Bennett
Movie about the Image gang when?
Joshua Perez
>I wonder what role Kirby will play. Jack Kirby will be portrayed by Louis CK
Sebastian Jones
Michael Parks.
Jayden Long
Legitimate question, why do people think Lee is a piece of shit? Credit hog I could see, but like a Bob Kane level asshole? >Establishes himself as a spokesperson/salesman for Marvel >Constantly bills himself as "CO-creator" of classic characters rather than taking full credit >Was pretty clearly the "face" of the company; more of a spokesperson, like Reggie is to Nintendo of America >DID have a hand in bringing major characters to life, helped spark the era when most of Marvel's icons were born >Him being a character/big name helped the comic book industry to be recognized as something more than a way to sell horror stories and x-ray specs to kids
He just doesn't come off as a bad guy to me. A little full of himself, maybe, but I dunno what sparks all the bile I see directed at him. Is there something I'm just missing? I admit full ignorance here and welcome any additional info.
Luke Lewis
>why do people think Lee is a piece of shit? user, there's a reason why he's a Lich.
Angel Bell
>why do people think Lee is a piece of shit? >Credit hog I could see, but like a Bob Kane level asshole? Yes >Constantly bills himself as "CO-creator" After everyone began to remind him that the artists created too, that is. >DID have a hand in bringing major characters to life But too small.
Kayden Ross
This sounds like a stupid idea. A legitimate biopic about the Marvel bullpen would be so much cooler. >A bunch of Jews writing anti-Nazi stories during WW2 amidst death threats and intimidation tactics from Nazi sympathizers >Jack Kirby dangling that one dude out the window >Creating the F4 to compete with the JLA >"You can't call him SPIDER-Man, people HATE spiders!" >Merry Marvel Marching Society >Reactions to 60's Marvel cartoons >Fighting with the CCA >Lee hitting Hollywood in the 70's trying to license movie adaptations >That one Spider-Man pitch that was a Cronenberg-style horror movie about a Man-Spider that kills its creator >Drama, death, betrayal >Ends with the Hollywood premier of Iron Man in 2008
Noah Parker
Jack Kirby was in Normandy during WW2 and once faced a pro-Nazi supporter in USA. Now THAT would make a good biopic.
Asher Parker
Guaranteed Oscar FUND IT
Cooper Jackson
People calling Lee an asshole remind me of people calling Christianity a conspiracy because they read something vague about the council of Nicaea
They learn small truths and paint them as something bigger for the sake of going against the supposedly ingorant masses
Jose Bailey
The Sheeple, pls
Cooper Cooper
Who would play Ditko?
Bentley Watson
I remember some even where Alan Moore asked him once if Steve Ditko created Spiderman and Stan Lee kept dodging the question saying shit like "In my opinion, he may have had a small role in creating spiderman" and shit like that. He's just a credit stealing piece of shit.
Adrian Jones
>I'm portraying Stan Lee the way he was meant to be played, as a proud woman of color.
Nolan Martin
Make it like Jersey Boys; tell the story of a group of people and jump forward 5-10 years like twice every act. >Follows Lee, Kirby, Ditko, Romita, etc. >Starts in the 40's, Lee is a kid >Newcomer to Timely comics, acts as the primary protagonist since he'd be the one the audience could follow; they enter the world that will become Marvel Comics alongside him >Act 1 is WW2, rising action, every major Marvel milestone >Creation of Spider-Man, formation of the Avengers, Captain America is thawed out, etc. >Act 2 is where the drama sets in >Begins fucking peachy, there's tons of merch and money and Lou Ferrigno is making the Hulk a household name >New generation of X-Men, new generation of comic readers >Stan Lee goes to Hollywood to try to get some movies made, people start dying, everyone is mad at one another, the 90's comic slump hits >Act 3 is the 2000's, we see the X-Men movies and Raimi trilogy made >Comics come back in a big way >Ultimate Marvel starts up, we see a new team take over the company as Bendis' Ultimate Spider-Man becomes a big hit >Lee is old as shit, reflecting on his life >End of the movie is him attending the premier of Iron Man, wondering what could possibly come next >End credits are run over a montage of Marvel media >Begins with old Merry Marvel Marching Society songs over old panels of iconic moments >60's Spider-Man, when Captain America throws his mighty shield >Fox Kids X-Men, Radioactive Spider-Blood >Danny Elfman Spidey theme, the 9/11 issue >Booming Alan Sylvestri score over a montage of MCU clips >We see how a company that made funny books before WW2 became MARVEL
I'll take these, it'll be the closest we'll get to a Kavalier and Clay adaptation.
Kayden Garcia
Stay in school.
Jose Jones
BROTHER MOUSE I KNEW YOU'D COME
Jonathan White
>The role of a cuck who watches Stan fuck his wife. Stan never fucked Roz Kirby. He let Jack do it then took the credit like usual.
Asher Thompson
No it wouldn't. It would have to be a sad story, one about good creators being destroyed by greedy fucks like Stan, Cadence, Disney...
Brayden Lee
A tough guy always chiding Stan for being a scrawny coward, completely unaware of his double life.
Asher Mitchell
No he's just the Ronald McDonald of comics
James Bailey
>Implying Kirby, if he shows up at all, won't be a quick cameo as a rival agent or Q-type gadgets guy
Samuel Rogers
You're full of shit
Ryan Edwards
He sells trash pretending to pass it as something worth buying?
Sheeple pls
Hudson Nelson
this is fucking retarded
Joshua Peterson
Reminds me of that movie project about the theft of Nicolas Cage's prized Action Comics #1 in which Cage wanted to play the thief and someone else to play him. I believe He suggested Jason Statham.
Mason Garcia
Don't worry, it will be scrapped for that exact reason.
Aiden Roberts
Not even a little bit true, bob kane was a rich kid asshole, who stole ideas/hard work of others to create a nsme for himself. Stan lee worked with artist and managed their ideas gave them credit and simply made sure he was a star, and didn't fade into obscurity. He wanted fame and did what it took to get it. But he's always given artist artist credit, always. Bob kane couldn't draw or write and always said he did both.
Christopher Davis
>a rich kid asshole, who stole ideas/hard work of others to create a nsme for himself >couldn't draw or write and always said he did both. Sounds familiar.
Blake Jenkins
With tits and and ass and shiny leather
Dominic Harris
Dude you're remembering wrong. An interviewer kept pressing him to say he was the sole creator. He said yes he was. He created all of his characters, he said they where his ideas. But then said, the artist brought a lot to the table. He said kirby had ideas of what personality they should have. He wanted to say they where co creators, but the guy kep saying that means you didn't create them so he'd bounce back and say yes they're my creations.
It wasn't about putting down kirby or dicko it was about him not liking people saying he didn't create them. Which he did, he's a co creator. He was forced to those answers.
Ian Brown
>h-he was pressed into lying!
Nathaniel Gonzalez
Who will Stan Lee play though? Some old man who gives young Stan advice? Maybe Stan should play his own grandfather.
Jaxson Myers
? Stan said he could never draw or are you making a disney comparison?
Jacob Richardson
We have enough holocaust movies but thanks for your idea
Alexander Wright
That user isn't wrong. That interviewer was essentially "bullying" Stan into saying what he wanted him to say.
Xavier Butler
He didn't lie, you're making shit up. He was pressed to say he was sole creator and he never did it, he kept saying they where technicaly co-creators. But he would never give himself less of a credit. He thinks they wouldn't be as popular or relevant if it wasn't for him. Lrn 2 watch the edivence, not just slander like an asshole. The only tin foil hat here is you.
Gavin Taylor
>come up with ideas for man with spider powers called spiderman >"HURR YOU DIDN'T CREATE IT BECAUSE THIS OTHER GUY DID THE ART"
Fuck off, faggot
Cooper Gomez
>0.25 $ have been added to your account
Parker Rogers
Not to mention he had a huge part of developing modern character traits still important to the character and development of his most famous rouges and supporting characters. It's like saying neil gaiman shouldn't get credit for his work on sandman because he didn't draw it.
Eli Rivera
>Stan Lee defense force Lmao
Owen Ramirez
>he had a huge part of developing modern character traits You mean those corny dialogues? >It's like saying neil gaiman shouldn't get credit for his work on sandman because he didn't draw it. Because DC/Vertigo writers do write, casual.
Brody Rivera
You're a shitty troll. Because you're straight up just being retarded. Not even making an argument, just stating dumb bullshit.
Landon Gonzalez
Found the Stage-2fag.
Levi Martin
No you fucking idiot, I don't like Lee I think he's a dick and I think he took more credit than he deserved a lot of the time, especially from Kirby, but Ditko wanted Peter to be a reclusive asshole, while Lee wanted him to be more of a nerdy dweeb who could come out of his shell as Spider-Man. Guess which one is the character we know today?
Cameron Young
>"Jack, I have a new idea! The Fantastic Four fight God! EXCELSIOR!" >"But Stan, by God do you mean--" >"EXCELSIOR!" >"Stan, I need to know--" >"EXCELSIOOOOOOR!" >*sigh* "OK, I'll get on with it." >Jack spends hours writing and drawing the Galactus arc >Stan tells readers how he created Galactus and Jack helped him a bit with the script
Nice tears, stanfag.
Jose Anderson
>Guess which one is the character we know today? The teenager who is unemployed and broke and still living at Aunt May's?
Julian Jones
Your ignorance of how working in comics actually is/was, is amazing. It's like a child who thinks the refrigerator just magicaly makes food apear. With no concept of parents working for that food and shopping for it.
Easton Brooks
>Your ignorance of how working in comics actually is/was, is amazing. Oh shit, we have an expert here : )
Kayden Flores
>Oh shit we have a shit poster over here
You really need expertise to not be a fucking idiot? well maybe you do, because you seem a little slow
Colton Lopez
>so much namecalling
Asher Reyes
That would have been amazing.
Leo Rivera
Venom Snake
Luke Clark
> Kirby as Stoddard Thorson >"Did I ever tell you about that time Mr. Miracle and Big Barda went ice fishing?"
Hudson Sanders
Oh fuck off you know exactly what I meant
Dylan Gonzalez
>Fox follows the X-men formula >first movie is set in the 60's and 70's >does well gets a sequel >set in the 70's 80's and early 90;s >time for part 3 >late 90's and early 2000's >stops before MCU >all 3 films feature lots of x-men and fantastic four >cameo by fox's DD
William Thomas
Exactly!
Parker Anderson
>all 3 films feature lots of x-men and fantastic four Huh, only now did I realise that this is probably the only place we'll ever get to see the Fantastic Four not getting shit on.
Chase Morgan
So what did Marvel get in exchange for the Stan Lee rights?
Jose Cox
the rights to Grant Morrison. His movie gonna be a fictional biopic in the style of Fear & Loathing, and Naked Lunch, revolving around the story of his attempts to bring about the hypercrisis while on more magic mushrooms than any human being should be able to handle
Jacob Morales
Nothing. Marvel doesn't own Stan Lee, they just license the use of his name and image at this point.
Owen Long
>he was considering quitting when his wife, whom he considers the great love of his life, convinced him to give write the comic ideas he wanted to as one last shot at the business
Isn't this the story he tells for the creation of the Fantastic Four and Spider-Man (Hulk too iirc)? He gives his wife more credit than he does Kirby and Ditko.
Lee gave them credit as artists but stole their writing/plotting credits because he thought putting dialogue in speech bubbles was more important than creating compelling stories and characters.
Chase Smith
Superior version.
Gavin Ortiz
Everyone is a pedophile on Sup Forums
Jackson Wilson
You have excellent taste in movies.
Colton Morris
>Movies It can become a full series if Amazon picks it up.