How come in comic book-movies?

Question

they don't have cameos from other heroes like Tobey Macguire as spiderman hanging out with human torch (cause they're buddies in the comics)

like is it a money thing, like too expensive to have jessica alba visit the spiderman 3 set?

but why...

Answer 1

It's totally just a rights issue. Fox has the Fantastic Four rights, and Sony has the Spiderman rights. SInce the two companies are essentially rivals, they likely won't be lending each other the characters or the rights. However, this could change, because Marvel is becoming more and more powerful in the movie industry, they'll soon be producing and distributing their own films (they've set up a movie branch already, and produced a bunch of animated Avengers movies), so it's not impossible that Marvel will reaquire the movie rights to their biggest characters and start producing huge crossover event movies.

And by the way, it's extremely likely that Batman and Superman will appear in some kind of team up film, since Warner Bros. not only owns the rights to both of the characters, they own DC comics too, so they'll never be in any real danger of losing the rights to either of them. In fact, a few years back, there was talk of a Batman Vs. Superman movie to be directed by Wolfgang Peterson, but then they decided to revitalise both franchises individually (Batman Begins and Superman Returns) with the possibility that after a couple of sequels each, they'd get around to a team up film (Christian Bale said so in an interview, I've posted the link in my source list).

Answer 2

Comic book movies are adaptations of characters from comic books or graphic novels. I don't know what you mean by comic book style. The way women are represented varies with the character. Mary Jane Watson in Spider-Man was a damsel in distress. The Black Widow in Ironman 2 was an independent well trained woman, more than capable of defending herself. Lois Lane in Superman has been portrayed both ways. It really depends on the character and the story. I think comic book movies are popular for a few of reasons. One reason is the tremendous advances in special effects allows live action movies to replicate comic book stories more closely. Another reason is just about everyone living grew up knowing at least some of these characters, whether or not they read comic books. Movies gives them an easy way to get to know the characters.

Answer 3

They do the same thing in the comics. In Spider Man, you never see the Human Torch flying through the air, even though he flies every day and he is lit up brightly and can be seen for miles. Not even if Venom is jumpin’ Spideys b*tt and he could really use some help!

And in the Fantastic Four, you never see Spider Man swinging around off in the distance, even though they live in the same city and he’s not exactly trying to be inconspicuous! Not even if Hydro Man has just given Johnny the old Chinese water torture and he’d appreciate a little old web line to yank him outta there!

Unless the writers intend to team them up, even if they’re smashing buildings to bits and using full school buses to knock jumbo jets out of the sky, effectively they are the only hero in the world and no other super character even knows there’s a fight going on!

I mean, sheesh. You’d think someone would AT LEAST come to gawk!

30 JAN 07, 0150 hrs, GMT.

Answer 4

It's a money issue to get the actors in a cameo (Think about how much they would have to pay Jessica Alba or even Eric Bana for a twenty second cameo!), but it's an even bigger issue to get the rights to use the character. That's why there aren't movies with Batman & Superman together, for example. It's just too expensive to buy the rights for both characters. And to do that just for a cameo makes even less sense.

Answer 5

The easiest explanation would be Smallville's recent episode, 'Justice'.

There was Green Arrow, Aquaman, and Cyborg. All easy characters to get the rights to. But Bart Allen had to be called Impulse due to the rights to the Flash already being reserved for the possibility of a movie. Also, even though the show is about Clark Kent who will eventually become Superman, they called him Boy Scout, due to their not having the rights to use the name on screen.

That is also the reason that the Green Arrow on Smallville is so much like what we imagine Batman to be like. Because of the success of Batman Begins, the Batman rights are all locked up and we will never see a 'dark knight' fall over Smallville.

Answer 6

Crossovers like that work just fine in comic books, but mainstream audiences just wouldn't understand it. 90% of people who see comic book movies have no clue about comic book continuity, and seeing somebody like Spider-Man or Wolverine in a Fantastic Four movie would just throw them off

Answer 7

you answered it, it'd cost too much money for just an onscreen cameo

and the movie should be about the characters you came to see (for spiderman, I want to see spiderman, not anyone from the x-men).

Answer 8

Because of having to write that into the plot would confuse the newbies. You can't add characters and not confuse people.

B-Cool