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33 Failed Marvel Movies & TV Shows You (Wish You) Forgot
Considering how hugely successful Marvel Studios’ movies have been (raising about $30 billion at the box office worldwide), each successful project has gone unannounced, fluttered, or failed spectacularly. There are plenty of iconic projects that predate the Marvel Cinematic Universe, such as the 1990s X-Men series and Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man films, just to claim the rights. What about the Fantastic Four movies that were reportedly made? Or the made-for-TV movies brought into our homes decades before Hulk, Thor, Daredevil and Doctor Strange made it big on the big screen? a handful of?
There have been dozens, literally dozens of Marvel projects, but some have been largely forgotten over time, but some, like the 1986 Howard the Duck film, live on infamously. This list dates back to his 1950s. That’s when the first attempts to develop a TV show for Namor were made. A man in swimming trunks is, after all, an easy costume to make. Even hit the service.
What counts as a failure here? One common denominator here is that all of these projects failed to make a positive impact on pop culture. The list includes blockbuster movies that made their box office debuts and shows that lasted more than a season, but in these cases people remember the bad more than the good. Please read on. Missed opportunities, tight budgets, and corporate changes in direction are all here.
