Comic Characters YOU Want to See in Their Own Movie

A Plastic Man movie would be good

The Flash. I understand they're already working on one of those, though. Iron Man wouldn't suck, either.
Additionally, Green Arrow might hold up.

Does anyone remember the Flash movies? I used to love them.

You mean the Flash TV show, with John Wesley Shipp? That was OK, except it was Barry Allen, five years after Wally West have taken over the role.

There's a lot of great characters who deserve a movie. The only problem is that Hollywood can't seem to make a movie without modifying the character and/or history.

Fantomex!!!!

Originally posted by Bushwacker
There's a lot of great characters who deserve a movie. The only problem is that Hollywood can't seem to make a movie without modifying the character and/or history.

We can't expect total fidelity; just like they can't film a novel word-for-word. It's being translated into a different medium, some change is neccessary. There must be a story that can end, or at least have an ending, not something that keeps going like comics do.

Birds of Prey: The movie.

A Venom film, "Lethal Protector" Style, versus Carnage :drool:

Venom vs. Wolverine movie would be sweet too.

Alos would like to see Gambit in an X-film.

Originally posted by roughrider
We can't expect total fidelity; just like they can't film a novel word-for-word. It's being translated into a different medium, some change is neccessary. There must be a story that can end, or at least have an ending, not something that keeps going like comics do.

I understand that, but don't understand why they always have to change the origin of the character. Or why somebody finds out their secret identity in almost every movie. I don't expect to see my favorite plotlines acted out on screen, but it would be nice if whoever is writing the script would at least be a fan of the character too instead of somebody who never read that comic until he got the job as scriptwriter.

Both Superman and Spider Man, and the recent Batman, were very much on the mark in being faithful to the origins.

To use your examples, here's what Hollywood changed:
Superman: They changed the Fortress of Solitude into a structure created by Kryptonian technology. It's here he becomes Superman.
Spider-Man: They changed his webshooters to be biological.
Batman: They changed him into a self-destructive offspring of murder victims who gets trained by Ras al Ghul to be an assassin instead of keeping him somebody dedicated to molding himself into a crime fighter.

I know this is nitpicking, but IMO this is just Hollywood thinking they can improve on something that's been around for years and years. They shouldn't be changing the back story, they should be changing the way we see the potential for future stories.