#Silver surfer movie series#
The series utilizes a serialized storytelling approach. For instance, Adam Warlock is an alien supersoldier designed to fight the Kree and, due to Fox broadcast standards, Thanos serves Lady Chaos rather than Death. Most of the characters featured in the series differ from their printed-page incarnations. Many other characters from Marvel's cosmic stable appear in the series, including The Watcher, Ego the Living Planet, Pip the Troll, Drax the Destroyer, and Adam Warlock. In this version, the Silver Surfer, who has had the memories of Norrin Radd partially restored to him by Thanos, protects Earth from the hunger of Galactus because it reminds him of Zenn-La. The most notable change is the removal of the Fantastic Four from The Galactus Trilogy, the story that serves as the foundation for the first three episodes of the series. While inspired by various Silver Surfer comic book stories, the series alters the original mythos in some key ways. Hopefully, with Marvel Studios now in control of Fox's film and television assets, that will soon change.Blending cel and computer animation, the series is rendered in the style of Silver Surfer creator Jack Kirby.
This obviously never materialized, and so far, the version of Norrin Radd seen in Rise of the Silver Surfer - performed physically by Doug Jones and voiced by Laurence Fishburne - is the only live-action iteration fans have gotten. Ultimately, Fleming's efforts were all for naught - although, after Fox acquired the film rights to Silver Surfer in the late '90s, another attempt was made to flesh out a solo vehicle for the character. In 2000, around the time the Ben Affleck-starring Daredevil was entering production, Fox hired screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker ( Se7en) to pen a Silver Surfer script (via Variety ). In fact, the company had recently turned down a promising young filmmaker coming off a hot debut feature who also wanted to bring Silver Surfer to the screen: Quentin Tarantino, who had set the indie film world ablaze with his 1992 feature Reservoir Dogs. The short was completed in 1993, and while it did create a fair amount of buzz, Constantin Film wasn't too keen on the whole idea of a Silver Surfer movie. But, as it turns out, Wright wasn't the first or last filmmaker to attempt to field a solo vehicle for the Surfer in the years before that movie's release.
#Silver surfer movie movie#
McGregor would have been a bold choice to lead the movie at the time, he was known mostly for his roles in indie features like the 1994 thriller Shallow Grave and the 1996 drama Trainspotting, both directed by Danny Boyle. Silver Surfer wouldn't make his big screen debut until 2007's Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and then only as a supporting character. The outlet indicated that Fox was aiming for a "summer 1998 release of Silver Surfer," to be written by Richard Jefferies and produced by Constantin Film. Other details we know about the planned Silver Surfer movie come from an April 1997 report published by Variety.
The panels show the villain crashing through a brick wall, cornering our hero as the two prepare to clash, though, the Surfer's iconic board comes flying to the rescue. The storyboard panels that Hardman posted also gave an indication as to the film's villain, as they show the Surfer doing battle with an enormous, hulking figure that bears quite a bit of resemblance to the classic X-Men villain Juggernaut. Since his brush with superhero flicks, Wright has helmed only three features: 1994's Metal Skin, 2000's Cherry Falls (which was released straight to video), and the 2006 adaptation of Macbeth. Along with a few panels of the storyboard work he did for the potential '90s Silver Surfer feature, he dropped a few interesting details about the production - including that Aussie filmmaker Geoffrey Wright, whose 1992 feature Romper Stomper helped introduce the world to Russell Crowe, was set to direct. Hardman is a comic book artist who has done work for Marvel, DC, and Image Comics, and has storyboarded a slew of feature films - from 1997's Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery all the way up to 2020's The Call of the Wild.
Among these was a version of a Silver Surfer solo film that was in development all the way back in 1997, years before 2000's X-Men and 2002's Spider-Man kicked off the modern superhero genre. Storyboard artist Gabriel Hardman recently took to Twitter to post a lengthy thread of films for which he'd done storyboard work, but which were never completed. Before the dawn of the modern age of superhero cinema, we almost saw a Marvel icon - Norrin Radd, the Silver Surfer - on the silver screen.
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