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Feeling unfinished and haphazard, Corman’s Fantastic Four was never officially released and seemed like a calculated expenditure (not exactly cheap at a reputed $1 million budget) in the hopes of a future sale. Roger Corman hastily put a film together in order to retain the rights. It would prove successful, if not quite as mega as the first film.Ī few years later the comic hijinks continued with Fantastic Four, but things weren’t quite as they appeared. Tim Burton brought back Michael Keaton for some Batman hijinks, with a scintillating Michelle Pfeiffer in 1992. A nefarious Timothy Dalton and dazzling Jennifer Connelly provide the presence (somewhat lacking in leading man, Billy Campbell) and Joe Dante, as he’d prove since, is a solid blockbuster director. Slightly more successful that year was a Disney comic book adaptation that took the nostalgic route, with The Rocketeer, a WW2 set film with a stunt pilot who finds a prototype rocket pack which the Nazi’s have eyed as a super weapon. An enjoyable, if video standard martial arts film. SEE ALSO: The Best Marvel Movie You Haven’t Seen: The Punisherġ991 also saw Mark Hamill star in the action fantasy Manga adaptation, The Guyver. Reappraisal has been kind to Mark Goldblatt’s energetic and well cast film. The eventual US release was straight to video, and though proved lucrative on that market it essentially marked Lundgren’s card as a leading man more popular on home video than on the big screen. Released theatrically in most of the other major territories, the initial US theatrical release fell through as New World Pictures collapsed. In 1991, the US finally got to experience the long delayed Punisher movie, starring Dolph Lundgren. The soundtrack by Madonna comes at a period where a Madonna soundtrack number wasn’t the death knell it would become in the 21st century. It taps into nostalgia in a way that’s in vogue now and the cast, particularly a scenery engulfing Al Pacino, are all game.

It was overblown, lavish, greeted with average reviews and box office, but, it’s also kind of underappreciated. Warren Beatty also got in on the comic book act with his big budget, star powered adaptation of Dick Tracy. SEE ALSO: Darkman: Revisiting Sam Raimi’s cult superhero movie Not a bad way for Raimi to warm up for future comic book outings, by creating his own comic character. Darkman, an afterthought from Raimi, having failed to get a Shadow adaptation off the ground, turned into an unexpected B movie gem which launched two sequels and a run of comic books. The film bombed, got terrible reviews, but in retrospect, it’s a lot of fun.Īlso that year, Sam Raimi gave us a great little comic book film that wasn’t a comic book film. Potentially where ‘Cannon’ channelled much of the budget (and you can certainly tell in the moments it was running thin). All said though, the opening war setting and intro to the Red Skull is actually effective. The ill fitting costume which looked like a hastily pulled together am-dram outfit did no favours, nor did a film where Captain America barely uses his shield and hitches lifts everywhere. Matt Salinger played Cap, trundling around with easy grinning charm, but minus the star power of Evans say. It was Albert Pyun, the mercurial B-movie specialist with a penchant for the weird and wacky, who was tasked with bringing all the American hero to screen, under a rebranded Cannon (post the Golan and Globus split). The start of the decade brought Captain America to screen, long before Chris Evans brought Steve Rogers to life in Kevin Feige’s MCU.

In actuality, the decade was littered with a mass of comic book films. We all know of the big boys, and the continuing adventures of Batman, but few remember many of the eras comic book adaptations, in part because so many bombed and further, many were poor. On the surface of it, you might well believe studios weren’t really into the idea too much. Tim Burton’s Batman though did the kind of business at the end of the 80s which suggested comic book adaptations might prove a thriving market in the 1990s. Of course the haphazard and underfinanced film, opening to universal derision, probably didn’t help. The very top tier characters were deemed a gamble worth taking, such as Batman and Superman, but the studio ending incompetence of Superman IV: The Quest for Peace showed even the biggest characters in comic book lore weren’t guaranteed to bring box office glory. Modern multiplex cinemas are usually packed to the rafters with comic book adaptations, but in the 1980s, the notion of comic book films being a lucrative well to create marketable movies was a little far fetched. Tom Jolliffe looks at the eclectic range of comic book movies brought out in the 1990s…

1995 batman forever movie new york skyline