Making Movies: Black Widow?

[Local Hero]

I agree up to a point. The thing is though, while Marvel seem to be willing to give companies a little leeway when it comes to bringing their characters to the screen, they learned their lessons of the past well. The previous attempt to make Punisher(Lundgren version) and Spider-Man(Hammond version) and the woefully forgettable attempts at Captain America, while they were made for a less sophisticated audience, mainly fell down because they moved away from the core formula of the franchises and lost their way in a morass of bad scripting.

These days Marvel, in the form of Avi Arad do seem to be keeping a slightly tighter grip as far as retaining what made the characters have enough appeal to justify a movie in the first place. The changes that have been made, have for the most part helped translate the central premise of the recent movies into terms your general cinemagoer can relate to. Things like X-Men losing the spandex, and Spidey's wrist spinarets (it worked back in the sixties that any geek in college could whip up a web fluid and delivery system in a matter of days, but the audience today may find that a bit hokey). Other changes, such as Blade's conversion from a jive talking mother to sullen bad ass have reinvigorated a character that had sat on Marvel's unused shelf for many years.

Sometimes change can be good, but honestly, if you don't mess too much with a winning formula you are bound to come up trumps.