The first step to getting your own major motion picture at Marvel Studios is to have a fan-favorite or critically-acclaimed run sometime in your recent past, if you look at most of the non-Avengers examples we’re aware of so far.Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning brought the Guardians of the Galaxy back from the brink of total irrelevance and transformed it into a property that any Marvel writer worth their salt would like to have a crack at. The Inhumans got the same treatment from Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee, while Doctor Strange got a miniseries from Hollywood favorite Brian K. Vaughan and artist Marcos Martin.In Marvel NOW!, we’re seeing some of those critically-acclaimed runs reflected (a restoration of the DnA Guardians lineup, for instance), while others (including The Inhumans) are seemingly being prepped for a film by being returned to the public attention via new #1 issues and event stories.So, a “who deserves a relaunch” list might as well be a “who deserves a movie” list…but one thing that’s better about comics than movies is that we get more time with the characters and more development. A movie like Captain America: The Winter Soldier is great, but then there’s two years before you see that character again. While that’s fine for Cap, some others could benefit from the frequent exposure of an ongoing series (or, as in Deathlok’s case, a role on Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.).And even taking “developing a character for other media” out of the equation, let’s think about characters from other media who haven’t yet been successfully re-translated to comics.Some ideas…
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