Runaways goes Hollywood
Marvel Studios isn’t taking any time off to rest on their Iron laurels. In addition to their recent announcement of big screen adaptions of Captain America, Thor, Ant-Man and the Avengers, they’ve just told the Hollywood Reporter that the next Marvel property added to the production queue is Runaways (created by Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona). Recently promoted Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige will be reprising his role as producer.
Like Ant-Man, Runaways is only in the incubation stages with no release scheduled, but it is significant in that although critically acclaimed (winner of 2006 Harvey Award for best continuing/limited series), the Runaways are far from a tried and true Marvel legend. They are a band of ragtag superpowered teenagers who discover their parents are super villains known as “the Pride” (alien conquerers, time traveling thieves, dark mages and mad scientists etc) and then take them down. Also unusual is that none of these young heroes (or their parents) have preexisting ties to any other characters in the Marvel Universe prior to their debut in 2002 (though I’m sure some writer will retcon some history one of these days).
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