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The Human Fly might be buzzing around a movie theater soon, as a film about the former Marvel Comic character is in development. A Human Fly comic, based on real-life stuntman Joe Ramacieri, was licensed and published by Marvel from 1977-1979. Over its 19-issue run and in various other Marvel comics, the Human Fly had run-ins with Spider-Man and Daredevil, among others in the Marvel stable. Alan Brewer and Steven Goldmann picked up the reverted rights on the property recently. Eisenberg-Fisher Productions, which is based on the Paramount lot, will executive produce the proposed indie, with financing said to be coming from private-equity sources. Goldmann is poised to direct. Brewer, along with James Reach, will produce. Tony Babinski, Cirque Du Soleil’s in-house historian, wrote the Montreal-based screenplay. Goldmann is repped by Michael Lewis & Associates and Anarchy Management. Brewer and Babinski are repped by WME.
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Yay……..
Hello?! Human Fly here! Aw, man, I stayed up all night dying my underwear!
Love this news! My favorite comic character. Awesome.
Yeah, great: ANOTHER comic book movie! Enough already! Here’s the pattern of most movies being made now: animation, remakes of good movies that don’t need remakes, comic books, bad comedies/romantic comedies and bad 3-D! Enough already! Make movies that have good stories and characters and people with brains will go see them!
If you can’t find any movies to interest you in the theaters, you aren’t looking too hard. Unless foreign movies and indies are also on your must avoid list. If the three or four superhero movies that get released every Summer are really clogging up your multiplexes, you must live in a really small town.
And I’m wondering if this is an adaptation of the comic, or a biopic on the real-life daredevil. either one could be fun.
“Make movies that have good stories and characters and people with brains will go see them!”
So comic books don’t have good stories or characters? That’s not elitist at all…
Can superhero movies go away now?
The key phrase in this article is “reverted rights”.
These are the life rights of stuntman Joe Ramacieri that Marvel originally bought to create a comic from.
These are NOT the premise, costume and content that Marvel created in the comic books.
Marvel keeps those.
zzzzzzz … soon all movie theaters will just run movies about terrible comic book characters.
The Human Fly? I’ve honestly never heard of him.
Is he like a poor man’s Spider-Man?
Ha! I remember this comic from when I was a kid and I’m 49. If they’re dusting off old stuff like this, Paramount must REALLY be desperate for content.
Iger — pump the brakes. Trust me.
signed,
Dick C.