Marvel Movie News!

As if the 1992 Matt Salinger-starring Captain America flick wasn't good enough (kidding folks), the trade suggests that Mark Gordon and Gary Levinsohn, of Saving Private Ryan fame, are in talks with Marvel about producing a new Cap film.

The once-abandoned Prime movie project seems to have gained new life as well. The comic, which is set in the Ultraverse (a la NightMan) rather than the Marvel universe, is "a comedy about a scrawny little kid who has the ability or handicap of going instantly from a kid to an Arnold [Schwarzenegger]-like man. It's Big in a superhero's body," according to what Arad told the trade. Here's a quicker primer (pun intended) for those of you unfamiliar with the Ultraverse: If NightMan could be considered the Ultraverse's version of Batman, then Prime could be compared to Captain Marvel aka Shazam. Doug Chamberlin and Chris Webb (Toy Story 2) will write the script for producer Chuck Gordon.

Urban Legend producer Neal Moritz, along with Barry Levine, will produce an adaptation of the Damage Control comic for Village Roadshow. Damage Control followed an organization in the Marvel universe that is called in to clean up and repair the damage caused by superhero battles.

David Goyer (Blade) will pen the screenplay for an adaptation of Dr. Strange at Sony. Dr. Strange is the sorcerer supreme of the Marvel universe, who battles evil magic wielding foes from Earth and other dimensions (most prominently the flame-headed Dormammu from the dark dimension). Incidently, he operates out of Greenwich Village in New York.

Fresh off the success of Blade, Wesley Snipes, with his Amen-Ra production company, will produce a Black Panther movie. Black Panther aka T'Challa, ruler of the hidden super-scientific African kingdom of Wakanda, was the first African superhero. The comic showed the character upholding the traditions of his tribe while battling evil scientific nemesis.

Director Philip Kaufman, most famous for The Right Stuff, is fleshing out a possible film based on Namor (aka the Sub-Mariner), with Sam Hamm among the candidates to write the script. Namor is a prince of Atlantis and a mutant hybrid of a water-breathing Atlantean mother and a human sea captain father. Among his attributes are super-strength, the power of flight (which he curiously gets from little wings on his ankles) and a short temper. Among Namor's prominent comic-book villains are Attuma, the leader

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