How would Spider-Girl work in a different medium?

[Mister Mets]

A point was made in an older Spider-Girl Crawl Space that one of Marvel's disadvantages in marketing Spider-Girl is that she hasn't appeared in any medium outside of comics? So, this begs the question of how something like that would work out.

Do you guys have any ideas as to how Marvel could do a Spider-Girl TV show, or a Spider-Girl video game, or a series of Spider-Girl movies (either theatrical or Direct to DVD)?

[ShaggyB]

A point was made in an older Spider-Girl Crawl Space that one of Marvel's disadvantages in marketing Spider-Girl is that she hasn't appeared in any medium outside of comics? So, this begs the question of how something like that would work out.

Do you guys have any ideas as to how Marvel could do a Spider-Girl TV show, or a Spider-Girl video game, or a series of Spider-Girl movies (either theatrical or Direct to DVD)?

id say direct to disc cartoon dvd could be good. I wouldnt go Movie until you grow the fan base. Get people in with cartoon dvd, if that works... do a tv cartoon show. If that works perhaps a smallville type show. Then id go Movie. (after you get the cartoon tv show, hit up a video game... Then obviously if you can get to the big screen its time for a movie game)

[Nick MB]

Could probably work quite well, actually. Probably just be accused of being a Spider-Man version of Smallville or Batman Beyond and ignored though.

[Matt Linton]

A cartoon would work, but I'd guess they'd go the route of having Peter MIA after a battle with Green Goblin, and May discovering the truth when her powers developed.

[ZT4]

If it had a good lead-in with a Spider-Man series prior to it (creating an hour-long block ) serving as it's prequel, it'd be worth the risk, and it'd allow the developers to play with a continuity that has a beggining and an end all their own.

A DVD movie is the best option really, especially the early sagas with Normie's redemption being an adequete backbone

[Mister Mets]

If it had a good lead-in with a Spider-Man series prior to it (creating an hour-long block ) serving as it's prequel, it'd be worth the risk, and it'd allow the developers to play with a continuity that has a beggining and an end all their own.

A DVD movie is the best option really, especially the early sagas with Normie's redemption being an adequete backboneI don't know if the Spectacular Spider-Man guys want the continuity headache you'd get by pairing their project with Spider-Girl, or the random constraints (IE- If Spider-Girl has the Big Man appear, Whitman & company can't kill him off in Spectacular Spider-Man).

One possible approach would be to make it a sequel to the 90s fox cartoon, which had established Peter & Mary Jane as its big couple. They could use Spider-Girl to sell the DVDs, and as an excuse to do a new series of Direct to DVD movies tying up loose ends (IE- Was Peter ever able to save Mary Jane?)

Granted, there may be all sorts of copyright issues involved, limiting Marvel's options.

[ZT4]

I don't know if the Spectacular Spider-Man guys want the continuity headache you'd get by pairing their project with Spider-Girl, or the random constraints (IE- If Spider-Girl has the Big Man appear, Whitman & company can't kill him off in [I]Spectacular Spider-Man).[/I

And once again you completly assume that I'm talking about the here-and-now...

I was referring to another Spider-Man animated continuity down the line, which there will be one day, not the current series.

One possible approach would be to make it a sequel to the 90s fox cartoon, which had established Peter & Mary Jane as its big couple. They could use Spider-Girl to sell the DVDs, and as an excuse to do a new series of Direct to DVD movies tying up loose ends (IE- Was Peter ever able to save Mary Jane?)

Far as Semper is concerned, that's precisly what happened. He saved MJ, fought Carnage in Victorian London, then returned to the present.

[Venom]

I think the best way would be to do a direct to DVD animated movie based off Spider-Girl #0.

[CMBMOOL]

Could this work with putting May "Mayday" Parker into the animated form ?


http://youtube.com/watch?v=8wU05x-CIKU

[The Shadow]

And once again you completly assume that I'm talking about the here-and-now...

I was referring to another Spider-Man animated continuity down the line, which there will be one day, not the current series.

And there was no indication you weren't talking the here and now but instead about a potential and possible future series. :rolleyes:

[oldschool]

I actually think the appeal here would be the "girl" part of Spider-Girl and if I was Marvel I would go after a whole different market by trying to put this on a network like the CW. I would also go so far as to say that, since the real appeal is the soap opera aspect of a comic focusing on a girl, maybe this can be live action. Though of course a TV show like this with no real action scenes would be a tough sell....but I really think young tween girls would be a great great catch for Marvel but don't know if they would be as drawn to animated series.

[Tom Daylight]

There's a Spider-Girl in the Spider-Man & Friends line. I suspect any Spider-Girl adaptation would be about as radical as that one. (Or the "Next Avengers" DVD movie that's coming out soon.)

[ZT4]

"Next Avengers" is a great little test of the "potential future" market, there's traces of MC2 in there as well as other things, so if it's a success we may see more of that.