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Sam Raimi Almost Made a ‘Thor’ Movie in the 90s But Fox Thought Superhero Movies Wouldn’t Sell
In fairness, they never could’ve known what was coming.
Sharing his memories of Stan Lee with THR this week, horror master Sam Raimi revealed something mighty interesting: in the early ’90s, Raimi pitched Lee on bringing Thor to the big screen, long before the Marvel Cinematic Universe was even remotely a thing. This was in 1991, but Raimi says that Fox ultimately killed the project before it really went anywhere.
“After I did Darkman, Stan Lee called me and was like, ‘Hey, kid, I liked your movie.’ He took me out to lunch and said we should work together,” Raimi recalled. “I said I’d like to make a movie about Thor. We worked together writing treatments and took it to Fox and pitched it. And they said, ‘Absolutely no. Comic books don’t make good movies.’ This was in 1991.”
Of course, it was less than 10 years later that Sam Raimi and Marvel ended up working together on Spider-Man, with Raimi directing a trilogy of films centered on the web-slinger.
A partnership that was fated to be, you could say.
Filming is underway on The Invisible Man director Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man for Universal and Blumhouse, which will be howling its way into theaters on January 17, 2025.
Deadline reports that Matilda Firth (Disenchanted) is the latest actor to sign on, joining Christopher Abbott (Poor Things), Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel), and Sam Jaeger.
The project will mark Whannell’s second monster movie and fourth directing collaboration with Blumhouse Productions (The Invisible Man, Upgrade, Insidious: Chapter 3).
Wolf Man stars Christopher Abbott as a man whose family is being terrorized by a lethal predator.
Writers include Whannell & Corbett Tuck as well as Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo.
Jason Blum is producing the film. Ryan Gosling, Ken Kao, Bea Sequeira, Mel Turner and Whannell are executive producers. Wolf Man is a Blumhouse and Motel Movies production.
In the wake of the failed Dark Universe, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man has been the only real success story for the Universal Monsters brand, which has been struggling with recent box office flops including the comedic Renfield and period horror movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter. Giving him the keys to the castle once more seems like a wise idea, to say the least.
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