Does still own the license to the Micronauts? I was watching Ant-Man and Hank Pym mentions shrinking to a sub-atomic dimension and the Micronauts immediately jumped into my mind.
I might be the only one, but I would love to see the Micronauts or Rom in a movie.
I know Marvel lost the rights to Rom.
Owned by Hasbro. Movie is in development.
IDW has the comics rights now. Word is, they’re working on a new series, but they’ve only got rights to stuff that came from the toy line - Marvel introduced a significant number of new characters that they maintain the rights over - often in a fairly convoluted manner. For example, one of the Micronaut toys was a guy called “Space Glider.” In the comics, he was the Micronauts leader, and given the name Arcturus Rann. Marvel no longer has the rights to Space Glider, but retains the rights to Arcturus Rann, and most of his backstory and personality, which they had invented for their comic.
I don’t know the answer but I’m just jazzed that they apparently still have rights to Howard the Duck based on the post-credits stinger for Guardians of the Galaxy. I can’t waith until MCU Phase 4 rolls around starting with a Howard the Duck/Earthworm Jim teamup, fighting Fin Fang Foom and MODOK. Who’s with me on this?
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There’s no real reason they wouldn’t. He was created for a Marvel book in an era where ‘creator owned’ and ‘published by Marvel or DC’ were, if not mutually exclusive, very rarely paired.
They don’t own Earthworm Jim, though. Never have…
Damnit!
I suppose we can’t get an MCU/The Tick crossover, either?
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I think issue #1 is out soon. I will be checking it out, hopefully it will retain some similarity to the original, which I really enjoyed.
I think Marvel missed a trick by not keeping the rights, having said that though comic books do not sell like they used to.
Bug is another Micronaut that Marvel retain the rights to.
As shown in the Hasbro link a similar situation has occurred with ROM. Back in the 1980s with the Original Secret Wars and Secret Wars II particularly there were tie ins with ROM and the Micronauts. These were not included the the TPB reprints due to licencing issues.
How can so many things be cool yet suck at the same time? A movie is being worked on but it probably won’t be based on the comics? I never owned any of the toys, the comics were where I got interested. Loved Acroyear and Bug.
Still, I would be interested to see how it turns out, not that I have any hope of it being good since the GI Joe team is involved.
Marvel owns the characters they created (Commander Rann, Marionette and Bug), but not the ones that were toys to begin with (Acroyear and Baron Karza). There are a bunch of other characters, some based on toys and some not, but those are the core five.
But when did they lose the rights? Recently, or back in the timeframe where they themselves were selling off rights left and right?
I know even in the 90s, the New Warriors were off fighting the Dire Wraiths from ROM, I suspect they could have fit in well (GotG, perhaps?)
The rights to Micronauts lapsed in '86, a good decade before Marvel’s bankruptcy - and some six years after the toy line that inspired it was discontinued.
I’d forgotten that Micronauts was going to be part of the proposed shared Hasbro-verse. While I didn’t particularly enjoy the first GI Joe movie, and never even bothered with any of the Transformer films, the idea of taking those two properties, and smashing them together with everything from Rom to M.A.S.K. is… interesting, if nothing else. I don’t really expect anything brilliant from it, but I like the “floor of your bedroom when you were ten” aspect to the concept.
THAT is a great pitch, Miller.
Simply great.
The people who do would probably be happy to hear an offer! Currently, EJ is as dead as the Sonny and Cher show. You could probably pick up the necessary limited rights for lawn mulch!
ThunderCats are the undisputed champions of the G0sp3l ThunderDome!!! (with an assist from the Starriors)
I’m honestly not sure who does own them. The creator and Shiny Entertainment sold them at some point, but I haven’t been able to find out who bought them in a thirty second Google effort.
IIRC the Dire Wraiths were a Marvel creation and therefore they can continue to use them. They have recently appeared in the Inhumans Limited Series after War of Kings and other limited series at the same time.
Not sure if they have been seen since Secret Wars (IV).
When the (Marvel owned) characters from Micronauts would occasionally show up in the 90’s, they were redubbed the Microns.