Giving it to Lawnmower Man director Brett Leonard probably signified producers’ lack of faith in a property easily confused with DC’s Swamp Thing. Produced in the thick of the pre-MCU Marvel boomtime (by 2005, two Spideys and two X-Men had already stormed through cinemas), this nearly forgotten outing never even made it to Stateside theatrical release.
( Click here to see The Hollywood Reporter’s rankings of all 50 DC Comics movies.) This list doesn’t yet include Black Panther: Wakanda Forever- where will it land? - but you can read THR’s review here of the sequel, which hit theaters Nov. Marvel et al will need to go elsewhere to prove they’re better than Ghost Rider.Īs of November 2022, here are how Marvel-sourced big-screen movies stack up against one another. (Rumor has it that Marvel still prints illustrated versions of these stories in paper form, and that teenagers who enjoy collecting those publications are no longer shunned by society.) But this list’s purview has to end somewhere. After over two decades of big-screen blockbusters, the Marvel behemoth has finally started getting serious about TV, making miniseries and ongoing shows that contribute as much to giant multi-movie story arcs as the actual films do.
