I’ll take a sleek animated show over aMega Manmovie, thanks
Deciding what worlds should be adapted into what medium is a tricky idea. You have options: television, limited/mini-series, movies, OVAs. In the case ofMega Manthe powers that be have overwhelmingly sided towards TV, but that’s going to change if this new project ever gets off the ground. As of the end of 2021, theMega Manmovie is still live-action, but it’s now a Netflix project.
Six years ago 20th Century Fox teased aMega Manfilm. Since then it’s been on ice, but every year or so someone who was working on itwould hype it up. Now, in late 2021,based on the siteof Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman’s production company Supermarche, we have some semblance of where theMega Manmovie is headed:
“Henry, Rel, and their in-house producer Orlee-Rose Strauss maintain an active development slate. Features in the works include: an adaptation of Capcom’sMega Manwhich they wrote and are directing.”
There’s just…so many wrong ways this can go. Netflix and live-action adaptations: it’s a potential recipe for disaster. Meanwhile, there’s such an easy way to make a slam dunkMega Man. Hire a quality animation studio, add in some universal themes and skew toward older fans while keeping it accessible, make the action memorable, and have him battle a bunch of well-written unique bots until he reaches Wily at the end of the final season. You can even add that momentwhen Mega Man considers ending Wily once and for all at the end ofMM7.
As far as the direction of the live-action version: maybe Jim Carrey will play Wily? Who knows!
