Seems a bit odd to be focusing on Spiderman for this article considering it's based on a comic book character from the 60's. Surely the author should therefore be blaming Stan Lee for the lack of Buffy-like heroines on the big screen? :) I do agree that it is somewhat odd that the past few years have seen shows such as Buffy, Alias, Xena, Charmed (shudder) become very sucessful on the small screen and not have it translate to film.

Paul_Rocks | August 03, 20:16 CET

In a lot of comics now...there are tons of kick ass females...

But I do think that the female version of Spidy is his kid.... ~.^

Rogue | August 03, 22:59 CET

Ahh, the very underrated Spider-Girl comic book, i was beginning to think that i was the only one that appreciated the younger May Parker, hehe.

Paul_Rocks, just had to step up onto my Spidey fanboy soapbox to mention the fact that it's Spider-Man, not Spiderman.

I remember a really funny bit of dialogue between Spidey and a graphitti artist who had just sprayed "Spiderman sucks!" on a wall. I loved the fact that Spidey was more annoyed that after years of crimefighting most people still didn't know he had a hyphen in his name than he was about the crime he was stopping, lol!

Darkest Soul | August 03, 23:14 CET

Yeah there was already a spider-girl comic and soon in India theres going to be a Indian version of Spider-Man in comic form.

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eddy | August 03, 23:54 CET

And theres lots of heroines in comics, but not alot of the solo versions have been made into movies yet. I think "Catwoman" may be a step back for it. Since its bombing, they may not want to put out more D.C. heroines into movies(which sucks since I want Charisma to play Wonderwoman). But I have high hopes for Elektra.

Then maybe if Blade 3 does good we can get a "Nightstalkers" spin off movie with Jessica Biel.

eddy | August 03, 23:58 CET

It might be worth noting that the "Catwoman" in the current movie is not a comic heroine. That movie has absolutely nothing to do with Selina Kyle or the well known Catwoman from Batman other than a name.

ringworm | August 04, 00:00 CET

"That movie has absolutely nothing to do with "

Like all other D.C. comic movies. ;)

eddy | August 04, 00:23 CET

You know, if done properly, Buffy could be a successful movie franchise. I mean, wasn't Underworld and Van Helsing basically about vampire/demon hunters? They didn't do spectacular, but good enough. And if Joss were spearheading the movies, I think they would rock. Just don't let the Kuzuis anywhere near a new Buffy movie.....

I know, just wishful thinking on my part that we could have a Buffy movie franchise.......

Rogue Slayer | August 04, 01:51 CET

I personally cannot see any good reason why a Buffy/Angel movie franchise could not happen.

I get Sarah's point that Buffy worked as well as it did due to the continuing nature of the story and relationships but now that we have has seven years worth of character development we know those guys well enough to just have the movies be large scale standalone demon slaying extravaganzas without needing to advance the specific characters all that much.

The way i would like it to go would be a Buffy/Angel trilogy of movies with a storyline dealing with the Wolfram & Hart longterm apocalypse we recently learned was in progress. Say these movies happened over six to seven years (one every two years or so) there would be more than enough time to have a third series going on simutaneously on television which could be planned to end as part of the third and final movie detailing the true final battle and the outcome of the apocalypse, thereby bringing the whole slayerverse saga to a neat and tidy conclusion.

Three television series, a movie trilogy, an animated series and possibly a few telemovies. That would do me, hehe!

Darkest Soul | August 04, 03:51 CET

Paul_Rocks, just had to step up onto my Spidey fanboy soapbox to mention the fact that it's Spider-Man, not Spiderman.

Hehe, thanks for picking up on my terrible faux pax, especailly since I am also a bit of a fanboy - just unforgivable :)

It might be worth noting that the "Catwoman" in the current movie is not a comic heroine. That movie has absolutely nothing to do with Selina Kyle or the well known Catwoman from Batman other than a name

That's one of the main reasons I'm avoiding it like the plague (the other being that it looks terrible)

Paul_Rocks | August 04, 05:35 CET