Marvel’s Trying to Make Hulk and Cloak & Dagger Shows

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From the Hollywood Reporter:

Marvel and ABC are developing a TV return for comic icon the
Incredible Hulk. CBS last produced a memorable series featuring the jade
giant that ran from 1978-82 and starred Bill Bixby and Lou Ferrigno. …

Hulk is one of two projects that are priorities at Marvel Television,
Marvel Studio’s TV division, which has been operating under the radar
since Jeph Loeb took the reins at the end of June.

The second hot property is “Cloak and Dagger,” which is being developed for ABC Family.

Both are in the early stages of development; Hulk has a “showrunner
wanted” placard around its neck. ABC had no comment. Meanwhile, Loeb is
meeting with writers to hear ideas for “Cloak and Dagger.”

First of all: Yay. Second of all, I’m sure most of you are excited about the prospects of a new Hulk TV series, but I’m all for Cloak and Dagger. Why? Well, because I read the shit out of Cloak & Dagger comics when I was a kid, although I have no idea why. At any rate, I have a shockingly high nostalgic affection for Cloak and Dagger, so I’m always happy to see them get a little love.

But third and most importantly, the New Age of superhero TV is finally winding up. We’ve had a lot of superhero series in recent years, from Heroes and Smallville to No Ordinary Family and The Cape, and with the exception of Smallville, they were all of new, original characters. I doubt I’ve been the only nerd who has wished network TV would stop trying to make their own superheroes which there are hundreds of awesome, well-established comic characters ripe for the picking. Why a network thinks someone would want to watch some jackass called The Cape over, say, a Batman TV series is beyond me — I imagine they were just trying to see if they could capitalize on the superhero movie craze without paying a massive licensing fee, but they can’t. Duh.

So now Hollywood is working on a new Hulk series, a new Wonder Woman series, and a Cloak and Dagger show, and there’ll almost certainly be more to come. Sure, some of these will suck, but there’s always the chance they might be awesome. And even if they aren’t they’ll be of characters we give a shit about, and not a thinly veiled middle-class rip-off of the Fantastic Four. This is shit to look forward to, guys.