Of the properties that Marvel owns the rights to produce movies, which do you think is their best property?

I’d like to state, and feel free to add to the list, but I don’t think Marvel owns the movie rights to these properties.

Spider-Man is Sony and company.
X-men, Wolverine, Magneto, Fantastic Four, Daredevil are FOX and company.
Blade, does New Line still own the rights ?

So they can’t count. And Spider-Man and the X-men are main franchise books.

With that said, I think by far Iron Man is their most popular property. Who would have thought that?

Thanks to the movie, and the next one looks great also. The character is really getting mainstream recognition. Plus his abilities seem in today’s world very plausible. In the whole suspension of disbelief movie way.

I’ll talk about what I think of their other properties below, and while I hope their hits on Iron Man level, I really don’t think their other properties will reach that level.

Hulk, The last movie did just okay, but is not Iron Man level. I think the audience knowing he’s just a CG created character makes the audience lose any connection with the character. At least with Iron Man, you know someone is in the costume. And like Spidey, the CG Iron Man scenes are seamless and not picked up by the general public. With the Hulk, you know it’s all fake CG running the show.

Captain America, I think this is a very tough property to show off and not make it look silly or of no relation to today’s audience. Today’s young movie paying public, most of them were not of the WW II generation and have no connection to that era, or of America’s ideals. Many of today’s generation just see America as corrupt.

Plus by his very nature, Cap is a propaganda type of character. You’d want to portray him not as a propaganda piece, but also representing the best qualities of America. And at the same time, relevant to today’s world. That seems like a very tough balance to me.

Thor, I think the whole Asgard and magic theme might be to much for the audience to understand or take. I actually liked how the Thor in the Hulk movie was portrayed. They brought it down to earth the concept and made it work.

The Avengers, team movies are always tough to properly make. At least a good one.

Punisher, I’m surprised no one can find the formula to make a great movie for this character.

Others like Namor, Ant Man, Iron Fist I don’t think are popular enough to do well as solo movie properties.