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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 6299601" data-attributes="member: 2525">Wow I disagree strongly.  At the time of Blade, nobody believed in Marvel anymore in Hollywood.  They had a massive problem with funding, they had to outsource a bunch of it, their comics were in danger of total collapse, and their only prior film was Howard the Duck, known to be one of the biggest disasters in movie history.  Even after Blade's modest success, Iron Man was a real challenge to get funded, and as I mentioned earlier they went with an indie director who had already retreated to television (and not well known television at that), and a lead actor coming out of rehab.Meanwhile, Hasbro has a track record of 6 films: Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra    , Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Battleship, and G.I. Joe: Retaliation (and all those involved three different major studios).  They also had two other animated films (a My Little Pony film, and a Transformers one).They currently have nine other films in development (9 different production companies including 5 major studios).That is a HUGELY better position to be in, funding-wise, than Marvel was for either Blade or Iron Man 1.  Investors trust Hasbro a whole lot more than they did Marvel at that time.  They already have the investor relationships and track record they need.Except for decades of best selling novels? Novels which sell more copies than Iron Man was selling, and 10 times more than Blade was selling?And that's just what people were saying about Marvel right up until it wasn't true - that it had to be centered on comic books.</blockquote>

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