It’s somewhat inevitable that the smash success of Guardians Of The Galaxy would provoke Marvel Studios to poke into other corners of the expanded comics universe it has to explore. Now, according to Collider’s sources, the company is moving ahead with a film based on The Inhumans.
It’s not the first time the Marvel team has considered the characters – in-house talks have been going on since 2011, and even Kevin Feige has dropped mention of them. Thanks to Guardians, it appears likely one of the slots in the company’s far-reaching release date splurge might just go to the Inhumans.
Described as “the most uncanny heroes of all”, the heroes were created when the alien Kree (Ronan The Accuser’s race from Guardians) discovered that sentient life on nearby Earth had genetic potential invested in it by the alien Celestials. Intrigued, the Kree began to experiment on Earth's then-primitive homo sapiens by splicing Eternals DNA into Cro-Magnons. The result was a team that has, as is standard for Marvel, a shifting line-up, but once included characters such as Black Bolt, Medusa, Karnak, Gorgon, Triton, Crystal, Maximus the Mad, and the canine Lockjaw. While they were forged as an army, they rejected those plans and decided their own fate. To go into the entire history would take pages, so have a peek at their entry on Marvel’s site.
Collider reports that Joe Robert Cole, a veteran of Marvel’s in-house writers’ program, has written a script that the company’s bosses are happy with and intend to take out to directors. More evidence for forward movement on the matter came from famously outspoken rumour merchant Vin Diesel, who posted a photo of Groot with the caption “I get the strange feeling that Marvel thinks I’m Inhuman”, which naturally sparked more speculation.
Until such time as there is official confirmation from Marvel, we’ll leave this one in the rumour file, since the company develops lots of projects until it finds stories it's truly happy with, but it certainly sounds like the universe is going to get bigger again.