 | The Inhumans leave their exile for the big screen |
As devised by the Bullpen of creators working in the 1960's, the Marvel Universe is a vast landscape of characters; mutants, aliens, gods, demons, inter-dimensional beings etc. As the Marvel Entertainment franchise continues to grow, offering movie-goers still more glimpses into the wildly imaginative world that comic book fans have been familiar with for decades.
Via Badass news:
How cosmic is the Marvel Movieverse getting? The studio is now developing The Inhumansfor the big screen.
One of Marvel's niche titles, The Inhumans is a blend of science fiction, fantasy and royal drama. The Inhumans are a race of superbeings who live on the dark side of the Moon; they were created by the alien Kree millions of years ago in experiments on primitive humans.
The Inhumans are ruled by a royal family, headed by Black Bolt, who never speaks because the sound of his voice is wildly destructive. There's a whole motley group of them, and they even have a big mutant spacedog named Lockjaw.
The Inhumans are high level cosmic wackiness in the Marvel Universe. We're talking Rome meets Star Wars meets The X-Men. The film would be a 'team' story, and it sounds like some of the details may be changed for the movie version. According to It's On The Grid, the film would be about
aliens who were put on Earth as sleeper cell aliens to eventually call back their race to take over the planet. Ultimately, the group of aliens fully assimilates and don't want to cause war.
The project is out to writers, with no release date set. While I'm not psyched about that logline (although it could be dumbed down), it's intriguing to see that Marvel is going so big in their post-Avengers movieverse. Everybody who thought we'd be getting nothing but Luke Cage and Moon Knight type street level superheroes – you were wrong.
The Inhumans by Alan Davis
By the way: could we be seeing The Inhumans getting introduced in The Avengers? It makes some sense that Marvel would be laying the groundwork in a movie that will already be dealing with an alien invasion.
The Inhumans by Jack Kirby
The Inhumans were introduced in the pages of the Fantastic Four back in 1965. As a family of explorers and adventurers, much of the early Fantastic Four comics involved research into new lands and alien worlds (something that the recent run by Jonathan Hickman paid homage to). Imagine their surprise when the FF discovered that a secret race of super beings had hidden themselves away amidst a range of treacherous mountains in Europe. The humanity of the FF drew them out of their hiding, making them allies of the Richards clan and the outside world as well.
A strange race, no one member of the Inhumans looks the same due to the random effects of the Terrigen Mists that all members of their people must imbibe during a ritual marking their first steps toward adulthood. The Inhumans are ruled over by a royal family consisting of the gregarious Gorgon, the cool and silent Triton, the brilliant tactician Karnak, the warm and sensuous Medusa and the ever-silent yet strong Black Bolt.
Often viewed as a threat to the Western world, the Inhumans have long struggled with their traditional seclusion from the rest of the planet, a path that took them to the moon and ultimately to the stars as well. Throughout their depictions in the comic book world, the mystery of their origins has been explained. The result of a Kree experiment to create the perfect army, the Inhumans were left on primitive Earth where they developed apart from homo sapiens. The experiment was abandoned, likely due to the never-ending war with the Skrull Empire, and the Inhumans developed their own society.
There are rumors that the Skrulls may be used in the upcoming Avengers feature film, possibly leading to the guest appearance of Captain Marvel and even the Inhuams. None of this has been confirmed as yet, but the announcement of an Inhumans film indicates that plans area foot to further explore the dark reaches of Marvel mythology.
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