While Marvel has been busy making its own movies in recent years and rueing the day it sold the likes of Spider-man and Fantastic 4 to others, their still prepared the license their minor characters if people want to make movies out of them. That’s what’s happened with The Human Fly, a Marvel comic book that ran for 19 issues between 1977 and 1979 and which Producer Alan Brewer and director Steven Goldmann have now picked up the rights to.
Tony Babinski (Cirque Du Soleil’s historian – yep, he really is) is writing the screenplay based on the comic book series, which was loosely based on the life of stuntman Joe Ramacieri. The story follows a young man who is severely injured in a car crash. He has to undergo several operations, where most of his skeleton is replaced by steel. He becomes The Human Fly, who performs stunts at charity benefits, where he would often tangle with criminals trying to rob the gala events. He also sometimes encountered other Marvel superheroes, such as Spider-Man and Daredevil.
The producers are looking to secure financing through private equity funding for this indie effort.