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George A. Romero Almost Directed The Very First Marvel Movie Copperhead
Here's a cool bit of movie trivia that you've never heard before. Night of the Living Dead director George A. Romero almost directed the very first Marvel movie back in the early 1980s. That film would have centered on the character Copperhead.

The big reveal comes from a clip from an upcoming documentary series called Untold Horror, which focuses on the film projects that the great horror movie director "almost" made. The clip focuses on how this Copperhead film project almost came about and it offers all in-depth details.

Romero explains that he was looking to make a film that was pretty much Transformers meets RoboCop before those two things were even a thing. Concept artist Bob Layton went on to give us a better idea of what the director was planning:

“It was a post-apocalyptic world… populated by cyborgs, ninjas, mad scientists… this movie had everything. At one point...
See full article at GeekTyrant
  • 9/27/2017
  • by Joey Paur
  • GeekTyrant

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