It took a very long time for Hollywood to take Marvel Comics seriously and "Howard Duck" gets a lot of blame for it. By the mid-1980s, films such as "Starwells War" and "Superman: The film" fueled an appropriate revolution in the film industry. Angresanres that were not big hits before - financial or critical - did not make much money, but they made movie stars from the actors that no one had heard before and even won prizes. Suddenly, scientific/fantasies and heroes of the pulp were not just "children's things". They were confident recipes for four quadrant success.

But although Marvel fueled the superhero's TV -emissions as one's business - not just on Saturday morning cartoons, but initial shots like "Incredible Hulk" and "Spider-Man: Animated Series" -Marvel's first big budget in live theater features was not based on one of their most iconic suits. Instead, it was. "Howard Duck"A bizarre film about a satirical character created by writer Steve Gerber and Pencil Val Meyerick, in which anthropomorphic water birds from another planet gets stuck in Cleveland, oh, becoming a rock band manager and fighting the giant rast to save the planet.

"Howard Duck" was a huge failure of the box office, and common wisdom dictates that this is one of the biggest reasons why Marvel's films really didn't get off the ground as long as Blade's surprise success More than ten years later.

But hey, at least "Howard Duck" was Marvel's first movie, right?

Didn't it?

Wrong.

In order to figure out what is real Marvel's first film, it is important to remember that what qualifies as "movie" is wider than we sometimes give it credit. For example, the Academy of Art and Sciences on the go, says that the film has the right to Academy Awards, Must play in cinemasat least for a little time. But the theater edition is not the criteria for what is actually considered a film, it only narrows the playing field for the Oscars. For example, TV films can only be qualified for the Emmy Awards, for example, but they are still movies.

In the modern era, where some of the best films of any year premiere of streaming services, the idea that the film should play in theaters to be considered "real", is at best archaic. Mostly, it's funny. And sometimes, even that definition is not cut and dry. The "Incredible Spider-Man" Live TV Series He debuted abroad as three theater -released features, collected from two episodes, entitled "Spiderman", "Spiderman Strike" and "Spiderman: The Dragon Challenge". If you lived in the territory where they were published, then you might think they were Marvel's first films.

Then, again, Toe has released two feature-based animated films based on Marvel's horror comics, entitled "Dracula: Sovereign of the Damn" (1980) and "Frankenstein's Monster" (1981), and the theater edition of short forms of the Spider-Huvec series (1978). There is also a TV movie "Doctor Strange" (1978) and two films "Captain America" (1979), which certainly preceded the "Captain America" theater series until 1944.

But if you want to worry about it if you are Demand That the film we call the "first" movie Marvel is live-action, a feature film, a theatrical film based on a character Marvel who debuted exclusively in cinemas?

Then no, "Howard Duck" However don't count.

Richard Fleischer's "Red Sonja" was the third feature film uploaded to Hiboria, the action of a high adventure of high adventure created in 1932 by Robert E. Howard. The first two films, "Conan Varvaria" and "Conan destroyer", were important hits that helped start bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movement's superardworm. Specifically, "Conan Destroyer" boasts a story by Roy Thomas, whose running of Marvel's comic books "Conan Varvarian" were enormously successful and covers over 150 editions, as well as Gary Conway, who co-created such classic characters, "Panischer".

Roy Thomas' contribution is important to recognize because Thomas was co-created, along with Barry Windsor-Smith, the character of the Red Sonja in the 23rd edition of "Conan Varvaria" since 1973. This version of the Red Sonja was loosely inspired by another character named "Red Sonja", "created by Robert E. Howard in 1934, called the" Sinja "Shank. Howard's version lived for thousands of years after the Hiboran times and was of a completely different origin. And as you may have noticed, they even write their names differently. They are two different characters.

The "Red Sonja" version he made on the screen was not Robert E. Howard. It was the version created for Marvel Comics. She is a powerful warrior whose family was killed and who was sexually assaulted, who became an unstoppable sword and promised to never sleep with a man unless she beats her in fair struggle. What, since she is so damn, is practically impossible.

Somehow, the creators of the movie "Red Sonja" were pulled out with the use of Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith almost completely original version of the character, without crediting them and even crediting Marvel's comics. They also seem to have deceived Arnold Schwarzenegger a little, as the supermitwire appears only in an accompanying role, but has a title card over even Brigitte Nielsen, who plays the image. The audience can be forgiven to think that they are buying film tickets in downtown Schwarzenegger.

Brigitte Nielsen, who would play Ludmila Drago at Rocky IV later that year and will continue to co-star in the hit films "Cobra" and "Beverly Hills Kop 2", playing Red Sonja pretty faithful to the comic books. Her performance is on the wooden side, but then again, so is Schwarzenegger. Schwarzenegger plays a character named Lord Calidor, who is kind of Conan Varvararia, except his name is different. Joining them is another alum "Conan", Sandahl Bergman, who originally played the only woman Konan once loved, but now playing a different character, the wicked queen Geden.

"Red Sonja" is, let's be fair to this, not a particularly good movie. Richard Fluisher, who had previously directed "Conan Destroyer" as a monster-centric parent adventure-as Conan Barbar of Johnon Millius, who was more than a serious EP giving this film the same hockey spirit. Except that this team is not so blind or as dedicated, and the monsters are not so many or cool.

But this too is a lot IMPORTANT ... We're not here to claim that "Red Sonja" is the first great or even good movie for Marvel comics. We just say it's first. "Howard Duck" has been wrong for decades, and after nearly 50 years, it is still considered a stench, so it's not like taking the crown of the classic desired.

Why something of this question? Well, something about history is what hell means much more when it is correct. "Howard Duck" was not the first Marvel Comics movie with a wide margin, if you admit that all films were films whether debuting in cinemas or not. But even if you insist that "Howard Duck" deserves a special tereveli to its name because it was the first adaptation of Marvel Comics live with actions, which exclusively debuted in theaters, that's not exactly true. That is certainly not fair.

Some may claim that because Red Sonja's loans do not include the name of Marvel Comics, nor are it credited to Roy Thomas or Berry Windsor-Smith by creating this version of the character, booking the entire loan to Robert E. Howard, that doesn't mean he shouldn't count. Then, again, Roger Korman claims in the initial loans that the horror film Vincent Price "Tight Palace" is based on Ann Edgar Allan after The story because the adaptations of after earning a lot of money at the time. But that film was actually an adaptation of the "Charles Dexter Ward" case. For crying loud, even the name of the main character is the same. What should we believe: our eyes and ears or cover card?

"Red Sonja" may not be the official adaptation of Marvel's comics, and indeed, the character didn't even publish Marvel, but it was still an adaptation of the Marvel comic book at the time, so how the hell could we call it? There is no reason to give "the right place of" Red Sonja "in the history of Marvel's film just because the film's creators did not give enough credit to Marvel, Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith.

So set aside, Howard Duck. It is the crown of red Sonja. You wore it too long.

"The 1985 Red Sonja" may have been Marvel's first film, but it didn't do so in the box office. His total gross was just under $ 7 million, so there was no rush to make a sequel. It takes 40 years to restart (directed by MJ Bassett) to handle the big screen.

Don't expect Matilda's Red Sonja Cross the paths with Avengers or Fantastic Four, though. As mentioned above, Marvel sold the rights to the Comics of Dynamite Entertainment, moving Sonja out of "under the umbrella of Marvel". The dynamite comics gave Sonja a complete refreshment, killing the original version of the character Marvel and focusing on the reincarnated Red Sonja, and the new film is based on dynamite iteration. It was produced by the Millennium Media, which has the character's rights, without involvement from the Marvel studio.

So, is "Red Sonja" 2025 is Marvel's film? Certainly less than the 1985 film, and while the Red Sonja will always have several Marvel strings in her DNA, it now exists in its universe. The trailer It feels like a return to the superhero films from the early 2000-day "Dark Knight" to begin the trend of "Serious Superhero Movies for Adults", and before Marvel's Chinese universe appeared as a comprehensive mega-franchise.

But with MCU's box office dominance is fallingNow it can be the perfect time for the red warrior to withdraw in the spotlight. 'LLE reveals whether that metal bikini can take over the heat when the "Red Sonja" arrives in theaters on August 15, 2025, followed by a release of VOD on August 29.