MARVEL COMICS: New Warriors (Night Thrasher TV series)

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WHAT WE KNOW:
While Marvel hasdominated the big, screen, DC has seen its best successes on the TV tube. Now TheHollywood Reporter reports that Marvel is making inroads into the TV arenawith word of a Night Thrasher TV show for UPN.

The network haspicked up Night Thrasher as a one hour drama. Michael Elliot (BrownSugar) will pen the script for the pilot and also serve as executiveproducer on the show. Ben Silverman, chief of the Universal-based productionhouse, Reville, is also executive producing as are Marvel's Avi Arad and RickUngar. Reveille's Matt Edelman is producing.

MarvelCharacters President Ungar told The Reporter that the series "is thefirst of a push on our part to move into the (live-action TV) area."

Night Thrashermade his first appearance with the team The New Warriors in the pages of TheMighty Thor. This guest-shot quickly lead to their own title, TheNew Warriors, which told the story of how Thrasher pulled together asuper-team of disparate young Marvel heroes. In the comics, the AfricanAmerican, no-nonsense and high-tech character sports a suit of battle armorwhose most improbable weapon was a skate-board (an element that was thankfullyunderplayed in the popular comic book).

Elliot, anAfrican-American writer, was drawn to the project by the hero's ethnicity. Hedescribed Night Thrasher as "a hip-hop version of James Bond." He wenton to say that Night Thrasher is "an opportunity to create asuperhero for today's generation -- one like looks like them, talks like them,likes the same kind of music."

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