Stan Lee’s Mutants Monsters & Marvels With Kevin Smith Trailer

Neil Cariaga

A Trailer Feature from Spider-Man 2 Collector's Edition Disc 2 2004 DVD Australia

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00:00Why is the Incredible Hulk green? Who put the X in the X-Men and why the heck does Spider-Man wear those pajamas?

00:06Let's find out what me, Kevin Smith, talks to Stan Lee, the father of modern mythology and Stan Lee's mutants, monsters, and marbles.

00:13Stan the Man Lee, co-creator of Spider-Man.

00:16I always felt I wanted to do Spider-Man. I thought it would be good.

00:20The Fantastic Four.

00:22Bunch of superheroes, but I tried to make them different than the others.

00:27The Incredible Hulk.

00:28Now I'm going to make a hero out of a monster.

00:31The uncanny X-Men.

00:33I wanted to call it the mutants.

00:35Went to my publisher. He said, you cannot call it the mutants. Nobody knows what a mutant is.

00:41And many more.

00:42It was almost like there was something in the air at that time.

00:45It was like we could do nothing wrong.

00:48All of them became popular and all of them seemed to have lasted.

00:52Filmmaker Kevin Smith takes us on an intimate journey into the imagination of the father of our modern mythology.

00:58The Marvel characters have always been very scientifically met, very science fiction oriented.

01:03Where did that come from?

01:05I love science fiction, but nobody knows less about science than I do.

01:11And all I did, because I'm lazy, I took the easy way out.

01:16I figured, well, the guy has to become the Hulk in some way.

01:20I'll let him be hit by a gamma bomb.

01:22Now, I wouldn't know a gamma ray from an eggplant, but it sounded good, a gamma bomb.

01:28And discover the inspiration.

01:30And there's that really beautiful moment, too, where Captain Stacy kind of knows that Spider-Man is Peter Parker.

01:37And says, take care of Gwen.

01:39That's right.

01:40That's powerful stuff.

01:41She doesn't hear that.

01:42But that's powerful stuff, and that's not stuff necessarily written for a kid.

01:46You know, that's stuff.

01:47I never wrote for kids.

01:48I wrote for me.

01:49To uncover the secret origins.

01:52Joanie said to me, if you're going to quit anyway, why don't you do a book the way you'd like to do it and get it out of your system?

02:00Worst will happen, he'll fire you if you want to quit.

02:03So, I figured, okay.

02:04And I did that one book, The Fantastic Four.

02:08Today, Hollywood is producing several blockbuster motion pictures, faithfully based on Stan Lee's world-famous superheroes.

02:15Marvel's something very science fiction.

02:17You know, aren't it perfect movies on the page?

02:19You know, no-brainer.

02:19For a while, Marvel couldn't make that happen.

02:22And then Bryan Singer's X-Men kind of punched through in a big, big, big way.

02:27And for years, Spider-Man was held up in legal limbo.

02:31And finally, this year, we're going to see the Spider-Man movie, which some would say is about 20 years in the making.

02:38I don't think there's ever been a time when the product of one company is going to be represented so much in Mojib.

02:48This is a great time to be a Marvel fan if you're in the movie.

02:51Hold on.

02:51Yeah.

02:52Yeah.

02:52Presented on two complete features.

02:55Creating Spider-Man and Here Come the Heroes.

02:59Stan Lee's movies, monsters, and marvels.

03:02He's a must for all fans of comic books and fantasy adventure.

03:05Excelsior.

03:07Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

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