Obscure Marvel hero The Sentry is to get a cinematic outing after decades in relative obscurity, STARBURST has learned today. The Sentry is one of Marvel’s more outlandish characters. Billed as having ‘The power of a thousand exploding suns’, this super strong flying powerhouse is unknown outside comics fandom, but the character was almost as big as Iron Man, with his own movie originally planned for release in 2007.
The Sentry saw actor Brendan Fraser as Bob Reynolds, the young man who would become a yellow and blue powerhouse. The cast included Jennifer Connelly as his wife Lindy Reynolds and Shia LaBeouf as Scout. Plagued with technical issues and various expensive disasters, director Carl Denham washed his hands of the project during production, and the movie was completed by an unknown party.
Following a limited run of screenings to a select group of producers, distributors and press, all signs of the movie vanished. Digital copies of the movie were reportedly distributed, forgotten and then deleted by all involved, leaving a void in the release schedule. No copies of the original screenplay remain. They are highly sought after as it one of the few screenplays produced by horror novelist Sutter Cane. Only snatches of the original score by composer Erich Zann have been discovered by fans. It was left to the movie Iron Man to introduce the MCU to audiences; we can only wildly speculate what would have happened had this strangely forgotten movie been released first.
STARBURST has been exclusively informed that a copy of the movie resurfaced in an LA warehouse recently, but the news was not released in order to prevent confusion with major Marvel Cinematic Universe movie releases. We understand that the movie will have a limited one day release on April 1st, 2019 at select cinemas in the UK, including the Ghost Lantern Theatre in East Bromwich, The Lighthouse in West Shields, The Ambient in Ambridge, The Tackleford Odeon and the Steeple Bumpleigh Playhouse.
Original release movie poster recovered by Mike Smith.
