{"id":189415,"date":"2018-11-13T03:09:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T08:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=189415"},"modified":"2025-01-08T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T21:57:00","slug":"stan-lee-hoped-to-make-canadian-set-series-about-indigenous-cop-says-producer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/11\/13\/stan-lee-hoped-to-make-canadian-set-series-about-indigenous-cop-says-producer\/","title":{"rendered":"Stan Lee hoped to make Canadian set series about Indigenous cop, says producer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FILE: Stan Lee speaking at the 2014 Phoenix Comicon at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo<\/a>: Gage Skidmore\/Flickr<\/a>, CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

TORONTO \u2014 Stan Lee struggled in his final years to get broadcasters behind a Canadian-set TV series about an Indigenous cop with special powers, says a producer who teamed with the late Marvel Comics founder to help it take shape.<\/p>\n

Kevin Gillis, creator of the animated series \u201cThe Raccoons,\u201d says as recently as a few years ago he was working with Lee on a live-action version of an unrealized comic book idea \u201cvery near and dear to his heart.\u201d Lee died on Monday at 95.<\/p>\n

His show was called \u201cStan Lee’s The Chosen,\u201d and its concept revolved around an Indigenous man who left his reserve behind for a job as a Toronto police officer. When the man’s father dies, he learns that he’s next in line to be a shaman and has powers inherited from his ancestors.<\/p>\n

Lee wanted the storyline to explore the man finding a new connection with his heritage, and contrast it against his life in the city, Gillis said.<\/p>\n

He also thought Manitoba-born Adam Beach was ideal for the role.<\/p>\n

\u201cStan was very clear, he didn’t want him to fly, he wanted him to have vulnerabilities… the one gift that he (had) was he could see things a few seconds before they happened,\u201d Gillis added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re still trying to get it made.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even with Lee’s reputation for building solid characters like Spider-Man, the Hulk and X-Men, bringing \u201cThe Chosen\u201d to life was a struggle.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t for a lack of trying on Lee’s part either, Gillis added.<\/p>\n

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The Marvel figurehead was so enthusiastic about \u201cThe Chosen\u201d that he pulled out his tireless charm at every turn.<\/p>\n

One day he asked Gillis to borrow his iPad, and recorded a personal message to each Canadian TV executive saying \u201chow important it was that he wanted to do this series before he died,\u201d Gillis said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’d walk into the pitch meetings and before I got Stan on the phone I’d hand the iPad over to the executive.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seeing the famous face address them by name must’ve been a thrill, but while European broadcasters signed onto the idea, Gillis said getting the rest of the financing into place didn’t go as smoothly.<\/p>\n

Global TV in Canada said it could only afford the budget if a U.S. broadcaster was on board too \u2014 and that never happened. The deal fell apart.<\/p>\n

Shortly afterwards, \u201cStan Lee’s Lucky Man\u201d debuted overseas.<\/p>\n

The action series starred Irish actor James Nesbitt as a police officer with the power to control luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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