Man-Thing
The Man-Thing (Dr. Theodore "Ted" Sallis) is a fictional monster appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writers Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, and Gerry Conway and artist Gray Morrow, the character first appeared in Savage Tales #1 (May 1971), and went on to be featured in various titles and in his own series, including Adventure into Fear, which introduced the character Howard the Duck.
Steve Gerber's 39-issue run on the series is a cult classic that was influential on such writers as Neil Gaiman.
Man-Thing is a large, slow-moving, empathic, humanoid creature living in the Florida Everglades near the Seminole reservation and the fictitious town of Citrusville. He was portrayed by Mark Stevens in the 2005 telefilm Man-Thing.
Publication history
As described in the text featurette "The Story Behind the Scenes" in Savage Tales #1 (cover-dated May 1971), the black-and-white adventure fantasy magazine in which the character debuted in an 11-page origin story, Man-Thing was conceived in discussions between Marvel Comics editor Stan Lee and writer Roy Thomas, and that together they created five possible origins. Lee provided the name, which had previously been used for unrelated creatures in Marvel's early science-fiction/fantasy anthology Tales of Suspense #7 (Jan. 1960) and #81 (Sept. 1966), as well as the concept of the man losing sentience.
Man-Thing (film)
Man-Thing is a 2005 Australian-American horror film, directed by Brett Leonard and featuring the Marvel Comics creature created by Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, and Gerry Conway. The plot is based loosely on a storyline by Steve Gerber, who wrote the most well-known series of Man-Thing comics. Agents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling. The local sheriff investigates and faces a Seminole legend come to life: Man-Thing, a shambling swamp-monster.
The film appeared on the Sci Fi Channel in 2005 under the Sci Fi Pictures label. It starred Matthew Le Nevez, Rachael Taylor, and Jack Thompson. The film was released theatrically in a handful of International markets.
Plot
At Dark Waters, a Native American sacred land containing an enigmatic swamp spirit, a teenager is murdered by a plant-like monster. The following day, young replacement sheriff Kyle Williams reaches Bywater and meets with deputy sheriff Fraser, who tells him the previous sheriff is among 47 missing persons since oil tycoon Fred Schist bought the ancient tribal lands from shaman and Seminole chieftain Ted Sallis, the first to disappear. Schist claimed Sallis had sold legally and escaped with the money, and asked the sheriff for help: Local protestors opposed his perfectly legal activities, and mestizo scoundrel Renee Laroque was sabotaging his facilities. Williams investigated this while trying to find an explanation for the missing people, some of which were found brutally murdered with plants growing from inside their bodies. Photographer Mike Ploog and shaman Pete Horn tell Williams local legends about the guardian spirit, suggesting that it could be real.
'Man-thing' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Man-Thing (2005)
Actors: John Batchelor (actor), Ian Bliss (actor), James Coyne (actor), Marc Kay (actor), Matthew Le Nevez (actor), Brett Leonard (actor), Shannon Leonard (actor), Robert Mammone (actor), Alex O'Loughlin (actor), Rawiri Paratene (actor), Conan Stevens (actor), Jack Thompson (actor), Patrick Thompson (actor), Gary Waddell (actor), Steve Bastoni (actor),
Plot: Bywater's native Seminole Indians believe the swamp will be bloodily revenged by its guardian spirit, a 'dark warrior', for its 'rape' by Frederic and son Jake Schist's oil-drilling, sold out by their own late chief Ted Sallis. The rig is illegally protested against by hot-head ecologists, who get blamed for vandalism on the site. New, outsider sheriff Kyle Williams suspects immediately local adolescent Billy James wasn't eaten during love-making there by a cayman but by a mysterious monster, which already made and soon makes new bloody victims in weird, inconsistent ways. Several people add to the danger.
Keywords: american-indian, bare-breasts, bare-chested-male, based-on-comic, based-on-comic-book, character-name-in-title, dog, female-nudity, handcuffs, impalementGenres: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi,
Taglines: When nature fights back! The nature of fear Your fear is his deadliest weapon
Quotes:
Rene LaRoque: Something is out there... waiting.Pete Horn: No man can stand against it alone. Something is out there... waiting.
Rene LaRoque: [speaking to Sheriff Kyle Williams in the swamp] Go home, or you will die.
Steve Gerber: [to Teri] Why don't y'all go fuck a tree, ya hippie bitch!
[as he's getting bitten by mosquitoes while exploring the swamp]::Sheriff Kyle Williams: Smart, Kyle. Take the Bywater job. Get a tan...beer belly...lots of sun. Get fuckin' eaten alive.
Mike Ploog: Can you smell that, Sheriff? It's the perfume of my future. Point, click, fame.::[hears Man-Thing roaring out in the swamp]::Mike Ploog: There it is! Gotta go. Good luck out there, man! It's the cover of Life magazine, man!::Sheriff Kyle Williams: *Life* magazine? *Life* magazine went out of business, you fucking idiot!
[after he shoots Ploog]::Frederic Schist: Damned if you take my picture, asshole.
Frederic Schist: Your friend, Ted Sallis, before he died, before I buried him here under this rig, you know what he said?::Rene LaRoque: Fuck you!
Main Thing
We've got a thing,
We've got a thing,
I know right now it seems like I don't care
I know you think I never did
and it's so hard for me to prove that I'm still here
Because my actions contradict it, but if
Just you let me show you you're wrong
I know you need time but you will see that if
If you let me show you you're wrong
Nothing can change what you mean to me, 'cause
[CHORUS]
We've got a thing, you're my main thing
You always were and you'll always be
We've got a thing, you're my main thing
And even when I'm gone you're still close to me
I'm always told that I forget too easily
That I`m too fast on moving on
And because of that this situation really scared me
But I feel my love for you is still strong
Just let me show you you're wrong
Nothing can destroy what you and I built
I'll keep on holding on
You do your thing and I'll do mine, but still
[Chorus (x2)]
(Yeah. Babe. Alright. Alright)
Even though I did you wrong
(Let's work it out)
No one knows me like you do
(Let's work it out)
An everyday cliche I know
(Let's work it out)
Even though I'm not, my heart is true,
(Let's work it out)
(Let's work it out) [x2]
Let's work it out
(Let's work it out)
Oh yeah
(Let's work it out)
You know I want to
(Let's work it out)
I wanna work it out
(Let's work it out)
We've got a...
(Let's work it out)
We've got a...
(Let's work it out)