If Marvel can greenlight something like Guardians of the Galaxy, an also-ran sci-fi superhero team that’s had its five or six attempts at a long-running comic series, then why don’t they keep stretching by bringing Canada’s super-team to the big screen? No, really.
Unlike The Avengers, who came together to battle a specific threat, Alpha Flight is a government sanctioned team recruited to be Canada’s first line of defense against super-human threats. Led by the hero Guardian, who wears stylized Canadian-flag battle armour, the team is frequently made up of the Hulk-like Sasquatch, the Native-Canadian sorcerer Shaman, the diminutive but super-strong Puck, the transforming Snowbird, and the mutant twins Northstar and Aurora.
Whether or not producers want to do a big-budget action movie, or something more like Canadian Bacon with superheroes, one thing’s for sure: since a lot of big Hollywood movies shoot in Canada, the filmmakers won’t have to hide it in the case of Alpha Flight. And before you say “No one will ever watch a movie with Canadian superheroes,” remember that the biggest X-Men of all, Wolverine, is himself a Canadian.
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