In 2007, Tom DeSanto bought the media rights for City of Heroes for a movie / TV show. Working in the business for a few years, he likely still has those rights.
Could someone locate a way to contact him? I had an idea to either purchase the rights from him, or to work with him to begin just such a project. I have the contacts and equipment to produce a movie, but I'd given up on filmmaking years ago. For this, I would pick it up again. It would not be hard to make a trailer to get excitement going, although then I'd be facing the mess of fundraising, the part of filmmaking i've never enjoyed. I'd use the Web of Arachnos novel to work from, as a classic 1930's feel would be popular. The trailer would put additional pressure on NCSoft.