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"Soon, amateur moviemakers will have the ability to give their films a professional superhero makeover.\nComic book legend Stan Lee will create four new superheroes exclusively for Plotagon, a software platform that allows users to create animated movie, Christoper Kingdon, the company's founder, told Mashable.\nSee also: Which Superhero Flies Highest on Social Media?\nPlotagon, which is available for download for both Windows and OS X, translates a user's written script into visual characters, scenes and dialogue.\n\"People don't just want to consume these days,\" Kingdon said. \"They want to create. They want to partake. With our software, they're very much in the action.\"\nThe software currently comes with five characters and six environments, but moviemakers can buy additional characters \u2014 such as those from Alice in Wonderland and Pride &amp; Prejudice\u00A0\u2014 from the software's built-in store.\nLee\u2019s superheroes expansion pack will be available in Plotagon\u2019s store for $9.99 in early November. In addition to the superheroes, it will come with new scenes and settings to serve as a backdrop for Lee's characters.\n\u201CI have had great fun creating all my characters and have really enjoyed seeing my fans creating their own stories,\u201D Lee told Variety. \u201CNow, through this collaboration with Plotagon, they can create their own superhero movies.\u201D\nLee, 90, is the former president and chairman of Marvel Comics. Lee is also known for creating some of the comic book world's most iconic characters, such as Spider-Man, Iron Man, the Hulk and the X-Men.\nKingdon said Plotagon partnered with Lee because of his ability to create timeless characters.\n\"He's still quite modern, and he understands the importance of his fans,\" he said.\nBased in Sweden, the company launched in August and calls the software a kind of \"magical typewriter.\"\nImage: Michael Buckner/Getty Images"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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