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Choose a favorite comic not currently in development or production. Say who you'd love to adapt it, star in it, etc.
Note: This is by no means limited to super-heroes. The Road to Perdition was originally a graphic novel, after all. Posts: 6689 | Registered: Jan 2005
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I heard a rumor a while back that Joss Whedon at one point wrote a screenplay for a Death of Superman movie. I'd love to see that actually get made.
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Johnny the Homicidal Maniac by Jhonen Vasquez
Crispin Glover - Nny Liam Neeson - Nailbunny (voice) Bryce Dallas Howard - Devi John Leguizamo - PsychoDoughboy (voice) Brad Dourif - Mr. Eff (voice)
I have no idea who to cast as Squee, since I can't really think of many child actors. I'd also like to throw in cameos by the entire cast of various current teen drama/comedies as "Victim"
I've always said Cosmic Odyssey would make a great film.
Of course, I'm not saying it would make a very commercial film. They'd have to make about six other series first, in order to make the characters known to audiences. And all of those would have to be good in order to make the audience care about all the characters brought into play here.
Although, I think all the neccessary characters have been introduced in cartoon form, so maybe Timm or somebody could do an animated miniseries of it.
They'd just have to reintroduce Sapphire so people could know she's not really a doe-eyed Hello Kitty-loving anime girl.
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Emerald Dawn would also be a good film. Although I really want to see Hollywood start casting grown-ups in Superhero films. They'd want to put some babyfaced kid in the role. Freddie Prinze Jr as Green Lantern. Yeah, that's what I want to see.
I want a grown-up. Who looks like a grown-up.
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I'd go with an original Sandman story. Nothing from the comic book, really. I can't imagine a character with more visual appeal.
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I agree with Carrie, but I think it's already in the works. I just hope they do justice to it.
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quote:Originally posted by narrativium: I wanna see a movie made out of Penny Arcade. That would be the pinnacle of visual spectacle.
I don't know. It might be funny, but they aren't exactly known for long cohesive plots. I'd be really worried that it might lose out in the translation.
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Sandman would work well as a film trilogy. You'd have to pare down the parts that concentrate on Rose Walker and Barbie and all, and mostly work with his story, but still . . . trilogy.
Heh, my friends and I once put together a full Sandman cast. I think we decided to cast the guy who played Simon Tam as Morpheus, though we all agreed he was still a bit inaccurate and it was a shame that old Murphy couldn't be Johnny Depp.
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I think Sean Maher isn't quite such a good fit for morpheus, but I can't think of anybody with a face like Morpheus ought to have. Morena Baccarin would be freaking awesome as Death, though.
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Transmetropolitan. The Authority (specifically the arc where they began interfering in human affairs). Strangers in Paradise.
"Death" is already in production. And a script for "Sandman" was written by Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio (writers for the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, and cowriters on Shrek, Aladdin, The Mask of Zorro, Men in Black, and many others) that went into development hell at Warner Brothers. You can read the second draft, with a history of what happened with the project, here.
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The Kingdom Come series, by DC. Akira: The anime movie was great, but very different from the comic/manga, even down to plot differences. I'd like a live action movie done RIGHT, with Japanese actors. 'Course, the movie would be like 12 hours long.
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I was thinking of Calvin and Hobbes, too. I wonder if it would look wackiest in Pixar-type animation (as opposed to hand-drawn animation). But it'll probably never happen, unless Bill Watterson's changed his mind since when he said he'd never license Calvin and Hobbes to any other format (so any Calvin and Hobbes shirts you have bootlegs).
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Batman beating the snot out of Superman...how great is that?
Another great one would be turning the first couple story arcs from "The Ultimates" into a movie. Essentially it would involve turning the cartoon they did, "Ultimate Avengers", into live action. But I think it could be well done.
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quote:Originally posted by Javert: Another great one would be turning the first couple story arcs from "The Ultimates" into a movie. Essentially it would involve turning the cartoon they did, "Ultimate Avengers", into live action. But I think it could be well done.
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Exactly what I was thinking. It's helpful that Nick Fury was directly designed after Samuel L. Jackson.
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