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General Comics Chat: Which Comic Book should be next for the Hollywood treatment?

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    Kick Ass Kicked Ass, we watched the Watchmen, Ghostrider crashed & burned (yet is still getting a sequel) Iron Man 2 was on auto pilot,The Losers were winners, Wolverine was all bark & no bite & the Dark Knight has set the standard. But who do you think should or rather deserves to get there own movie & Why should they? Or should your faves be left alone in case the studio & perhaps to a lesser extent us fanboys ruin it? (yes it was us who forced & foisted Venom on spiderman 3)
    • CommentAuthorsmiggy3000
    • CommentTimeJun 26th 2010
     
    Im waiting for the announcement of Black Widow, War Machine, and a SHIELD movie with Marvels shared universe idea (or the 'lets cram as many characters as possible into our movies)... but a Black Widow film might not be that bad (with an actual Russian actress), and I bet theyed stick Winter Soldier in there too... Fox is no better with their 'quick, anounce it before Marvel get the rites back...
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    I had a think and discovered that currently I’m not really bothered about films sourced from comics. Comics are comics and films are films for me and I enjoy each for different reasons. In fact I only really pay attention on the rare occasion when there’s something beautiful and unique birthed from their joining (Batman (‘60s one) and Frank Miller’s Will Eisner’s The Spirit (natch)).

    Seeing Iron Man move on a screen is nice but I wasn’t really feeling deprived without it. Also I have a suspicion it’s really just another generic action movie distinguished largely by the calibre of the performances (which makes it better than most action movies, okay?). Having Serious Batman is nice but the more “realistic” they make Batman the more absurd he becomes in my mind. If you’re wanting me to take your message about Terrorism and The Choices We Must Make As A Society seriously it’ll probably work better if I’m not wondering how Batman just got into that cell and is talking like a kid doing an impression of a Grown Up.

    And then there’s all the times you just wish they hadn’t bothered (how on earth can you make a bad Jonah Hex film? They found a way!).

    But having said all that...having said all that...I would probably like to see:

    Cerebus The Movie

    and

    The Smurfs by James Cameron
    • CommentAuthorMidnighter
    • CommentTimeJun 28th 2010
     
    A SHIELD film has already been unofficially announced, basically Sammy L J has said it's happening but Marvel have yet to properly announce it.

    I do like this idea that Marvel maybe making short films to go in front of their movies, a great way of introducing new characters to cinema goers before splashing out on a full length feature. I'd like to see them bring in established directors that don't usually work in the super-hero field. I'd LOVE to see a short Iron Fist movie by Jean Pierre Jeunet.
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    I'm with Lamont. Not every comic needs to be made in to a film. Even worse, some comics theses days are clearly pitches to Hollywood with no real care and effort put into making the comic any good - as long as the concept is outlined and the rights firmly established the comic is just churned out.

    Stuff like Scott Pilgrim are exceptions as the film is clearly trying to do something a bit different, and there was always a "multi-media" feeling to the comics.

    Sometimes you can't separate the medium from the message. It's the old "not as good as the book" line. Well that story was conceived and produced as a novel, the medium of the book was in mind when writing the story so transferring it to film is not going to be better because fundamental aspects of the story only apply to the original medium. One of the reasons why Watchmen wasn't as good a film as it could have been was because it essentially treated the original comic as a storyboard and filmed it panel for panel - but a comic is not a film storyboard, the techniques employed a very different.
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    I'm a little concerned over what appears to be blanket saturation of the comic orientated film market by Marvel ~ there's only so many mediocre films the public can take (be it Marvel or DC) before the market implodes. And I'm also wary of some of the choices they've made to film.

    Although not necessarily a comic movie (he originated as an Old Time Radio show) the new trailer for The Green Hornet does look good, but do we really need it in 3D?
    • CommentAuthorMidnighter
    • CommentTimeJun 28th 2010
     
    You like the look of The Green Hornet? I thought the trailer looked terrible. I was hoping Seth Rogen would break from type casting and was expecting something special from Michel Gondry, I'm guessing he's just done it for the money.

    I for one generally don't care if a film is an adaptation of a comic or not, as long as it's a good film. There's a mass of films ever year that are base don novel that most people wouldn't have a clue weren't original scripts. Maybe it's harder for us fans to separate things objectively when it comes to comics and films.
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    "Hollywood" has become creatively bankrupt over the past decade. This is the current US Box Office Top 10

    Toy Story 3 [Sequel]
    Grown Ups [ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY]
    Knight and Day [ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY]
    The Karate Kid [Remake]
    The A-Team [Based on TV Series]
    Get Him to the Greek [Sequel]
    Shrek Forever After [Sequel]
    Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time [Based on a computer game]
    Killers [ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY]
    Jonah Hex [Based on a comic]

    Only 3 films are something "original". Of those, Grown Ups is a reunion of alumni from Saturday Night Live and is more of a "vehicle" than someone with a story to tell.
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeJun 28th 2010
     
    And Knight & Day is a generic Tom Cruise action vehicle.
    • CommentAuthorMidnighter
    • CommentTimeJun 28th 2010
     
    I pretty much agree. It's bad when 90's films like The Bad Lieutenant and Cliffhanger get re-made.
    • CommentAuthorsmiggy3000
    • CommentTimeJun 28th 2010
     
    What about Raja Gosnell's Smurths, with Neil Patrick Harris?
    I read Watchmen after seeing the film and felt it was quite like reading a film, so the opposite of what Mike Infintium said...
    Get Him to the Greek is more of a spin-off...
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    I hope Knight and Day is about a man called Mr. Knight and a lady called Ms. Day. He's salt! She's pepper! He's small! She's tall! He wipes with his left! She wipes with her right! Will they find romance?! Man alive, those types of film are the bestest!

    What's "killers"? Is it a remake of the 1964 Lee Marvintastic Don Siegel's "The Killers" which was itself a remake of Robert Siodmak's 1946 Burt Lancastertastic "The Killers" which was based (loosley) on Papa hemingway's short story "The Killers"? Because that would be a re-remake adaptation!

    Hey Nimbus! I hear you like the Green Hornet! Dynamite are currently publish a Green Hornet comic seemingly every hour on the hour. Are you reading them?

    Gondry should have just filmed an old wireless sat on a table with the film script being broadcast over it in an Old Timey stylee. For 90 minutes. I'd have quite liked that. I haven't seen the trailer but no one seems to like it. Will the Green Hornet be Nimbus' Frank Miller's Will Eisner's The Spirit? Stay tuned and find out after these important messages from our sponsors...
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    "Will the Green Hornet be Nimbus' Frank Miller's Will Eisner's The Spirit?" Well LC, unfortunately we're going to have to wait until next January to find out. And no I've not read any of the seemingly endless Hornet series that Dynamite are spewing out. My comic intake has basically ground to a veritable halt as I gear up to get rid of my collection. I still call in at OK, and check the online shipping lists but there are very few current titles that interest me. But they do order a few monster movie magazines for me which I'll continue to buy & read.
    • CommentAuthorsmiggy3000
    • CommentTimeJun 29th 2010
     
    has anyone noticed that we've started using The Spirt as a new level of poorness, a limbo bar so low few films manage to cross it...
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    Me and Lamont liked The Spirit! I think. Unless Lamont is being sarcastic and it's just me, on the entire planet, who liked The Spirit.

    In fact, my fiance liked The Spirit as well. Ha! There must be more.......
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeJun 29th 2010
     
    Emma hated it, Mike. She's just trying to be nice.
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    I liked the Spirit too, especially the end credits it felt like an enormous weight had been lifted from me & I could leave the cinema.

    It was like someone crapped in my eyes & my ears directly into my brain.
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    Whatever floats your boat, young man. I am being totally not sarcastic with my fervently objective love for Frank Miller's Will Eisner's The Spirit. My fiance liked it too! That's four of us! Four against the world!

    But there's a soul in torment on here! You unfeeling jaspers! We can't let The Nimbus turn his back on comics! I'll be the oldest living comic fan! They'll put me in a cage. They'll bring schoolchildren on trips to look at me. Make Discovery Channel documentaries and everything. They brought back Magnus Robot Fighter for too, Nimbus! And this is how you repay them. There's even a panel with an Old Time Radio in DC Universe Legacies #2 you know. It's your shining time! Heed the call, rally round, save the Nimbus!
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    How can anyone turn their back on comics at the moment - haven't they seen the Avengers re-launch and Brightest Day!?!?!?!
    • CommentAuthorLee
    • CommentTimeJun 30th 2010
     
    I'm enjoying the Avengers re-launch! Genuinely!
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    Now I feel like turning my back on comics. Thanks, guys!
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeJul 13th 2010
     
    Did anybody else here about Ed Norton being 'ditched' as Hulk/Banner?
    • CommentAuthorsmiggy3000
    • CommentTimeJul 13th 2010 edited
     
    I did, loving the statment from Marvel Studios, "Our decision is definitely not one based on monetary factors, but instead rooted in the need for an actor who embodies the creativity and collaborative spirit of our other talented cast members.", how mean is that, you can just sence the sarcasm on 'definitley'...
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    Rumour has it that it was a hold over of things that happened during the filming of the first Norton Hulk. Allegedly. And of course his agent's denying it.
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    Oh and the next comic book for film ~ THE GOON!!!!!!
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      CommentAuthorOK Comics
    • CommentTimeJul 13th 2010
     
    Chimpanzee Complex.
    It's "2001" meets "Her Sisters Keeper".
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    And Lo!!!! There came....THE GOON!!!

    http://www.aintitcool.com/node/45826

    Alright I know it's animated rather than a live feature, but hey, the 40 seconds available here looks better than the full length of the abomination known as Frank Miller's Will Eisner's The Spirit.

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