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What comic book movie would you like to see?

Personally, I'd love to see something LESS realistic. We've spent over a decade on the realistic style superhero movie. How about one that embraces the comic roots? I wouldn't mind if they filtered out the corniness, but I'd also like to see, say, a Thor movie that didn't spend half the film focused on 3 people where Thor rarely acts like a superhuman figure. You know what might work? Planet/WW Hulk. Those were some of the best things to come out of Marvel recently. Civil War was nice, but it was definitely Nolanesque. It's too bad it will never happen, because that's way too many intellectual properties on the screen at once.

Animated Planet/WW Hulk could be done.

Sandman... well, no. That needs to be a mini-series.

The Green Woman would be cool with the right director to capture the atmosphere.

Ocean would be a decent action movie and just screams for Samuel L. Jackson to star.

Deadpool, obviously.

I'd also love Howard the Duck to just make one cameo. Just one. The hero would be all sad... and out would come Howard.
"YOU THINK YOU HAVE IT BAD!? I'm surrounded by hairless apes!" Then just storm off.

Squirrel Girl

But only if she fights and defeats Dr. Doom

Off the top of my head?

Slapstick
Metal Men
Shade, the Changing Man (original series)
Spider-Woman/Jessica Drew (especially anything from Madripoor)
Power Man & Iron Fist (<---This THIIIISSSSSSS...)

--Patrick

You prompted me to check on the status of th Y: The last man movie. looks like just last month it found new script writers. Sorry for no link. I'm on a tablet and also lazy.

Yeah. Iron Fist is still languishing in development Hell, too.

--Patrick

PatrThom said:

Off the top of my head?

Slapstick
Metal Men
Shade, the Changing Man (original series)
Spider-Woman/Jessica Drew (especially anything from Madripoor)
Power Man & Iron Fist (<---This THIIIISSSSSSS...)

--Patrick

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I'd watch the hell out of a Slapstick movie. well, I kind of did, on account of I've seen the Mask.

I want to see the "No Man's Land" arc from Batman turned into a TV miniseries.

An animated Hush movie a la Year One or Under the Red Hood.

Quotemander Prime said:

Animated Planet/WW Hulk could be done.

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Just found Planet Hulk on Netflix, actually. Watching it now.

Yeah, the animated Planet Hulk is okay, but I want to see it in live action.

I know Patrick mentioned Shade the Changing Man, but The Shade might be good, too. The way he wavers between good guy and bad guy would be fun in the hands of the right director.

I'm still convinced that Challengers of the Unknown would make for a great TV show.

Kingdom Come would fail as a movie the exact same way Watchmen did, made even worse by the fact that the actors wouldn't look like Alex Ross's models.

How about a Superman movie that doesn't suck?

Power Girl movie......

I'll go in with a Superman movie where the most impressive thing that he does is not save Metropolis from faulty aircraft.

Anyone know who the villain in "Man of Steel" is supposed to be yet?

And they did already make a great movie just as you describe sixpackschaker, and it was called Superman 2 and it was awesome.

It is going to be another Zod movie.

Just off the top of my head:
-Elephantmen (I hear the movie rights have been sold, but that means little)
-Invincible (ditto on movie rights; apparently, Kirkman even wrote a script)
-Wonder Woman (they could've easily taken the script from the animated movie and made it live action)
-Starman (as a television series)
-Another Hellboy movie, before Ron Pearlman gets too old for the part
-Fantastic Four done right (but totally bring back Michael Chiklis as The Thing because that was perfect casting)

And finally...*sob*...finally, I wish someone would provide the funding for this:

Covar said:

I'm still convinced that Challengers of the Unknown would make for a great TV show.

Kingdom Come would fail as a movie the exact same way Watchmen did, made even worse by the fact that the actors wouldn't look like Alex Ross's models.

How about a Superman movie that doesn't suck?

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Meh on Kingdom Come. I just wasn't all that impressed by that story. It had a lot of people acting out of character for the sake of acting out of character. Not that it has anything to do with a movie, but I'm just not a fan of Alex Ross, either. If I wanted my comics to look like photos, I'd just buy a comic made out of photos.

I'm sort of there with you, fade. While I can't deny Ross' art is gorgeous, it's just incredibly...static. Being so photorealistic means they look literally like photos. Which creates that static feeling to the action. I'd much prefer artists like Darwyn Cooke, David Aja, or Michael Lark.

Covar said:

I'm still convinced that Challengers of the Unknown would make for a great TV show.

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I was going to mention that, but didn't for fear that nobody else would know who that was.

--Patrick

C'mon Bowielee. Don't just disagree without elaborating. Nut up or shut up.

He's still typing his response.

--Patrick

I think that Alex Ross does an excellent job of showing motion in his art. He's far and away my favorite comic book artist. The idea that comic books have to look "comic booky" is kind of stupid.

As for the story of Kingdom come, It's still one of the most compelling comics I've ever read. I don't get where characters were acting out of character. Superman reacted as can be expected. When the world rejected him, he felt he was no longer needed. The characters didn't change, but the world did. I know the characterization of WW gets a lot of flack, but honestly, WW hasn't had a consistent characterization through most of her publication history. She's be depicted as both Amazon warrior and peace maker.

Also, the whole Superman creating the prison thing shows exactly how slanted his black and white morality can lead to the darkest of places, even with the best of intentions.

Bowielee said:

I think that Alex Ross does an excellent job of showing motion in his art. He's far and away my favorite comic book artist. The idea that comic books have to look "comic booky" is kind of stupid.

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Neither fade nor I said comic book art needed to be "comic booky." Don't put words in our mouths.

My point is that that any artist that does hyper-realistic art will be static by default. You can't help that. Yes, he does action incredibly well, such as the fight between Superman and Captain Marvel. But they look more like snapshots than a blow-by-blow fight. There's no motion to them in the sense that you can't see the movement. Other artists, especially someone like David Aja, show a lot more movement in their work. There are actual indications that there's motion, such as motion lines. As I said, Ross' work is gorgeous, but they're static snapshots.

I say this as a big fan of Kingdom Come, though. It's still one of my favourite comic series.

I'd say the fact that he can portray motion without the use of motion lines makes him a far superior artist. Motion lines = comic booky.

And my point is that he doesn't portray motion at all, which is the problem. Photorealistic = photo-like snapshots = no motion.

ThatNickGuy said:

Neither fade nor I said comic book art needed to be "comic booky." Don't put words in our mouths.

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fade said:

If I wanted my comics to look like photos, I'd just buy a comic made out of photos.

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That's exactly what he said.

You're right, this picture in no way portrays motion without relying on cheap comic book gimmicks.

They are just hovering....

Ah. So he did. I stand corrected. I don't feel the same way, as I think any way to combine art with words is fine. I'm just saying that the photo-realistic doesn't depict action as well as more iconographic art.

Right artist for the right job. Kingdom Come isn't about the action and the fights (although still one of the greatest Captain Marvel/Superman fights of all time), so the nature of Ross's art doesn't serve as a detriment. It also serves to ground the story with it's realistic artwork, further enhancing the themes of the piece. It wouldn't have worked so well with another artist, and likewise Alex Ross's work doesn't lend itself to a lot of other comic stories.

So Patrick, keep or ditch the purple jumpsuits and white gloves? Personally I think they should keep them, and really play up the pulp rough and tumble adventure side of the Challengers.

Bowielee said:

You're right, this picture in no way portrays motion without relying on cheap comic book gimmicks.

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"Okay, everyone. Just hold that pose for a moment. Hold it...hoooooold it..."

And Covar pretty much hit it right on the head. The story isn't even about the fight scenes, like most superhero comics.

Let me put it this way, to say Kingdom Come isn't a fantastic book is just ridiculous. You could have the entire comic with no words and it'd be a near masterpiece. You could have the entire thing with no pictures and just words and it'd be a near masterpiece.

Covar said:

keep or ditch the purple jumpsuits and white gloves?

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I dunno, those hourglass logos are pretty iconic. Matter of fact, I think it would be fantastic as an animated series using the animation style of Venture Bros., but played seriously (more like Johnny Quest).

--Patrick

Shegokigo said:

Actually:

That's exactly what he said.

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Those two things aren't equivalent at all! A implies B doesn't mean B implies A. Saying I don't want my comic books to look like photos doesn't mean I need them to look like all other comics. I just don't see much point in photorealistic paintings.

I need to go back and re-read KC again, but I remember everyone just not seeming like themselves at all. I distinctly remember being incredibly unimpressed with the writing. Maybe it was because of the hype before I read it.

Alex Ross is a good artist. No one said he isn't. I just don't find his art draws me into the fantastic comic world at all. In fact I find that his style pulls me out. It points out how silly costumes look in reality.

They weren't themselves fade, that's just it. They also weren't just "written that way for the sake of it", the world had vastly changed around them. They were no longer "needed" and had all moved on to different lives. That can change you in ways noone will understand but you. Ask any military person who retires or changes career.

In my opinion it was the very essence of their difference from how they're normally written that really sells KC as an original work. Seeing Superman literally turn down helping the world so he can farm in peace? To understand the level of things he had gone through to adopt that philosphy? How about Wonder Woman? She'd always walked the line between judge and executioner, but the things that had come into being just pushed her clear over the edge.

Batman helping Luthor? Cmon, that's deep DEEP shit.

Wow you guys are such nerds, get over it. People disagree on art.

As you are about to with me.

I would like to see a movie version of Crossed. If for no other reason than to discover that hollywood still had the stones to do something like that.

I would also LOVE to see someone do a Punisher MAX treatment, possibly the Barracuda storylines or possibly the Nicky Cavesi one.

,.....and, you know, why in the WORLD has there still not been a Dr Strange movie?

Edit: Another one I thought of would be a Squadron Supreme movie based on the MAX print, maybe the first handful of trades. I can't imagine it working out do to all the confusing issues surrounding that print, the least of which being the torrent of lawsuits that would probably start flying when/if they ever did a movie on it.

Dr. Strange's pajamas are too silly for mainstream audiences.

Eh, just give em a little Zazz.

fade said:

What comic book movie would you like to see?

Personally, I'd love to see something LESS realistic. We've spent over a decade on the realistic style superhero movie. How about one that embraces the comic roots? I wouldn't mind if they filtered out the corniness, but I'd also like to see, say, a Thor movie that didn't spend half the film focused on 3 people where Thor rarely acts like a superhuman figure. You know what might work? Planet/WW Hulk. Those were some of the best things to come out of Marvel recently. Civil War was nice, but it was definitely Nolanesque. It's too bad it will never happen, because that's way too many intellectual properties on the screen at once.

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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World was about as far from realism as could be expected, and it's fantastic.

Necronic said:

,.....and, you know, why in the WORLD has there still not been a Dr Strange movie?

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Another one I considered mentioning, but...since there has already been one animated movie (which I haven't seen) and one failed TV pilot (which I have...why did they have to change his costume at the end? Whyyyyy?), I figured it had already been covered.

--Patrick

Off topic, I still can't quite figure out why the Hulk's intelligence and eloquence increased on Sakaar. His weakening makes sense due to the Plaaht Device Wormhole, but the intelligence doesn't quite make sense. Even the editors were making fun of its unexplained nature in the issues themselves.

I think it was a case of Hulk evolving to deal with the new situation/environment. During the story (in the comics, anyway), he gradually became more intelligent. At first, he was still all "Hulk smash," but he gradually became more eloquent. My explanation would be that it was a new personality created by Banner to adapt, much like the other Hulk personalities we've seen (Mr. Fixit, for example).

Captain Marvel (Make Billy's parents absentee workaholics, his uncle a creepy, if well meaning, drunk. Set it in a small town. Release the Monster Society of Evil. Do it as a PG/PG-13 kids flick.)

Gotham Central (Almost think this would be a better TV mini-series than a movie)

The Question (with both Renee AND Vic, do it as a noir piece)

AshburnerX said:

Gotham Central (Almost think this would be a better TV mini-series than a movie)

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Back when the comic was still being published, there was talk of a TV show, as a matter of fact. Like Starman, though, it never came to fruition.

DC has chickened out on so many projects over the last 10 years.

I still want my Justice League and Green Arrow movies that have been promised over the years.

Just thought of another one that might be a good movie (even if the studios will probably change it all to Hell): Magnus, Robot Fighter.

--Patrick

In the Doctor Strange animated flick, why did they make him look like a rich old lady with a goatee at the end?

Y: The Last Man I know there was talk about it before, and some speculation about Justin Timberlake playing Yorick, but then nothing ever happened. I'd still love to see a film/mini series adaptation.

heatherling said:

Y: The Last Man I know there was talk about it before, and some speculation about Justin Timberlake playing Yorick, but then nothing ever happened. I'd still love to see a film/mini series adaptation.

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Latest news is that they just got new scriptwriters last month.

mr_thehun said:

Fucking PREACHER

and Sandman

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Preacher all HBO'd up (even with utterly gratuitous nudity) would be amazing. Hell, I think Garth Ennis would approve of the ridiculousness of the HBO presentation.

I'd like a Question movie with the Question being the DCAU version of him set in the DC universe where Batman and the rest are doing their thing and he's uncovering crazy super hero conspiracy shit.

A Transformers movie actually based on the Transformers material, specifically one of these arcs if I could choose myself.

On the superhero side of things, a good Deadpool movie (we'll see if the one in the works now counts). Or something with some of Marvel's cosmic heroes, I'd love a Guardians of the Galaxy movie (like that'll ever happen).

Finally, Bone by Jeff Smith turned into movie, or series of movies, would be...interesting.

Frank said:

I'd like a Question movie with the Question being the DCAU version of him set in the DC universe where Batman and the rest are doing their thing and he's uncovering crazy super hero conspiracy shit.

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Also this.

Reverent-one said:

Finally, Bone by Jeff Smith turned into movie, or series of movies, would be...interesting.

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I'd be all for that if it were cel shaded animation. MAYBE CGI, but traditional animation would suit it far better. Definately not live action mixed with CGI. That is of the devil.

The Boys. Though toned down a little bit. The series is a little too immature to make a compelling movie as it is, but if they toned it down just a tad, I think it'd be pretty cool to see a movie about the skeezy world of superheroes and a government organization that uses blackmail to keep those super heroes in check.

And obviously Simon Pegg would play Wee Hughie.

I would go for a kind of teen superhero movie that isn't quite as cutesy as some of the other ones that are out. I wouldn't mind seeing something where, let's say, Robin has to find wherever several grown up superheroes have been captured with the help of other teen sidekicks. Like maybe the JLA is trapped on effin' apokolyps and do they have to steal a boom tube from STAR labs and save them.

Or just a static shock movie. Either one of those would be great.

Oh! Nevermind. Forget all of that. Batman Beyond.

Static is another place where I liked the animated show more than the source. I know some people were complaining about the addition of Gear being racist since they made the white guy smart, but it seems to me that they went to great pains to point out that his powers only concerned tech knowledge--Virgil being smarter in most other things.

I didn't think this was perfect, but it was a pretty impressive job:



The pacing is really bad, and the script could use some work, but it's got it's charms, and it's an interesting look at what a live-action Static Shock could be.

MindDetective said:

Latest news is that they just got new scriptwriters last month.

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And now, heatherling , it has a director as well:
‘Portal: No Escape’ Director Dan Trachtenberg To Direct ‘Y: The Last Man’

As a fan of The Totally Rad Show, I'm excited to see Dan directing this. He's a fan of both comics and movies (as well as games and other nerdy stuff) so hopefully he'll be able to do a good job with it.

I'm just curious how they'll manage to do Y: The Last Man as a film. The comic is great, but it's a lengthy story that ran, what, 60-some issues? They couldn't mash all that together into one movie, I imagine. I think I heard Brian K. Vaughan say the script was a bit like a zombie movie, where it's about dealing with the situation of every man dropping dead. Not sure if that's still the case given Hollywood's perchance for script changes, but I'd be curious to see how that would work.

Also, having now read the first volume and loving it, I'm really sad that IDW's horror series, Lock & Key didn't get picked up by Fox. Apparently, the pilot was fantastic.

Give me a Red Son movie. Give the masses a Superman they can fear.

heatherling said:

Y: The Last Man I know there was talk about it before, and some speculation about Justin Timberlake playing Yorick, but then nothing ever happened. I'd still love to see a film/mini series adaptation.

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I would prefer to see it as a television series over a film as the story really needs to take it's time in the telling. Much like the Walking Dead.

I'd quite like to see a Marvel Zombies movie. It could be entertaining as all hell.

Honestly, I want a 2D Animated Bone movie.

Zappit said:

Honestly, I want a 2D Animated Bone movie.

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Nickelodeon is doing a 3D one sometime in the future. I know it's already under production.