What comicbook should be next made into a movie?

[Swede]

I'm thinking Green Lantern.

[pokerfan]

1. Like the one coming out in July?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1384590

[Swede]

2. Uhm,I meant Green Arrow?

:blush::shrug:

[Orrex]

9. No--a *real* movie.

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[pokerfan]

12. Hey, most of my library is direct-to-video

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[Orrex]

17. Uh... What were we talking about?

I just can't get into superhero cartoons anymore. I've tried a bunch of times, even with the recent stuff, but they just don't do it for me. Maybe back when I was reading comics, but no longer.

I don't have much of a taste for the stuff that's heavily manga-influenced. All of those wide, square jaws sort of bother me after a while.

[Bryan]

13. You got it!

Martin Campbell (Casino Royale) is looking for a Hal Jordan even as we speak.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1133985/

[Orrex]

18. No shit? That's pretty cool.

I'd do it, but my contract has me stuck playing the next Batman villain.

Mum's the word, or I'd tell you who I'll be...

[LostInAnomie]

3. Green Lantern's powers are too big for a movie.

He can do about anything with that ring. It wouldn't make for an interesting movie.

I think they need to make a super villain movie. Something that gives his point of view and plays around with moral ambiguity.

[slay]

11. Actually, they are working on a live-action Green Lantern movie right now

Starts filming in the summer - set to premire Dec 17th, 2010.

Here's info: http://www.aintitcool.com/?q=node/40233

[LostInAnomie]

31. Yeah, but I still think his powers are too big for a movie.

Seriously, he can do almost anything. Where would the suspense be?

[slay]

32. Well in the comics it's about to be (warning GL comic spoilers)

The Black Lanterns! The ring is currently corrupted in the comics universe and has led to yellow lanterns - which we knew of with Sinestro, Red Lanterns who have an uncontrollable rage, and within the next month or so - Black Lanterns - reanimated corpses of fallen superheros and villans. I know who the first 3 black lanterns are, but I won't spoil that. The Green Lantern comics are among the best out there right now IMO.

Yeah I dunno exactly how they'd pull it off or what the story would be, but Geoff Johns churns out some killer ones in the comics. :)

[realisticphish]

4. Bazooka Joe

[Starry Messenger]

5. Wonder Woman.

[Orrex]

10. .

http://www.wonder-who.com/wwposter5.html

[pokerfan]

15. She can tie me up with her golden lariat anytime

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[Starry Messenger]

20. Is that for reals?

I was just saying two years ago, she would be almost ideal for that!

[Orrex]

22. Alas, no

Check the main page via that link, and you'll get the story.

Quite a convincing poster, though, isn't it?

[Starry Messenger]

29. That was very cool!

I bet Ms. Fox was flattered. She would be a very kickass WW.

[NewJeffCT]

46. I saw a similar poster with Jessica Biel a few years back

also, not real...

[slay]

16. The DC Animated Wonder Woman DVD that came out a couple months ago is awesome

So PG-13 it almost ended up being rated R. A seriously badass movie - maybe their best animated movie to date - although Justice League: New Frontier was damn good too.

Wonder Woman trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD4nskGRHkg

[Starry Messenger]

21. Oh cool, thank you!

She was my hero growing up as little Starry. :D

[Blue_Tires]

43. i saw something was in the works, but they are having trouble with a script

[Starry Messenger]

47. It will be hard to top dialogue like this.

:D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVLJcBsD__E

[qnr]

6. "Chick Cartoon Tracts"

<cough>

[LostInAnomie]

7. LOL

That would be one predictable movie though. Everyone but the fundamentalist goes to Hell.

[qnr]

25. So true. On the other hand, it would actually have a reason for being predictable - as opposed

to the 40% of standard fare that does it for no good reason.

[KittyWampus]

8. Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers... with Fat Freddie's Cat

[Moondog]

61. And Mr. Natural ....

[DatManFromNawlins]

14. Justice League

Specifically, the Martian invasion story from Grant Morrison's first run.

OR

A retelling of the Superman arc that began Geoff Jones' run on the book. The one with Brainiac.

OR

Maus. By Don Bluth.

[slay]

19. I'd love to see both of those

either in live action - or probably preferably in the new DC Animated straight to video DVD's they've been putting out lately. Being able to shoot for a PG-13 rating has really opened up their ablility to tell great stories with as little censorship as possible. That martian invasion story by Morrison called New World Order (surprise surprise) was indeed great. And i'll read/watch anything written by the super-talented Geoff Johns. :)

[Bryan]

30. "Maus. By Don Bluth."

In my considered lay opinion, you're not well, and you need help.:)

[DatManFromNawlins]

56. Nah

Bluth is one of the best ever at animating facial expressions. That style is perfect for Maus.

[slay]

23. Grant Morrison's - The Invisibles

An awesome read - check it out cause there prolly will never be a movie but damn if those comics weren't excellent.

"It was with The Invisibles, a work in three volumes, that Morrison would start his largest and possibly most important<4> work. The Invisibles combined political, pop- and sub-cultural references. Tapping into pre-millennial tension, the work was influenced by the writings of Robert Anton Wilson, Aleister Crowley and William Burroughs and Morrison's practice of chaos magic.<5> At DisinfoCon in 1999, Morrison said that much of the content in The Invisibles was information given to him by aliens that abducted him in Kathmandu, who told him to spread this information to the world via a comic book. He later clarified that the experience he labeled as the "Alien Abduction Experience in Kathmandu" had nothing to do with aliens or abduction, but that there was an experience that he had in Kathmandu that The Invisibles is an attempt to explain.<6>"

from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Morrison

[Rabrrrrrr]

24. "Flaming Carrot". Or, also fun, "Reid Fleming, World's Toghest Milkman"

[Bryan]

26. Somebody else is a fan of Reid Fleming?

You're kidding me. I thought I was the only one!

[Rabrrrrrr]

28. I fucking LOVE reid Fleming!

:rofl:

And, of course, Flaming Carrot.

[kentauros]

39. My first thought was Flaming Carrot, too

then I remembered Reid Fleming. Look at my post below. Seems Boswell has turned one of his comics into a youtube reel :rofl:

If they did Flaming Carrot, though, we must have Man-Bat! :D
And Bob Burden is one crazy dude

[Rabrrrrrr]

27. And, of course, "D,R. & Quinch's Totally Awesome Guide To Life"

and anyone who doesn't know that graphic novel is a piece of shit of no value to humanity and should be executed.

[Dr. Strange]

33. What about that one magician guy?

He's like the sorcerer supreme. That could be interesting.


Morbius could make an awesome movie if done right.

[kentauros]

36. I don't know about a magician guy

but there's always Nightveil from the Femforce :D

[Dr. Strange]

57. Or the whole Femforce gang!

:D

[kentauros]

62. Yeah!

Especially Synn! :D

[Rabrrrrrr]

49. Dr. Strange? I'd love to see a GOOD Dr. Strange movie.

Lots of great potential for a movie.

Lots of potential for utterly fucking it up, too, which scares me.

[Dr. Strange]

59. There's been talk about doing a Dr. Strange movie.

http://www.filmschoolrejects.com/news/marvels-dr-strange-one-step-closer-to-the-big-screen.php

But it always seems to be on the back burner.

[Iggo]

34. Witchblade.

[kentauros]

35. Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman

Although the comic creator, Dave Boswell, has already made a film:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poUN_8u3hSo

:rofl:

[Rabrrrrrr]

50. A couple of us have mentioned this one- always good to see more fans!

Maybe if enough of us speak up, they'll make one!

[kentauros]

63. What's really interesting is that back in the 90s (I think)

when they were just starting to make films out of any comic they could think of, a script was done up for Reid Fleming, with James Belushi in the title role :)

Here's a little more about that, from The Comics Journal #219 (January 2000), pp. 102-106

Life of Boswell

As for the Reid Fleming movie, it has now been languishing in turnaround for at least a decade. Although studio executives appeared to be quite happy with the cartoonist's script - "At least 85% of it made the cut," this former film student reminisced, "and nobody asked for a re-write, which is pretty good by Hollywood standards" - the scenario remains unproduced. A number of actors, including Jon Lovitz, would still like to portray Reid, but nothing has come of their enthusiasm thus far. John Belushi, arguably the greatest potential kamikaze milkchucker of them all, died before he could consider the script, but his more restrained brother Jim is still eager to slip into Reid's Owl's Roost Rye-stained shoes. Boswell's personal preference was for "the Bob Hoskins of 10-15 years ago, but, sadly, in those days, Hoskins wouldn't even look at a script unless someone put a millon dollars on the table first."

End result: Limboland. Reid Fleming is still waiting for some energetic producer or director to pluck him from the ether and thrust him into the black-and-white blankness of a standard ratio film. Far from lusting after an A-list superproduction, Boswell would have preferred to see his movie made like a Depression-era Warner Brothers' picture, "where they chopped off the first and last frame of every scene, just to make things tighter."

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

37. Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life

but they are - and it's going to be by the Shawn of the Dead crew

so all is well

[Duer 157099]

38. Oh please let it be the Preacher series!

although I'm very skeptical about how well it would translate to the screen

[rcrush]

40. DC Elseworlds Kingdom Come.

I would love to see that as a movie. Or at least a DVD animated movie.

[Steerpike]

41. I would like to see

The Airtight Garage (the related moebius works)

The Elsewhere Prince
Both of these are French Comics...top quality writing and art fantasy!

Johnny Nemo

The eighties dude!

Airboy

Old time comics done in the eighties

Rip in Time

Richard Corben nuff said! Ok...I'll say a little more...a policeman named "Rip" goes back in time!

[Orsino]

42. Sandman, of course, in the perfect world.

Several films would be needed, and Johnny Depp's schedule is already tight. James Marsters would make a good Lucifer.

[Blue_Tires]

44. irreverent antiheroes are always good

Deadpool or Booster Gold were born for movies...

and what about Transmetropolitan?

[datasuspect]

45. American Vigilante

[Inchworm]

48. The Happy Inchworm

:rofl:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJKt0UZOi-E

:)

[semillama]

51. Scalped

Although it would make a better miniseries.

[bbernardini]

52. Milk & Cheese!

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[kentauros]

64. Oh man! Can you imagine!

:rofl:

So who do we get for their voices, or do you think Dorkin would insist on doing them all? :P

[TheMightyFavog]

53. Kenneth Brannagh is Directing The Mighty Thor

I think that's due to come out in 2010 or 2011.

[Deep13]

54. Lady Death

[LynneSin]

55. I think some of those Chick Tracks would make great movies

:hide:

http://www.chick.com

[jakefrep]

58. Chick Tracts

Pat Robertson and the Christian-victimhood crowd haven't had a movie to glom on to lately.

[Sabriel]

60. Family Circle

They could do a lot with those dotted-line journeys around the neighborhood.

OK, then how about Nancy and Sluggo?

[arbusto_baboso]

65. Housewives at Play

I may not know art, but I know what I like.

[Stuart G]

66. How about Uncle Scrooge???

Maybe we could get Warren Buffet as Uncle???