DC Entertainment Bringing Starman To The Screen?

[GreenScar]

Maybe DC fans can set me straight here. DC followed up The Dark Knight with Jonah Hex and then Green Lantern. There's been talk about The Flash and now Starman. Is Starman a well known character? Looks like they maybe doing an A list character movies followed up with C list characters in between.

According to Pajiba they are. They claim to have inside info that we will be seeing the intergalactic DC comics character in his own movie at some point..
But which one! Starman has gone through numerous incarnations over the years. He's been the gravity rod wielding Ted Knight, a mutant alien bisexual prince, Knight's sons Jack AND David among others. The current Starman is a member of the JLU and a complete nut job. To relate his history in my own words would give me a headache so I'm enlisting good ol Wikipedia's help on this one..

Hailing from the original Legion of Super-Heroes universe, where he was known as Star Boy , he receives by the combined Brainiac 5 of the Three Worlds a complete map of the Multiverse, printed to his star-clad suit, to use in a mission meant to save the entire space-time continuum. It's implied his mind-addled status was actually a deciding factor in his choosing, since his borderline insanity was meant to prevent telepath or skilled interrogators to gain any information from him. However he got stranded on Earth-22, the Kingdom Come universe, thus witnessing the dramatic events on that Earth, and receiving an added damage to his frail mind, proved by the lack of the advanced medication he had access to in his own time.

DC eh? Its never simple! Anyway here is a snippet of the report from Pajiba..

In any event, according to an inside source, Warner Brother, in partnership with Lin Productions and DC Comics, is bringing Starman to the big screen. Which version is sort of unknown — he’ll wield a gravity rod, have energy powers, and likely be able to fly. One of the more recent Starman characters could also manipulate mass, but not word on whether that power will be present.

Apparently the movie is being produced by Dan Lin (Sherlock Holmes and Terminator Salvation) and Gregory Noveck (Jonah Hex ). No writer or director is attached yet, as the film is in very early development. Depending on which version of the character they use it could be pretty cool. With Green Lantern pioneering the move into the more intergalactic characters in the DC Universe, Warner Bros may be looking to keep the space faring going with this.

[Lord_Stewie]

Dude this is awesome news.

Its about time.

[Meeklo]

Starman is fairly well known but probably only amoung comic fans. I can't recall seeing any version of Starman in any other kind of medium.

Stargirl was on Justice League and Smallville but that's probably as close as it gets.

[TylerDurden]

If only we could get a Miracleman movie.

[Lord_Stewie]

Originally Posted by TylerDurden

If only we could get a Miracleman movie.

I think that eventually it will happen. *crossing my fingers*

[EricJ]

Will he look like Jeff Bridges, sing Mick Jagger songs and zoom through yellow lights at the intersection?

[Lord_Stewie]

Originally Posted by EricJ

Will he look like Jeff Bridges, sing Mick Jagger songs and zoom through yellow lights at the intersection?

Who knows?

Anything is possible now days.

[Clark Kent]

Starman is a D-list character in the DC universe, and that might be giving him too much credit. The only semi-popular incarnation was James Robinson's run in the 90s, but it was only a mild hit even in the comics community, as it was very much outside of mainstream tastes.

Why someone thinks a good movie can be created around any version of Starman, shows how out of touch the studio executives are with DC properties.

[SpaceDog]

I think if they took their notes from the Robinson run, they could have a great movie series on their hands.