Comics that need movies made.

[Batman00]

Originally Posted by dabouck5

Green Arrow would be amazing. I almost forgot about him. Great call.

Green Arrow is in the making now, check it out here:

David Goyer and Justin Marks penned a script for a movie starring Green Arrow originally called Super Max. On June 5th, 2008, the film was retitled Green Arrow: Escape from Super Max. The reported storyline is that the hero (framed for a crime he didn't commit) must escape a high security prison filled with B and C list villains and rogue superheroes.

MTV recently posted an interview with Marks on its site. In it, he says the following:

"It's a very, very awesome prison. I majored in architecture in college, and design is how I actually started in. For 'Super Max,' designing that prison, it had to be the kind of thing that was a character in and of itself," Marks said. "We're in a world where instead of just trying to contain a guy who's really big, you're trying to contain a guy who can — in the case of Icicle — who can freeze things. What kind of a cell would a guy like that need in order to have his powers neutralized? So to escape from Super Max they have got to go through the most elaborate heist we've ever seen, involving superpowers. Because the prison itself kind of has superpowers!" He added that Black Canary won't be making an appearance in the film, and that it will include cameos from the Riddler, Lex Luthor and the Joker. It is unknown if this film will have any continuity ties with Superman Returns or The Dark Knight, the latter being very unlikely since Nolan's Batman universe hasn't shown any signs of being populated by superhumans.

[Barbie-Shrimp]

Flaming Carrot

[Uuah]

Originally Posted by Oddiophile

How about a Spawn movie that doesn't suck.

If you want to watch an adaptation of Spawn that "doesn't suck", I'm assuming you mean one that's closer to the source material?
I suggest you get the TV show on DVD because Todd McFarlane's fanbase has moved on to action figures, which - I think - says a lot for the material. I mean, come on, if the story rides second gun to the aesthetics so much that the toys are more successful? Maybe Spawn doesn't have what it takes to carry more than a niche market release (like a comic book or HBO animated series).

[Uuah]

Originally Posted by NovaBomb

I think Gargoyles would be a good one

The comic books were adapted from the Disney animated series, weren't they?

[Uuah]

Originally Posted by Barbie-Shrimp

Flaming Carrot

They tried to do that, before. That's how Mystery Men happened. Mystery Men was a Flaming Carrot movie without the Flaming Carrot in it.
I'm sitting next to you.
You should have axed me, before you allowed yourself to look so silly.

[Barbie-Shrimp]

Originally Posted by mjbethancourt

Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman'

There has been talks of this for years. In the mean time, respond to 'Flaming Carrot' like Uuah did.

[Uuah]

Originally Posted by 209Mason

Rising Stars!!!!! That would be amazing. One of Straczynski's best! A lot of ideas/characters found in the hit show Heroes can be seen here.



The Red Star! Fantastic and HUGELY underappreciated alternate history series from Christian Gossett. If they could make this movie and match the artistic style of the comic (like how Sin City was true to it's comic) it would be phenomenal.




Battle Chasers! - Awesome story with some great characters! Joe MAD! cuts loose on this book!




Other than that some universes yet to be tapped include.... Sandman, Preacher, Fables, Deadpool, Loki, WE3, Steven King's Dark Tower, Y: The Last Man (Children of Men had a similar theme, but much different story)

Some universes that have already been tapped, but have stories to be told: Batman (The Long Halloween was SUCH a good book), X-Men (Give me something from the classic Claremont/Bryne run... Days of Future Past anyone? Also, the Avengers Dissassembled storyarc with the Scarlet Witch's meltdown.... that was good stuff.) Wolverine (Holy Shnikes this Old Man Logan storyline is AMAZING... Mark Millar is king). We've seen lots of DC stuff recently too, but they should do the Identity Crisis story arc... that was amazing.

I'll have more, but this is what I could come up with off the top of my head.

WE 3 has been optioned, last I knew and they're looking for a director. Kevin Smith seems to talk about making a Preacher movie every couple of years. The Wolverine solo movie is so far in the works that you can find stills online.

The rest would require too much from a traditional viewing audience and a traditional Hollywood budget.

I do agree, however, that Battle Chasers would probably be quite awesome.

[Uuah]

Originally Posted by dabouck5

Captain America!!!

Go to IMDB. They're making Captain America. It's in LATE pre-production and they have actors picked . . . jeez, man!

[Uuah]

Complaint One:
There's a fansite called Comics 2 Film. In addition to Wizard Magazine's website. These will brief you on movies in production, and which are being optioned and all the juicy rumors.
If that isn't enough, search your favorite character/arc/series on IMDB. If you don't have a hit, then you can post something that's all "Golly-gee, I shoooooor wish ________ would get all silver screeny"

I mean, you're already on the internet, right? Use it.

Complaint Two:
Why waste thread space by just naming a title? This is a forum. Talk about it. If you like a character enough to see a movie about them, pick a story arc that you think would be the most dynamic adaptation or something.
Don't just say:

She Hulk
Dark Hawk
Spiderman 2099
The Spectre
Legion of Super Heroes
Typhoid Mary
Ash

Explain why you're excited. I mean, you took the time to come here. I wonder if some of the people here even like these titles, because they're being so abstract (limited series excluded)

[Uuah]

Blacksad would be a terrific movie. I haven't read the second book, but the first one was amazingly done.
So many advancements have been made, over the last 20 years, in the field of animation and the audience for it has broadened so much that I think it would be done well and do well. The idea of anthropromorphizing has been held exclusively for children's fare for far too long. It's time somebody put out a good noir picture with a Panther as the main character. Ralph Bakshi proved it could be done, now it's time for somebody to prove it can be done WELL.

On the subject of animated movies, I also think Maus would be incredible. Not only was anthropromorphization taken to a higher level through its being used as a metaphor in the story, but it was also one of the most successful graphic novels of all time. When I saw the trailer for Persopolis, all I could think about was Maus.

Changing the subject, what ever happened to the Skrull Kill Crew movie? The comics were outstandingly fun. Since the Fantastic Four movies have come out, I don't see how it would be difficult to adapt the miniseries with as much loyalty to the source material as Sin City or 300. They wouldn't have to change a thing. Besides, somebody needs to make a motion picture where a skinhead turns black by way of an ironic, metamorphic reaction to his own juvenile and hateful preoccupation.

The success of NBC's Heroes leads me to believe that a television adaptation of Astro City would do really well with almost no compromises needing to be made. I know Jonathan Alpers supposedly wrote a screenplay for it, but it'd be much better as a television show.

Dave Sim's Cerebus would be a pretty amazing Adult Swim series. I know they generally lean towards more OVERT comedy, but it's high time the aardvark got his time to shine for the masses.

On the subject of injecting something a little more fun than Assy McGee into adult swim . . . why not throw some Savage Dragon in there? No, I'm not talking about syndicating the kid's show. I'm talking about a series that maintained the spirit of the book.

X-Factor wouldn't work as a movie, but I think that a shot at a television series would make up for Mutant X in spades and spades and spades.

By the way, does anybody remember Major Bummer? That would be a fantastic television series. The original 13 issues make for a perfect length for a first season of a show like that. If it got picked up for a second season, just hire the original writers. It could be the comedic answer to Heroes, if it were live action. If it were animated, it could be the answer to Adult Swim that non-Fox networks have been afraid to do since The Critic and Dilbert.

Away from the subject of television, Xenozoic Tales could stand a theatrical release. I know that it had a shot at TV with Cadillacs and Dinosaurs, but that's not quite the same. It wasn't a very long series, so it would be easy (with a little fat trimming) to adapt it for the silver screen. Besides, the slightly environmentally conscious paradigm that seems to be getting established in the world of Sci-Fi movies leaves a lot of room for Xenozoic tales to be more successful than it would have been previously.

Daniel Clowes' David Boring would be fantastic. There's plenty of movies about psychological sexual dysfunction. There's plenty of coming of age movies. But I can't think of a single coming of age movie that involves psychological sexual dysfunction that ends in terrorist apocalypse. Heathers comes marginally close (especially the original script) but nothing like David Boring has ever really been done.

Speaking of coming of age movies with a death fixation, whatever happened to Mort the Dead Teenager? Jessica Simpson (don't get me started) shot some test footage in 2005 and then everything seemed to disappear. This movie has been talked about on and off forever. It seems to be the left sock in the dryer that is Hollywood.

With the reasonable success of more independently spirited sci-fi movies (like Children of Men, 28 Days Later and Sunshine) I think Paul Pope's Heavy Liquid and 100% miniseries would do really well as indie-marketed sci-fi pictures. I could see either of them being great launchpoints for young actors in the same way 28 Days Later was for Cillian Murphy.

I know people here have talked about Excalibur, but what about Clandestine? Not only was it a miniseries (which would be easier to adapt than 10+ years of ongoing material) but it was also Alan Davis' best work to date. Unless you want to talk about what he did for 2000 AD.

What ever happened to 2000 AD getting more adaptations than Judge Dredd, anyway? How about some Halo Jones. It's sweeping and episodic but the miniseries is still concise enough to adapt. Hollywood can't seem to get enough of Alan Moore. Where's the Halo Jones?
I know Alan Moore has a hard time giving his material over for adaptation, but Halo Jones could be well trusted in the hands of a lot of current directors.

[hardcorefrokid]

Dr. Strange!

[Barbie-Shrimp]

Originally Posted by hardcorefrokid

Dr. Strange!

2010.

Originally Posted by Uuah

...I mean, you're already on the internet, right? Use it.