Which comic book would *you* make into a movie?

[The Salty Vulcan]

Justice.

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Look at that. Look at it! Tell me you wouldn't want to see that.

Captcha: hissy fit

 

[WolfThomas]

Oh, by the gods, please don't compare Empowered to that.... Ugh. That thing (don't even want to type the title) is NOT a good representation of BDSM, bondage, or anything like that. It misses the point so damn badly, it might as well be on an entirely different topic.

On the other hand, Empowered discusses actual bondage and bondage safety issues, proper knot use, etc. Adam Warren knows his bondage - that awful book does not.

I've read all of Empowered so I can appreciate how it's infinitely better. But one has to admit the trilogy that shall not be named has made ridiculous amounts of money and brought bdsm a lot more attention in the public eye (I was at dinner last night with relative strangers, somehow a joke about that book become a forty minute discussion about bdsm). That's the sough of success you want Empowered to have.

 

[Lectori Salutem]

They would probably have to make it like a Ralph Bakshi cartoon. If you've ever seen Fire & Ice you'll know what I mean.

You're probably right, although I really wonder whether or not I would like it if such a thing had happened. Even though Bakshi he has a great style, the realistic art style of the comics seems more fit for a live-action adaptation.

 

[Casual Shinji]

They would probably have to make it like a Ralph Bakshi cartoon. If you've ever seen Fire & Ice you'll know what I mean.

You're probably right, although I really wonder whether or not I would like it if such a thing had happened. Even though Bakshi he has a great style, the realistic art style of the comics seems more fit for a live-action adaptation.

I don't know about live-action, just look at what happened to John Carter.

Storm has always been a very extravagant sci-fi fantasy tale. It's got a topless redhead and a red black guy (or was he green, I can't remember), for Christ's sake. It had dudes riding through space on giant centipedes and all sorts of crazy shit like that. Live-action is generally unable to translate that psychodelic 70's sci-fi weirdness.

 

[drthmik]

I would make Wanted into a movie.

since nobody has yet.

It would probably end up being NC17

 

[Lectori Salutem]

Storm has always been a very extravagant sci-fi fantasy tale. It's got a topless redhead and a red black guy (or was he green, I can't remember), for Christ's sake. It had dudes riding through space on giant centipedes and all sorts of crazy shit like that. Live-action is generally unable to translate that psychodelic 70's sci-fi weirdness.

Good point, it does have a lot of elements that would be nearly impossible to translate to live-action.
The reason I mentioned the 80s is because they managed to pull of some great looking crazy special effect back then. It still wouldn't be anywhere near the awesome madness of the comic (or necessarily a good movie), but it would probably be quite entertaining. If they tried making one nowadays, it would probably be terrible, with an over-abundance of bland cgi.
Oh well, at least the series is being continued to this very day, perhaps I should check out what the new stuff is like.

And yes, it had indeed a red black guy (the green guy was a robot), as well as humanoid dinosaurs, a living planet manifesting itself as well-known fictional characters and a planet-sized spaceship with a section modelled after hell from Dante's Inferno. Don Lawrence was just awesome.

 

[Deverfro]

Doug Tennapel's RatFist or Iron west.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Storm has always been a very extravagant sci-fi fantasy tale. It's got a topless redhead and a red black guy (or was he green, I can't remember), for Christ's sake. It had dudes riding through space on giant centipedes and all sorts of crazy shit like that. Live-action is generally unable to translate that psychodelic 70's sci-fi weirdness.

Good point, it does have a lot of elements that would be nearly impossible to translate to live-action.
The reason I mentioned the 80s is because they managed to pull of some great looking crazy special effect back then. It still wouldn't be anywhere near the awesome madness of the comic (or necessarily a good movie), but it would probably be quite entertaining. If they tried making one nowadays, it would probably be terrible, with an over-abundance of bland cgi.
Oh well, at least the series is being continued to this very day, perhaps I should check out what the new stuff is like.

And yes, it had indeed a red black guy (the green guy was a robot), as well as humanoid dinosaurs, a living planet manifesting itself as well-known fictional characters and a planet-sized spaceship with a section modelled after hell from Dante's Inferno. Don Lawrence was just awesome.

I seem to remember there was also an issue that featured the Chesire Cat and had those optical illusion pages you had hold close to your face and then slowly pull back, that were all the rage back then.

I remember the dinosaur one, too. Where Red was lying unconcious in the mouth of a T-Rex, that was cool.

 

[JimB]

Frankly, if comic books really want to convince people they aren't sexist, they could be prepared to 'take the risk' of making a female lead marketable without her being used as a sex symbol.

You know she's the combination of the two women her creator lived with in a ménage à trois, right?

And you know her creator has been dead for a very long time and that his original intentions and visions are not particularly binding, right?

 

[repeating integers]

And Teen Titans.

Now a Teen Titan's movie would be great, if they did Titans from around the Countdown to Infinite Crisis era.

You guys might be interested to see this [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1043813/]. Apparently it is a thing that is scheduled for existence at some point in the future.

Never read the comics, but this intrigues me.

 

[Aris Khandr]

Atomic Robo. But I wouldn't really care about the first movie, because it would have to be an origin story and probably focus on the Tesla/Edison rivalry. Which is fine, but I really want to see Dr. Dinosaur on the big screen, because he is amazing.

 

[II2]

The Authority. Superheroes as violent bastards. Costumes that would translate easily. The Midnighter. How is this not a movie?

I would enjoy that very much. Another W. Ellis series that could work in the same vein is Supergod, on Avatar Press. Short, but sweet, in that psychotic, future-shock deities-as-arms-race kinda way.

Not surprised at the suggestions for Transmetropolitan or Preacher, either, though I would be very concerned how well it could be executed, both being 10 volume stories.

I'd like to see David Cronenberg direct Grant Morrison's The Filth.