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75 comics being made into films

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MaxDepth

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Comics are the new spec-scripts, and Hollywood is very amenable to a script with big pictures...
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some of them:

The Avengers (2011)
Slated for a prime summer slot on July 15th 2011, this is set to be one of the most highly-anticipated movies of the next few years, directed by Jon Favreau with Robert Downey Jr. firmly signed to it as Tony Stark/Iron Man and new 'Rhodey' Don Cheadle attached too. Marvel Studios are financing and Paramount distrubuting, as usual. Rumours are obviously rife regarding casting.

Iron Man 2 (2010)
7th May 2010 and the wait will be over for Downey Jr. to rocket upwards for a sequel to the smash hit 2008 Marvel Studios' debut. Terence Howard's replacement by Don Cheadle (see The Avengers above) has caused a stir, but we're all pleased that Downey Jr. has signed on the dotted line up to Iron Man 3.

Nick Fury (2010)
Jack Kirby's streetwise S.H.I.E.L.D supremo was a huge hit in a guest spot with Samuel L. Jackson at the end of the credits for Iron Man, and many are hoping that Jackson will return and make the film that Shaft should have been.

Red Sonja (2009)
The Robert Rodriguez-produced adaptation of the adventures of the Marvel comics heroine (a Conan spin-off derived very loosely from a Robert E. Howard short story) generated much interest at comicon when Rodriguez and Sonja star Rose McGowan showed off some sexy new posters, but there's some speculation the film may go straight to disc.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)
The movie they perhaps should have made to begin with, given how he hogged the three X-Men movies, this will show us the genesis of self-healing mutant Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) in the early 20th century as he makes an enemy of Sabretooth and gets kitted up with the lethal blades. Zack Snyder conceded the film to Rendition director Gavin Hood.

 
I always thought it would be cool to see comics become movies, but so many have been butchered in the process... it's like a massacre.
 
Stan Lee once said that when times are tough and there are no real heroes, people start to look for superheros. That and there aren't too many good stories out there to make into movies so they have to resort to comics.
 
Originally posted by: KB
Stan Lee once said that when times are tough and there are no real heroes, people start to look for superheros. That and there aren't too many good stories out there to make into movies so they have to resort to comics.
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I saw the trailer for Australia for the first time yesterday. Looks worse then Battlefield Earth.
 
Red Sonja was already done back in the 80s, and it was horrible. Not as bad as Conan the Destroyer, but horrible, none-the-less.
 
Originally posted by: CPA
Red Sonja was already done back in the 80s, and it was horrible. Not as bad as Conan the Destroyer, but horrible, none-the-less.
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fear not...Conan is being redone too...🙂
 
Just read through the entire Last Blood online comic and that looks like it could be a pretty cool movie.
 
I've really enjoyed the last batch of Marvel movies.

I'm looking forward to all the above mentioned movies except the Red Sonja since I have no clue what it's about.
 
Originally posted by: DarrelSPowers
hollywood!

leave the comic books alone!
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Ban remakes and comic book movies for 5 years.

Eventually people will drive this home though. People will get sick of it.

remember the originality that was Predator and Alien. Where the hell is the originality? And viruses are not originally along with DNA spookiness.
 
Originally posted by: dartworth
Originally posted by: CPA
Red Sonja was already done back in the 80s, and it was horrible. Not as bad as Conan the Destroyer, but horrible, none-the-less.
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fear not...Conan is being redone too...🙂
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lol

I'm anxious to see if Marvel will screw up the film adaptation for Thor. I'm thinking Iron Man is setting the precedent for their new Avengers-linked comic adaptations, and was a good start to Marvel's official studio production, in contrast to the many licensed adaptations (Marvel is working with Paramount and has become an official semi-studio, and all characters not already licensed, i.e. Spiderman to Sony, will be hands-off to anyone but the Marvel/Paramount team unless they don't want to tackle all of them).
I completely forget about Hulk for a reason: it's a terrible character for film adaptation.
Thor, Captain America, Ant Man (?), Iron Man, and Nick Fury should each have very respectable movies with their own style. Thor could be very interesting, or get butchered like Hulk depending on how they go about it. Ant Man, if that comes to fruition, could be extremely campy and hilarious, but will definitely get the least amount of appeal and I suspect may not be a character for the Avengers film.

Normally I despise Hollywood for sourcing other works for stories, but I think comics are one of the best mediums to do so, because if you adapt it appropriately, it can be an excellent movie. But they are their own style of story, and in that regard, if you want to make a movie about a very special character or cast of characters, instead of making one that obviously draws from comic book characters, might as well just go straight to the real source. I'd rather that, than some generic and ridiculous hero created only for a movie.
 
Yeah, they ran out of Japanese horror flicks to remake. They have just begun to tap comic books and television ideas. I mean, why re-create the wheel? Why even bother making a new characters and new story ideas? (of course I say this as I enjoyed almost all of the ones lately...)
 
Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
Originally posted by: DarrelSPowers
hollywood!

leave the comic books alone!
Click to expand...

Ban remakes and comic book movies for 5 years.

Eventually people will drive this home though. People will get sick of it.

remember the originality that was Predator and Alien. Where the hell is the originality? And viruses are not originally along with DNA spookiness.
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I don't know... it doesn't seem like Hollywood has ever continuously cranked out superior and original films back to back to back to back, every year, in that kind of genre. They still manage to get the very original movies out from time to time.
 
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