Damn even the first official trailer says Christmas 08.

Bondidude: Malinki: Once again, Maus survives Hollywood!

That book, while wonderful, would IMO make a terrible film.

I think it would have to be animated, and I don't think any studio would want to take it up. It would also be quite possibly the saddest piece of film ever.

Have you never seen Watership Down? C'mon, in the age of Schindler's List, and Saving Private Ryan... When jerks like Tom Cruise make that Nazi movie... Maus could be fantastic, I think, but I don't think he'll ever run the risk of it being ruined.

Am I the only one that would like to see an movie made out of Grant Morrison's The Invisibles?

Seriously, reading that thing nearly made my head explode, that has to have movie potential.

It'd be nice if Hollywood could actually create an original concept for once.

/just sayin'.

Malinki: Bondidude: Malinki: Once again, Maus survives Hollywood!

That book, while wonderful, would IMO make a terrible film.

I think it would have to be animated, and I don't think any studio would want to take it up. It would also be quite possibly the saddest piece of film ever.

Have you never seen Watership Down? C'mon, in the age of Schindler's List, and Saving Private Ryan... When jerks like Tom Cruise make that Nazi movie... Maus could be fantastic, I think, but I don't think he'll ever run the risk of it being ruined.

Watership Down was also done in a completely different time.

I'm saying I don't believe it could made today. Even Schindler's List was over 15 years old, Saving Private Ryan wasn't directly about the holocaust as much as it was about WW2.

Maus is far too heavy. It's a horrificly detailed account of a survivor and what he had to do to survive. I don't think it would sit too well with audiences today.

BlackSunshine: It'd be nice if Hollywood could actually create an original concept for once.

/just sayin'.

If you're going to sink hundreds of millions of dollars into something, it'd damned well better be something that did well in its smaller microcosm before you bring it to screen.

Besides, name your favourite movies - I'm sure most of them were based on novels, for example.

I think there's win to be had with the x-men origins movies if they're done right.

Other than that, they'll probably be bland and uninspired.

You know, I've gotta admit, Jedekai has a point. Dennis Leary would be freaking awesome as Carnage.

Now if only I could trust Raimi and his crew not to screw it up...

No Groo. :(

And Green Lantern isn't about a suit.

Awesome list.

Raindogday: Peekoo: "Last Blood (2010)
This graphic novel about a post-apocalyptic world where vampires must protect a core of humanity from zombies in order to have a reliable food supply, is available online."



Great concept, great story. Just don't read any of the comments... Bobby Crosby is kind of an asshole to everyone.

/Even by internet standards
//To the point I'm not giving him my $.

Peekoo: "Last Blood (2010)
This graphic novel about a post-apocalyptic world where vampires must protect a core of humanity from zombies in order to have a reliable food supply, is available online."

I kinda wanna see that. Never heard of the comic though.

It's a webcomic. Not bad either.

Ecobuckeye: No Groo. :(

Now that i'd go and watch.

/mendicant

mid6000tek: It's a webcomic. Not bad either.

Googled it... drawn by Owen Geini of Sore Thumbs? Does that mean the zombies have boobs bigger than their heads?

I'd take an HBO series of Starman or Transmetropolitan over any of these.

Where in the hell is the ROM:Spaceknight movie?

Holden Carver - known as 'The Conductor' - has absorbed the ability to transfer pain inflicted on him back to the source

So, just out of curiosity . . . what would happen if he fapped himself raw? Would the positive feedback of pain end up killing him?

Jedekai: Spider-Man 4 has been heavily (heavily) rumored to be a toned-down version of Maximum Carnage. Venom is slated to be in it, given the fact that they signed on Topher Grace for two appearances as Venom and Tobey Maguire stating he wouldn't mind playing Spidey again. As for who should play Carnage I vote Denis Leary. He'd be awesome - and Cletus Kasady was roughly 40 in the comics, too.

Considering that they cast Topher Grace as Eddie Brock, I have little faith in their casting ability. Then again, I still refuse to see Spiderman 3.

/Wish I had refused to see X-men 3

Please? :D

How many starring Adam Sandler?

Sarsin: Leave out the suck, and do a movie about Venom. I know, I know... he was in Spiderman 3, for a whole 10 minutes. For one of Spidey's most notorious arch-nemesis, he was as a goddamn sissy.

/This
The fact that no where in that movie did Venom refer to himself as "we" made me a sad panda too.

Pxtl: Thor (2010)

I am utterly flabbergasted that they are really going through with this one. I mean, I've got high exectations after Hulk and Iron Man... but I just can't figure out how they'll make it not suck.

Well, the Ultimate line (although I haven't read it recently) had him down pretty good. He was basically a dude with a whole lot of power that claimed to be Thor. No one in the Avengers was sure if he was bug-nuts or not. I think that could work.

I think there are some comic books that would be good as HBO series or something instead of movies. I would love to see a Strangers in Paradise series.

Second Ultimates graphic novel established he is the real thing, although a good chunk of it involves someone making everyone believe he's just a nut with stolen tech.

scavenger: Where in the hell is the ROM:Spaceknight movie?

Suprised to see that Ex Machina is not on that list.

No mention of the Ant-Man movie (new window), although I'm not sure if I should be anticipating this one given his status as an also-ran character that tended to beat his wife (although he is considered an "important" character in the Marvel Universe). But, with Edgar Wright behind the helm, the only way I would see this for sure is if they got Simon Pegg to play the title role.

Doogled: Wait, since Cowboy Bebop had a manga spinoff, does this mean that it's safe for the foreseeable future?

/Please?!

Don't even speak of such a thing. The things I will do to people if they touch Cowboy Bebop....

No NFL Superpro? No Darkhawk? Not even Detective Chimp?

Hollywood must not like money.

I agree that the omission of LOBO is a travesty... of course I cant really see how that movie would not have a NC-17... well not if it was made right anyhow.

TheGrayCat: UberDave: Akira?! NOOOOOO!!!!!!
Well, if they do it, they better have the line, "KAAAAAAANEEEEEEEEEEEDAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!"

They won't - they've already changed the names of the two lead characters. Tetsuo is now Travis and, I believe, Kaneda is now John. Pathetic.


Tetsuo has been changed to an American named Travis, but Kaneda is still Kaneda (and still Japanese). From what I remember (I think I read it on AICN), the setting for the movie is New Manhattan, which has become a hybrid of American and Japanese cultures. The population is half Japanese. The in-story reason for this made sense at the time I read it, but I can't remember it now.

Would have loved to see Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Tetsuo-Travis, but he turned down the role.

How about a Team 7 or Deadpool movie? Grendel would be tits also.

zunkus: Deadpool

He's gonna be in Wolverine, and they're apparently having a lot of fun with the character.

Eric The Pilot: Hard Boiled (2011)
Frank Miller is set to helm the movie version of his own graphically violent 1990 graphic novel, where a tax collector called Carl Seitz discovers himself to be a Terminator-style cybernetic assassin. Spirit producer Deborah Del Prete is also on board.

I'm sure this will take 3 years to film

/obscure?



/willing to wait.

They'd better have John Stewart as a guest on The Daily Show in The Green Lantern.

PruneTracy: [Bazooka Joe comic]
Sigh:

I can actually see Leonardo DiCaprio in this. Not bad.

1) Frank Miller is a hack. His writing sucks, the art in his graphic novels is not all hat great by graphic novel standards, and why anyone besides 13yo boys ever bother to read his books is beyond me.

2) WHAT? No Poison Elves movie? Damnit, come on, people, get with the program!!

3) No Deadpool movie, either, though word is he has a guest appearance in the wolverine movie.

So, in conclusion, less Frank Miller, more good comics.

How about we throw a remake into the pile?

I know it's been said a few times already, but it can't be said enough.....

Justeastofhere: I know it's been said a few times already, but it can't be said enough.....

It's good to see Master Shake got his home appliance repairing techniques from Deadpool.

/When it wants to stop being hurt, it will straighten up and fly right!

Linto: How about we throw a remake into the pile?

I'll see your Tick and raise you

CrankMyBlueSax: "Cathy, the Movie" followed closely by "Cathy, Electric Boogaloo" would surely cause a lot of gnashing of teeth.

Immediately liquidate everyone who goes to the theater to see that movie, and the world would improve drastically.

cefm: movies that then became comics (Red Sonja).

no.

Somewhere in the list is the name that will make you hate the world

Nope, no Michael Bay.

CrankMyBlueSax: Cathy, Electric Boogaloo"

That's the one where she finally gives up and buys a vibrator right?

Lusiphur: 1) Frank Miller is a hack. His writing sucks, the art in his graphic novels is not all hat great by graphic novel standards, and why anyone besides 13yo boys ever bother to read his books is beyond me.

I feel this way about 99% of Alan Moore's work. I like The Killing Joke, though.

Brainsick: I'll see your Tick and raise you

Been done. Really, really badly.

dj_bigbird: Ghost In The Shell (2010)
Earlier this year, Spielberg was angling to make the first non-CGI version of the post-cyberpunk anime series that features Motoko Kusanagi, a female cyborg fighting technological crimes in a future Japan (what are the odds the locale will change?). The project is being developed by Dreamworks and Marvel supremo Ari Arad.

Goddammitsomuch.


LEAVE GHOST IN THE SHELL ALONE!

THIS.
TIMES TWO.
MAYBE EVEN THREE.

I'm sure it will come out re-branded as the long-anticipated sequel to "Lawnmower Man" after it gets through "re-visioning".

Anybody want to talk about all the good things that Steven Spielberg brought to his "Doctor Who" remake . I mean I got a few seconds before this commercial is over and the one for the hemorrhoid cream comes on.

darkyn: Brainsick: I'll see your Tick and raise you

Been done. Really, really badly.

That's why I posted it in response to someone suggesting a "remake"
(Though I can't remember a Tick movie; TV yes, movie no)
Anyway...

/Howard The Duck was such a subversive comic and the movie was so much suck, it deserves a remake

wolvernova: The Dark Knight didn't kick ass just because he's the goddamned batman. It's because the writing, directing, and acting were freaking amazing. So much talent + So much ambition = So much awesome. If Hollywood thinks that kind of return is simply a comic book thing, I can't wait to see the inevitable FAIL.

Agreed. The danger here is that Hollywood is eager to chase a genre without giving effort, execution and dedication its due credit. Heck, remember how the success of "Lord of the Rings" saddled us with "Eragon"?

Similarly, and to be blunt about it, "The Dark Knight", "Akira" and "Ninja Scroll" really aren't sophisticated movies. Or if they tried, any sophistication didn't add anything so much as had to be overcome (*cough*Akira*cough*). Most of the effort went into meticulous attention to detail in the concept design. They created an atmosphere that started with an earnest vision, details hammered out with painstaking effort and brought to life with utmost sincerity by the talent. This was combined with a no-holds-barred approach to the psychological elements which can be summed up as, "Comic book and manga writers are utterly fearless when making seriously f'ed up characters."

Cobble together a comic book plot, let the MPAA strip out anything disturbing, toss in some T&A and you'll get a flop. Then again, at a measly $36 million, "Saw V" still brought in more than quadruple what it cost to make, so as long as they meet their margins I doubt the industry has any incentive to respect the fans.

How about a Blankets movie? No? No one could see that being a hit? You suckers suck.

BroughtToYouByCarlsJr: Doogled: Wait, since Cowboy Bebop had a manga spinoff, does this mean that it's safe for the foreseeable future?

/Please?!

Don't even speak of such a thing. The things I will do to people if they touch Cowboy Bebop....

I asked because there was a rumor that Fox was in the process of developing a live action one. Theoretically, it could be done, but they will probably replace Yoko Kanno and the Seatbelts with Nickelback and Shinichiro Watanabe with a Michael Bay / Brett Ratner hybrid. Thinking about it makes me stabby.



/Practice my stabbin'

Meh - you know what we REALLY need to see?



THIS will get the comic book industry FLOWING. .....it'll probably be flowing BLOOD, but it'll be flowing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_the_Homicidal_Maniac