Denofgeek.com has compiled an absurd list of the 75 (!!!) comic and comic-related movies slated for the next three years.
Obviously, not all of these are going to hit theaters—seriously, the chances of a Namor, Shang-Chi, Jonah Hex or Ramayan 3392 A.D movie getting made are pretty low—but If you’re a gigantic nerd like me (or Paul Constant!) it’s worth a look, if only to find out little bits of info like the fact that a film version of Greg Rucka’s Whiteout is apparently in the can—starring Kate Beckinsale?! who knew?—and floating around in release-schedule hell.
In other nerd news, AICN apparently confirms that Watchmen’s squiddy will not, in fact, be in the film. Horseshit.
At one of my jobs a few years ago, the guy who wrote and produced the Rocketeer movie and Flash TV series came through the office and was talking about rifling through comic bins with his collaborator, searching desperately for properties that hadn’t been licensed yet. He stopped at one point, eyeballing a “Mr. X” poster hanging in someone’s cubicle and was obviously doing some mental calculation on the possible availability of that comic.
The sad thing is most comics are shitty, and most comic movies by extension are 20 times as shitty.
Also, whats with remaking anime movies as live action? That’ll work out well…pbbbbbbbbbbbt
I really hope Kick-Ass makes it to the big screen. It has real potential as a movie- lots of comics don’t translate.
@2 Whatever. I would watch Ranma 1/2 in a New York minute, with or without you, shitty or not.
That would be Joe Johnston, who’s currently working on Captain America, which sounds like it’s going to be awesome. They’re setting it in WWII, as they should.
Also, there are plenty of rumors of a Jonah Hex movie. Latest word is that it’s actually in pre-production and will start Josh Brolin as Hex, which, if true, is pretty good casting. They’re supposedly making it a “supernatural western”, so look for Hex to fight vampires or zombies or something. It wouldn’t be out of canon, so I could see it happening.
No Black Hole?
That’s the one I’m most excited for…
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117981…
@2, you forgot to also throw in that most movies and books for that matter are also shitty. Most of everything in life you can think of is pretty much 98% shitty.
@7, it’s the fact that
A. the track record of fandom for comic books is pretty limited in scope
B. the transition to film has been a net bad for movies in every facet but special effects.
The idea that 75 shitty movies will be the bread and butter of the movie industry for the next 3 years makes me antagonistic towards movies in general.
YNH- you were probably being nice in not mentioning it, but your ‘everything in life’ also includes slog and its comments.
I’d love to see an adaptation of Art Spiegleman’s MAUS books done in kind of shaky, black-and-white, line-drawing style.
Jonah and Paul! Both of you, PLEASE! Let go of the squid!
I am a giant Watchmen fanatic, that book re-wired my brain when I read it and I absolutely love the squid on paper, so I understand, but seriously, I went and read the spoilers about the ending change when I heard about it because I didn’t want to waste my time if they fucked it up, and I am totally converted on losing the squid after what I’ve read is the new ending.
The key is, there is totally still a monster created to unite humanity against, it’s just a different monster and, quite honestly, it’s a way more logical monster that is waaay more organically integrated into the story. Trust me on this. I know I will still love the book more than I could ever love the movie, but I have hope that they will do as good a job as anybody could do translating this to film.
Kick-Ass is apparently already in the works…with casting and everything already moving forward. At least according to Wikipedia, which is where all truth lies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kick-Ass#Fi…
P.S. I kind of wish Paste Pot Pete was still his name, instead of Trapster. It hearkens back to the less self-conscious, more goofy days of 1960s Marvel.
So when will the come out with a full length feature film of Captain Canuck?
Never, Will. Because this is ‘Merica, and we have plenty of our own non-lame superheroes.
Lol Paste Pot Pete. That takes me back.
@12
Oh, I know that Kick Ass is moving right along, but I’m afraid some last minute snafu will fuck up distribution or release… Happens all the time in the movie biz.
Kick Ass is uniquely suited to movie adaptation, so it would be a crime if this got bungled.
@8, my point is that movies are nearly universally shitty anyway, whether they’re based on a shitty comic or a shitty musical or a shitty book or a shitty TV show or a shitty idea from some shithead based on a shitty movie he saw once. I’ve seen a list equally long of movies in various stages of production that are remakes of other movies and I feel safe in predicting that almost all those will suck and will each be a waste of time and money. Do American audiences go to movies expecting to see anything good anymore, or are they just killing time, an hour and a half here and there?
@9, that was implied in my comments. Anyone who has time to burn regularly reading these posts and bothering to comment here is by definition a worthless waste of skin contributing nothing to anyone and just killing time as they wait to die. myself included. sad but true.
@2 Yeah, Dragon Ball Z’s probably gunna go down like crap in the vortex of a toilet flush but could you imagine if there was some sort of multi national, “Contact” like co-operational production of a live action “Akira”? Like the Manhatan Project but for, like, radical awesomeness. You gotta dream man, dream!