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jducoeurIt was occurring to me this morning, as I reflected on the rash of (mostly surprisingly good) comic-book movies coming out this summer, that there were some I've always wanted to see. And that seems like a good topic for a conversation.
So: what comic book(s) do *you* think would make a good movie? Feel free to assume that it's a competent adaptation, not a hatchet job, but assume that it has to fit into the usual constraints of a movie: about two hours, and has to be able to make enough money to be worth its budget. (If it doesn't require as many special-effects, it doesn't have to make as much money.) Obscure is fine -- some great blockbusters have been made from little-known comics.
I've got a couple of favorites, but I'll provide my own answers in comments, so as not to bias things too much upfront...
So: what comic book(s) do *you* think would make a good movie? Feel free to assume that it's a competent adaptation, not a hatchet job, but assume that it has to fit into the usual constraints of a movie: about two hours, and has to be able to make enough money to be worth its budget. (If it doesn't require as many special-effects, it doesn't have to make as much money.) Obscure is fine -- some great blockbusters have been made from little-known comics.
I've got a couple of favorites, but I'll provide my own answers in comments, so as not to bias things too much upfront...
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Date: 2008-07-17 01:30 am (UTC)Haunted Tank, yeah that's the one! I think it was just begging to be made into a movie.Correction: No, I'm thinking of "War That Time Forgot," which ran in Star-Spangled War Stories at about the same time as I was reading Haunted Tank, so they got conflated. But now that I've got that straightened out, I think Haunted Tank is the one that could make a cool movie.
And the Flash/Spectre was a single-issue Brave & the Bold team-up, in an age when B&B almost always meant Batman plus Somebody. Fighting ghostly WWI biplanes - also very cinematic, at least in my memory.