Which comic book *should* be made into a movie?

[jducoeur]

It 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...

Comments

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

"Kingdom Come".

But it's (a) so "not the [superhero] you know" and (b) so full of "superheroes you've never heard of" that J. Random Moviegoer would probably be too weirded out.

I'd love it, though.

OTOH, "Watchmen" may be the test, at least of (b). Have to see how that works out.

[jducoeur]

Well, "Superheroes you've never heard of" is clearly no barrier -- the success of Hellboy proves that. The comic isn't especially well-known now, and was downright obscure when the first movie came out, but they've been broadly quite successful...

[baron-steffan.livejournal.com]

Good point. After all, someone even greenlit "Birds of Prey". For what that was worth %^). But in Kingdom Come, all of Our Heroes are old, so they risk alienating their core demographic, which is, I suspect, somewhat younger than myself (59 yo boomer).

[jducoeur]

True, although there are enough Young'n'Sexy heroes in the story to provide the necessary eye-candy.

I do agree that it would be a hard sell, and I don't know that it's possible to make it into enough of a blockbuster to be worth the SFX budget. But it's interesting to contemplate...