# What comic-book movie adaptations would you like to see? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 6, 2001, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-book-movie-adaptations-would-you-like-to-see/80079 "2001-09-06T18:07:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TheeGrumpy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/779978/32.png) [@TheeGrumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheeGrumpy)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-book-movie-adaptations-would-you-like-to-see/80079/21 "2001-09-06T21:36:29Z")
I’d like to see a movie, miniseries, or TV series adaptation of **D.P.7**. Seven people in group therapy to cope with their weird powers, on the run from forces that want to exploit them. Plus, the fact that it was ostensibly grounded in the Real World makes it ripe for translation to another medium. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-book-movie-adaptations-would-you-like-to-see/80079/22 "2001-09-06T21:39:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Infraggable Krunk \* > \*\* > Marc, I gotta agree with you - but look what happened to the _ **Batman Beyond** _ movie. It got completely hacked because the producers were worried about the violence in the movie and how it would affect children viewers. To do a comic book justice, it shouldn’t be watered down to be palatable to pre-teens. \*\* Strictly speaking Batman Beyond wasn’t a comic book adaptation. So far as I know BB was created for television with a comic series based on the television series. On another note I agree that the BB was hacked up beyond what was reasonable. It just didn’t make sense for Tim Drake to feel so guilty over Joker’s death since in the edited version it appeared to be an accident on the part of the Joker. I hear in the unedited version Drake shot him or something. > [@](#): > > \*\* > Unfortunately, a lot of people see an animated movie being made, and don’t think about whether it’s actually SUITABLE for their kids to watch (hence all the brain-dead parents taking their kids to go see _ **South Park** _), which has negative consequences for the animated movies that really aren’t for kids. \*\* Well I didn’t see anyone take their kids to South Park. I think you’re going to have to settle for the fact that most animated programs are going to have to be somewhat kid friendly. At least in the magical PG or PG-13 realm. Marc ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-book-movie-adaptations-would-you-like-to-see/80079/23 "2001-09-06T21:43:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Infraggable Krunk \* > \*\* > Interesting… if that’s the case, then looks like some online folks have their info wrong. The article I saw this morning was a script review. Here’s where I read about it: > > [http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/details/wonderwoman.html](http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/details/wonderwoman.html) \*\* Actually, they almost ALWAYS have it wrong, at least where the Wonder Woman movie has been concerned. I am in the pipeline for information on this movie as I am connected to DC Comics via the research I’ve done on Wonder Woman, which can be seen at my website at [http://www.hastur.com/WonderWoman](http://www.hastur.com/WonderWoman). While Ivan Reitman has been conclusively connected to the movie, all there have been to this point are 15 page treatments and unsolicited scripts. Phil Jiminez, current writer and artist on the comic book offered them the bible he created to keep the characters and history together and they told him they weren’t interested in it. Development is an arduous process that often goes no where. This movie has been in development since about 1995 on. While a few actresses have been attached to the project, there has never been anything official. It is all rumors and speculation. Honestly, I prefer it that way to a small extent. Sandra Bullock as Wonder Woman is an icky thought to me. Catherine Zeta Jones is a bit better, but nothing could be worse than the thought of Chyna. _shudder_ The most annoying aspect of all of these rumors is that people expect me to put information on the Wonder Woman movie on my website. I prefer not to dabble in speculative information. What is annoying about it is that people take these planted “news” items as fact, and think I am depriving them by not reporting it as if it were gospel truth. BLEH. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-book-movie-adaptations-would-you-like-to-see/80079/24 "2001-09-06T21:49:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TheeGrumpy \* > \*\*I’d like to see a movie, miniseries, or TV series adaptation of **D.P.7**. Seven people in group therapy to cope with their weird powers, on the run from forces that want to exploit them. Plus, the fact that it was ostensibly grounded in the Real World makes it ripe for translation to another medium. \*\* That would be cool. I knew Marc Gruenwald, and had his father Myron has my fifth grade teacher. Both men were quite the class act. I think to either adapt D.P.7 or the Squadron Supreme miniseries would be a great tribute to Marc’s memory. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-book-movie-adaptations-would-you-like-to-see/80079/25 "2001-09-06T22:01:06Z")
Hastur: > [@](#): > > I think to either adapt D.P.7 or the Squadron Supreme miniseries would be a great tribute to Marc’s memory. I dunno. Is it possible to mix his ashes into celluloid? I think that the first story arc of Starman would make a fantastic movie. Also, I’d love to see a movie based on Neal Adams’s Deadman. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-book-movie-adaptations-would-you-like-to-see/80079/26 "2001-09-06T22:09:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lucifer12 \* > **’Reid Fleming, World’s Toughest Milkman’** Nahhhhhhhh…Reid’s too much of a one-note character. If you’re going to do David Boswell, go for the one, the only… **Lazslo, Great Slavic Lover!** …man, that’s ONE sexy Hungarian. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-book-movie-adaptations-would-you-like-to-see/80079/27 "2001-09-07T00:49:28Z")
Garth Ennis’ **Preacher** and/or **Hitman**. **Green Lantern** should be an easy one to make with current CGI technology. Big question: Which Lantern - Alan, Hal, or Kyle? **Lobo** ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-book-movie-adaptations-would-you-like-to-see/80079/28 "2001-09-07T01:00:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. Blue Sky \* > \*\* > **Green Lantern** should be an easy one to make with current CGI technology. Big question: Which Lantern - Alan, Hal, or Kyle? > \*\* Hal. Kyle’s mask/wrist protectors, knee protectors would look _dumb_ in real life and I don’t know how well Alan’s cape’s collar would work either. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Lucifer12](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b38774/32.png) [@Lucifer12](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucifer12)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-book-movie-adaptations-would-you-like-to-see/80079/29 "2001-09-07T01:39:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Ukulele Ike \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Lucifer12 \* > > **’Reid Fleming, World’s Toughest Milkman’** > > Nahhhhhhhh…Reid’s too much of a one-note character. If you’re going to do David Boswell, go for the one, the only… > > **Lazslo, Great Slavic Lover!** > > …man, that’s ONE sexy Hungarian. \*\* Ha! Man, you can’t go wrong with either of 'em! To hell with this superhero crap-Reid & Lazslo! And as long as we’re going on about alt. comics, how about _Concrete_? Now that would be a pretty cool movie. And the ultimate: Jimmy Corrigan! ---
**Author:** ![Daowajan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3bc359/32.png) [@Daowajan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daowajan)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-book-movie-adaptations-would-you-like-to-see/80079/30 "2001-09-07T01:53:18Z")
If there was ever a serious Sandman movie made, as in overseen by Neil himself, it would become a cult legend. I second Lone Wolf and Cub. That would OWN at the box office! How about Hothead Paisan? ---
**Author:** ![Squee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba9def/32.png) [@Squee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squee)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-book-movie-adaptations-would-you-like-to-see/80079/31 "2001-09-07T01:54:42Z")
Another vote for **The Dark Knight Returns** … But I’d much rather see **Johnny the Homicidal Maniac** or David Lapham’s **Stray Bullets** series on the big screen. ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-book-movie-adaptations-would-you-like-to-see/80079/32 "2001-09-07T02:42:31Z")
Yet another vote for **The Dark Knight Returns**. On a side note, I’m wondering if _Spawn_ had to suck quite as much as it did - I really liked that comic, dammit. Personally, I’m hoping for The Greatest Crossover(s) to Never Get Made - **Aliens vs. Predator** and/or **Predator vs. Batman**. ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-book-movie-adaptations-would-you-like-to-see/80079/33 "2001-09-07T05:32:19Z")
Currently, just **Preacher**. With Robert Carlyle playing Cassidy…oooooh yeah. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-book-movie-adaptations-would-you-like-to-see/80079/34 "2001-09-07T06:02:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cmkeller \* > \*\*Hastur: > > > [@](#): > > > > I think to either adapt D.P.7 or the Squadron Supreme miniseries would be a great tribute to Marc’s memory. > > I dunno. Is it possible to mix his ashes into celluloid? > > \*\* That is sort of tacky. Especially as I knew him. I’m really wondering what is becoming of this board. ---
**Author:** ![aegypt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/76d3ee/32.png) [@aegypt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aegypt)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-book-movie-adaptations-would-you-like-to-see/80079/35 "2001-09-07T08:27:05Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Schadenfreude \* > I recently saw Neil Gaiman speak about the various movie projects based on his works, and his comments regarding the various _Sandman_ scripts were painful. Interesting. In Gaiman’s short story collection _Smoke and mirrors_, there is a story that’s obviously a parody of his experiences in Hollywood. It’s about a novellist who’s written a book called _Sons of Man_, which is about the various children of Charles Manson fathered with female members of his little cult growing up. The script is bought by a Hollywood studio and things rapidly go downhill from there. The first exec he runs into thinks “Charles Manson” is a pretty poor name for a serial killer, and renames him “Jack Badd”, and the movie is called _When we were Badd_. In the final version of the script (before it gets dropped), Jack Badd is a serial killer executed in the electric chair who is controlling kids through a video game, and the hero has to find the original electric chair and burn it to get rid of the evil spirit… I suppose this is similar to what happened with the Sandman. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-book-movie-adaptations-would-you-like-to-see/80079/36 "2001-09-07T11:28:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hastur \* > \*\* > That is sort of tacky. Especially as I knew him. I’m really wondering what is becoming of this board. \*\* Given that Gruenwald’s ashes (or some of them) were mixed into the “Squadron Supreme” trade PB as a tribute to him, I thought **Chaim** made a harmless comment on an idea that I and others found (admittedly irrationally) a little gross and tacky. I love Gruenwald’s stuff: his Captain Americas are second only to Englehart’s IMHO, his Quasars are just wonderful, Squadron Supreme is his masterpiece and his old Omniverse mags are still great reading, but as much as I respect and admire the man’s work, I don’t _like_ pieces of his dead body mixed in with one of my books. I think it’s was fair comment on a creepy idea, regardless of whether or not you knew him. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-book-movie-adaptations-would-you-like-to-see/80079/37 "2001-09-07T12:01:35Z")
**Xxxenophile** Yeah, like _that’s_ gonna happen. ---
**Author:** ![Deptford](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Deptford](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deptford)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-book-movie-adaptations-would-you-like-to-see/80079/38 "2001-09-07T12:24:23Z")
Re: Lone wolf and Cub There is a film version already It was made under the title Shogun assassin. [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0081506](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0081506) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-book-movie-adaptations-would-you-like-to-see/80079/39 "2001-09-07T12:44:24Z")
I think the idea of taking a single woman from a tribe of Amazons and having her become a vigilante heroine in a dangerous concrete jungle to be a fascinating concept idea. However, she couldn’t wear the dumb stars and stripes costume, she couldn’t really be Diana Prince the military whatever-the-hell-she-was, and the idea of her having an invisible plane and a truth lasso is kind of… stupid. In which case, it wouldn’t really be Wonder Woman after all. Sandra Bullock? Um. No. Catherine Zeta Jones? I doubt it. Lucy Lawless? She’s done the Amazon thing already. Eliza Dushku? Mmmmmmmm… Eliza Dushku… Okay, she’d be good. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-book-movie-adaptations-would-you-like-to-see/80079/40 "2001-09-07T13:22:53Z")
Green Lantern with Hal Jordan. Dark Knight Returns would be cool too. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-book-movie-adaptations-would-you-like-to-see/80079.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-comic-book-movie-adaptations-would-you-like-to-see/80079.md?page=3)