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.
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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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Hastur:
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.
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.
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
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
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!
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?
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.
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.
Currently, just Preacher. With Robert Carlyle playing Cassidy…oooooh yeah. 
That is sort of tacky. Especially as I knew him. I’m really wondering what is becoming of this board.
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.
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
Xxxenophile
Yeah, like that’s gonna happen.
Re: Lone wolf and Cub
There is a film version already
It was made under the title Shogun assassin.
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.
Green Lantern with Hal Jordan.
Dark Knight Returns would be cool too.