| Greg B |
02-27-2006 05:23 PM |
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Originally Posted by WEGRuth
the movie was set for release last year (around Guy Fawkes day I believe) but they kept bumping it up to better 'slots' as interest in it grew. It looks like it's going to be a good one.
I'm surprised you didn't enjoy Watchmen. It changed comics from what I've read about it, I enjoyed it myself, though it was a long time ago that I read it.
czarina: They have it scheduled for release on March 17th I think.
I like your threads Greg! :winkwink:
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Ruth it's not that I didn't like 'The Watchmen', it was brilliantly illustrated by Dave Gibbons. It's just that it dragged on and on and on.
See, sometime in the mid 1980's, a lot of writers got into comics in order to show they could write for film. So they did these verbose tomes of politics and pseudo psychological melodrama that got so boring after a while the spirit of comics and high flying adventure got lost.
Comics are a combination of art forms that present storytelling within it's format of panels and word balloons or no word balloons whatsoever.
I was there. Every other week some guy would write some long ass story and beg us to illustrate it. Mind you it was the artists that drew and kept the crowds and fans but the writers who couldn't but got the props.
Then when the sales went to shit faster than last night's bad dinner, the artists came in in the early 90's and pumped out great art but fucked up stories that crashed the market into near oblivion. Now for some strange reason there's been an equilibrium from some pals at Marvel who pushed til it gave to get that balance of good story and great art. Sales zooming back up.
Moore's a brilliant man. Some of his work I like, some I don't. I'll support his movie though as if it does make that leap it's another comic to film success. Remember 'Sin City'? It's a Frank Miller creation. Miller was smart and lucky enough to make sure he had hands on during the film. It turned out to be a hit and very enjoyable even though it had the biggest plot hole in film history. Miller caught his vision on film that stayed true to it and success was born. It's like that with comics, you have to stand hard or Hollywood assholes will fuck your project up. I know cause I had three comics optioned for film AGAIN and these assholes couldn't do shit for shining. What happens? Either I pull the project or they run and two days later their competitors come piling through the door with bigger offers. I have a comic coming out later this year that got optioned for film and all I did was do a few sketches. Lucky for me a neighbor who is a top knotch writer/director was sitting next to me at the coffee shop and saw me drawin', we chatted, he had read a comic of mine years ago and was a fan. That's how it happens. You work,put something out and people grab for it.
But you have to be careful and follow through or your project will get fucked. It can take YEARS to get from comic to film. It used to be horrible but nowadays things are picking up faster.
Alan Moore has worked his ass off for years and he deserves a big hit. His other movies 'From Hell' and the rest should have been big hits. |
