Watchmen
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- kelpie0
the changing things is my point as a non comic buff though epill. Movies aren't comics and the format, stories, characters, logic of the worlds etc doesn't work on screen imo, so they have to change it - take something of its essence and make something new out of it. Problem is that they don't get writers good enough to do it, so you end up with an awful half way house of everything that's terrible about both mediums. Again, very much my personal opinion.
I have a long held ambition to translate Rogue Trooper from 2000ad into a film, and have thought about it / planned it to some degree of detail. The strips themselves would be daft as a film though and very shallow, but some of the underpinning themes, and the character would make a great film. It'd take a really good writing job though, and would need to be a completely new thing for the screen. Same thing happens with novels when adapted, only with novels things generally need removed and complexity reduced, whereas with comics the medium deals in too broad strokes and complexity needs to be added, imo
- Rogue Trooper, ABC Warriors and much of the 2000AD multiverse'd make for fantastic conversions.Nairn
- What was that hover-surfer storyline? That's modern sci-fi - good human stories in a fantastical setting.Nairn
- Chopper. Yeah, so many of those were great.kelpie
- http://www.sciuridae…Nairn
- again i agree with you. my medium of choice is the books, the movies are just added hype..blog
- *fails to resist urge to flick through ebay for old 2000ADs*Nairn
- yeah I had hundreds, would love to be able to trawl through them now, especially the Bisley stuffkelpie