Is it a rumour, or more?
The Vulcan Reporter, reports (https://www.thevulcanreporter.com/exclusives/the-leopard-from-lime-street-television-adaptation/)
Looks like utter clickbait nonsense.
That is almost too exciting for words. If this is any way true, it's very heartening to see stuff from outside the worlds of 2000AD getting an airing. Hopefully they are thinking CBBC, and not trying to "adult it up".
SBT
Doubt has been cast on to that Vulcan Reporter. Apparently he's the bloke that said Tom Hardy was the new James Bond which has been cast into doubt (I have no idea).
That said the idea that a Leopard of Lime Street telly show is going to be a good source of clickage seems strange! Would be great if it happened but we'll see.
Quote from: Colin YNWA on 25 September, 2020, 07:55:08 PM
Doubt has been cast on to that Vulcan Reporter. Apparently he's the bloke that said Tom Hardy was the new James Bond which has been cast into doubt (I have no idea).
He also says HBO are developing a new Constantine TV series starring Keanu Reeves, which sounds like horse shit to me...!
And that the Dredd TV series is adapting America. Sounds very much like a man who writes about things he wishes were true.
Aw, Scojo's got a website!
I love a bit of Leopard from Lime St as a slice of 80s comic nostalgia, but I hope this ain't true. What does it add to the already over crowded genre? Boy get involved with dodgy scientists, unwittingly gets superpowers and can now get his own back on the bullies, but finds an inner strength to be the better man and turns his attentions to foiling criminals instead. What would be the pitch here? "Well, it's like the other ones - but he's not a bat, and spider or a panther. This one's a leopard."
In my ordered list of Rebellion IPs I'd love to come to the big screen, this is #576.
I suppose it's low risk, no one* is familiar enough with the source material to claim it's a poor adaptation.
*that matters
Quote from: MumboJimbo on 27 September, 2020, 12:46:48 AM
In my ordered list of Rebellion IPs I'd love to come to the big screen, this is #576.
I'm enjoying the idea that the list is real.
Quote from: MumboJimbo on 27 September, 2020, 12:46:48 AM
What would be the pitch here? "Well, it's like the other ones - but he's not a bat, and spider or a panther. This one's a leopard."
And English, not American; and explicitly a young boy, rather than a teenager or twenty-something. I dunno, I genuinely think that gives it more than enough of a niche to carve, however derivitive.
I think there's a market for something like this aimed at 8-12 year olds and I don't mean that disparagingly! Does anyone remember the short stories that I think were shown on the BBC back in the 80's? They would be on just after I got home from school and had a different theme each episode.
From memory - There was one featuring a young lad who's favorite Tiger t-shirt gained powers (from a machine?) and when worn the lad gained amazing abilities. I'm not saying that it was good by today's standards but the fact it's one of the few things I remember from that time is a testament to how different it was from anything else.
So, yeah; I think a Leopard... tv series could work but I would suggest it be aimed at the age bracket mentioned at the start of this post. Who knows, it could even get them reading comics!
Cheers
I think the concept would work fine for a CBBC show, but I couldn't see it going further than that. Even former pre-/young-teen properties seem to have to have sex and violence to get anywhere on telly (e.g. the Archie stable), and the Disney Kids style superhero/fantasy shows are just 80s domestic/high school sitcoms with pervable costumes.
I don't think Kes-with-Claws is a niche that can exist.
Quote from: NapalmKev on 27 September, 2020, 10:29:26 AM
I think there's a market for something like this aimed at 8-12 year olds and I don't mean that disparagingly! Does anyone remember the short stories that I think were shown on the BBC back in the 80's? They would be on just after I got home from school and had a different theme each episode.
From memory - There was one featuring a young lad who's favorite Tiger t-shirt gained powers (from a machine?) and when worn the lad gained amazing abilities. I'm not saying that it was good by today's standards but the fact it's one of the few things I remember from that time is a testament to how different it was from anything else.
I don't recognise the episode, but the rest of it sounds like Dramarama (don't know which channel that ran on though).
Quote from: sheridan on 27 September, 2020, 02:36:17 PM
Quote from: NapalmKev on 27 September, 2020, 10:29:26 AM
From memory - There was one featuring a young lad who's favorite Tiger t-shirt gained powers (from a machine?) and when worn the lad gained amazing abilities. I'm not saying that it was good by today's standards but the fact it's one of the few things I remember from that time is a testament to how different it was from anything else.
I don't recognise the episode, but the rest of it sounds like Dramarama (don't know which channel that ran on though).
I had a look on the net and it is in fact Sammy's Super T-Shirt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDRCbcJtRuY). It was released in 1978 so I must have seen it repeated years later.
Cheers
They were still showing that horseshit on Northern Irish tv well into the 1990s, thanks to the vagaries of regional broadcasting and the pre-digital-revolution Sky TV buying up all the US content that wasn't nailed down. The one about the alien that was just a silver marble which for some reason had to be animated via stop-motion was another highlight.
Quote from: TordelBack on 27 September, 2020, 10:47:01 AMand the Disney Kids style superhero/fantasy shows are just 80s domestic/high school sitcoms with pervable costumes.
/Harold Steptoe voice: You DURRRty old man.
Pervs whacked off to Blossom, Hannah Montanna, and lady Transformers long before Disney started churning out superhero sitcoms, so I don't see the addition of costumes causing much of an uptick in noncery. A show in this vein would really just be Power Rangers or Masked Rider all over again, and after those shows came out, Western civilisation didn't collapse - okay, it did actually, but those two things are unrelated. Probably.
Almost everything anyone mentions (ever) now makes me think of this: Don Cheadle is Captain Planet (https://youtu.be/TwJaELXadKo)
Quote from: Professor Bear on 27 September, 2020, 03:33:00 PM
Pervs whacked off to Blossom, Hannah Montanna, and lady Transformers long before Disney started churning out superhero sitcoms, so I don't see the addition of costumes causing much of an uptick in noncery.
I defer to your specific expertise.
Wasn't suggesting kids in superhero costumes was actually driving perversion, merely noting that the makers are aware of that segment of the market.
Also, I may be conflating Nick and Disney, I honestly don't know.
Quote from: TordelBack on 27 September, 2020, 08:14:20 PMI defer to your specific expertise.
It was the phrase "lady Transformers" that gave me away.
Transformers ARE formers!
I'll get me coat.