Other 2000 AD films you'd like to see

[JOE SOAP]

I made the point during Brass Sun's run in the prog that it was exactly the kind of fantasy IP with franchise potential, adolescent leads and the opportunity for lashings of CGI which studios are desperate to stick their latest Jennifers and Jessicas into.

Tell that to the producers of the Golden Compass and City of Ember.

[dweezil2]

I want a Halo Jones trilogy. It could be like The Hunger Games but good.

[JOE SOAP]

I doubt you'd get a trilogy out of Halo Jones. It'd be one film.

[Frank]

I made the point during Brass Sun's run in the prog that it was exactly the kind of fantasy IP with franchise potential, adolescent leads and the opportunity for lashings of CGI which studios are desperate to stick their latest Jennifers and Jessicas into.

Tell that to the producers of the Golden Compass and City of Ember.

I'm sure it'd be better all round if film adaptations of your properties were successful, but even film rights which are only ever optioned generate some revenue for the rights holders and increase interest in the source material.

[JayzusB.Christ]

That was a huge part of the appeal of the first two series to me as well, but the Eighties are currently bathed in a similar piss-coloured nostalgia to that through which Grant Morrison and myself viewed the Sixties at the fag end of the Eighties. Moving the timeline along in that way does present another problem, in that the UK wasn't involved in a war with Germany in the Sixties, but I suppose the characters would be transposed to the USA in any film adaptation anyway.

Oh dear, I'm really not so sure about it any more.  Zenith-world superhumans really wouldn't work as yank characters - part of their [byrne] core essence [/byrne] is that they're not Americans but absolutely put the shite crossways in the US government.

It was very much of its time - LSD, The Beatles, Vietnam and Tim Leary in the 60s; Thatcher, TV AM, The Smiths, Richard Branson and Page 3 in the 80s; baggy, ecstasy, Suede and Naomi Campbell in the 90s.  It would lose everything if it shifted timelines, and would only be of interest to old fuckers like me if it didn't.  Ah well. 

[maryanddavid]

Visible Man
Leviathan
Strontium Dog
Tribal Memories

[DrRocka]

Ulysses Sweet vs the Vegetable Liberation front. A 23 - part, 4 season epic with production values that would put Lucasfilm to shame.

I think I speak for all Squaxx, past and present, when I say that this is the biggie we've been waiting for these last 25 years.

C'mon, Tharg, MAKE IT HAPPEN.

[blackmocco]

Bad Company and Strontium Dog would make excellent and entertaining films, but if the sorry story of Dredd's theatrical run has taught us anything, it's that the road to box office heaven is not paved with R-rated action films. Unless pretty much everyone is able to see a film it's doomed to be sidelined by distributors and cinema chains for something which covers all their bases.

There's no reason a Strontium Dog property has to be R-rated though. The concept alone is friendlier than Dredd. Johnny's a tough but sympathetic good guy. His moral compass is far more conventional than Dredd's. Johnny takes out bad guys and the bad guys are usually pretty vile. I could see the likes of Strontium Dog easily sitting in alongside mainstream summer fare without losing any of its edge.

I've been rereading book 1 of Ace Trucking Co and it's crying out to be an animated movie, in my opinion.

[Professor Bear]

even film rights which are only ever optioned generate some revenue for the rights holders and increase interest in the source material.

Not true.  A film based on something from other media can be developed by a studio on little more than a handshake with the originators and an understanding that the rights not go anywhere else until that studio is done with bouncing it around writers and producers to see if they're interested in taking a film project further on the studio's behalf - it's not an option, it's an option to maybe option it at a later date, no money changes hands, and mum's the word so the originators can't even get some PR out of it and the franchise is thus effectively worthless to the owners, if not more so than before.

[Little_Tengu]

What about a Finn movie?

[Frank]

A film based on something from other media can be developed by a studio on little more than a handshake with the originators and an understanding that the rights not go anywhere else until that studio is done with bouncing it around writers and producers to see if they're interested in taking a film project further on the studio's behalf - it's not an option, it's an option to maybe option it at a later date, no money changes hands, and mum's the word so the originators can't even get some PR out of it and the franchise is thus effectively worthless to the owners, if not more so than before.

I don't know about Rebellion, but Wagner's spoken of his frustrations with the kind of sharp practices he's come up against when his work was being adapted for film and television in the past. Everything goes through his lawyers now ... and they always get paid:

"LOGAN: Are you interested in seeing your characters used in other media or are you not really bothered?

WAGNER: Sure, I'm interested. For the money, for one thing (though by the time Fat Man Press's bank had swallowed up most of the money BBC paid for Bogie - a pittance to begin with - Alan and I made something like £175 each out of the TV production). Then there's the ego trip - who doesn't want to see their creations brought to a wider public? I'd just like to see it done right occasionally. That's hard to ensure unless you can exercise control, which is difficult to achieve.

Usually it's 'our way or no way'. Look at the Dredd movie - Carlos and I had no bargaining power, we couldn't even negotiate a credit with the opening titles. Where did our names appear? Did anyone ever stay with the credits long enough to see them? Or like the BBC producer said to us when we asked for more money for Bogie: "If you were Jeffrey Archer I'd say 'how much do you want, Jeffrey?' But you're not, and I'm telling you we're paying £4000."

By the time Kitchen Sink had negotiated a deal for Button Man I was a little wiser; Arthur (Ranson) and I took the contract to a lawyer in New York, who made sure our rights were protected. He also took more of the option fee than either of us, but that was okay, if they'd made the movie we'd have done much better out of it"

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[Beadle68]

For me it has to be Strontium dog or Harry 20 but as an adult HBO series not a film,2 hours isnt enough time to tell there stories .Think Harry 20 has most potential to get funding and reach a wider audience as its basically character driven and not effects heavy .

[JOE SOAP]

Think Harry 20 has most potential to get funding and reach a wider audience as its basically character driven and not effects heavy .

Harry 20 all ready flopped.

[ThryllSeekyr]

Slaine: Warriors Dawn.  Specifically, Bride of Crom & Sky Chariots!!!!!

[The Enigmatic Dr X]

Flesh could work,like a hardcore Jurassic Park.

Yeah, that's kind of what I'm concerned about

Flesh & Robo-Hunter probably wouldn't fly because they would be seen as "rip-offs"

Probably dead obvious, but what would Robo-Hunter rip off? Only thing I can think of is Bladerunner, but that's too po-faced to compare. I realise I'll kick myself when you say!