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City of Heroes Optioned for Movie, Television

Posted by Zonk on from the strange-days-are-made-of-this dept.

The Sci-fi Channel site has word that Cryptic Studios' City of Heroes title has been optioned as a movie or television series. The rights were picked up by Tom DeSanto, producer for the upcoming Transformers film. The plan (such as it is) is to make a motion picture, and then transfer the series to a TV format. The original news is from the industry trade Variety, but that article doesn't appear to be available online yet.

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  1. Re:Mystery Men? by Nazlfrag · · Score: 2, Informative
    Mystery men also began life as a comic book, the Flaming Carrot, which was also somewhat of a parody. The protagonist, the Flaming Carrot himself didn't make it to the movie, and they messed with the characters like the movies tend to.

    Both plotlines seem quite different to CoH though, and there seems to be endless room in Hollywood for more comic-book spinoffs. I don't doubt we'll see something there. Hey, it's gotta be better than Doom: The Movie, right?

  2. Re:Why license the City of Heroes IP? by arthurh3535 · · Score: 4, Informative

    This is terribly incorrect. There is quite a bit of 'story' and 'character' in City of Heroes. Quite a bit of it is only in the form of the story arcs that character play through, but there were two books and two comic series.
     
    Statesman is not just Superman with a different outfit. For one thing, he started out a dying, desperate criminal mastermind plundering across post-WWI for magical artifacts to cure him of being exposed to mustard gas in World War I.
     
    Just because you might not be familiar with their IP, doesn't mean there isn't something interesting to use.
     
    The "world" of City of Heroes is very interesting and worth of expanding onto the big-screen, in my opinion.

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