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City of Heroes Optioned for Movie, Television
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.
So that means it'll be canceled in the middle of a storyline?
Please, for the good of Humanity, vote Obama.
Who'd want to watch a movie where the first 55 minutes are spent tweaking the size, shape, and costume of the main characters, and then it gets boring and repetitive...
Can you be Even More Awesome?!
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.
No! It's a *SIG*. Keep the Special Interest Groups away! (Con joke!)