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75 Comics That Are Being Made Into Films
brumgrunt writes "The comic book is the new spec script in Hollywood, if this list is anything to go by. Den Of Geek has uncovered 75 comics that are in the process of being turned into films, along with their estimated year of arrival. It's scary, brilliant and bizarre in roughly equal measure."
just not by the BBC. They completely butchered Neverwhere, turning a fantastic novel into a complete piece of crap (as they often do).
Erm they made the TV series first. The novel was written later, based on the series. So I don't see how the BBC can be blamed for butchering a novel that didn't yet exist. And aside from the lack of budget, the series was pretty good.
The movie 300 was an adaptation of the graphic novel 300, which in turn was based both upon the actual battle at Thermopylae AND inspired by the 1962 movie The 300 Spartans, which Frank Miller saw when he was young.
It's not exceptionally historically accurate (as the Spartans didn't die alone in the final battle, Xerxes was not a 7-foot tall bald gay man, etc.) but it's not a bad movie or a bad graphic novel.
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
Kevin Smith has seen a pre-screening of Watchmen and said they got it right.
http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/08/15/kevin-smith-has-seen-watchmen-its-fking-astounding/
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
You're entitled to your opinion of course, but if you're basing part of that pessimism off of that interview with Smith, perhaps you should take note that Smith has called the new Watchmen film Astounding. Its been said over and over again that its too hard to properly replicate the book's unique presentation, but it doesn't mean that the movie can't be good.