Comments on: Superhero Movies. What’s Next?

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 04 May 2009 01:20:54 +0000

There have been Iron man, and hulk with the collection of the avengers, or the new avengers at least. i didnt get to see the end of wolverine but im guessing they showed that too. Im guessing Captain America

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:24:42 +0000

“Bring the superhero back to the “real kind of world” if you get what i mean with Batman. Although Batman is not a “super ” hero i feel that having the hero idea rooted in realism is much more satisfying to sit in a screen and spend money on for 2 and a half hours. Lets come away from doing a superhero movie to promote products!!! MAKE A FUCKING MOVIE out of them!!!!!!”

Couldn’t agree more. I loved Batman for that, it wasn’t as over-the-top as some of these other movies.

By: sheldon

sheldon — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:59:12 +0000

Bring the superhero back to the “real kind of world” if you get what i mean with Batman. Although Batman is not a “super ” hero i feel that having the hero idea rooted in realism is much more satisfying to sit in a screen and spend money on for 2 and a half hours. Lets come away from doing a superhero movie to promote products!!! MAKE A FUCKING MOVIE out of them!!!!!!

By: Drew

Drew — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:46:46 +0000

hmm REZ, I think if they did an epic AOA trilogy it would have to feature someone new as Magneto… I feel like Magneto needs to be younger for this story but that’s just me.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:27:32 +0000

Great story for sure Rez, but they just will never see that on the big screen. Just the nature of the beast.

By: rez

rez — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:19:56 +0000

i’d like to think Age of Apocalypse would make a really great film trilogy; maybe shoot all three back-to-back Lord of the Rings style; i guess the biggest question would be the cast. would Ian McKellen want to do another trilogy? even if he is the ‘rock star’ of the new story?

By: Rodney

Rodney — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:46:54 +0000

GBC, Sales rarely dictate what is “mainstream” Anything on a sub-imprint is not mainstream. Graphic novels are not mainstream. They are contained storylines. Hence the term “graphic novels”.

The core of the Marvel Universe (FF/Avengers/X) and DC (JLA etc) are mainstream. Books that all take place in each other’s universes.

If it was a mainstream title, it wouldn’t be published on a sub-imprint.

Ive been collecting and participating in “the medium” for the last 25 years. I know what I am talking about.

You challenge the definition of mainstream insisting it isn’t popular. That is not the case. However it is only popular to the die hard collectors and not the Wolverine/Batman only collectors.

By: GBC

GBC — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:15:21 +0000

Rodney, unless I am misreading what you said, are you suggesting that Watchmen is not a mainstream graphic novel? If that is the case, then I suggest you look at sales rankings for it or even check which comics are consistently recommended by those who know the medium – I think you will find it comes close to the top (if not actually at the top) in both cases.

By: DIDOMAN

DIDOMAN — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 20:09:58 +0000

Make them more real, darker films, like what they did with the last batman film. It should be about the film with a superhero in it and not just a movie about a superhero… if you know what I mean…….. Unbreakable by M.Knight was the way to go

By: Rodney

Rodney — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:26:44 +0000

Well Rusty, since a collector is not someone who can be described as an error in chronology, I dont know what you are getting at there.

Most collectors will gather mainstream comics. Watchmen, though a great book, is not collected in the mainstream.

The article I quoted and everything I have said just talks about how as cool as these stories in the books are, Hollywood won’t let them happen. Not because they are trying to stifle the creative efforts found in the comics, but rather because they know they can’t sell it.

Hollywood is not made up of artists, its businessmen.