All Nerds Welcome: The All Purpose Comic Book Movie Thread

[J. Walter Weatherman]

This thread needs more Liefeld.

Okay...

http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/05/12/brett-ratner-youngblood-movie-x-men/

Last August, Brett Ratner told us that his live-action adaptation of "Youngblood" was still in the script phase. Nine months later, that's where the project still stands.

"I'm working on the script," the director told MTV News. "'Youngblood will be something I do in the future, whether it's next year or whatever."

At the moment, Ratner is pushing forward with his next directorial gig, "Tower Heist," for which he's hoping to lock down Ben Stiller, and developing 'Youngblood' with an eye toward turning it into an enduring big screen franchise.

"I'm never going to do another 'X-Men' obviously, and I'm not doing any more with 'Rush Hour,'" he explained. "But to do a new franchise, I don't care what the budget is — even if it was small — but it would be exciting because then I could start my own franchise. I could do what Bryan [Singer] did with 'X-Men.'"

"I've been in a lot of things – 'God of War,' which didn't work out, 'Conan the Barbarian,' which didn't work out," Ratner continued. "So I'm interested in comic books. I grew up reading comic books. Even though all the rumors said, 'Oh, Brett didn't read comics,' but I read 'Batman' and 'Superman.' 'Superman' was my favorite comic, which is why I was first attached to make 'Superman.' 'Youngblood,' obviously, I discovered later in life and I just fell in love with it."

[Canadouche]

This thread needs more Liefeld.

Okay...

http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/05/12/brett-ratner-youngblood-movie-x-men/

Last August, Brett Ratner told us that his live-action adaptation of "Youngblood" was still in the script phase. Nine months later, that's where the project still stands.

"I'm working on the script," the director told MTV News. "'Youngblood will be something I do in the future, whether it's next year or whatever."

At the moment, Ratner is pushing forward with his next directorial gig, "Tower Heist," for which he's hoping to lock down Ben Stiller, and developing 'Youngblood' with an eye toward turning it into an enduring big screen franchise.

"I'm never going to do another 'X-Men' obviously, and I'm not doing any more with 'Rush Hour,'" he explained. "But to do a new franchise, I don't care what the budget is — even if it was small — but it would be exciting because then I could start my own franchise. I could do what Bryan [Singer] did with 'X-Men.'"

"I've been in a lot of things – 'God of War,' which didn't work out, 'Conan the Barbarian,' which didn't work out," Ratner continued. "So I'm interested in comic books. I grew up reading comic books. Even though all the rumors said, 'Oh, Brett didn't read comics,' but I read 'Batman' and 'Superman.' 'Superman' was my favorite comic, which is why I was first attached to make 'Superman.' 'Youngblood,' obviously, I discovered later in life and I just fell in love with it."

I think he means it was the only franchise he could purchase the rights to for under a dollar fiddy.

[J. Walter Weatherman]

Anyone who writes Superman as a secular Christ (or Moses) figure is a hack, that misses the point.

I.e., "fuck the Golden Age"?

[Bort]

Anyone who writes Superman as a secular Christ (or Moses) figure is a hack, that misses the point.

I.e., "fuck the Golden Age"?

I.e., that theory is bullshit unless you stretch the story to fit a preconceived thesis. No one in the golden age intentionally wrote that way. They were cranking out stories for a paycheck.