I wouldn’t be surprised to see Grendel done in the style of Wanted (highly-stylized ultraviolence, no redeeming social value), only with a better script.

On a related topic, Rob Liefeld made a very good point about the box office numbers for Wanted: a lot of teenagers under 17 will have sneaked in to see the movie, and, of course, there’s no way to track those numbers. For that reason, I think Wanted will do considerably better on DVD than you’d think if you took the box office numbers at face value.

Honestly, would it even matter?

*Jumps into time machine and goes 10 years in the future, only to realize Hollywood did indeed finally make an Authority movie, but with Midnighter having a pet robot dog sidekick named Sparky, and they’re battling spiders on ice skates.*

Does this apply to comics and graphic novels?”

I’ve heard it that it does; it’s been reported for V for Vendetta, Sin City, and even League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (where the sales pitch was “ignore the movie and read the comic instead). It seems to be most visible when it’s based on a single graphic novel or collection, or a small number in the case of Sin City; if the success of the Spider-Man or X-Men movies led to increased sales, there were considerably more volumes for the sales to be spread over. My Borders had a visible display of the Wanted collection when I was there last Friday, so somebody’s on the ball.

I had not heard of The Surrogates, but did a search and it sounds interesting. Top Shelf indeed.

Yes, the fact that Wanted was based loosely on a comic…I’m not sure what to say except, why the heck don’t these guys or even Diamond advertise on the very last pre-credits real estate and say, “Hey ! If you liked this movie you might like the comic book it was based on available at finer bookstores everywhere or your friendly neighborhood comic book shop along with thousands of other great graphic novel collections. You can locate the nearest one to you at 800-COMIC-BOOK or go to http://www.diamondcomics.com.” or something to that effect.

I’ll probably pass out from a heart attack if something, you know, impossible like that should ever happen.

Oy

That’s something to factor in here.

Has ‘Grendel’ ever actually been in development for the film treatment? Seems like it would lend itself well to that medium. I could imagine one of Alex Robinson’s books (‘Tricked,’ ‘Box Office Poison,’ ‘Too Cool to be Forgotten’) being adapted, but they’re pretty far from an action flick. Same goes for Cotter’s ‘Skyscrapers of the Midwest.’ I may be getting off track though.

What influence will have? I hope this will lead to R-rated, faithful adaption of Preacher and WE3 with the budgets they require. And the smug sense of satisfaction of being into them years before all my non-comic book reading friends start raving about them

Does this apply to comics and graphic novels?

Also, novels are more often said to be superior to their film adaptations. Can the same be said for adapted graphic novels?

Because, if a movie is said to be “superior” to the OGN it was based on, and if OGN sales don’t really experience a major spike in sales… what does that say about the comics story? Shouldn’t creators up the ante?

In the same style of Wanted, I’d love to see Authority. And Millar did work for it, too.

But then I get the impression that it’s impossible to be too cynical about the film industry.

Wanted was very good. I’m glad an R-rated movie has finally been made and accepted. Someone’s going to get smart and film an R-rated property, cut out the R-rated parts and release 2 versions : the R-rated for adults and the watered down but safer and more child appropriate PG version. Drive 2 separate markets and distinct products and demographics with essentially the same film and practically no extra cost or expense.

Punisher PG & simultaneously released rated R version. Wolverine. I have complete faith it would work.

Getting back to indie stuff :

Nexus
Grimjack
American Flagg
Turok (in progress)
Solar Man of the Atom
Harbinger (in progress)
Bloodshot
X-O Manowar
Shadowman
Quantum & Woody
Elementals
Grendel
X
Ghost
Hero Zero
Big Guy & Rusty the Boy Robot
The Goon
Fear Agent
Hard Boiled
Monkeyman & O’Brien
Madman
The Boys
Love and Rockets
Warriors of Plasm
Dark Dominion
Miracleman (never happen but it would be great)
Axel Pressbutton
Mr Monster
Reid Fleming World’s Toughest Milkman (was in the process long ago with Jim Belushi in the lead role)
Zot
Lady Justice
Captain Victory
Silver Star
Hardware
Blood Syndicate
Icon
Static / Static Shock
Monkey Vs Robot
The Nocturnals
The Jam

These are a lot, I know, but they would all be great on the big screen.

And more blog posts complaining about Mark Millar’s work too…

It’d be nice to get a movie based on one of his good books, but what are the odds?