Brett Ratner Plans To Molest More Superheroes With ‘Youngblood’

Posted by Rob Hunter (rob@filmschoolrejects.com) on February 9, 2009

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What is it about men and women in tight spandex that gets Brett Ratner’s destructive juices flowing?  First he drove the X-Men franchise straight into the ground with the silly, over-the-top shenanigans of X-Men: Last Stand, and now he’s signed on to ruin direct another comic book movie about a team of superheroes.

Per Variety, Ratner will be helming Youngblood, based on the comic series created by Rob Liefeld, about a superhero team sanctioned and employed by the US government.  “Most of the great graphic novels are gone,” Ratner says.  ”‘Youngblood’ is one of the few comic books left with tentpole potential.  It was a real personal passion project for me, and a lot of people wanted it.”  Ok Brett.  Whatever you say.

I’m not familiar with “Youngblood” but a quick glance at it’s Wikipedia page shows that the comic has had a troubled history.  (Although being Wikipedia, this may all be bullshit.)  It appears Liefeld has started multiple incarnations of the series only to see many of them end prematurely.  He did bring Alan Moore onboard in 1998 for one of the many revamp attempts resulting in a storyline as dark, adult, and self aware as anything in Moore’s own “Watchmen.”  There’s no word yet as to which storyline from the comics Ratner’s movie will trash.

Have you read Youngblood?  Does Ratner’s involvement make you cringe?


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  • Youngblood is a Z level comic series...perfect for Ratner because nobody will ever see this movie... this reminds me that Wild Cats still hasn't been adapted which is a shame
  • WEll that sucks too. Wildcats will be a nice movie to adapt but since there's too many superhero movies out there I don't think there'll be any fans. I love Wildcats and it would suck if Rattner touched it.
  • I'm not saying he should touch Wildcats....I'd love it if some awesome visionary director got a hold of it like Zack Snyder, Ridley Scott or James Cameron...If Cameron is interested in making a Battle Angel movie he could possibly make the crossover into American comics as well...Although I've heard rumors that he wants to make Avatar and Battle Angel into respected trilogies
  • I'm not saying he should touch Wildcats....I'd love it if some awesome visionary director got a hold of it like Zack Snyder, Ridley Scott, Peter Jackson or James Cameron...If Cameron is interested in making a Battle Angel movie he could possibly make the crossover into American comics as well...Although I've heard rumors that he wants to make Avatar and Battle Angel into respected trilogies....as much as I enjoyed Singer's X-Men movies they don't have the epic scale the comics and cartoons had...Wildcats could be that comicbook movie put on the epic scale as long as Fox doesn't get the rights to it...it's really one of the only non-Marvel/DC comics that hasn't been optioned yet that has quality characters.....Grifter is still one of the best anti-heroes in comics
  • I've read Battle Angel and it would be nice for James Cameron to adapt the movie. I do believe he's a great director and would make a wonderful job. When I said Rattner would suck adapting Wildcats what I meant is what you clarified. Wildcats would be great but the it needs a great director and a script to see the visionary style of the story.
  • Battle Angle Alita was a great series, I collected all of them from the 80's. But it would take a serious set f actors to make it work on the big screen. Not to mention Alita was tecnically a very young "girl" and that would be hard to cast without it looking rediculous.
  • well James Cameron has already written the script and commissioned concept artists years ago...it's going to be made he even hinted to it with the first Avatar image he's wearing a B.A. tee shirt...the only question is if he's going all CGI, partial CG like Avatar or fully live-action....
  • Yes I read about that as well.

    It would have to be 50% CGI to even resemble the comics with all the combat and technical aspects of the series.
  • Was Youngblood not a cartoon series at one point? Anyway, Youngblood was pish and the artwork was very questionable. Rob Liefeld may have became famous for his X-Force artwork but that wasn't enough when he started up Image with a few other artists.
    What next? The Savage Dragon? Wetworks? Hellshock? The Darkness? Pitt?
  • leonkennedy
    brett ratner did ruin xmen, so i hope wolverine is good so i can make that my trilogy of the xmen series,

    on a side note he has done one good movie
    which is red dragon, held up well with the story and true to what i think was anthony hopkins performance in silence of the lambs, of course no where near as good as that movie but red dragon did destroy hannibal, which was a terrible piece of crap

    what in the world was ridley scott thinking when directing that movie :X
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