I think the reason you can account for the success of certain films (ie. Iron Man,
Spider-Man 2, X2, The Dark Knight, Batman Begins, 300, etc.) is because the films
kept to the material. Okay MAYBE they shouldn’t be shot panel for panel because
you can hardly call that original (Sin City, 300 – still awesome nonetheless) but they
should remain faithful thematically and stylistically and well for the most part to the
plot. Obviously if you take the big name comics, you ought to make revisions to the
story, but if you completely twist the story around and leave in a million plot holes,
you end up having a film that completely style over substance. That doesn’t mean
it’s not fun to watch, but it’s not worth much as stand alone cinema. Call me a snob
but V for Vendetta was not exactly AMAZING. It wasn’t until I read the graphic
novel that I actually understood everything that was going on. In said cases like the
ones above where you have a single story, I think it’s okay to be strict with the plot.
It seems like Alan Moore didn’t want to even have any association with the
production because his name was dropped out of the credits for the film and all they
credited was the illustrator David Lloyd.

Moving ON, if you want to stay just thematically and stylistically faithful to the
comic, you can’t be having shithead producers like Joel Schumacher or whatever
dicking around with the production. I’m pretty sure that’s why Batman turned sour
in the first place before it’s awesome revision. I’m pretty sure that can account for
EVERYTHING else ranging from the RoboCop sequels to Super Man Returns to X3
(Spidey 3?), you get my drift. Now I’m just making these assumptions about the
producers and I’m pretty sure you writers at FSR can substantiate or deny these as
fact or fiction.

My point about this IS, producers and production companies suck big elephant
cocks when they dick around with the film production. It doesn’t just happen to be
the comic book adaptations but I feel like comic book adaptations get hurt a lot
more than a lot of other adapted scripts. But, when they do get their grubby greedy
little hands on the material, the main idea for them seems to be cash so they try to
turn it into some sort of action porn and go over the top in SO many cases that the
film is ruined and the characters are ruined and the stories are ruined. This isn’t
always the case, but when I’ve been most disappointed, it certainly was.

My verdict to this long and perhaps unnecessary and probably rehashed (from a
previous article from this website about how the Weinsteins are bastards) rant and
response to the question: If you’re going to remake it or make it at all, get
someone with at least an ounce of credibility to write the script, put some solid hard
effort into the film and for pete’s sake don’t just throw all the juicy fight scenes from
the comic without some sort of character development. If I wanted a good action
flick, I’d probably watch Rambo over and over again.

Oh yeah and about sequel continuations – If it ain’t broke, don’t fucking fix it (I’m
referring to you Joel Schumacher-Man, RoboCop sequels, Spider-Man 3, X3,
Superman). Just stick with your guns and it’ll be good for christ’sake.

I think the reason you can account for the success of certain films (ie. Iron Man,
Spider-Man 2, X2, The Dark Knight, Batman Begins, 300, etc.) is because the films
kept to the material. Okay MAYBE they shouldn’t be shot panel for panel because
you can hardly call that original (Sin City, 300 – still awesome nonetheless) but they
should remain faithful thematically and stylistically and well for the most part to the
plot. Obviously if you take the big name comics, you ought to make revisions to the
story, but if you completely twist the story around and leave in a million plot holes,
you end up having a film that completely style over substance. That doesn’t mean
it’s not fun to watch, but it’s not worth much as stand alone cinema. Call me a snob
but V for Vendetta was not exactly AMAZING. It wasn’t until I read the graphic
novel that I actually understood everything that was going on. In said cases like the
ones above where you have a single story, I think it’s okay to be strict with the plot.
It seems like Alan Moore didn’t want to even have any association with the
production because his name was dropped out of the credits for the film and all they
credited was the illustrator David Lloyd.

Moving ON, if you want to stay just thematically and stylistically faithful to the
comic, you can’t be having shithead producers like Joel Schumacher or whatever
dicking around with the production. I’m pretty sure that’s why Batman turned sour
in the first place before it’s awesome revision. I’m pretty sure that can account for
EVERYTHING else ranging from the RoboCop sequels to Super Man Returns to X3
(Spidey 3?), you get my drift. Now I’m just making these assumptions about the
producers and I’m pretty sure you writers at FSR can substantiate or deny these as
fact or fiction.

My point about this IS, producers and production companies suck big elephant
cocks when they dick around with the film production. It doesn’t just happen to be
the comic book adaptations but I feel like comic book adaptations get hurt a lot
more than a lot of other adapted scripts. But, when they do get their grubby greedy
little hands on the material, the main idea for them seems to be cash so they try to
turn it into some sort of action porn and go over the top in SO many cases that the
film is ruined and the characters are ruined and the stories are ruined. This isn’t
always the case, but when I’ve been most disappointed, it certainly was.

My verdict to this long and perhaps unnecessary and probably rehashed (from a
previous article from this website about how the Weinsteins are bastards) rant and
response to the question: If you’re going to remake it or make it at all, get
someone with at least an ounce of credibility to write the script, put some solid hard
effort into the film and for pete’s sake don’t just throw all the juicy fight scenes from
the comic without some sort of character development. If I wanted a good action
flick, I’d probably watch Rambo over and over again.

Oh yeah and about sequel continuations – If it ain’t broke, don’t fucking fix it (I’m
referring to you Joel Schumacher-Man, RoboCop sequels, Spider-Man 3, X3,
Superman). Just stick with your guns and it’ll be good for christ’sake.

If they do relaunch the DD series they need to keep it dark, more Film Noir than the last outing, and keep the origial stars (Save Afleck & Ferral) away from the film.

If they do relaunch the DD series they need to keep it dark, more Film Noir than the last outing, and keep the origial stars (Save Afleck & Ferral) away from the film.