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Darwyn Cooke's DC: THE NEW FRONTIER A Made-For-DVD Toon??
I am – Hercules!!
How much of Darwyn Cook’s beautiful and exciting homage to the Silver Age can Bruce Timm hope to cram into an 88-minute cartoon?
I imagine if they’re going really going to turn DC: The New Frontier into a made-for-DVD animated movie, we’re going to hear about it at San Diego Comic Con in about a month. Until then, chew on this:
Herc,
Longtime fan, first time contributor (to you anyway I gave Harry a tip a few years back about a Guy Ritchie war movie that didnt pan out but lets not dwell on that... )
Stan Berkowitz and Bruce Timm are working on an Direct to video asaptation of the super-hero epic "DC: The New Frontier"!
Im a Wikipedia editor, and one of the pages I created was for Darwyn Cooke's New Frontier comic book miniseries ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC:_The_New_Frontier ). In the last few days someone some info from a Worlds Finest (the website) interview in which Stan Berkowitz (one of the producers of the JLA cartoon) in which Berkowitz revealed he was working on an direct to video adaptation of New Frontier with Bruce Timm producing.
If you look at the New Frontier wiki article the info has been removed by another editor because it is now an unsourced claim as the Berkowitz interview has been amended to remove the revelation, presumabaly at Warner Animation's behest (though its still there in the history of the article if you know how to check).
Also further corroboration comes from the official DC animation forum page http://forums.toonzone.net/showthread.php?p=2200052 where the admins have posted the message "As many of you have undoubtedly read, a new DTV was announced yesterday in an interview on WF. Information was prematurely released; in the coming months I'm sure we'll get an official announcement. As such, posts referencing this film have been removed. We're sorry for the inconvenience and respectfully request that all news of the DTV be kept to yourselves for the time being. I've no doubt half the internet knows about the DTV at this point, but that is moot. Thank you for your cooperation."
As youll learn if you read the wiki article the comic was done in an Timmverse animated style, it won loads of awards and featured the whole extended DC pantheon (though it did focus on Green Lantern Hal Jordan the most). It will be interesting to see what elements they keep and lose, especially given the focus on Jordan and the period setting.
If you use the tip call me "Rick Flag" (my previous aicn pseudonym was Matt Regan, but thats now been claimed by someone else!)
Sorry for wasting your time with this if you have already got the tip. Keep up the great work!!
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Great writing! Great artwork! Good luck on the project!
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That'll be totally kickass.
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AWESOME READ! AWESOME NEWS! Especially the concentration on Jonn Jonzz
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but a direct to dvd ain't so shabby either...what an excellent book.
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NEW FRONTIER is a masterpiece of the comic medium, and would lend itself brilliantly to animation. (FYI, Cooke did storyboards for both Timm's Batman and Superman animated series - and animated the Batman Beyond main title sequence.) This would go a long way towards making up for JLU's premature cancellation.
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mostly about timm continuing dc animation. if he's involved, it will rock. bruce timm - legend.
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Still can't figure out why they gave Justice League the boot though.
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...they took each story one at a time and told them all correctly.
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There is a nice article @ Newsarama that explains possibly why JLU/Titans and now possibly Krypto are being axed @ CN. Basically it's all about licensing and CN wants more of their properties to get licensing opp's. This is why we are seeing so many new properties creeping out of CN, they are planning huge toy lines for their new shows to make tons of cash. They just didn't make much money directly from JLU & Titans.
Regardless, I'm real excited by this, as long as the quality is better than previous DTV efforts (Batwoman/Mr. Freeze/Ultimate Avengers). -
"I'm a Wikipedia editor."
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Hi Im the spy who reported the story (Herc left in the part where I said that I was the wiki editor who started the DC new Frontier article which pretty much gives away my id, but its not like anyone was gonna go look it up).
If you are interested in finding ouit babout the series check out the wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC:_The_New_Frontier.
Anyway though the news is exciting, there are problems with the story. Its got a huge cast, tons of continuity and most difficult of all - a pretty lame threat\bad guy of the strange unrelatable alien intelligence variety. Which may be kinda traditional for Silver age DC (Starro the Conquerer is just like that) but the ending of new frontier is really just a big team up with no sense of a matching of wits or a conflict of personalities that mark out the finales of the best dramatic stories in my opinion.
The strongest suspense in the story comes from the government's ambigous actions (King Faraday and pals kidnap martian manhunter) and thats resolved 3\4 of the way through.
Just my two cents, but I hope Berkowitz and co. look at these aspects and put their own spin on things.
Hugh Sheridan\Rick Flag
ppart ofteresting part is the government
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I'll admit, I had a small orgasm when I first read this news on Newsarama. I look forward to this like no other animation project since Justice League made it's debut.
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Anything mentioning wikipedia is automatically suspect. I'll believe it when I hear the announcement with my own ears in San Diego.
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Yikes
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I just hope that they don't change too much. This is probably one of my favorite comics of all time.
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This sounds cool.
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This cracked me up. Like this is something that should carry some sort of prestige.
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Cut the sap a break. I certainly did not get the impression he was bragging. And even if he were, more power to him. There must be some mojo behind it or you spastic chihuahuas wouldn't be scratching in the dust and spraying on the furniture about it. My god.
Bless you, prestigious wiki editor. If this is true, it's great news, and I am a better man for hearing it. I hope they keep it in the style and period of the comic.
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Wonder Woman was really packin it on back then huh? As one of the previous talkbackers so eloquantly put it "Yikes".
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I think she looks appropriate. Sadly, the Wonder Woman baseline has shifted too far, and when she doesn't look like a 14 yr old Kate Moss people get scared.
BTW, New Frontiers is highly stylized,so before you start crying about how small Martian Manhunter's head is, or how neat everyone's haircuts are, try to keep that in mind. -
I'm sorry but Silver Age just does not translate well to my generation. It's too cheesey.
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NF was one of my favorite comic stories of the past 10 years.
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...just a little put off by Wonder Hippo.
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Take two Crumb comics, (stare at the gigantor women with thighs like sequoias and boobs like missiles, for ten minutes, or until you get used to it, then go back and look at NF Wonder Woman.)and call me in the morning. Except, don't call me.
Ever read Love and Rockets? Well you might want to try the Crumb technique before reading that too.
How come nobody seems too upset over the big red granny panties Supes is wearing?
I'm all for them, of course, I am just surprised people aren't uniformly freaked by every NF style element that can't be found in comics today. Aw, nevermind, I give up. Wonder Woman and Robin should be indistinguishable from one another. -
Would ya look at those big red granny panties Supes is wearing? Those things are hideous! ;)
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HAHA Beat me to it Hairy! Mr Inbetween does AMAZON mean big fattie? Because if that's the case I'm surrounded by LOTS of Wonder Women here in Massachusetts. Nyuk nyuk nyuk..Bring on the Kate Moss lookalikes...coked up and all!
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Why are we not yet talking about the fact that new episodes of "Futurama" are going into production to air on Comedy Central. Peggy Bundy broke the news on Ferguson's show last night. Check zap2it.com for more info.
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It would be great news to hear that DC will start doing direct to DVD animation releases based on their chracters. Even better news when you confirm that Bruce Timm will be in charge. And that other guy is right about doing each book as individual full lenght release. Because the fans will support this.
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miniseries. Just as would Batman: Long Halloween.
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action if done in the same style as Sky Captain.
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The article doesn't even make sense.
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She's not supposed to be super-sexy. She's supposed to be a broad than can hang with the boys.
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It's Cooke's own retro style, and it's flippin' sweet.
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That's a sexy WW! "Full-figured" and "fat" are two completely different things. Oh, and for online personals profiles, ... ladies, this is a heads-up for you, too. You need to know the difference.
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except the illustration looks like a style from the forties or (early) fifties -- and I always thought the Silver Age was the late fifties/early sixties. Huh. Shows what I know.
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Sweet Mary Mother of God!! please let this come to fruition! keep it set in the 50s, use the comic as a storyboard, and add that JLU magic. this could be the greatest thing since they invented boobs.
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"I'm a Wikipedia editor".
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