Aim for Alien, dudes, Alien.

I'm skeptical about this as a horror flick. It ought to be shooting for something like PAN'S LABYRINTH (texas is the seat of our neo-fascism - aka the burning Bush). The contemporary political framework is already in place for it.

anyway, it was a decent comic book, and it has to be horror-ish. But I'm wary of a comic2film that aims for horror. The results are always shoddy, Uwe Bollocks flicks that only Rob Zombie *might* embrace. Yuck. Sorry for associating Rob with Uwe. That's unforgivable. :-/

I thought EVENT HORIZON did a pretty nice job of emulating ALIEN, and PITCH BLACK was a quality ALIENS knockoff. But yeah, the ALIEN analogy is seriously overused. Still though...a nice compliment to one of best sci-fi & horror films of all time (imo).

a similar comic from the same era that I would really love to see is THE DARKNESS, which I guess has a new video game that I can't be arsed to play. They're probably so similar in premise that people would scream plagiarism, but I felt THE DARKNESS kept my attention beyond the scantily clad girl drawings.

Look at them boobies, right in my face

Nekkid tush over there up in some guy's space.

Nudity - We love it!

Cure Reggie Jackson's assiassination of Queen Elizabeth. I MUST KILL THE QUEEN!

Misogynist? Far be it from AICN TB to refrain from whipping out the most exaggerated accusation first. But facts be facts... Charlize, Jovovich, Jolie, and most of all, Knightly, could never hold their own against Sly, Ah-nuld, Dolf... hell, even Van Damme.

such is the kind of spam I get at work on an hourly basis. so yea the subject line read like someone spammed aicn with this story.

in other news if her cooter sprouts teeth and consumers her victims count me in. I actually got that idea from a late 80's anime I used to see on the big screen a new wave club here in houston. what sickos. purple mohawks and snatches eating horny guys.

finally yes if she's nude when turning into these monsters I'll pay for a matinee ticket no qwerschun.

NUDITY - We Love It!

However, I give props to Queen, whom I met when he was working at Top Cow. He was supposed to be the original penciller for The Darkness comic but Marc Silvestri soon replaced him. He has stuck to his guns and I can't say I've ever seen him sell out to any of those companies. This looks like it could be a cool movie on the big screen and could bring some deserved exposure to Queen. Good luck to him.

I'm all for "Darkchylde" going for an "Alien" influence, but that means a slow, atmospheric buildup, chains rattling softly as characters traverse poorly lit chambers, and deviantly atonal music creeping like a heartbeat. Think you can do this, Darkchylde director? Because if your film becomes a slam-bang, chick gorefest, then it's nothing like "Alien" and you're talking out of your ass.

Not that you'd be the first person making a film to do so. I wish you luck.

hey in other news check this out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L eeroy_Jenkins

seriously I'm on my way over to check out the story. hey are the talkbacks dead tonight or what?

I'm aiming my complaint at the writers of the comic book, not the filmmakers. This is like writing "Lord of the Ryngs" or "The Matryx." The added "y" means nothing, says nothing, and evokes nothing. If anything, it ruins a property I might've taken seriously if they'd spelled it right in the first place.

I'm suddenly not excited for "Darkchylde" (see what I mean?) anymore.

do you guys really give a shit about the spelling? or do you must hate the hell outta this comic? I didn't think it was THAT bad. it was completely forgettable except for the pin-up aspect. but I've read far worse Marvel tripe in the x-men and spidey books. far far worse. and with worse art as well.

Besides -- what the fuck IS this? I mean, as a movie? I know what DARKCHYLDE was. It was an utterly forgettable comic from years and years ago that was poorly written, poorly drawn, never came out on time (which was even more laughable since it only lasted a few issues), but because it got mushed in with the whole Image Comics explosion and comics that people speculated on rather than actually READ, it succeeded and put some nice coin in Queen's pockets.

But don't try to tell me it was high art in the comic medium or anything like that. It was a badly drawn, big busted chick fighting monsters, and it came out at a time when speculators thought pin-up shots of big busted chicks thrusting out their chests page after page was the shit. Of course, all of that crap is now clogging up garbage fills across the nation, so we know how well THAT notion turned out...

But seriously, what IS this? Even if you click on the link supplied, the guy is still pimping reprints of comics from 10 years ago -- but even at the site there doesn't seem to be an actual notice about the movie. No star listings, no nothing. So why do I suspect this is AICN being played? That maybe Queen talked WETA...or payed them out of pocket...to shoot a few stills or film a SFX sequence TO TRY and get a film up and running? I notice he says "It's our HOPE" to do something and not "It's a done deal. Here's the studio. Here's the budget. Here's the stars."

Hey, my attitude in life is to wish everyone well. If Queen lucked out and got a movie deal, then fine for him. On the other hand, as others here have noted, I will say it sort of shits a brick simply because there are a billion other comics out there that are FAR more deserving of a shot on the big screen or TV for actually being original or cool. This thing had a storyline that read like a bad BUFFY episode regurgitated. My guess is, if this gets made, I can look for it on Sci Fi alongside MANSQUITO 2...