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Warren Ellis’ Brutal Graphic Novel RED Headed For The Big Screen!!

Sounds promising... by Heckles	Jun 12th, 2008 01:13:36 AM
But I still think we are overdue for a comic-related bust.
Can we cast it? by Heckles	Jun 12th, 2008 01:16:45 AM
Could De Niro or Pacino enter the genre? Hell, all they need is a paycheck on the back end. Downey Jr. and Favreau are stoked right now. But that was Iron Man. This is a small series that I would gather not many people have heard of.
This is bullshit! by Horace Cox	Jun 12th, 2008 01:45:10 AM
They ripped off my life story. *SPOILER* I killed the assassin. *END SPOILER*
The source material is solid by bravogolfhotel	Jun 12th, 2008 01:52:13 AM
It's one of Ellis' better short pieces, and it's a straight quasi-realistic thriller, so superhero fatigue shouldn't affect it.
global frequency by Mr_X	Jun 12th, 2008 04:06:47 AM
bitches!
WNB, the nature of comic by ChorleyFM	Jun 12th, 2008 05:01:16 AM
dialogue is that it is often really dense and heavy with lots of exposition, and can frequently rely on voice-overs which work better on print than on the page. Also, the nature of comics are that you can do practically everythng you can imagine, in film you have budgetary, advertising and censorship constraints that might require things to be altered. Otherwise the writing can just be really bad and it is more acceptable written down than being spoken, see Loeb and a whole host of others. However there are some comic writers, like Ellis and Vaughn where you could practically lift the thing from the source.
This sounds like every movie ever made in the.... by FlickaPoo	Jun 12th, 2008 06:29:18 AM
...history of the world. I haven't read the picture book, so for all I know it could be a staggering work of heart braking genius, but who wakes up one day and says "...man! I just had a GREAT idea!...it's a for a story, and there is going to be this guy....some sort of badass, maybe special forces, maybe CIA, maybe an assassin...I don't know. The point is he's retired see?, but someone comes back from his violent past to haunt him! Oh man!, oh man!....and he doesn't want to have to start kicking ass again, but they threaten him and or his family or something, so he HAS to! Yea, and then he has to get his old crew back together too, to help him out. Man, people are going to SHIT when they hear this idea!...."
"Warren Ellis Graphic Novel" by adultzero	Jun 12th, 2008 07:08:12 AM
No love for Cully Hammer, WTF?
I'd rather just watch 'Commando' by Dr Gregory House	Jun 12th, 2008 07:15:55 AM
"You're a funny man Sully. I like you. That's why I'm going to kill you last."
There's a plot I've never heard of before (rolls eyes) by ATARI	Jun 12th, 2008 07:32:33 AM

ChorleyFM by Knuckleduster	Jun 12th, 2008 07:48:16 AM
Agreed. Loeb is getting pretty fuckin useless, in my opinion. He should get shot for what he did to The Ultimates.
LoEG wasn't originally a DC release by Chewtoy	Jun 12th, 2008 07:50:31 AM
DC bought... Wildstorm, was it?... after the first miniseries was printed, I believe.
Dr. House by Funketeer	Jun 12th, 2008 08:59:06 AM
Normally I'd agree with you and start pounding on Herc for his comic book ignorance but this is the first time he didn't use his "best comic book writer not named Alan Moore" line so I'm going to give him a pass. I'm even not going to bust his balls for calling a comic book a graphic novel like an insecure pretentious twat would.
DC/Time Warner/Fox by Funketeer	Jun 12th, 2008 09:01:23 AM
Both League and Red are Wildstorm books which, while owned by DC, started out as a creator owned imprint so Moore owns the rights to League and I believe Ellis and Hamner own the rights to Red.
the "great" Warren Ellis??? by Circean6	Jun 12th, 2008 09:14:38 AM
Mr. Ellis has made it clear time & time again the he hates Americans, hates superheros and certainly hates American Superheros.
circean9 by aestheticity	Jun 12th, 2008 09:19:39 AM
sounds great to me.
and the graphic nbovel was based on king crimson's _red_, right? by duanejones	Jun 12th, 2008 12:54:45 PM
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the last time i post tablature to aicn... by duanejones	Jun 12th, 2008 12:55:12 PM

Ellis does NOT hate Americans... by grendel824	Jun 12th, 2008 07:46:05 PM
... and while he's often expressed "disdain" for superheroes (and in some ways he's right - it should be easier to pick up a comic that doesn't feature guys in tights hitting each other), he's also got to have some secret love for them somewhere in order to write them so well. The "plot" of Red is certainly not original, but it was a good little story and if a decent movie is made from it, I hope the creative team sees a ton of cash from it. Not everything has to be a super-original high concept work - sometimes the same old stuff done right can be entertaining and worthwhile.
Trik_Ster by spud mcspud	Jun 13th, 2008 04:04:51 AM
True - the build-up was awesome and then Gah Lak Tus turns out to be a swarm of robots. The solution Reed came up with to deal with it was way too cool to waste on a swarm of giant alien robots. And he reused parts of his own unproduced script END TIMES to fill in the second part of the trilogy. Cheap! GLOBAL FREQUENCY is legendary though. The comics are beyond awesome, and the pilot show was fantastic - potentially cou8ld have been the next X-FILES. WB - RELEASE THAT FUCKING PILOT ON DVD NNNOOOOOOOOOOWWWW!!!!!
GLOBAL FREQUENCY - BIG WHEEL by spud mcspud	Jun 13th, 2008 04:06:17 AM
Now THAT'S how you do a bionic man story. Could be the best sci-fi horror movie of the 00s, if it were made properly!
spud mcspud by Knuckleduster	Jun 13th, 2008 08:37:21 AM
There was a Global frequency pilot? How do I not know about this? And where can I find it?
I liked this when it was COMMANDO... by Big Dumb Ape	Jun 14th, 2008 04:09:49 AM
For crying out loud, could the plot be any more generic? Why even pay for the rights to this -- what, you're telling me there aren't already like 500 spec action scripts floating out there with this same plot? And aside from diehard comic reading geeks do you ACTUALLY think Ellis' name carries ANY clout to the average person out there? Man, if they wanted to do this story the producers literally could have picked up the phone and called any writer in town and said "Go rent COMMANDO. Same core plot, just update it. Have it to me in 3 weeks."

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