Comic you would like to see made into a movie? (1 Viewer)

[Zztop]

Frank Miler's Ronin

 

[SaintsBrazil]

Spider Man vs. Wolverine. Centered around an old KGB lover of Logan's named Charlie. Was a really compelling story. Would make a fantastic film.

I have that comic.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

In today’s tech centered world, newspapers have started to become a thing of the past. Comic strips have gone with them. Just a few decades ago, newspapers were big business. On Sunday mornings in my house growing up, you gathered around the table with your family, reading the newspaper while your mom cut out coupons for the next trip to the grocery store.

When your father got home from work during the week, the first thing he did was pick up the sports section. If you were a child, you went straight for the comics. The Peanuts gang was there. So was Garfield, Dennis the Menace, Blondie, Hagar the Horrible, and so many more. The king of the comics, however, if you happened to be a child of the 80s and 90s like me, was Calvin and Hobbes...........

It’s even more special when you look at how the comic ended and the man behind it. In 1995 Calvin and Hobbes was just as well known as Peanuts and Garfield. Bill Watterson didn’t want to spend thirty or forty years churning out daily strips though. He didn’t want it to fade and become a shell of what it was, so he got out while it was still great.

Watterson faded away from the public eye as well, JD Salinger style, never to be seen by the curious eyes of his fans. In the past two decades he has given a handful of print interviews and guest written a few comics, but that’s it.

Watterson had his chance to commercialize Calvin and Hobbes. He could’ve made millions on stuffed tiger toys alone. He said no to every request. Those Calvin bumper stickers you see are all non-licensed creations that he has nothing to do with. He was even offered the chance to turn his creation into a feature film.

The temptation had to be there. There have been countless Peanuts films and TV specials. Dennis the Menace became a live action film. Garfield was an animated series and a few live action films we’d like to forget. Watterson, however, never gave in.

Just as JD Salinger never wanted The Catcher in the Rye corrupted by Hollywood, neither did Watterson with Calvin and Hobbes. It’s the best decision he ever made. Sure, there will always be that curiosity to have seen them moving across a screen instead of our imagination, to hear them speak, and watch them for ninety minutes instead of ninety seconds. Once you get past that curiosity though, there is no reason for a Calvin and Hobbes film to ever exist. There is no way it could have ever worked.

Calvin and Hobbes was special to its readers in a way that other comics were not, where you read them, then went about your day. Calvin and Hobbes stuck with you. They were your friends. To adapt them into a film would have made it so that kids and the grownups they became would have had to share that specialness outside how it existed in our individual minds.

That quickly would have diminished its magic, because how do you create something that everyone will love when it’s such a unique and very personal experience for its readers? There’s no way to recapture the magic of a child’s imagination and turn it into a film.

There would have been so many choices to consider for a full length film. Is it hand drawn animation like the comics, or does it become computer animated like Peanuts became? What’s the film about? What time of year is it set in? Calvin and Hobbes’ adventures happen in both summer and winter. How do you settle on one?

There’s so many seemingly small things to consider that become big issues once turned into a film, such as how to even choose the voices for the pair when they exist differently in everyone’s head. One might hear Hobbes with a childlike voice for example, others may have always envisioned him as sounding more adult. How do you compromise and create something everyone will like? It’s impossible.........

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The only way I can think to do it is as a Drop Dead Fred type story
Calvin comes back in his mid 30s for his father’s funeral and he’s helping mom pack the house and he rediscovers Hobbes
BUT it couldn’t be a schmaltzy ending where he rediscovers his youth, or a Toy Story/Pooh thing where he hands off his toy to the next kids
It would have to be a real, honest look at adulting

 

[tenordas]

The only way I can think to do it is as a Drop Dead Fred type story
Calvin comes back in his mid 30s for his father’s funeral and he’s helping mom pack the house and he rediscovers Hobbes
BUT it couldn’t be a schmaltzy ending where he rediscovers his youth, or a Toy Story/Pooh thing where he hands off his toy to the next kids
It would have to be a real, honest look at adulting

I can't imagine any film version of Calvin and Hobbes being worse than that idea. Sorry, but no.

 

[Booker]

The Unknown Comic



I think it would make for a great movie.

They kind of did -- Night Patrol -- though I don't know that I'd call it a great movie...

Night Patrol - Wikipedia

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[guidomerkinsrules]

I can't imagine any film version of Calvin and Hobbes being worse than that idea. Sorry, but no.

And I am sorry to hear about the imagination damage you seem to have suffered- I hope you can find a salve of some sort