Amigo
Zwei Comicverfilmungen des Autors Berian K. Vaughan sind gerade in Planung.
Y - The Last Man erzählt die Geschichte des letzten Mannes auf Erden - alle anderen männlichen Menschen und Tiere wurden von einer seltsamen Seuche ausgerottet. Was sich wie ein Spaß für den guten Mann anhört, ist aber eher ein Alptraum. 60 Comichefte sind bei Vertigo/DC Comics geplant.
Ex Machina hat auf der diesjährigen Comic-Con in San Diego einige der begehrten Eisner Awards abgeräumt. Die Serie erscheint bei Wildstorm/DC Comics.
Hier ein Bericht von Comicscontinuum.com:
Brian K. Vaughan said it was a natural progression for him to write the screenplay for the Ex Machina feature film, based on his comic book from WildStorm.
The property is set up at New Line Cinema, and Vaughan commented about the deal during Comic-Con International in San Diego.
"It wasn't really too much of a fight, honestly. It was a project that I'm passionate about and I care about," Vaughan said. "And I said, 'I'd love to write it if you give me a shot.' And they said, 'We would like you to do that, too.' So there wasn't a lot of lobbying."
Vaughan said he understands some tweaking is in order for the property to move from comics to film.
"Ex Machina is a story about a guy who becomes the world's first super-hero. One of the proverbial strange accidents gives him incredible powers. He grew up loving comic books, so he decides he decides he's going to use these powers to be a super-hero. And, really, nothing works. That's just sort of helping maintain the status quo. He decides to run for office and because of certain events, he winds up winning by a landslide," Vaughan said. "I don't think if you're going to do a summer action movie, no one's going to see something where in act one you're an incredible, exciting super-hero, and at the end, you're a guy sitting at a desk passing bills and talking about filling potholes.
"You really do have to reinvent it from the ground up, and I'm excited about doing that. I'm just getting started on it."
Perhaps helping the translation is that Ex Machina is a relatively new property without out decades of history like some other comics being made into movies.
"Ex Machina's only been around a year and I've had sort of an easy time distilling it and really finding out what the book is about," Vaughan said. "You don't worry about cramming every plot element into it. Just worry about, 'This is theme. This is what's important' and capture the spirit of the book."
Vaughan's Y: The Last Man, published by Vertigo, is also set up as a feature film at New Line.
"Everyone always comes up and asks me, especially about Y, why not do a television series? That it seems like with most comics, because of their serial nature and that they're ongoing, wouldn't it work better as an ongoing television series?" Vaughan said. "It's hard, because, a show like Y or something like Ex Machina, they're aren't many television stations, outside of HBO, you could take that to. Once they're not interested, where do you go? It's also for budgetary reasons. They're such big, epic stories, you sort of need the budget of Hollywood and a major motion picture to do that."
Vaughan said the Y movie should sort of be like a zombie movie.
"You can't kill all the men in act one and then at the end of the movie, find a way to bring them all back," he said. "I think the audience feels cheated that way.
"It's sort of like most zombie movies, where it's not about saving the world at the end. It's a much, smaller personal story, about this survival of a handful of people that you care about.
"I think for Y that's the real secret for getting the movie right. Not having it be this messianic fiction of a guy who saves the world. It's more the story of the last boy on Earth becoming the last man on Earth, and how it takes women to make that happen."
Y - The Last Man erzählt die Geschichte des letzten Mannes auf Erden - alle anderen männlichen Menschen und Tiere wurden von einer seltsamen Seuche ausgerottet. Was sich wie ein Spaß für den guten Mann anhört, ist aber eher ein Alptraum. 60 Comichefte sind bei Vertigo/DC Comics geplant.
Ex Machina hat auf der diesjährigen Comic-Con in San Diego einige der begehrten Eisner Awards abgeräumt. Die Serie erscheint bei Wildstorm/DC Comics.
Hier ein Bericht von Comicscontinuum.com:
Brian K. Vaughan said it was a natural progression for him to write the screenplay for the Ex Machina feature film, based on his comic book from WildStorm.
The property is set up at New Line Cinema, and Vaughan commented about the deal during Comic-Con International in San Diego.
"It wasn't really too much of a fight, honestly. It was a project that I'm passionate about and I care about," Vaughan said. "And I said, 'I'd love to write it if you give me a shot.' And they said, 'We would like you to do that, too.' So there wasn't a lot of lobbying."
Vaughan said he understands some tweaking is in order for the property to move from comics to film.
"Ex Machina is a story about a guy who becomes the world's first super-hero. One of the proverbial strange accidents gives him incredible powers. He grew up loving comic books, so he decides he decides he's going to use these powers to be a super-hero. And, really, nothing works. That's just sort of helping maintain the status quo. He decides to run for office and because of certain events, he winds up winning by a landslide," Vaughan said. "I don't think if you're going to do a summer action movie, no one's going to see something where in act one you're an incredible, exciting super-hero, and at the end, you're a guy sitting at a desk passing bills and talking about filling potholes.
"You really do have to reinvent it from the ground up, and I'm excited about doing that. I'm just getting started on it."
Perhaps helping the translation is that Ex Machina is a relatively new property without out decades of history like some other comics being made into movies.
"Ex Machina's only been around a year and I've had sort of an easy time distilling it and really finding out what the book is about," Vaughan said. "You don't worry about cramming every plot element into it. Just worry about, 'This is theme. This is what's important' and capture the spirit of the book."
Vaughan's Y: The Last Man, published by Vertigo, is also set up as a feature film at New Line.
"Everyone always comes up and asks me, especially about Y, why not do a television series? That it seems like with most comics, because of their serial nature and that they're ongoing, wouldn't it work better as an ongoing television series?" Vaughan said. "It's hard, because, a show like Y or something like Ex Machina, they're aren't many television stations, outside of HBO, you could take that to. Once they're not interested, where do you go? It's also for budgetary reasons. They're such big, epic stories, you sort of need the budget of Hollywood and a major motion picture to do that."
Vaughan said the Y movie should sort of be like a zombie movie.
"You can't kill all the men in act one and then at the end of the movie, find a way to bring them all back," he said. "I think the audience feels cheated that way.
"It's sort of like most zombie movies, where it's not about saving the world at the end. It's a much, smaller personal story, about this survival of a handful of people that you care about.
"I think for Y that's the real secret for getting the movie right. Not having it be this messianic fiction of a guy who saves the world. It's more the story of the last boy on Earth becoming the last man on Earth, and how it takes women to make that happen."