Re: Warner Bros Considering Developing The Dark Knight Returns Animate
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It's possible, but it seems that most of these get the "they ruined my childhood" reactions.
Those that claim some work of fiction "ruined my childhood" are whiny fanboys who are actually in the minority. They are stupid and should be ignored.
Maybe because this is animated it will be better?
I don't know if it will make it better or worse, but, it's what they are going with. Makes sense. A live action version might be to expensive and it IS the last Batman story, so, how do you do a sequel? (I mean that seriously, did you read DKR2? Holy shit that was awful.)
I'm just thinking of the more direct adaptations (all I can think of are live action at the moment) like Watchmen and the rest.
Yeah, I felt it was a little soulless, and personally, they shoulda done it as a mini series. But, there are people who like it.
But, maybe, the other choice, for a two hour movie, would be to adapt it further away from the source material. Risky, but there you go.
Or, taken another way, given the option, why spend money for something I already have when they can instead focus on something new that I've never seen before that could be just as, if not more, interesting? Or is there less risk in an adaptation?
Simply: yes. There is less risk. Just consider THIS project, how many of us are already interested. And they just had to do a press release. That's it. There's name recognition. There's already a plot that works. You already have that going into production. It could go wrong, sure, but, so could do something original that you also have to spend time and money introducing people to.
I guess I'd just prefer new material. Nevermind me, carry on.
I dig it. And they do do that, from time to time. The Superman/Shazam DVD had a bunch of new stuff-- Captain Marvel and Supes, A Spectre short, a Jonah Hex short, a Green Arrow short. Good stuff. saw it streaming on Netflix.
