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ROFL. Ratner's next superhero flick (you can't make this stuff up).

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Norrin Radd

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Reliance Big Entertainment, the Indian company that just screwed over DreamWorks' funding, has acquired rights to Rob Liefeld's graphic novel Youngblood and has hired Brett Ratner, of Red Dragon, X-Men 3, and the Rush Hour series, to direct the adaptation. RBE paid an excessive mid six figures for the rights and has fast-tracked the project. Youngblood, first published by Image Comics in 1992, is about a superhero team sanctioned and overseen by the US government. "Most of the great graphic novels are gone, and Youngblood is one of the few comic books left with tentpole potential," Ratner told Variety.
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Youngblood?...great?...tentpole potential?

:guffaw:

http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/02/08/brett-ratner-helming-youngblood-comic-adaptation/
 
Re: ROFL. Ratner's next superhero flick (you can't make this shit up).

After the travesty that was X-Men 3, I don't have any hopes for the quality of this movie, whatever the source material.

Um... what does "tentpole potential" mean? Erection-inspiring or something? :wtf:
 
Re: ROFL. Ratner's next superhero flick (you can't make this shit up).

I will only support this if all of the characters appear as Liefeld would have drawn them.
 
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:guffaw: I just checked out that link!

Anyone else got that sick feeling that we're going to see a nasty combination of Fantastic Four and X-Men 3 with this adaptation? To be honest, I know nothing about Youngblood, but as cool as it sounds and as good as it may be, I've got a feeling Ratner is going to screw it up as bad as he did X-Men 3. Thoughts?
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My thoughts exactly! :techman:
 
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There is nothing to know about youngblood. There's been maybe 12 reboots since the concept started and none of the series made it much past issue 5. The only reason Young Blood is known is because of the hugeness of it's failure when it sold a couple million preorders (each) for issues 2,3,4 and 5 which never materialized and popped the bubble on the comics investment market in the early 90s.
 
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I lost my respect for Ratner when his choppy over-editing ruined the beauty and realism of Jackie Chan's fight scenes in Rush Hour.
 
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Oh My God.:wtf:

Youngblood?

That's it. The bottom of the barrel has now officially been scraped.

Let's hope they adopt Liefelds production style, and the movie takes ten years to complete:lol:
 
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The Borg Queen said:
After the travesty that was X-Men 3, I don't have any hopes for the quality of this movie, whatever the source material.

Um... what does "tentpole potential" mean? Erection-inspiring or something? :wtf:
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tentpole potential describes the ability of a movie to be a particular studio's "tentpole" or major film or films of the year that prop up and perhaps justify all the other smaller productions they make.
 
Re: ROFL. Ratner's next superhero flick (you can't make this shit up).

If it keeps him away from God of War he can go ahead and do it.
 
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Is it April Fool's Day? Oh man that is hilarious. Still, it could be a good *dumb* action flick.
 
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Norrin Radd said:
Reliance Big Entertainment, the Indian company that just screwed over DreamWorks' funding, has acquired rights to Rob Liefeld's graphic novel Youngblood and has hired Brett Ratner, of Red Dragon, X-Men 3, and the Rush Hour series, to direct the adaptation. RBE paid an excessive mid six figures for the rights and has fast-tracked the project. Youngblood, first published by Image Comics in 1992, is about a superhero team sanctioned and overseen by the US government. "Most of the great graphic novels are gone, and Youngblood is one of the few comic books left with tentpole potential," Ratner told Variety.
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Youngblood?...great?...tentpole potential?

:guffaw:

http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/02/08/brett-ratner-helming-youngblood-comic-adaptation/
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:vulcan:

I guess one would have to know or care about Youngblood for this to feel like an outrage.
 
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I am going to watch this if it comes out. I need a good laugh!
 
Re: ROFL. Ratner's next superhero flick (you can't make this shit up).

Then it's right up Ratner's alley. All show, no go.
 
Re: ROFL. Ratner's next superhero flick (you can't make this shit up).

So I guess X-men fans will be boycotting this to get back at Ratner? :vulcan:
 
Re: ROFL. Ratner's next superhero flick (you can't make this shit up).

Norrin Radd said:
Starship Polaris said:
The Borg Queen said:
Um... what does "tentpole potential" mean? Erection-inspiring or something? :wtf:
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GEN 13 - great tentpole potential.
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Hell, Gen 13 could be garbage, but potentially MUCH better than Youngblood...

Problem is,the comic is 90% titillation and 10% meaningful.
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You had me at "titillation." Who would play Fairchild, though? :devil:
 
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Dream said:
So I guess X-men fans will be boycotting this to get back at Ratner? :vulcan:
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I won't, I might give the DVD a try. And I still enjoyed X-3, even though it could have been better.
 
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Guy Gardener said:
There is nothing to know about youngblood. There's been maybe 12 reboots since the concept started and none of the series made it much past issue 5.
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Which begs the question. Why pay for rights - however cheap - to something that has zero recognition value in the mass market? Why not just create your own characters?
 
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Then they couldn't bill it as a comic book adaptation, even if it's technically not.
 
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