Brett Ratner to make Rob Liefeld's Youngblood into a movie

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Brett Ratner boards 'Youngblood'

The fallout between DreamWorks and Universal isn’t stopping Reliance Big Entertainment from flexing its dealmaking muscle.

The Indian media conglom has acquired Rob Liefeld’s iconic graphic novel “Youngblood” for Brett Ratner to direct.
Reliance inked a development deal with Ratner’s shingle Rat Entertainment, as well as Julia Roberts’ Red Om Films, during the Berlin film fest.
The company paid mid six figures for the rights to “Youngblood,” about a superhero team sanctioned and overseen by the U.S. government.
Project is the first to emanate from the Indian media conglom’s nine development pacts with Hollywood talent.
“Most of the great graphic novels are gone, and ‘Youngblood’ is one of the few comicbooks left with tentpole potential,” Ratner told Daily Variety. “It was a real personal passion project for me, and a lot of people wanted (‘Youngblood’), but the amazing thing about the guys at Reliance is the speed with which they’re able to move.”
Reliance has also acquired the rights to French graphic novel “Fly Wires” for Ratner’s shingle.
Project, which will be renamed “Infinity,” will be produced by Ratner, who has already tapped Sylvain White (“Stomp the Yard”) to direct and John Collee (“Master and Commander”) to pen the script.
Both projects are being fast-tracked, although no decision has been made on whether they will eventually land at Paramount.
Ratner inked an overall deal with Par last July after a longstanding setup at New Line. His Reliance deal does not impact its terms but rather lends him financial clout to acquire and develop projects he can then offer to the studio.
At Cannes last year Reliance execs announced development pacts with Nicolas Cage’s Saturn Prods., Jim Carrey’s JC 23 Entertainment, George Clooney’s Smokehouse Prods., Chris Columbus’ 1492 Pictures, Tom Hanks’ Playtone Prods., Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment and Jay Roach’s Everyman Pictures.
“The great thing with Reliance is they also have the ability to partner up or co-finance the film with a studio,” added Ratner. “It really offers freedom for the talent they’re working with.”

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This has the potential to be the worst movie ever made.

 

[blksuperman2]

LOL. The internets will now explode.

 

[[A]]

Read about it minutes ago--Frank Miller just got extra points

 

[Spade]

You're kidding me, right?

I could say "hey, Alan Moore once had a run on Youngblood," but I don't think Brett Ratner would care. So...yeah. Who's clamoring to see this?

 

[Chewy]

this will be the BEST.MOVIE.EVER.

 

[Deaths Head II]

I find this to be hilarious.

Also, it's appropriate for Ratner. This is probably the time of comic book he'll excel at adapting.

 

[[A]]

Liefeld should definitely storyboard

 

[Double Down]

They need to find a way to get Uwe Boll involved.

 

[Chewy]

^ & Seltzer & Friedberg

 

[Bubastis]

I'm just mad that Ratner is making another movie.

 

[Deaths Head II]

....John Collee (“Master and Commander&#8221 to pen the script.

Talk about career suicide.

 

[[A]]

maybe Robert Rodriguez can write the score

 

[Double Down]

I can't wait to not see this!

 

[Chewy]

Most of the great graphic novels are gone, and ‘Youngblood’ is one of the few comicbooks left with tentpole potential

It was a real personal passion project for me, and a lot of people wanted (‘Youngblood&#8217, but the amazing thing about the guys at Reliance is the speed with which they’re able to move.

@ Ratner contradicting himself in his two sentence statement. Which is it, Brett? Are most of the great graphic novels "gone" (to directors with potential, I would assume), or is it a passion project of your's?

 

[Chewy]

The CHUD write-up about this is basically the best thing ever
http://chud.com/articles/articles/18080/1/BRETT-RATNER-CHOOSES-HIS-NEXT-COMIC-BOOK-MOVIE/Page1.html

Here's a snippet

For those who don't know, Youngblood is a gigantic pile of horse**** hammered into comic book shape. An poor man's X-Men for people with a rare ocular deficiency that disallows them from just reading X-Men comics. You know what a poor man's Youngblood is? Your grandmother dying in the shower. Youngblood launched with Image Comics and soon after created new definitions for lateness, horrendous art, and terrible writing before Liefeld used his millions to lure good writers to his books. The result was horrible late books and good comic book writers having a Mercedes and the dough socked away to launch their own comic book titles.

 

[[A]]

it's funny how just the other day I posted some Image art in my bad art thread it is really that bad

 

[CelticPredator]

YABBA DABBA DOOM!11


I hope he casts actors that look EXACLY how they look in the comic.

 

[[A]]

^ Freak Show II ?

 

[TheComicbookKid]

I love the wording in the article. It makes it sound like Ratner missed all the good GNs so he said f--K it and picked Youngblood.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

The most important question is...will they have the right amount of Pouches, they must have a **** ton of pouches.

 

[Octoberist]

"I want no fight or hands in this movie. And I want some sweet headbands on all of the characters." - - Rob Liefeld

"I want every character to be an unlikeable *****e, just like me" - -Ratner

 

[Eggyman]

"I want no fight or hands in this movie. And I want some sweet headbands on all of the characters." - - Rob Liefeld

"I want every character to be an unlikeable *****e, just like me" - -Ratner

Direct quote?

 

[OsGom]

I remember when Liefield first drew Cable back in The New Mutants. He couldn't decide if his bionic arm was on the left or right and never drew it the same way twice. He also kept changing Cable's hairline.
I was happy when he defected to Image. Too bad Lee, Portacio, McFarland and Keown went with him.

 

[Rich Santoro]

Well... the X-Men movie featured a dose of government involvement... TDK had local government as a character, The Watchmen will have some heavy Government influence, the Civil War story arc from Marvel will certainly spill over into film, as it did with the VG... So I can understand why people are scraping through back issues to find some stories with the Government involved. But when I say "scraping", I really mean that are scraping the bottom of the barrel.

I just wonder, if in the film, everyone's feet are going to disappear behind little hills all the time???

This comes from an era of comics, when a lot of people had it wrong. The comic companies for not respecting their writers and artists... thus causing the genesis of Image... and the same writers and artists for creating the same hashed up team of a Stoic Cyclops character, a whily Wolverine character, a Psylocke clone, a huge behemoth character, and a cool masked guy... over and over and over... See Youngblood, WildCats, CyberForce, Wet Works... bah.

 

[bunk]

All of the Youngblood characters' missing feet are rolling in their graves right now.