DC Animated Films: What Stories Should Be Adapted?

[dude stannis]

There is apparently an animated version of The Long Halloween in the works.

That story is way to big for a film, it'd either need to be multi part, or a mini series.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

That story is way to big for a film, it'd either need to be multi part, or a mini series.

I could see it spanning two movies like TDKReturns.

 

[Rorschach2012]

I really want Dark Victory after TLH.

And when are they going to do Kingdom Come?

 

[BlueLanternKal]

Infinite Crisis. Just because I want to see Prime Time mess up the entire DC universe. He's so comically OP that he's genuinely scary. He's basically a maladjusted and hormonal teenager with Silver Age Superman's unchecked power.

 

[Fallen Angel]

I really want Dark Victory after TLH.

And when are they going to do Kingdom Come?

They won't. They said until they can get the animation like the drawings then they won't try.

 

[sweetre15]

- Infinite Crisis

- HUSH

- Who Is Donna Troy?

- Long Halloween

- Dark Victory

- Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth

- Clash of the Titans (Teen Titans vs Mythical Titans)

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

I really want Dark Victory after TLH.

Ditto.

And when are they going to do Kingdom Come?

KC is my all-time #1 graphic novel, but as much as I'd love to see an adaptation I'm happy to wait until they can do it justice (no pun intended) in the animation department.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

- Infinite Crisis

- HUSH

- Who Is Donna Troy?

- Long Halloween

- Dark Victory

- Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth

- Clash of the Titans (Teen Titans vs Mythical Titans)

I really like that story. It doesn't get a lot of mention.

 

[sweetre15]

I really like that story. It doesn't get a lot of mention.

Another really good one that I think would be fit for a D.C. short is "Dear Mom and Dad" which was issue #20 I think where Wally writes a letter to his parents thanking them for giving him a generally good life. I did a review of this in "General comic Discussion" some weeks ago if you want to know my thoughts but it's one of my favorite New Teen Titans issues.

 

[Rorschach2012]

Infinite Crisis. Just because I want to see Prime Time mess up the entire DC universe. He's so comically OP that he's genuinely scary. He's basically a maladjusted and hormonal teenager with Silver Age Superman's unchecked power.

Welcome back blue!

If they're gonna do any of the Crises, they better start with a two part COIE.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Another really good one that I think would be fit for a D.C. short is "Dear Mom and Dad" which was issue #20 I think where Wally writes a letter to his parents thanking them for giving him a generally good life. I did a review of this in "General comic Discussion" some weeks ago if you want to know my thoughts but it's one of my favorite New Teen Titans issues.

I actually don't think I've read that story. Thanks - I'll try to find your review.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Another really good one that I think would be fit for a D.C. short is "Dear Mom and Dad" which was issue #20 I think where Wally writes a letter to his parents thanking them for giving him a generally good life. I did a review of this in "General comic Discussion" some weeks ago if you want to know my thoughts but it's one of my favorite New Teen Titans issues.

Okay, just found and read your review. Teen Titans is a title I haven't read much of since the late 70s tbh, but this looks like a pretty good tale. If I find it reasonably priced I just might snap it up!

 

[sweetre15]

Okay, just found and read your review. Teen Titans is a title I haven't read much of since the late 70s tbh, but this looks like a pretty good tale. If I find it reasonably priced I just might snap it up!

So you weren't reading Wolfman and Perez's New Teen titans from the 80s with Dick, Starfire, Wally, Beast Boy, Raven, and Donna Troy?

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

So you weren't reading Wolfman and Perez's New Teen titans from the 80s with Dick, Starfire, Wally, Beast Boy, Raven, and Donna Troy?

I've dipped into TT now and then retrospectively but that's about it.

I did reread Chris Claremont's Titans/X-Men 80s crossover recently for the first time in God knows how many years.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

With the Judas Contract on the horizion and rumors of a Batman/Harley Quinn team-up movie I figured why not ask fellow DC fans what comic stories they'd like to see adapted to animation.

So any ideas? It could range from the popular to the obscure. What would you like to see?

Y'know, one that I don't see mentioned a lot but which I've really liked ever since it came out and think could make a nice animated movie (might need to be a two-parter) is Chuck Dixon's Brotherhood of the Fist. I don't think it's ever been collected but it runs across five issues Green Arrow #134, Detective Comics #723, Robin #55, Nightwing #23, and Green Arrow #135. It's a martial arts extravaganza featuring Batman, Connor Hawke, Nightwing, Bronze Tiger, Black Canary, and Deathstroke about a secret society's quest to find the greatest hand-to-hand fighters on the planet and defeat each of them. Not exactly profound, but lots of fun with some great fight scenes. Should be better known IMO.

 

[Superchan]

Superman red son is a must for me. Also I would like to see animated adaptations of un-produced WB adaptations like Superman lives, superman flyby (maybe they can get JJ Abrahams to supervise) and Andrew Kevin Walker's Batman vs Superman.

Also being such a huge Dick Grayson fan I would like to see adaptations of Ties that bind, Gauntlet and Black mirror.

 

[Silvermoth]

Oh my gosh they should do DC bombshells!

 

[divan]

They won't. They said until they can get the animation like the drawings then they won't try.

The only way I see Kingdom Come doing justice to the artwork is with heavily stylized live action.

Even with 3D Animation, trying to imitate the artstyle is going to look creepy.

 

[Mani-Man]

Yeah, Kingdom Come doesnt work visually.
But im not sure if it "has" to work visually in the first place.
I could see it being done in "traditional" Animated style...but yeah, same with the long halloween, the art is part of what makes those storys so interesting.

Knightfall for me works only if they get the animation to be as smooth as in one punch man or other anime.
The fights in the current DC animations looks stiff and clunky to me.
If we get knightfall, the animation must be at its best.

 

[hellblazer103]

I still don't know about Arkham Asylum , unless it's done in CG animation like this fan trailer :

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One of the most important parts of that story was Dave Mckean's surreal yet realistic , beautiful yet horrifying artwork, and if they pull a Killing Joke and do some animation that's piss-poor in comparison... I just couldn't accept it.

Yes to Long Halloween/Dark Victory. That art style should be easier to translate to animated film.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Oh my gosh they should do DC bombshells!

 

[Rorschach2012]

I still don't know about Arkham Asylum , unless it's done in CG animation like this fan trailer :

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One of the most important parts of that story was Dave Mckean's surreal yet realistic , beautiful yet horrifying artwork, and if they pull a Killing Joke and do some animation that's piss-poor in comparison... I just couldn't accept it.

Yes to Long Halloween/Dark Victory. That art style should be easier to translate to animated film.

Thanks for posting that, haven't seen that trailer in years. So awesome, I've always wanted the movies to be visually inspired by McKean's art

An r rated Batman movie would be amazing

 

[hellblazer103]

Thanks for posting that, haven't seen that trailer in years. So awesome, I've always wanted the movies to be visually inspired by McKean's art

An r rated Batman movie would be amazing

That it would.

And I guess we kinda-sorta get that in Batman Begins , with the fear gas hallucinations and all... But not entirely. The Joker in TDK was kind of influenced by Arkham Asylum's Joker, though... They even had Joker often write messages in blood in all the viral marketing stuff, similarly to how they write Joker's lines in ASHOSE.

 

[2kt09]

Watchmen and Other R-Rated DC Animated Movies in the Works?

Back in 2014, we reported on a similar marketing survey by Warner Brothers over the title of the Tom Cruise science-fiction film Edge Of Tomorrow being done just weeks after the film’s release. The alternate title being tested – Live. Die. Repeat. – wound up being featured prominently as a tag line in the film’s home video release.

The second part of the forwarded questionnaire asked respondents which of several titles from DC Comics and its Vertigo imprint they owned or were familiar with. Among the titles asked about were Moore’s classic 1980s run on the horror series Swamp Thing and his seminal Batman graphic novel, The Killing Joke. Additional titles include the Batman story arc “A Death In The Family,” the graphic novel Batman: The Long Halloween and the series Gotham Academy, the Superman ElseWorlds story Red Sun, the video game-inspired Injustice and their Scooby-Doo science-fiction horror genre mashup Scooby Apocalypse. DC’s Vertigo line was represented on the survey with Fables, Lucifer, iZombie, Hellblazer, Preacher and Sandman.

(Interestingly, there was one non-DC Comics property listed in the survey – the Riverdale-during-a-zombie-apocalypse horror title Afterlife With Archie which resets the classic Archie characters in a horror setting. I would surmise that this Archie title was thrown in to perhaps gauge if people are open to classic characters being reinterpreted in potentially radically different ways.

 

[Hurm...]

Funny, I was saying to someone two weeks ago about how Watchmen would work wonderfully in an animated format, moreso than a live-action film.

I hope they move forward with it and don't opt for some cheap looking animation like The Killing Joke.