(Your) Comic to TV adaptions

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If you can adapt any comic(s) into a TV series. Which comic(s) would you choose? and you do you want working on the show? cast? an so on.









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I would choose a Live action Batman series at a Prime time Wednesday time slot. I would want Bruce Timm, Paul Dini, Jeph Leob and Judd Winick working on the show as producers and as writers. And maybe get Frank Millar to direct the first Episode. I would want the first season to be based primarily on Batman Year one and the Long Halloween.

As for the Cast.
Bruce Wayne/Batman - Henry Cavill
Alfred - Robert Bathurst
Gordon - James Badge Dale
Harvey Dent - Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
Gilda Dent - Kerry Condon
Selina kyle/Catwoman - Jordana Brewster
Det. Flask - Kevin Dillon
Commissioner Loeb - Keith David
Falcone - Andy Garcia
Maroni - David Proval
Joker - Eddie Redmayne
Penguin - Mark Addy
Riddler - Micheal Emerson
 
I think the Punisher has run his course as a film franchise but would work really well as a television show.I would want Thomas Jane back because he has a real passion for the character.I'd run it on HBO or Showtime.
 
{Challengers of the Unknown}

This fall on CBS
Staring...

Tim Daly as Ace Morgan Crack Pilot, Team Leader

Matthew Perry as Prof Haley Master Diver, Scientist

Zac Efron as Red Ryan Daredevil Stunt Rider, Mountaineer

Dwayne Johnson as Rocky Davis Olympic Champion, Adventurer
 
{Challengers of the Unknown}

This fall on CBS
Staring...

Tim Daly as Ace Morgan Crack Pilot, Team Leader

Matthew Perry as Prof Haley Master Diver, Scientist

Zac Efron as Red Ryan Daredevil Stunt Rider, Mountaineer

Dwayne Johnson as Rocky Davis Olympic Champion, Adventurer


I think a Challengers series would be great. It would be like X-Files/Supernatural. And once the main characters get established, they could have appearances by lesser known DC heroes, like maybe they investigate Sasquatch and Animal Man shows up. Or something like that.
 
The Punisher - Done in a really gritty style reminicent of 24, The Unit and Human Target, but keep it on that level so it can be on a network or FX.
The Flash - Focus equally on the police work and the superhero stuff. Make Barry the star, do it in that bright CSI Miami style with some of that Law And Order grit and messed up cases to investigate.
 
Would love to see a new Incredible Hulk series, if only for one season. They could take a 6' something size body builder & make him look at least 7' + tall & use wire work for the leaping & other things but leave things open to where Hulk has the ability to grow to 8' or 9' feet tall if need be using a cgi Hulk which would only be used on special occasions (like when he would face a major bad guy) because it would be to expensive to do every episode. Use make-up & cgi to manipulate the main actors face into a Hulkish version & super impose it over the body builders face ect.
 
I'm also thinking a HBO Promethea or Authority series would be pretty good.
 
Hellblazer on HBO or Showtime.
A Robin or Nightwing series. Not the completely idiotic Graysons series the CW toyed with a while back. An actual post-meeting Batman series. I'm leaning toward Nightwing.
Gotham Central, of course.
Captain Marvel/Shazam.
 
Marvel - The Punisher, Daredevil and Moon Knight

DC - a Superman series(Smallville done the right way), Blue Beetle, Nightwing and Dr. Fate
 
An animated Daredevil series set in tone of a TV-14 series that would air on ABC, Fox, or maybe HBO.
 
I want to see Batman TV that works kind of like HBO's The Wire, where it shows the perspectives of Batman (and the heroes of Gotham), the cops, and the villains. It would be so cool to see live action guest appearances of major Batman and DC characters. Like Smallville, but good. Batman: Gotham City. Or just Gotham City. or Streets of Gotham. Please WB. DO it NOW.
 
Or Gotham Central. :o
 
DC

Wonder Woman
Create a likeable but not quite transcendent Diana and put her in a fish out of water surrounded by mundanes like Etta Candy, Steve Trevor, Julia Kapetalis, Cassandra Sandsmark, General Phil Darnell, Tom Tresser, Tre Barnes and Veronica Cale. Then introduce a recurring/supporting cast of Themyscirans that support her mission to man's world as the mundane cast help her acclimate to it, and provide the drama and character developments. Start with a greek monster freak of the week for the first season as Ares is the main villain, then the next season introduce more of her comics villains.

Go with the new dark-pants costume, though she has star spangled panties under it. I'd even go so far as to make her hit land amnesiatic so as to introduce both her man's world life as well as her themysciran heritage in pieces instead of trying to cram both into a one hour pilot.

Get a fight choreographer and a stunt-ready athletic actress and have her do a couple months prep (like for a movie) for the basic fight movements needed. Keep the FX relatively light, more Buffy than Heroes, and allow the weight of the characters and their relationships to carry the show. This is why a likeable Diana is key, one that makes girls want to be her and guys want to be with her just when she's talking. See Marston's Diana for a demonstration.

If Rookie Blue didn't work out, someone like Missy Peregrym would be good, since we don't have the movie budget for Anne Hathaway or what have you. That chick from the Seeker could screen test too.

Flash
We basically are doing a CSI: Miami / Burn Notice, with Flash Facts substituting for Ask a Spy and a zoom in on the ring substituting for Horatio putting on his glasses. Barry would be the center, and Wally would be a youngster, getting his powers during the Season 1 finale. A single super-tech corporation would act as the backdrop for how all these incredible devices became so popular (mirror master? Weather wizard? yeah). More basic villains (Cpt Cold, Heat Wave, Boomerang, Trickster) would be the bread and butter of the first season though.

Supporting cast would include Iris, the fiance, the police department characters, Wally, and Barry's neighbors. Casting would skew slightly older, Jensen Ackles might be the way to go, or someone similar.

Marvel

Runaways

Get someone who can write that kind of action-comedy that's needed. Joss Whedon might be a good showrunner, for instance (even if his arc was weak in the comics). Cast typical non-high school high schoolers for most with a real high schooler for Gert and a real child for Molly and run the stories, add in a few more filler misadventures, make sure there's a cool fight scene in each episode, kill off a character each season. Diverge from the comics enough to make people doubt the twists. Grow the characters more organically than was done in the comics. Bring in the viciousness of something like pretty little liars, the shamelessness of something like Secret Life of the American Teenager and the special effects of Heroes. Keep the one liners coming, give the audience an entrance into the world and have a blast. Three part pilot to introduce all of them and their powers. The key would be capturing the franticness an the psychological trauma the kids are undergoing.

Ultimate Spider-Man

Like Smallville, but with a bigger budget and better fight scenes. And more girls. And you don't have to make up the rich-best-friend's-evil-dad character. He's already there in comics.
 
I'm all for a Flash series done CSI/Burne Notice/White Collar/Psych style. Keep the really flashy, bright filming style of CSI Miami, go heavy on the forensic stuff, but keep it light like those USA shows so it's not all depressing. Keep Iris, have Wally be there but non-powered for at least 2 seasons because I want him to be established as a good kid who wants to help his uncle fight crime (and even does sometimes) before he gets his powers. I always hated the "I've got powers so I must be a hero" thing, Barry being a cop established him as a do gooder, but I think Wally should be developed. He may have scenes like in the opening of Psych where Barry is teaching him things or showing him things, he can even show up and lie to cover for Barry not being around when he's doing his Flash thing.

I would very much like to see the whole police department used too. Keep it like CSI where there's one main guy, but many other who are just as important.
 
Instead of a film reboot, I want to see a Daredevil show. If they drew from the best of Miller, Bendis, and Brubaker's runs, it could seriously be "The Wire" of superhero shows, the one that every other superhero show is measured against. It'd be the next best thing or better than getting the live-action Batman show that we'll probably never see.
 
It could be cool, but I'm always leary of actors playing blind ... never comes off as authentic no matter how hard they try. Like Matt looking directly at Electra several times in the DD movie.
 
Terry Moore's 'Strangers in Paradise' as an animated series
 
I would like to see a Planetary or Transmetropolitan series on HBO or Showtime. The Punisher would work well, even on AMC, although I think it should be as gritty as possible.
 
If they did a Preacher TV series, I think it should take place in the 90s.
 
I've had several ideas for both X-Men and Spider-Man related shows.
 

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