For many years, TV was the leaky life raft for movie stars
and directors to avail themselves of when the bloated Titanic of their film
careers collided with the iceberg of audience indifference. These days, it's
looking more like an escape in the best sense as the film industry, high on the
pricey steroids of superhero blockbusters, has grown inhospitable to everything
from character actors to character-based dramas. The latest casualty of
Hollywood's comic-book obsession? Comic books themselves. This week it was
announced that Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's literate adventure series The
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen — featuring the exploits of Allan Quartermain,
Captain Nemo, Mina "Dracula's chewtoy" Harker, Dr. Jekyll, and the Invisible Man
in a steampunk vision of Victorian London — was being developed by Fox as a put
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hands, the material is rich enough to support an ongoing series. And two, Fox's
move is a welcome and overdue sign that a thinkier tier of comic properties,
gobbled up in the wake of Spider-Man's success, might finally fall out of the
hands of uninterested, rights-hoarding film studios and into the more creative
arms of television networks where they belong.
I wrote about the struggles of caped crusaders on TV back in May, arguing that there's a whole world of non-mutant-based stories out there ready for the retelling. I even made a few suggestions about some CGI-lite titles that deserved a shot, like Marvel's Damage Control as a companion for S.H.I.E.L.D. on ABC and Paul Chadwick's Concrete as a heavy half-hour on HBO. Here are a few more off-the-cuff suggestions of off-the-beaten-path comics that could flourish on the small screen. Feel free to throw out a few ideas of your own in the comments. It's summer and the junior executives who aren't detoxing in Ojai could use all the free ideas they can get.
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The Comic: Y: The Last Man (Vertigo, 2002-08)
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(Note: I've left off seemingly slam-dunk projects that have already foundered, like Marvel's Alias on ABC and Powers on FX.)
The Comic: Y: The Last Man (Vertigo, 2002-08)
Writer Brian K. Vaughan has had continued success in comics (his Runaways is the best original idea Marvel's had since the '60s; Saga is currently getting raves) and on TV (he's the main writer on CBS's summer hit Under the Dome), but his most popular work remains this maxi-series about a doofy young magician named Yorick who somehow survives a global plague that wipes out every other man alive. And with good reason: It's a stirring postapocalyptic adventure story not afraid to tackle tough issues of gender, responsibility, and monkey-tolerance. People have been trying to adapt Y as a movie for years (for a while it was set up with Shia LaBeouf starring and DJ Caruso directing) and, apparently, they're still at it. This is a mistake.
The Pitch: A story this epic — and thought-provoking — demands the expanded canvas of television. It'd be a perfect fit for Showtime, which, in its efforts to dethrone HBO,Shop the Michael Kors Crossbody Bags on the world's largest fashion site. has been pursuing a strongly female-fronted slate. And while the network has made a huge splash with Homeland (and a smaller ripple with Ray Donovan), it still lacks its Game of Thrones or The Walking Dead, the killer genre app that makes up in viewers and Entertainment Weekly covers what it lacks in Emmys. With the right lead and the right monkey (hey, I think Crystal is available!), Y could be a huge win for a risk-taking network and an eager, impatient fan base.
Grant Morrison's brain, even while sleeping, could power the Hadron Collider. His comic books, whether original creations like Seaguy and The Invisibles or franchise work on X-Men and Batman, are so packed with ideas it's a wonder there's any room for thought balloons. This makes an adaptation particularly tricky — unlike most comic writers, he's not auditioning for movies in his scripts, he's trying to make movies look small in comparison. But I think there's potential in this overlooked three-issue collaboration with ace artist Philip Bond. It's the story of Ali, a mild-mannered Pakistani twentysomething living in a tidy corner of the U.Latest collection of Michael Kors Hamilton.K. where he helps his father run a chain of corner stores. But all naraka breaks loose when, on the day Ali is to meet his arranged bride,Shop for Michael Kors Monogram at hotmkbags. a strange crate of Turkish delights opens a portal to a Day-Glo multiverse and all the deities and wonders of Islamic and Hindu myth come pouring out.
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