There seems to be a glut of comic book movies on the market. While some have been true to the source material, or at least the essence of the comics that are being adapted, and therefore quite well done (e.g. Superman Returns, Batman Begins, the first X-Men movie), some have been mediocre or just horrendous (Hulk, X2, X3, Constantine, Daredevil). I was just wondering if anybody was going to do an adaptation of a grahic novel for this.

I was thinking of either doing The Long Halloween or Kingdom Come. It seems rather appropriate, although the latter might work better, considering the characters that will be in The Dark Knight, and the storyline that's going on with that.

Any thoughts? Also, what is everybody else doing, if you are?

I'm still trying to decide if I want to write an adaption or an original work, but I think that the adaption is winning out right now.

I'm considering adapting Junji Ito's horror manga "Uzumaki." I know that a Japanese "Uzumaki" movie has already been put out, but I don't exactly like the way that they adapted it. Plus, we all know that it's just a matter of time before every Japanese horror movie makes it to American screens.

Anyways. "Uzumaki" is amazing, and I hope that I can do it justice. If any of you are fans of horror and not afraid to touch a manga volume, you should read it. It's only three volumes long, but a lot is packed into those three volumes. It's just brilliant.

How about "American Born Chinese" or "Palestine"? This could be pushing it, but the "Strangers In Paradise" saga would also be fantastic.

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Right now, I'm pretty much set on adapting The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, since it was completely mutilated in the movie they already did of it.

The Long Halloween would be pretty cool to do, but I think you ought to do Kingdom Come. The whole apocalyptic vibe and everything, plus you get a bunch of different superheroes... it would be a pretty fierce movie. And, it was only four issues, so it's less to compress into your average two hour movie.

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A "Strangers in Paradise" adaptation would be fantastic! And I would love to see League of Extraordinary Gentlemen done properly...I can only watch the LXG version when I'm drunk.

I'm pretty torn myself. I'd like to see Naoki Urasawa's "Monster" adapted properly, but the main ones I'm looking at are an episodic adaptation of Bill Willingham's "Fables", or a feature adaptation of Matt Wagner's "Mage". Charles Burns' "Black Hole" would be amazing too, but I think I'll wait and see how the pros do it first :)

I'm doing things the other way around: adapting some of my short stories and short screenplays into a "Tales" anthology comic script. Should be fun! :-)

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I'm also doing the reverse. I'm adapting a Hong Kong chop-socky film into a Tarantino-esque comic book. Should be fun.