who write for hollywood? The reason i ask was that somethimes when hollywood run out of ideas it usually turns to the characters in the comics. I believe that once hollywood gets a character from the comics it sometimes helps to destroy the character and comic as well. However, recently i picked up some comics and some of them were so good i said this could be a TV series, little did that i know that it was written by someone who wrote episodes for some succesful TV shows. Another thing is are we getting away from the superhero janura.Please forgive my spelling
2007-02-07 02:54:20 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
Its a different mindset.
one is for commercial profit and the other for creative outlet
2007-02-07 02:57:14 · answer #1 · answered by Denise W 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They are really two very different animals.
Movies are about 2 hours long. While comic books can have stories spanning 30 to 80 years. When a comic book becomes a movies, they have to write in the origin of the character the origin of the main villain the major conflict and all the secondary characters all in under 120 minutes. That could all be a year or more of storytelling in comic books.
To do all that in a short time, a lot of stuff is lost in translation. Which okay is not a really big deal, who cares if the movie is good. The real problem is that more people will watch the movie than read the comic book, and if the movie is good then they will want to give the comic book a shot and suddenly the comic book has to be watered down to fit the movie version.
2007-02-07 03:35:37 · answer #2 · answered by The Teacher 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The characters and canons for comics are undeniably incredible. Look at the last 4 years for example. There have been more movies based on comics than ever before. In the near future they with have Ghost Rider, Silver Surfer, Hulk 2, Spider Man 3, Wonder Woman, plus more!
2007-02-07 02:58:21 · answer #3 · answered by prizefyter 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've found that most comic writers are ignorant left-wing propagandists... needless to say I no longer collect. TV writers have to appeal to a larger market, though, so while there's still a lot of left-wingery going on, you'll find that there's more intelligence behind it and that some writers show that they at least understand the other side of a debate. They don't want to completely alienate half their audience.
2007-02-07 05:14:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋