Get ready for some more geeky goodness…
Like sci-fi, video games, cosplay or anime? Then you most definitely cannot miss the MCM Comic Con which is coming to the RDS in Dublin on 12th and 13th April.
Any comic book fan, video game aficionado or chic geek worth their salt will know all about MCM Comic Con, but what you might not know is that the world famous convention is coming to Irish shores in April, bringing with it some unmissable experiences for anyone who has even a passing interest in the travails of Superman and his super friends.
To prepare you for what the wonderful weekend will have in store, JOE has already brought you some of our favourite graphic novelists, and now, we’ve compiled a list of some of our favourite graphic novels and comics that we would love to see on the big screen someday.
Are you reading this Hollywood? Of course you are…
The Sandman
Widely regarded as one of the best comic book series ever created, Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman tells the terrific tale of Dream, one of the seven Endless. The other Endless are Destiny, Death, Desire, Despair, Delirium (previously Delight), and Destruction who turned his back on his duties (the wee fecker) and the comic tells the tale of how Dream AKA Morpheus is captured and subsequently learns about change.
Unfortunately a film adaptation of The Sandman has never been developed successfully (yet), in spite of film giants Warner Bros. showing particular interest. Gaiman has also, in the past, commented that he’d rather “see no Sandman movie made than a bad Sandman movie”
However, in 2013 Joseph Gordon-Levitt announced that there is now another potential adaptation in the works with Gaiman himself on board as producers. We can but hope…
Ladies and gentlemen, I’m incredibly honored to be working with David Goyer, Warner Bros, and @neilhimself on SANDMAN. #Prelude
— Joseph Gordon-Levitt (@hitRECordJoe) December 17, 2013
Deadpool
The disfigured, mentally unstable and incredibly talkative mercenary is a firm fan favourite and, to JOE, the very definition of cool.
Forget about Ryan Reynolds’ disappointing version of the beloved character in the 2009 film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, here at JOE we’d absolutely love to see a brand new, big-budget film adaptation of the Marvel Comics anti-hero. Starring ourselves of course…
Unfortunately though, Ryan Reynolds announced as recently as October 2013 that a Deadpool film is in fact very close to being green-lit and, all we can hope, is that the filmmakers will be able to make a better katana-wielding stab at it than the previous incarnation.
Maus
Written by the genius that is Art Spiegelman, the masterpiece Maus is a graphic novel which beautifully and poignantly explored the experiences and memories of a Holocaust survivor and a story that JOE would love to see animated for the big screen.
Spiegelman began working on experimental strips in the 70’s and edited comic collections before focusing on Maus and has, in the past, been quoted as saying ”I keep my Maus movie rights locked away with [a sign that says]: Break open in case of financial emergency.”
That doesn’t bode well for us film fans unfortunately…
Maus, the result of interviews with the novelist’s father, was well received in comic book circles and the broader literary community and, in 1992, Maus became the first graphic novel to win the Pulitzer prize.
El Eternauta
Lobbying for the ridiculous hispter vote, we’ve gone with an Argentine graphic novel that is absolutely fantastic, but might be little-known around these parts. Last we checked it’s in translation, but for some reason hasn’t been released in English, we’re not sure why.
The action takes place in Buenos Aires, with a toxic nuclear snow coating the city as an invading alien force tries to kill off all the humans and take their planet. The protagonist, the man travelling through time known as the “eternaut”, tells his story to the graphic novelist himself, Hector Germán Oesterheld, who later rewrote the story with more overt political overtones, and made a similarly outspoken sequel, and was “disappeared” in the late ’70s in Argentina.
The main reason this would make a great conversion to the big screen is the battle that takes place in River Plate’s iconic stadium ‘El Monumental’, which would be worth the price of admission alone we reckon.
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