Obscure Comics To Exploit for Further Blockbusters
Ryan Reynolds in R.I.P.D. has us thinking of other esoteric properties to convert.
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September 10, 2010
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Skate Man
PLOT - This comic by
one-time superstar artist Neal Adams is about a Vietnam vet/martial
artist who
by day is a roller derby champion and by night fights crime while
wearing
roller skates.
STARS - Mark Wahlberg
Justice Machine
PLOT - Why wait until
2012 for The Avengers to hit?
This is a ready-made superhero team franchise waiting to happen!
Starting in
1981 as the first independently published comics super-team, the Justice
Machine are law enforcement agents from another utopian dimension who
travel to
Earth with advanced weapons to defeat Maxinor, an alien terrorist.
STARS - C. Thomas Howell, Scott Schwartz, Jonathan Ke Quan, Ilan Mitchell-Smith and Clint Howard
Firekind
PLOT - Like Judge
Dredd this was originally serialized in the
UK's 2000 AD magazine. It takes
place on a jungle planet filled with deadly wildlife, poison air, and
natives
who ride on flying dragons. The hero is a human who helps the natives
defeat
other invading humans trying to pillage the land, with the help of the
planet
itself which turns out to be a sentient, interconnected environment.
STARS - Sam Worthington
