Comments on: Thursday News Roundup: Straczynski, Goss, Ronin

By: carpboy

carpboy — Fri, 11 May 2007 06:00:11 +0000

Seriously though, I wonder how well Ronin will play. I first read it about six or seven years ago and though I enjoyed it quite a bit, it reminded me, in the backwards way that discovering old works can, of a much more recent film: The Matrix. Not that I think Joel Siegel’s gonna bust on this film, mustache quivering, chin covered in frothy spittle, eyes slitted in rage, shouting with every ounce of testosterone his aged, proto-Captain Kangaroo body can muster, “This is just The Matrix with swords!”

I know it’s juvenile of me, but I hope one day I can have a mature, appropriately-budgeted theatrical movie adaptation of a comic book that’s animated. It would take so much work to create motion with Miller’s early 80s artwork, but I definitely think it would be well worth it.

By: Daniel Swensen

Daniel Swensen — Fri, 11 May 2007 05:56:51 +0000

Oh man. You just gotta make my life hard…

By: carpboy

carpboy — Fri, 11 May 2007 05:54:37 +0000

Uwe Boll?

By: Daniel Swensen

Daniel Swensen — Fri, 11 May 2007 02:08:49 +0000

I’ve used BBCode myself. Lucky me, I can edit my own gaffes! It’s good to be the king!

And I can’t imagine ANYTHING being worse than Brett Ratner.

By: Lilawyn

Lilawyn — Fri, 11 May 2007 01:56:37 +0000

I feel like a putz for using UBB code.

Anyhow, Sylvain White doesn’t exactly fill the mind with uncanny wonders at his directorial competence, but he can’t be worse than Brett Ratner, am I right?

By: Lilawyn

Lilawyn — Fri, 11 May 2007 01:53:28 +0000

I need to read [i]Ronin[/i]. It’s getting a bump to the top of the ole list. Also yay to the continuing usage of green screen. Pulling these kinds of fantasy action movies in with a less than 100 million dollar budget = greater chance of them being profitable = greater chance of more source material being adapted into movies = (hopefully) years of interesting movies to come. Yeah, so the 300 wasn’t what I’d call stellar, but it was still engaging enough to be worth the price of the ticket.

By: Daniel Swensen

Daniel Swensen — Thu, 10 May 2007 16:45:34 +0000

On one hand, it seems like Hollywood has finally started refraining from fucking up the endings of the things they adapt. On the other hand, I’m not so sure Ronin’s original ending couldn’t use a little tweaking. I’m going to put my money on them changing it, but, despite my enthusiasm for the project, I don’t think that’d be an entirely bad thing.

By: Reverend Matt

Reverend Matt — Thu, 10 May 2007 15:03:01 +0000

Do you think a Ronin movie will keep the ending? ‘Cause it’s, you know, weird. On the other hand, the Frank Miller movies so far have been slavishly loyal to their source material. And yay Frank Miller and all, but how the hell does he rate?