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semillama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 11:57 AM
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Warner Bros to produce Elfquest movie
http://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews/idUSN0932864920080709

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=22889

To be adapted, written and directed by Rawson Thurber - best known here for "Dodgeball" but he's also done a movie based on Michael Chabon's "The Mysteries of Pittsburgh" so maybe it will work. The Pinis have to be really involved in it for the movie to be any good at all though.
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Steerpike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-10-08 05:56 AM
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1. no way!
I collected these when they first came out in the 80's...black and whites at first...then color...I loved them...I wonder how they would translate to live action though?
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semillama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-10-08 08:36 AM
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2. I just don't think you can do live action
That would be a huge mistake. The physiology of the elves vs humans is just too different. I think traditional animation is the best choice for this movie.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-05-08 11:07 PM
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4. Traditional? You mean hand-drawn?
It would bomb instantly and completely unless released direct to DVD. In that case, it would be cheaper to produce and market and wouldn't expose WB to nearly the same risk.

Maybe CGI version would stand a better chance in theatrical release?

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SpookyCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-04-08 11:38 PM
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3. I remember them talking about doing this many years ago.
IIRC, there were some prelim sketches in on of the collected books, where Wendy was correcting someones sketch of Cutter. The one correction I can recall was her saying, "his pants are lower on his hips, it's more sexy.." LOL!

If they do this right, I would love it. I used to LOVE Elfquest, many moons ago...
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-18-08 03:29 PM
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5. We're old.
My buddy Bern did a series with Richard, it was genius, but nothing like the Elfquest saga. That one has a very deep spiritual significance for me.
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comtec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-16-09 09:39 AM
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6. By the high ones they better not be teasing me!
hee hee
I loved EQ but they were so damned expensive I could not afford to keep up after a couple years.
I loved all the sexy teasing too hee hee.

but...honestly... im pretty sure they're going to fuck it up.

yay for the creators, not so yay for the rest of us.

live action or cgi i don;t know if it'll be any good =[
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-16-09 02:19 PM
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7. Same here, I only read the first three
graphics, I had the $ for more, but finding them was a pita.
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semillama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-16-09 02:22 PM
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8. Here's a snippet from an interview with the writer/director:
http://www.screenjunkies.com/movienews/exclusive-interview-rawson-marshall-thurber-magnum-pi-will-have-no-short-shorts-no-cameos-


"SJ: Moving on to Elfquest. How did that project come about and how did you get involved?

RMT: I read the comics when I was eleven. My older sister gave them to me, and it was sort of my first introduction to the world of fantasy. Up until that point I had read pretty basic morality tales. Stuff that you read when your that old, don't do bad things, do good things. This was my first introduction into the world of complex characters and interweaving story lines. I was just sort of lost in it and wowed by it. So I fell in love with it when I was about eleven. I'd wanted to do it for a long long time, and I talked to my agent about it before Dodgeball came out, that it was something I was interested in. Finally the rights came up again and my agent called me and asked if I was still interested, and I said absolutely. And he said, "you should go sit down with Wendy and Richard Pini," the creators, and I went and saw Wendy and Richard and talked about it and they seemed to like me enough to say, "Okay, give it a shot." I went around town with the property and had a couple bidders on it. I ended up going with Warner Brothers' Courtenay Valenti who is fantastic, and I'm just fixing to start writing the script.

SJ: Do you know yet if it's going to be live action or CG?

RMT: No, we don't know, and that was a real part of the conversation between myself and Warner Brothers because I've always seen the film as animated. Frankly, i have a hard time seeing it any other way. I think Warner Brothers is a little more inclined to make it live action, or sort of a 300-style hybrid. We both agreed to shake hands that we don't quite see it the same way, but let's move down the road and write the script and see what it comes back as and do a test with it animated, and a test with a hybrid, and there's a lot of exciting technology that Warner Brothers has been working on, proprietary technology that they are very excited about, and I've had conversations with a couple of the big brains over there about a new way of giving me and the audience what we see on those comic book pages, so I'm excited to see what that means. I haven't seen the tests yet. That's the incredibly long answer. The short one is we're not sure yet. Whatever it'll be, it's going to be the best way to tell a story.

SJ: The artwork is so iconic.

RMT: I know. That's why when I hear live action, my brain kind of freezes. I'm not deathly opposed to a live action version, I would just need to see it and make sure it works."
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haele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-26-10 12:22 AM
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9. Hmmm - now that Avatar is out -
Didn't the Pandorans look a bit like the Pini's Elves? Despite the tails, of course.
And I've heard nothing further about this movie; the technology is now here that they could film it in a live-action/CGI effect, if they had a good script and marketing.

Haele
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semillama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-28-10 12:13 PM
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10. Latest information here
No transcript, but it's a good interview. Funny you should mention Avatar - The Pinis discuss it in the interview!

http://www.npccomics.com/geektragedy/?p=554
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