Great! Time for some obscure comic sci-fi!

[captain_slinky]

As you may have heard, Guardians Of The Galaxy broke all sorts of Box Office Records this past weekend and that is AWESOME for SO MANY REASONS! But the reason I'm MOST excited is that naow Hollywood will be looking for MORE offbeat sci-fi comic properties to develop in to films, and I have a list already made up for them!

BUCK GODOT, ZAP-GUN FOR HIRE

The comedic tale of a very clever Intergalactic Bounty Hunter, set firmly in a "wretched hive of scum and villainy" type of universe. Think of it as Jack Black playing the role of Han Solo, if Han Solo were Boba Fett. Let that sink in for a minute...

ATARI FORCE

A rag-tag group of fugitives and criminals follow an aging hero who may quite possibly just be senile and/or mad on a quest to fight some unknown evil that nobody believes exists. This story has EVERYTHING an outer-space sci-fi epic should have, and I wish more people would read it despite the hokey name that forever ties it to ancient video games - it has NOTHING to do with video games.

KAMANDI, LAST BOY ON EARTH

The last Human leaves the comfort of the bomb shelter he has lived in all his life to explore the ruins of a world his grandfather had told him tales of, now run by tribes of evolved animals. Think of this one as Planet Of The Apes multiplied by Escape From New York.

There you go, Hollywood! Now get on it! I expect Summer 2016 to be FULL of these things!

Comments

[aurora77]

I loved GotG and will be going a third time on Tuesday. Maybe we will get to see some more fun, odd movies. A talking raccoon and tree can help make tons of cash, but still no superhero movie with a female lead? *crosses arms and taps foot* I'm waaaaitiiiinng.

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

I just realized that in Atari Force, which is from 1984 (I think), the female members of the team just barely outnumber the male members. So of course they'll have to change the gender of a few of them to make the film more marketable - ONE CHICK PER TEAM! It's not just a good idea, it's the *law*!

*siiiiiiigh* :(

[aurora77]

I hope they wouldn't, but even Marvel managed to reduce the Avengers to one woman, and that's the studio that's doing a better job than others. I am hoping for a Captain Marvel movie with Katee Sackhoff.

I never read any of the three you posted about. ^^;;

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

*GAAAAAASP*!!!

Of the three, Atari Force is by far the best one. Only 20 issues, but they manage to tell a multi-leveled story with fully developed and believable characters. I need to go dig those out of the storage unit and read them again, SO GOOD!

[man-of-snows.livejournal.com]

To be fair, there hasn't been much competition this summer. :)

[captain-slinky.livejournal.com]

Well sure, but each time a new kind of "hit" comes along it usually brings dozens of copycat films with it; I would like these copycats to be next please thank you :)

Plus, I sincerely enjoyed the crap out of Guardians Of The Galaxy - despite it's focus on a band of convicts during a time of war and turmoil, it's the first non-nihilistic, non-dystopian, non-apocalyptic sci-fi film I can think of from the last 20-some years (excluding Star Wars and olde-timee Star Trek).