Hack/Slash Set For Film Adaptation
It looks like another comic book is set to enter the Hollywood machine for adaptation. We get news today that Hack/Slash has landed a screenwriter thanks to the professionals at Variety:
Scribe Justin Marks has been tapped to tackle “Hack/Slash,” Rogue Pictures’ adaptation of the Devil’s Due Publishing comicbook Todd Lincoln will helm. Comicbook, created by Tim Seeley and Stefano Caselli, revolves around Cassie Hack, a young woman who travels the country and takes on homicidal maniacs and serial killers along the way. The actioner will be heavy on comedy and horror.
I love comic book films and think they are an excellent source of fun and delight for fans round the globe. So long as the movies are good - I will watch adaptations till the cows come home. The visual storytelling medium of the comic book lends itself well to the story-boarding of films; and it’s no surprise that some even match up frame for frame.
I am not familiar with Hack/Slash, but a story about a lady wandering the land killing killers sounds pretty bitchin’ from where I sit. If any of you have had the chance to have read this series, please share your thoughts/excitement/reservations with us so we may be illuminated on the matter. We’ll be sure to keep you up to speed on the progress of this project. The flames of geekdom are ablaze with another comic book film in the fire; may they never die, may they never die.
9 Comments, Comment or Ping
Sideshow Collectibles Freak
Hack/Slash is one of the best comic books being published today. The story and artwork are consistently good, and the characters are original and cool. I’m not a horror fan, but I love Hack/Slash. If you like Buffy, you’ll like Cassie.
Devil’s Due Publishing just released the Hack/Slash Omnibus a few weeks ago which collects some of the early comic miniseries. I highly recommend hitting your local comic book store and picking it up.
-Marc
Apr 9th, 2008
Brandon
I read the title of this posting and immediatly thought of Reboot.
Apr 9th, 2008
Michael_C
How is it I can go 20 minutes to the nearest movie theater for comic book movie goodness, but I have to drive an hour and 15 minutes for the nearest comic book store?…………………… Oh yeah, money.
Looks good, may search some sites for pages to understand the story. As always good finds, Doug, good finds.
Apr 9th, 2008
mary
michael_c,
that’s a simple question with a simple answer. Far fewer people read/buy comic books than watch movies. Comic book shops are dropping like flies, because few people shop in them. In ten years, I don’t even know if comic book stores would still even exist but movie theaters i’m certain will still be alive.
Apr 9th, 2008
mary
comic books can’t compete with movies, they don’t have sound, music, motion, special effects. I’m sure no one would pick a comic book over a movie if they had a choice. And you have to actually read a comic book, that requires more effort than watching a movie where the story is just told to you directly and you just watch and listen.
Apr 9th, 2008
TIM SEELEY
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Thanks for the comments! I think you’ll enjoy the comic!
Just wanted to refute some statements..comics are actually doing fine, and in some areas, comic stores are popping up like..um…I dunno..boners. For instance, in Chicago, comic stores ARE mrore common than movie theatres.
Comics compete quite well with movies,. Hell, whichwould you rather enjoy on the crapper?
TIM
Apr 9th, 2008
Michael_C
Well, this may well be blasphemous rhetoric on a movie site, but I believe that John or Doug would forgive such a trespass. Yes, comics are doing well. Better than the 90s, easily. That doesn’t really say anything about the industry, ’cause I don’t think comics will ever be able to compete with the movie business as a whole.
That being said, I would much rather read a comic than watch that comic’s movie adaptation. For one, far too many times are the original creator left out of the process and the reigns of creative freedom drive WAY too far from the printed material. This can be good at times, but not so much in the last few years.
Art. Other than Sin City and one or two others, every comic themed movie has looked the same. Sure, different takes on camera angles, lighting, computer generated arts, etcetera, but when I open up a comic book (Hellboy; Troll Witch and other Stories) there is a definite art style.
Direction. When you’re not attempting to appeal to a mass crowd, you can take a greater number of chances with your market. I still read comics that are far bloodier than what would ever be allowed on screen. Then again, I doubt the comics in question have as large a reader base than the movie would have viewers, so that may be a mute point.
I’m sure there are numerous reasons why I enjoy comics over movies, but at the moment, I am growing lazy via strawberry milkshake and curly fries.
Apr 9th, 2008
kate
Tim,
I disagree that comics are doing quite well. It might depend on your location though. In my area, there used quite a few comic stores but many of them withered away slowly. I mean, why would any kid want to read a comic book when they can play a video game or watch a movie/cartoon? But these days kids aren’t even the ones that buy comics anymore, it’s become an audience of middle aged men. One reason for them doing so badly is the ridiculous prices they charge. it’s no longer cheap casual reading. What kid can afford to spend 3.99+tax for a comic book? And when you do buy it, it’s just a flimsy pamphlet with 3-4 pages of ads. A kid can go buy himself a used ps2 game for that 2-3 comic books, and that game could last him for days to weeks.
Apr 9th, 2008
Slushie Man
Here in St. John’s, Newfoundland, there are two main comic shops (Downtown Comics and Time Masters), plus some smaller not as well known ones, then you have every book store and used-book store also selling comics and some, such as Chapters, have quite the huge comic section and each of those places are doing better in the last few years, then they were before that and their profits are constantly going up. One of the Coles Bookstores here in town actually said recently that they make more money off their comic selection then they do their actual books.
And you know why that is? Movies. They aren’t killing the comic industry, they’re making it grow! That are SO many people out there that watch a comic movie and then decide to go read the comic or comics that it’s based off of. Or they plan to see the movie so they read the comic, or the comics that it’s based off of before seeing it, to get some background info. I know of over a dozen people personally, that do that, myself included. I never read a single Spawn comic until after I watched the movie, got interested, and started reading the comics. I never read Watchmen until pictures and info started coming out about the movie and everyone was talking about it, so i decided to go buy the comic to see what it was all about. My 6-year old nephew never even knew Spider-Man was a comic until a couple years when I mentioned it to him (He LOVES the movies and various cartoons), and so I bought him a shitload of them and now he collects them and is heavily into the various series’.
Even a quick little research project in google will show that comic sales are not going down and are instead rising and are FAR from being dead.
Apr 10th, 2008
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