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Off YOUR Mind: What Comic Book Arc Should Be Made Into an Animated Movie?

We all have opinions, now is the time to share yours.

This week we saw the release of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1. If you had a chance to watch it or read our review, you know it did a great job adapting the (first half) of the story. Yesterday we found out Marvel is planning an Iron Man/Hulk team up movie. When it comes to classic comic book stories like this, they need to be handled properly if an attempt is going to be made in bringing them to the small screen.

With the decades of comic book stories already published, there are many arcs that have been successful and earned a place among our favorite stories.

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This week's question is, what comic book arc or event should be made into an animated movie? There has been rumors of Flashpoint happening and many of use would love to see Civil War, Old Man Logan or The Killing Joke adapted.

The points to consider are the length of the story (could it be made into a movie under 90 minutes?), the prior continuity involved, the popularity of the character among other things. Let us know what you think would make a good animated movie. Add in any parts that could be cut out or condensed to make it work.

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I know the Batman stories have been done to death but I'd really love to see THE LONG HALLOWEEN done in a 2-parter like THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS...

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identity crisis

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Secret War

Spider Island

Enemy of the State would be pretty cool.

Civil War

Ultimate Spider-man: Death of Spider-man

Siege

Armor Wars

A Spider-man Sinister Six movie not based on any particular arc would be really good.

And an adaptation of Marvel Knights Spider-man 1-12 would be great.

Moon Knight: The Bottom

Born Again.

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Identity Crisis

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I can't believe only one other person said this:

No Mans Land

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Hush is absolutely at the top of my list. Love that story.

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Kingdom Come and Civil War are 2 that jump to mind right away for me.

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Annihilation and The Thanos Imperative would make for awesome animated stories. Both have great visuals that would look fantastic in motion.

Civil War would also be a great story to have in some sort of film.

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I really love to see a Dark Avengers movie. Because i really think that Norman Osbourn is really funny in his own way.

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not the ones marvel is making now

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I think they should seriously redo the Death of Superman movie. The animation was mediocre, the story was rush and other Dc superheroes was no where in sight.

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Justice League vs Avengers

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Court/Night of the Owls!!!!

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flashpoint, green lantern rebirth, sinestro corps war, infinite crisis, blackest night, brightest day AND YOU MUST, MUUUUUSSSTTT HAVE ROTWORLD AS LIKE A THREE PART MOVIE!!!!!!!

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Why are people naming crappy events?
BB

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All of X-Force and House of M

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Final Crisis

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Annihilation would be my pick.

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Geoff Johns' Green Lantern Arc (Rebirth-Rise of the Third Army) - Actually this would make a great animated series as well... It'd probably be stronger that way too. Definitely sprinkle in big parts of Emerald Twilight (it'd require some retconning, obviously) in the beginning and also some stuff showing Kyle Rayner becoming GL (ie. the Torchbearer) and reigniting the Power Battery. I could kind of see this working as movies but also I think it'd be too convoluted and I think it would be hard to translate all of the Skittle Squad into something people aren't just laughing at.

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I think Kingdom Come would be really good, and possibly even Superman: Red Son

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I don't think Crisis on Infinite Earths would work at all as a movie. It would be ridiculously crowded imo. I would like to see Enemy of the State done as a 2 part movie.

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House of M

Trilogy:

Part 1: X-men Second Coming

Part 2: X-men: Schism

Part 3: Avx

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Everyone must be sick of Batman movies, but The Killing Joke would be cool to see.

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Batman Hush, X-force Angels and Demons, Uncanny X-force Apocalypse Solution, any of alan moore's run on swamp thing, Strange Talents of Luther Strode, Aquaman the Others even thought the story is not done yet, any of grant morrison's run on Batman & Robin or the Nobody Arc by Peter Tomasi

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The only ones that matter

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Blackest Night!!! Maybe done in a two part style.

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Kingdom Come.

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  1. avengers:disassembled
  2. the man without fear.
  3. iron man:enter the mandarin.
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The league if extraordinary gentlemen series. Though it would have to be an adult rating with the themes from first book.

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@mattwing87: Now that would be cool.

@neiliusprime: Yes Yes Yes!! Can you imagine? That would be so incredibly awesome!!

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Wonder Woman: Eyes of the Gorgon and Land of the Dead. Possibly in two parts

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Old Man Logan

Death of Spider-Man (interweaving Miles story as well)

Avengers/Invaders

Dark Avengers

And Young Avengers!

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Luthor.

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In realistic terms, I'd go for Kingdom Come, but I would ideally choose any significant story arc in 2000ad...
I think it is time for British comics to get a better reputation.

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DC:

Superman: Red Son

Superman: Panic in the Sky

Our Worlds at War (can focus on all DCU, not just Superman)

Kingdom Come

The Great Darkness Saga

Batman: The Knightfall-Knightsend Trilogy

Final Crisis

Flash: Rogue War

Marvel:

Annihilation

World War Hulk

Civil War

The Kree-Skrull War

Kraven's Last Hunt

The Infinity Gauntlet

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Old Man Logan, Kingdom Come, Red Son, House of M, Grant Morrison's Batman saga, The Long Halloween, Dark Victory, X-Factor.

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Sinestro Corps War

Aquaman (The Trench + The Others)

Wonder Woman 2

The Flash

The Death of Superman (DONE RIGHT) (Two-parter)

JLA: The Nail

JLA: Another Nail

And I don't want Kingdom Come for two reasons:

  1. Needs to be live action, or at least be made with good CG
  2. Needs way more than 75 minutes
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The Flash! Anything with the Flash!

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The Sinestro Corp War

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i know im not the only one who hated old man logan with a passion

but yea hush needs a movie flashpoint would be a good movie

hell blackest night would be a great movie if dc didnt wanna keep up their reputation with the kids

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blackest night would be cool....id also love secret invasion

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I think all the ones listed in the article I'd like to see but the problem is that I don't think the Marvel animated movies are that good or at least not as good as the DC stuff. I would like something with the Silver Surfer because I feel he's not getting enough mainstream attention. Maybe Annihilation or the Infinity Gauntlet arcs. A Jonah Hex animated might be good to make up for the terrible movie.

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DC

Villains United, Green Lantern: Rage of the Red Lanterns, Salvation Run, Deathstroke: Legacy, Sword of Azrael

MARVEL

Executioner's Song, Siege, Shadowland, Deadpool: The Circle Chase, Venom: Lethal Protector, Infinity Gauntlet, X-Men: Inferno

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Runaways and Young Avengers are both written in a film/TV like fashion so both of those would work well. Civil War is a mandatory requirement to the world of animated films. Blackest Night would be really awesome and creepy if they could figure out a way to make it work, but as full of content as it is it would be a hard task to take on. Pretty much anything other than AVX though, please never make an AVX movie.

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Triumph & Torment or Astonishing Spider-man & Wolverine

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@The Stegman said:

@Pokeysteve:


I'm not really a Batman fan

This...this sentence somehow seems wrong to me, how is it even possible??

I know right?! -Hal Jordan Green Lantern film

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Secret Wars

The Infinity Gauntlet

The Dark Phoenix Saga

Days of Future Past

Red Zone

World War Hulk

Annihilation

Civil War

Uncanny X-Force: The Apocalypse Solution

The Dark Angel Saga

Kraven's Last Hunt

Ultron Unlimited

The Kang Dynasty

Spider-Man Noir

Kingdom Come

Justice

Onslaught

Maximum Carnage

Utopia

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If they could do something a little more adult, Longbow Hunters. I'd like to see DC do something that doesn't involve Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman or Green Lantern. They use them every time.

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@Mezmero said:

I think all the ones listed in the article I'd like to see but the problem is that I don't think the Marvel animated movies are that good or at least not as good as the DC stuff. I would like something with the Silver Surfer because I feel he's not getting enough mainstream attention. Maybe Annihilation or the Infinity Gauntlet arcs. A Jonah Hex animated might be good to make up for the terrible movie.

Well, they did give Hex his own animated short, so there's that.

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My thinking:

DC's Kingdom Come definitely.

Madman's Oddity Odyssey (or anything with Madman and the Atomics),

a variation on Batman's death leading to Nightwing becoming Batman leading to Batman's return and there being two Batmen and finally leading to Batman Incorporated. I just want to see Dick as Batman and then Bruce/Batman and Dick/Batman working together.

the original JLI from the 80s maybe.

an Amalgam story, to see DC + Marvel characters animated.

Invincible (any of the stories) just to see it animated.