[oxfordgamers] Re: Another comic movie question

  Since you aren't just making the movie for the fanboys, no I don't think
you can just skip the origin. People care about other people. Loose the
connection to not being a super hero, and you lose the connection to
humanity.
  Look at the favorite supers for our group of (generally) well informed
comics people (with some exceptions). They are all characters with easily
found humanity. Compare that to the Summers baby or the Richards baby in
Marvel, where they were never anything like human and I think you'll see
the problem.
  Establish a human baseline, then move away from the line. That is part
of what you have to do to get and keep an audience interested.
                        John

On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Bolenbaugh, Tom wrote:

>
> So far all the comicbook movies have dealt with the origins of the hero or
> heroes they are covering.  Would it be possible to do a hero movie that
> isn't a sequel that assumes the audience already has some level of knowledge
> about the heroic origins?  Could they do a Fantastic Four movie that doesn't
> include the rocketship story or some other newfangled updated origin?  Or
> touch on it very lightly?
>
> Or would doing this loose too much of the audience's feeling for the
> characters?  Could you have done the Superman movie without showing Krypton?
> Batman without showing his parent's death?  Are there any heroes left to do
> who are well enough known by the public to pull this off?
>
> What sayeth the peanut gallery?
>


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