Harbinger Movie!!!

Cyberstrike · Post by **Cyberstrike** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:21 am

magnusr wrote:
ManofTheAtom wrote:Could someone explain to me what "young Blade Runner" means? I admit, that is going right over my head.

I haven't seen BR in over a decade, so I don't see the connections.

I just hope they're not planning to set Harbinger "in the nearby future" or something like that.
Yeah, what does that mean? Only thing I can see is that both are about a new species trying to find its place in the world and understand its creation. I would expect something more for such a statement.

/Magnus

If they make it like Blade Runner I won't waste my time with it.

Slashes-With-Claws · Post by **Slashes-With-Claws** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:49 am

Considering how great (Lots of sarcasm here) Hollywood is at turning books/comics/etc into movies this could turn out to either be a good movie or one of the worst things ever made. Though, they have been doing better recently.

jsbt · Post by **jsbt** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:26 pm

Rai would be an amazing film, but I can't think of a way to currently do it where it wouldn't come off to the average, un-initiated filmgoer as at least derivative of The Matrix, or Aeon Flux or whatever else. I think the way to do that might be to do it a la Beowulf or the French CG film Renaissance.

Jaknife · Post by **Jaknife** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 3:06 pm

Fanboy375 wrote:Rai / Harbinger / XO / Shadowman were the original titles that Valiant created. Solar and Magnus are probably still being negotiated since they were not original creations.

Rai is a book set in the future.

XO would be too much like Iron Man and since that movie is coming out i would wait. Although the way the venom outfit looked in SM3 I cannot wait to see what XO would look like.

what do you suppose it sounds like when aric puts on the suit? is it slithery, or more metallic? hmmmm...

hopefully, harbinger is done right, with better story and acting than effects.

Todd Luck · Post by **Todd Luck** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:17 am

leonmallett wrote:Good news, but a couple of notes of caution:

1. We are well before any greenlight stage, so development hell may yet beckon

Yeah the chances of it getting made are iffy. It's simply too early to tell. I seriously doubt Ratner would direct if it does get made umpteen years down the road.

I remember there was this magazine in the 90's (or maybe it was the 80's) that had an entire page of comic properties that had been optioned for film (maybe TV too). The vast overwhelming majority (Concrete, Plastic Man, etc) just never happened. I also remember the huge hoopla over Liefield's Doom's 4 (or whatever it was called) getting optioned by someone big in Hollywood (Spielburg, I think). Never heard anything about it after that (don't know what happened to the Youngblood cartoon either, even though Liefield published ads with animation from it)

At least VEI got their foot in the door.

Cyberstrike · Post by **Cyberstrike** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:41 am

Todd Luck wrote:Never heard anything about it after that (don't know what happened to the Youngblood cartoon either, even though Liefield published ads with animation from it)

Liefeld did get two promos of the Youngbood cartoon show made.
When Jim Lee and Liefeld took Wild C.A.T.s and Youngbood to
CBS (I think it was CBS) apprently Liefeld didn't get along with the woman who ran their cartoon block (he stated that it was like "your 75 year old grandma wanting to tell you what you could do and couldn't do on a cartoon show"). Jim Lee got Wild C.A.T.s a cartoon show on the network. And for whatever reasons Liefeld couldn't get a deal with USA Network (where Larson got The Savage Dragon a cartoon show) or HBO (where McFarlane got Spawn an animated TV show).

He did he annoucned that Youngblood would be a series of direct-to-video where he wouldn't have anyone telling him what he could or couldn't do. Then he had a major falling out with Roundabout (I think that was the name of the animation studio that worked on the Youngblood promos) over the fact that he hadn't paid the studio for there time and
resources and they also claimed that he split the rights of Youngblood with the animation studio. Liefeld claimed that it was Extreme Studioes and himself that did the bulk of the work (i.e. storyboards, character designs, and etc) and that he paid Roundabout for what they did, and that he never agreed to split the rights with them.

It was eventually settled in Liefeld's favor.

As too promos I used to have a copy of both them but I don't have the means to post them online so don't ask. If you want to see them try Youtube.com maybe someone has posted them.