Valiant Movie - Poll
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Heath
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- Valiant fan since: 1992
- Favorite character: VH1 Shadowman; VEI X-O
- Favorite title: VH1 Shadowman; VEI X-O, Harb
- Favorite writer: Bob Hall; Dysart, Van Lente
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Where is the "Ice Cream" option? I need it this time becuase this is just too hard of a decision.
My fanboy love for Shadowman makes me want to vote for that without even thinking. But if I step away from that for a moment, I perhaps what I loved about the Shadowman comic wouldn't translate as well to film.
Solar is too high of a concept for a film. Too much inner dialogue and pesonal struggle and not enough action (besides the occasional destruction of a universe).
Turok would have plenty of action, but lacks real depth outside of the "Valiant Universe" context.
An Eternal Warrior film would come across as a copy of Highlander.
Magnus has great potential for a film. A ton of action, a heaping helping of character development and social commentary. It would be a major visual effects project, though. This would work as a trilogy.
XO also has great potential. Like Magnus, there's a lot of action and character development, but this has the advantage of being a smaller, more focused story that is easier to tell in 2 hours. End the film with Aric taking control of Orb Industries.
Bloodshot and Ninjak would both translate well to film. The only problem is there's not a whole lot original to those concepts. Ninjak = James Bond as a ninja. Bloodshot = The Punisher. That's how the world outside of the existing fanbase will see them anyway.
I think Harbinger would have the same problem. Harbinger would be seen as X-Men without the freaky looking people.
So, I think I would have to vote for XO.
My fanboy love for Shadowman makes me want to vote for that without even thinking. But if I step away from that for a moment, I perhaps what I loved about the Shadowman comic wouldn't translate as well to film.
Solar is too high of a concept for a film. Too much inner dialogue and pesonal struggle and not enough action (besides the occasional destruction of a universe).
Turok would have plenty of action, but lacks real depth outside of the "Valiant Universe" context.
An Eternal Warrior film would come across as a copy of Highlander.
Magnus has great potential for a film. A ton of action, a heaping helping of character development and social commentary. It would be a major visual effects project, though. This would work as a trilogy.
XO also has great potential. Like Magnus, there's a lot of action and character development, but this has the advantage of being a smaller, more focused story that is easier to tell in 2 hours. End the film with Aric taking control of Orb Industries.
Bloodshot and Ninjak would both translate well to film. The only problem is there's not a whole lot original to those concepts. Ninjak = James Bond as a ninja. Bloodshot = The Punisher. That's how the world outside of the existing fanbase will see them anyway.
I think Harbinger would have the same problem. Harbinger would be seen as X-Men without the freaky looking people.
So, I think I would have to vote for XO.
I would agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.
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Second_Death
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what am I saying?....forget it.....ANY Valiant based movie would be good. Bring it on!