Exciting news about Terry Moore's Echo!

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An acquaintance of mine who went to Comic Con 2009 (and is a big Terry Moore fan) just let me in on some exciting news. She went to Terry Moore's panel and heard The Man himself announce that Echo (Moore's current series) is going to be made into a movie! Here's the announcement from Moore's own blog:

Its official. We have made a deal for the film rights to Echo with Watchmen/Hellboy producer Lloyd Levin. The deal was outed today by Variety. Needless to say, I'm very pleased about this. More details later but, my plan is to get Echo made as a movie, and SiP on tv (think HBO). This SDCC, my agent, Nick Harris, will start the push for SiP tv. Selling Echo will help because Echo is easy to explain, SiP isn't. You have to read all of SiP to get it, and who wants to read a 2200 page story?

Meanwhile, Robyn and I are already in San Diego, getting ready for the convention. I haven't seen the SiP Omnibus yet. Supposed to be at our booth tomorrow in time for the open. We have less than 200 left unsold before the show opens. We might sell all those here at SDCC. If you want one, now may be your last chance to order one online before they're gone. Robyn is keeping track of orders online in order to know how many she can sell here at the show. I haven't even seen this book from the printer yet and it's almost sold out.  They better be good, huh!?

I'm a little surprised that Echo is getting the big screen treatment since the comic's story isn't done yet. So I'm assuming it'll get off the ground once the series is done. According to Moore's blog, the movie will be handled by the same producer that did Hellboy and Watchmen. I loved Hellboy; but I've heard...not-so-nice things about the Watchmen movie. Hopefully Moore will retain enough creative control to prevent some dumb executive from butchering Echo's story.

The blog entry also says he hopes to turn Strangers in Paradise into a TV series (preferably on HBO). I'm VERY suprised that he's so eager to work for HBO since, last time he tried working with them, they wanted to turn the series into an animated violent-porn show à la the Spawn cartoon and strip him of creative control!

Either way, this is exciting news! I really wish I could have been at that panel!

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Comic movies just fill me with dread, now. Look at GI Joe and Transformers. Look at Spider Man. And I have an especially hard and dark spot in my heart for the X-Men. Movie writers always think they can do it better, in spite of the fact that most of these stories have popular for longer than they've had the ability to read or write. The only really well-done, virtually by-the-book comic movie I've ever seen was Sin City (which is being sequalized). Comic book and video game movies almost invariably look like something that fell out the back door of the butcher shop.

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True. Good comic movies are rare. But Terry Moore is very big on having creative control. And comic movies turn out well when the director respects the material and/or works closely with the original artist (I believe Sin City turned out well precisely because the director insisted on letting Frank Miller have a hand in the production).


Oh, and word on the X-Men movie being awful. Most of my X-Men knowledge comes from the 90's cartoon (so I didn't notice as many character/continuity goofs as the hardcore comic fans did), and that movie STILL drove me nuts!
And the upcoming GI Joe movie doesn't fill me with hope either. :P

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Actually, if you look back through some of my posts, you'll see I put up a review of GI Joe (actually, now, it's GI J.O.E.), and it's predicted to be an ATOMIC BOMB. Bad writers coupled with anti-American, anti-military producers = garbage. Or, as the old saying goes: garbage in, garbage out. Hollywood just can't seem to wake up to this. In teh same post, I put in something that I think would be a better idea for the form a big screen GI Joe movie should take.