Cognitive Gear (post: 1225848) wrote:Witchblade before The Darkness? What madness is this?
Oh well. The Darkness already got a nice video game.
Maokun: Ninjas or Pirates? (Vikings are not a valid answer, sorry)
EricTheFred: Vikings are always a valid answer.
EricTheFred (post: 1225906) wrote:Hrmm.... with respect to the comic books from which these titles originate, "Witchblade" is the original, "Darkness" is the spinoff. It would make sense to do Witchblade first, yes?
Of course, they did the "LotR" movies before "The Hobbit", so I guess that isn't a given...
Anyhow, "Witchblade" has been Top Cow's flagship title for just about its entire existence, so they're going to dance with the one what brung 'em, I guess.
mechana2015 (post: 1225911) wrote:The minor issue with this is that, per recent storyline... the darkness actually predates the witchblade and is integral to its existance.
Maokun: Ninjas or Pirates? (Vikings are not a valid answer, sorry)
EricTheFred: Vikings are always a valid answer.
EricTheFred (post: 1226028) wrote:Anyway, they're going to go with their flagship, first. Unlike DC, Marvel, and Dark Horse, Top Cow is new to the feature film level. Witchblade already has a following, since the TV show has a cult following and the anime has a goodl following as well, so by leading with it, they are hedging their bets.
The darkness leans a lot less on the fanservice. Execs like the fanservice.
At least they're not doing Magdalena.
jon_jinn (post: 1225739) wrote:geez. what's with all of these live-action movies based off of anime/manga series? akira, dbz, speed racer, and now this?
SirThinks2Much (post: 1226046) wrote:However Witchblade wouldn't be leading Top Cow onto the screen--Wanted is. (though apparently I must read this comic. League of Supervillains? Very much yes.)
Maokun: Ninjas or Pirates? (Vikings are not a valid answer, sorry)
EricTheFred: Vikings are always a valid answer.
FKeel (post: 1227114) wrote:Now, they're going back to make another live action film. In my opinion, unless the original creators of Top Cow are involved with the production of the film and unless they can find the right actress to portray the main character, then the movie will be great. If they're not involved, the movie will suck. But that's just my opinion.
Matt Hawkins wrote:The way I looked at Top Cow from early on was that we need to be a very small boutique publisher. The one thing that Marc and I agree on is that we don’t really have any desire to be big. We don’t have a desire to be a Tokyopop, a Marvel, or a DC that’s pumping out a hundred titles a month. You see a lot of upstart companies all the time – and when I see them just starting out with sixteen, eighteen, or twenty titles in month, that’s the first sign of their death knell. You can only sustain so much.
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Right. Marc and I are into comics – of course, but also videogames and movies, and other entertainment, and we’ve both come to the conclusion that we’d rather not have something done than have it be bad. That’s something I’ve seen a lot of people doing, particularly in films and the like – they take whatever deal is thrown at them where they get some cash. I’m not going to fault anyone for taking money, by any means, but for us – we held out for years on these Darkness and Witchblade videogame and animation deals in order to find the correct thing that we would work.
Nate (post: 1227426) wrote:Why did he mention Tokyopop? They mostly just translate stuff, they don't write or draw it. So even if they do pump out a hundred titles a month, that wouldn't make the quality suffer, since they're not the ones in charge of producing it, merely translating.
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