What Lies Ahead? More Comic Book Superhero Movies
The Underwire at Wired.come has looked into the future, and predicts many more comic-based superhero movies headed for the Big Screen in the years ahead.
In the next few years, Tinseltown will be cranking out more movies featuring men in tights than ever before. In turn, successful flicks like Iron Man are driving blockbuster comic sales: Comics and movies are tighter than Batman and Robin ever were.
It’s a financially lucrative feedback loop that’s a happy byproduct of obsessive geek culture in the iPod era, according to Paul Levitz, president and publisher of DC Comics.
Movie studio are looking deeper into the comic book industry than the Mavel and DC Comics standards, the article added.
Studios are scouting indie publishers for new source material, said Brian Warmoth, marketing manager at Devil’s Due Publishing.
“You can look at it as a doorway that a lot of Hollywood people are stepping through now who now recognize that comics are like short stories, or novels, [or] kids cartoons from the ’80s,” he said. “It’s one more place where they can harvest stories.”
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