A lot of the graphic novels getting snapped up and adapted for the movies these days are dark, adult-focused titles—think Sin City, or the upcoming Watchmen, But Jeff Smith’s Bone series, picked up recently by Warner Bros., seems headed for a much more family-friendly future. According to Variety, the studio plans to make a big-budget, CGI-animated movie based on the graphic novel series, more like Over the Hedge than The Dark Knight.
The Variety article also says they might consider a live-action version, which seems kind of difficult when you’re basing it off a series of books about white blobby characters that make the Smurfs look human. The books are compared to Lord of the Rings, though, in terms of their action focus and epic scope. A lot more active than the Smurfs, and probably a lot more exciting as well.
Smith published the graphic novel series on his own before it eventually got picked up and published by Scholastic. There’s a cult following going back years and years that will probably be thrilled and anxious to hear about this. I admit I can’t really make heads or tails of this—is it’s a children’s story, or is it darker than that? I’ll need the fans to step in and help me out here, to decide if this is yet another misguided Warner Bros. graphic novel adaptation (seriously, it’s like all they do anymore) or a brilliant idea that will bring a genius graphic novel series to the wide audience it deserves. Suggestions, guys?
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Suggestion: Pick up the One Volume edition, its the entire story in one shot and its awesome, really.
Its a fun story thats epic and fun and deadly serious at times, but since the main characters (the Bones) are also the source of a lot of the comedy (aside from the stupid, stupid rat creatures), its sweet at the core. When you get through it and consider the scope of the entire story, youll love it and youll also relaize they absolutely cant make one movie from this, its going to have to be a trilogy...
"Misguided adaptation" or "brilliant idea"? It depends on the execution, eh?
The original "Bone" comic is quality stuff: equal parts Pogo and Lord of the Rings. It works on different levels for different ages, though the tone darkens in later issues of the run.
Here's hoping the Warners do right by it: if Jeff Smith made a smart deal he should have something to say about not letting it get too dumbed-down, but then authors always fare well in Hollywood, don't they?
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A lot of the graphic novels getting snapped up and adapted for the movies these days are dark, adult-focused titles—think Sin City, or the upcoming Watchmen, But Jeff Smith’s Bone series, picked up recently by Warner Bros., seems headed for a much more family-friendly future. According to Variety, the studio plans to make a big-budget, CGI-animated movie based on the graphic novel series, more like Over the Hedge than The Dark Knight.
March 11th, 2008 at 10:48
Suggestion: Pick up the One Volume edition, its the entire story in one shot and its awesome, really.
Its a fun story thats epic and fun and deadly serious at times, but since the main characters (the Bones) are also the source of a lot of the comedy (aside from the stupid, stupid rat creatures), its sweet at the core. When you get through it and consider the scope of the entire story, youll love it and youll also relaize they absolutely cant make one movie from this, its going to have to be a trilogy...