After nearly fifty years of Hollywood promises and broken options, Richard and Wendy Pini have officially closed the door on any theatrical or streaming adaptation of ElfQuest, their groundbreaking fantasy comic series.
Maybe it’s for the best. One famous author once said the ideal relationship with Hollywood is that they pay for an option but never actually make the movie.
I read the entire series as a young boy. I never had a problem with Cutter and Leeta being mixed race, because they weren't. They were elves of different skin color.
The artwork was and still is beautiful, the story endearing, and the friendships real.
In a way, I'm glad hollywood never bastardized it.
I think someone should inform them of Vox Day's idea of bequeathing their IP to the public domain on their demise. It's the only realistic way forward. If the studios, or their shills, can't own or control it, they can't destroy it.
I don't get what the suits find so incomprehensible about this. Fans love the source material. If you give the fans what they love, they will shower you with money. When you take the source material and make it something else, it's not what the fans love. If it's not what the fans love, they will not shower you with money.
Rather than let their work be trashed, though we may be seeing the end of the dominance of woke, I cannot blame them for declaring a pox on them all and walking.
Maybe it’s for the best. One famous author once said the ideal relationship with Hollywood is that they pay for an option but never actually make the movie.
I read the entire series as a young boy. I never had a problem with Cutter and Leeta being mixed race, because they weren't. They were elves of different skin color.
The artwork was and still is beautiful, the story endearing, and the friendships real.
In a way, I'm glad hollywood never bastardized it.
I think someone should inform them of Vox Day's idea of bequeathing their IP to the public domain on their demise. It's the only realistic way forward. If the studios, or their shills, can't own or control it, they can't destroy it.
I don't get what the suits find so incomprehensible about this. Fans love the source material. If you give the fans what they love, they will shower you with money. When you take the source material and make it something else, it's not what the fans love. If it's not what the fans love, they will not shower you with money.
I think that the guys doing the Critical Role tv series adapation would have the best chance of doing Elfquest justice.
They might even be actual fans.
But they are going to be busy for a long time.
Rather than let their work be trashed, though we may be seeing the end of the dominance of woke, I cannot blame them for declaring a pox on them all and walking.
And now they're destroying Harry Potter with Black Snape the Whack Ape.
They should just crowd fund it and produce it themselves. There are more than enough fans out there who would support it.