Ahoy Comics is pretty new on the scene but they are already making waves for having one of their books optioned Planet of the Nerds has been picked up by Paramount Players for a movie.
(Thanks to Derrikk in the comments for the heads up)
The characters and concepts first appear in Planet of the Nerds #1
From Hollywood Reporter
Paramount Players is diving into geek culture, optioning the film rights to comic Planet of the Nerds.Todd Garner, who recently produced Isn’t It Romantic and Tag, is producing with his Broken Road partner Sean Robins.
The comic tackles today’s pop culture dominance by all things geek through the eyes of the group that previously held top status…the jocks. The story tells of high school jocks from the 1980s who are accidentally frozen by an experimental cryogenics device, and revived almost 40 years later. They awake in today’s computer-driven, superhero movie-loving world, now ruled by nerds, and react the only way they know how: by declaring war on the status quo.
The comic, written by Paul Constant and illustrated by Alan Robinson, Randy Elliott and colorist Felipe Sobreiro, launched to strong reviews in April from Ahoy Comics. A collected paperback hits bookstores Oct. 29 featuring a cover by David Nakayama and an introduction by Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings.
A search for a writer to adapt the material is now underway.
LOL this is Hot Tub Time Machine
Nobody bought this comic when it came out because it looks like garbage. Now it’s getting a media deal ?
Something doesnt smell right.
Dont care. Pass.
What does the success (or lack there of) have to do with the media option? Those two things are mutually exclusive.
You could say that exact same thing about 99% of indie books that get ‘optioned’, imo.
Only successful comics make for successful movies. Movies with no fan base or history make for poor movies.
MIB was a comic book. I’d say that’s a book nobody cared about but the movies were considered successful. As I’d say most successful books lead to movies more are aware of, I wouldn’t lay claim that only successful books make successful movies. It goes both ways, sometimes the comics were better, sometimes the movies were better or more successful, if you’re basing it on gross sales, etc.
Granted, there are exceptions. MIB on one end of the spectrum, Catwoman on the other.
Agreed, Poyo. There is no defined correlation between comic book sales success and adaptation success. What even constitutes a successful comic these days? Certain sales numbers? If so, what is that number? Critical success?
I actually bought it and found it very funny.
I know you bought it. You’re selling it on Ebay.
Well, trying to at least. I always sell on news.
i bought it!
I thought it was a good series. A little weird and it got kind of dark towards the ending, but not bad.