Would your comic make a good movie?

[craicin]

it would make a good sitcom. with over use of a laugh track.

[DokiDokiTsuna]

None of my comics would make good movies. Buuuut, I think most of them would make fantastic movie series~. ^^ I really like to do long story arcs, that's all.

I don't like seeing comics treated as an inferior "first step" to something bigger.

I don't think that's a fair statement, to be honest...do you know how much time and resources and MONEY it takes to create and promote a decent film?? Only a very, very small percentage of people who have ideas for films will ever be able to make their dreams a reality. Same goes for TV shows.
So if we're not even allowed to make our ideas into comics because it would be "disrespectful" to them, what do they propose we do? Just not create anything?

I think, just because you dream of your story becoming more of a sensory experience than a comic is, doesn't mean you're necessarily "treating comics as inferior" or "making a film that doesn't move". Every medium is different, and most comic artists can appreciate that fact, believe it or not. Maybe we'd like to tell our stories in a different way someday...but rest assured that most of us aren't just pumping out mediocrity while we wait for a call from Cartoon Network. We're doing the best we can with the medium we have.

[Wumbl]

If Flirting With Death was a movie I would need it to be made during the actual 80s so it had that authentic over-the-top corniness. 80s acting, 80s soundtrack. 80s everything. It would have to be really goofy and gory as well like Devilman or Terminator.

I can see the theatrical trailer being full of big flashing text and action shots as well. Geez. And a shot of Annabelle flipping her hair. The aesthetic.

[MK_Wizard]

Funnily enough, my first script of volume 1 was supposed to be like a movie. So yes, I do think each of my volumes would be a good movie and it would be a dream come true if it was. However, I would even be happy with a TV series.

[indigodrawing]

No, not even remotely.

If anything it'd probably be best suited to a soap opera or one of those slice of life anime where nothing really happens.

[Drawstoria]

My comics are supernatural in terms of ghosts and such so in terms of western movies, they would turn out terribly... (looking at you bad cg). However, I feel like a lot of romance comics could be movies or dramas , same with prosecutor comics, and those that rely on things that are more relatable to real life and less so on imagination or symbolism cause that often takes too much time when translated to a movie.

[Nitelini]

A movie, maybe, bt would have to change many things from the source material, a series, might be a better option than a movie, a Videogame, totally, would be a totally awesome game. like battlefield hardline but properly executed xD.

[lil-sea-salt]

I just want a medium to express myself. TV, movies -- that sounded so flashy to me as a kid. I actually even applied to a couple of film schools. The more I got into the process -- lighting, pacing, color -- the more I realized it just wasn't for me. I've written scripts -- I HATE WRITING SCRIPTS-- and I realized that what I wanted to express had budget limits and was susceptible to the opinions of my team.

So I left, I walked away from that career path and I;just watched people I loved until I had a significant life change and picked up a pen again. I just want to be creative and world-build. Right now it's YA novels and little mini comics. For me, I realized for me to learn, I need to make a lot of horrible things to make 1 good genes. It took me 13 short stories to get one idea that would make a good novel. I know I'll have to make a couple mini comics before I get to a successful comic. That's ok, I can put in the work.

I think if you write a comic with the idea of making it a movie, you'll be so focused on that big goal, that you'll never understand the hard work needed to make a successful comic.

[hjfsdh2222]

Do I think it would make a good movie? Yes.
Do I think it would be better as a movie? Yes.

Why? Because it makes me think of old movies that I love I hate modern movies sooooo much

Crime & Cars | Tapas

[ble]

A life action movie? i doubt it. I feel my characters will just look very weird if they were played by real people (they are human fruits lol).

Yuri Fruit Saga

Maybe an anime or videogame.

[MelonMooComix]

Haha most defiantly not. It would be full of awkward silence and dumb puns XD

[NiKons]

If my webtoon The Secret of Death became a movie/animation I think I would die from excitement xD

[Shanny8]

I dont know...I'm still trying to make my comic a good comic. Lol

[aFistFull]

Funny, because I was thinking about this the other day. Tbh I'm not sure. Comic book movies are so tricky to pull off when directly adapting from the page. I think the way to go for a lot of these things is TV series. Nice amount of episodes to build up character, suspense etc. Either that or a film saga.

[DiegoPalacios]

My comic is a long one, so it would be hard to fit the whole series in a single movie. Maybe an arc per movie may work.

About how to make it a movie.....The premise of my comic is a comedy about an inanimate rock saving the world from the forces of evil in a setting that have a mix of past and futuristic stuff (like ice dancing ninja raptors) and magic and powers. I think it would be too expensive for a live action movie. Unless it takes an intentional low budget approach like "The hero yoshihiko and the demon king's castle" which fits the comedic tone of my comic.

But i think it would work better as an anime movie adaptation.

[vworksart]

I draw my comic Powernote in an TV-esk format so I feel it could adapt well. Although the story would need shortening.
Also. I did make a Guardians themed movie poster haha!

Powernote | Tapas

[gh0stcr33p]

I've had turning my comic into a movie/series in mind for a long time after it's finished.

[Croik]

Honestly I don't like the idea of "I'm writing this book/comic in the hopes of it being a film eventually" either. Or even "I'm writing this book so that it can become a comic." If you like the screen so much, write scripts.

I used to just write prose, but adjusting to comic scripts taught me just how much changing the medium can affect a story. Not just the framing or the pacing or cutting things out, entire arcs and character choices that wouldn't work in one or the other. Even though I'm writing a novel and a comic using the same characters! So my gut tells me that if it's that simple to adapt one to the other, maybe I'm not taking full advantage of my medium like I could be.

Of course there are plenty of successful movie adaptations of source materials, some I consider BETTER than the original. But one of my favorite things in comic is layering scenes together in a way that a film can't do gracefully, other than using clumsy voice-over or a lot of jarring cutaways. And if when I was writing the comic I was thinking too hard about how a movie would do it, I'd probably leave those things out, and miss out on that fun and unique aspect of comics.

I feel like it wouldn't be hard to make an interesting movie out of gangsters and magic, but I agree with whoever you quoted, in that I don't consider the work I'm doing now to be a stepping stone to something "bigger."

Though I do enjoy fan-casting characters >.>

[djwaglmuffin]

Animated netflix series for me

but yes. yes it would

[vfinnigan]

I wrote a theatrical adaptation of Tiger on the Storm. It hasn't played anywhere yet, as I'm looking for actors who can work with me to fine tune it. But it was fun and in a way fitting. Did you know that when Stan Lee served in World War II, the Army listed his occupation as "playwright"? Because he wrote scripts.