Marvel and DC superhero movies get all the headlines , but did you lie with there are other funny publishers out there ? And they are also making great comics — like Scott Snyder ’s Wytches , above — that may make their path to the silver sieve ? It ’s true ! Here ’s 40 succeeding films from all the other guys you require to roll in the hay about .
Abattoir
This Radical Publishing comic was earlier due out last yr , so we ’ll see if it happens . We desire it does , though because the premise is middling great — someone keeps buying genuine demesne where horrifying tragedies have happen to discover how to make the ultimate haunted house .
Archer & Armstrong
We ’ve talked about how big Fred Van Lente ’s revival of this Valiant comic is on many occasions ; it ’s about an immortal lush and the untested , spiritual cult - raised assassin order to kill him , and how they become best buds while fighting the Illuminati , dinosaur , hoboes , and more . Supposedly this will be the third comic Valiant adapts to a moving picture , although we would n’t take care it sooner .
Area 52
Brian Haberlin ’s 2001 scifi Image comic was optioned for a moving-picture show almost as presently as it was publish . It ’s like Predator and The matter — an stranger escapes an even more cloak-and-dagger government initiation in Antarctica , and stalk the soldier there . forged Santa 2 author Johnny Rosenthal was hired to indite the script in 2012 , but that ’s the last we ’ve heard of it .
Beasts of Burden
If there ’s a comic that really deserves a movie adaptation , Evan Dorkin and Jill Thompson ’s Beasts of Burden has to be near the top . A radical of pets ring together to keep their vicinity safe from supernatural threats — it ’s funny , dark , sometimes heartbreaking , and very , very sound . Shane Acker , managing director of 9 , was announced to be directing the CG pic back in 2013 , but no word since then .
Black Hole
The movie of Charles Burns ’ acclaimed coming - of - age horror comic ( which was first release by Kitchen Sink , then Fantagraphics ) was announced right smart back in 2005 . David Fincher was attached to direct for a while , but it does n’t seem to be on his to - do leaning — which is a shame , because he ’d be pure to make a pic about a clump of teens in the ‘ 70 who contract an STD that gives then horrifying sport .
Bloodshot
Valiant ’s formerly dead , nanotech - infused soldier will be among the first of the publishing house ’s superheroes brought to film , as was so of late herald . In fact , Sony is so positive that they already have some plans to make a sequel , as well as a crossing picture with Valiant ’s other risible - to - pic team Harbinger ( see below ) .
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30 Days of Night ’s Steve Niles wrote this Word War II story about a British pilot who barge in near a Judaic Greenwich Village , where the people have produce the legendary Golem to protect them from the Nazis . The moving-picture show adaptation was announced in 2014 .
Chickenhare
As the title evoke , this Dark Horse kid comic is about a half - crybaby , half - coney who pals around with a polo-neck yet crusade “ fiendish critter . ” Sony Pictures Animation optioned it to make a CG movie back in 2011 , but seems to have never even ordered a script written .
Chrononauts
One of many , many Mark Millar comic on this list , the late published Chrononauts is about two skill bros who time travel through chronicle , in front of a live studio audience . Universal snagged the rights just last month .
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The long , retentive , long wait reboot of The Crow seems to have finally picked up some steam , now that Boardwalk Empire ’s Jack Huston has been stray as the vindictive make - up enthusiast . But call back , lot of hoi polloi have been cast as The Crow for the remaking , include Bradley Cooper , Luke Evans , Tom Hiddleston , and more . Production is purportedly finally suppose to start this twelvemonth , so we ’ll see .
Day Men
This vampire comedian from Boom Studios has a apt twist — it ’s about the humans who take care of the vampires in the daytime , while they ’re asleep . Well , that and the rout warfare - similar fight between vampire clans . Universal got the moving-picture show rights in 2013 , and hired fatal tilt writer Will Simmons to compose the book of late in 2014 , so it should still be on cart track .
Descender
As we ’re fond of point out , Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen ’s scifi larger-than-life Descender was optioned even before the first take came out , and once you say the Image comic , it ’s easygoing to see why — it ’s a tale of a young robot companion and mysterious jumbo robots from the depths of space , in a far - off future of infinite potency . If there ’s one comic on this list that ’s mostly likely to get made , I ’d put my money on Descender .
Elephantmen
Richard Starkings ’ long - running Image comedian is about genetically alter African animal - human hybrids , who were evoke as unquestioning soldier of a mad scientist ; but they were freed , and now inhabit in a society that does n’t believe them at all . Starkings himself said he was still working on the handwriting , just last year .
Emily the Strange
youthful goth girl Emily has been a star of cartoon strip and product ( tons and fate of merchandise ) since Dark Horse debut her in 1993 , and the idea of a CG animize movie has been floating around Hollywood since at least 2005 . At the moment , Universal has the rights and Chloe Grace Moretz has been cast as Emily — but she was cast back in 2010 , so maybe do n’t hold your breath .
The Foundation
Not to be confused with Isaac Asimov ’s definitive scifi series , Boom Studios ’ The Foundation is about an organization — a foundation , if you will — determined to discontinue Nostradamus ’ divination from derive lawful . It ’s part of Fox ’s development deal with the mirthful publisher , which includes several other title , as you ’ll see .
Harbinger
This squad of super - powered adolescent is Valiant ’s answer to the X - human race , and the second gear of Valiant ’s risible horse barn to come to movie theaters courtesy of Sony . Like Bloodshot , Sony is already planning on making two Harbinger movies , which will be followed by …
Harbinger Wars
… a crossover movie where Bloodshot , a former hunting watch of those with Harbinger powers , decides to fight on their behalf . Apparently Sony project for all four Bloodshot and Harbinger moving picture to premiere before Wars , so I would n’t bear this until 2010 at the early .
Insurrection
This epic from Blake Masters and Boom is like a scifi Spartacus — in a future macrocosm where potbelly have armies of subjugated clones , one soldier escapes and begins a revolution to unloose all his fellow hard worker . Paramount grabbed this in 2012 .
Jupiter ’s Legacy
Another Mark Millar / Image Comics joint , Jupiter ’s Legacy asks “ what it would be like to grow up as Wonder Woman and Superman ’s tyke . ” As the mirthful show , not great , as the younger generation of superheroes is daunted by the exploit and idealism of their elder . It seems a bit obese for a superhero movie , but Millar herald he in person is trying to bestow this Legacy to the screen just earlier this month .
The Library
Zenescope is easily - known for their large number of excite - up pouf tale comedian , but their first deed of conveyance to make it to Hollywood was The Library , a twisting - off about two teen who journey to various world through the Holy Scripture of the titular library . Mythology Entertainment is working with the publisher on the adaptation .
Locke & Key
It ’s been an IDW comic , a TV series and a movie , but it ’s a testament to how respectable Joe Hill ’s supernatural haunted house narrative is that Locke & Key is still kicking around Hollywood . Right now , producer Alex Kurtzman has the rights and wants to make it a full movie trilogy for Universal , and the scripts are being work on .
Lore
Lore is yet another one of those “ average person discover he / she is a member of an elect secret organization design to protect the world from creatures from folklore ” news report . This may be why there ’s been nigh no intelligence on the picture since it was first announced in 2010 , even though The Rock is technically attached .
Malignant Man
This Boom graphic novel was written by Fast & Furious 7 director James Wan , so it has better odds than most of getting on - screen . It ’s a about a man who find his inoperable tumor is actually a foreign sponger that gives him power , with the requisite evil cabal and shadowy past times . However , Wan is also the frontrunner to direct Aquaman , so Malignant Man might be put on the backburner .
Mind MGMT
Matt Kindt ’s critically applaud conspiracy series from Dark Horse literally just ended . It ’s tailor - made for a movie — a unfeigned offense writer who discovers a mystical government agency of superpower undercover agent ? — so it should be no surprise that Ridley Scott himself is on board to give rise it .
MPH
Imagine Fast & Furious without any cars . A bunch of teens chance on a cache of drugs that gives them A-one - speed , and immediately start thinking about how they can utilize it to make money ( legally or otherwise ) . This is another Mark Millar comedian he personally is bring in to Hollywood .
Planetoid
Morgan Freeman ’s output company optioned this Image comic , a scifi fib about a pirate who finds himself run aground on a unusual planet full angry stranger , bionic man and more .
Polar
earlier a webcomic , Polar prove so good Dark Horse bring out it and Constantin Film snagged the movie rightfield in short order . It ’s about an ex - bravo who attempt to protect the nipper of one of his target , as assassinator are wo nt to do .
Queen & Country
Greg Rucka ’s Oni Press spy comedian tries to show the risk and the politics of existent espionage , and has garnered quite a following . The movie adaptation has been kick around Hollywood for years , but now that Ellen Page has signed to asterisk and Ghosted director Craig Viveiros is control board , perchance it ’ll finally happen .
Rochester
Boom Studios ’ retelling of Jane Eyre from Rochester ’s view still is n’t out , but that did n’t stop Fox 2000 from grabbing the rights to it in 2013 . Heck , they really got the rights from Archaia , before Boom even buy them . Crazy .
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Shadowman
The last claim in Valiant ’s movie deal , Shadowman is a Heron who uses the business leader of swarthiness to fight the darkness , and the ogre inside it . The supernatural superhero adjustment is currently being written by J. Michael Straczynski . usurp Bloodshot and Harbinger do well , it ’s a breeze that Shadowman will follow .
Sin City 3
Director Robert Rodriguez has announced a 2nd sequel , but 1 ) A Dame to toss off For pull in less than $ 40 million worldwide , which is n’t a lot , and 2 ) it took Rodriguez nine years to make the first sequel anyways , so I would n’t get your hopes up .
Spawn
Maker Todd McFarlane says a remake is happen . He ’s been saying it ’s bump for more than a decade . permit ’s move on .
Starlight
Fox has very specifically seize this Mark Millar narrative about a powerful superhero who keep launch the cosmos 40 old age ago , but lived a normal biography after no one believed him — and then , of class , is need to save the world that ignored him yet again . Star Wars sequel writer Gary Whitta is working on the hand .
Superior
Another Mark Millar comic , except this one is issue by Marvel , not figure of speech . And it ’s emphatically not part of the MCU , so do n’t expect this Superman analogue to be hanging out with Captain America any time soon . Matthew Vaughn , who just directed the movie adaptation of Millar ’s Kingsman , has the right field .
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2
I ’m not sure whether you should really bet TMNT2 as a comic record book movie or not . Yes , it come out as a comic leger , but it ’s been owned by Nickelodeon and principally been a cartoon for so long it seems inaccurate . anyway , if you do , it ’s due in 2016 with Arrow ’s Stephen Amell as Casey Jones and Tyler Perry as Baxter Stockman .
The Umbrella Academy
My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way made the jump to cartoon strip with this story about a dysfunctional aggregation of superheroes , who are raised together to fight a bizarre , unknown scourge . The 2007 Dark Horse comedian has always been well - regarded , although the movie has been kicking around Universal for quite some clip . Still , Way say just last year that a new playscript is approaching .
World War Robot
With a name like “ World War Robot , ” you know Ashley Wood ’s graphical novel serial publication has to be made into a movie eventually . The IDW title is currently in maturation with Jerry Bruckheimer .
Wytches
Scott Snyder brought this series to Image in hopes of making beldame shuddery again . So far , he ’s come through , and New Regency / Plan B noticed — they grabbed the moving picture rights almost instantly after the first event came out .
Zombies Vs . Robots
I think you may figure this one out , ca n’t you ? It ’s based on another Ashley Wood serial publication from IDW ( hey , the dude care robots ) ; Sony has the rights , and at the moment Chronicles of Narnia helmer Andrew Adamson is set to mastermind , under the less interesting deed of conveyance Inherit the Earth .
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