Andy Diggle talks to The Times online’s Blockbuster Buzz (a spot which has a lot of love for comics and comics-related flicks) ahead of Andy and Jock’s The Losers coming to the big screen:
“BB: It looks like a good year for British comic book scribes in Hollywood with both The Losers and Mark Millar’s Kick-Ass released later this year. Why do you think British comic book writers prove to be such successes and are there any other British led comics you’d like to see get the Hollywood treatment?
AD: I think maybe we’re less “reverential” towards these iconic heroes. The British comics I grew up with have this combination of iconoclasm, subversion, black humour and extreme violence, epitomised by John Wagner’s Judge Dredd, and when you unleash that style onto the rather bland and straight-laced American comic-book scene, sparks fly.
British comics I’d like to see get the Hollywood treatment? There’s loads, but top of my list would be Phonogram and Suburban Glamour, along with three decades’ worth of stories from the untapped intellectual property goldmine that is 2000AD, starting with my personal favourite, Strontium Dog. Old British war comics like Battle are also filled with stories ripe for adaptation.”
Oh yes, I think we’d go along with some of those choices for film versions, oh yes indeedy…
Mon, Mar 15, 2010
Comics and cartoons, Film, TV and radio, Interviews