Will Ferrell Shares His Thoughts On Comic Book Movies!

but people will definitely get bored of the SAW franchise! LOL.

FOX STUDIOS is going to kill the Comic Book Movie...

Get rid of them and we have a chance!

Sweet find @ JOSH!

An can't wait to see MEGAMIND, looks fun!

He's right sorta. With all you ppl complaining about everything, who knows when the day will come you'll be complaining about the whole comic book movie genre in general, because, say they aren't close to the sources at all, or theyve casted so many actors you feel the need to bitch and moan about.

It can, and will fade eventually...sadly... :(

i feel people will be more bored of FOX Studio X-Men spin-off than other comic book movies that are coming.

do these people realise comic book movies are not just superheroes. comic book movies are more then just characters with superpowers. they forget comic book movies has different genre i.e. Sci-fi, Action, Horror, Drama, etc.

- 30 Days of Night is a comic book movie and its a horror film
- A History of Violence is a graphic novel and its a thriller

i agree i think if marvel had the rights to x-men, spiderman, fantastic four, and dardevil then people would not get bored of them. but the studios do not know how to get them right,marvel does.FOX SUCKS.

did you guys know if you thumbs down josh's articles he'll get your account deleted?

@superfanboy

why would u thumbs down josh article for and if u did thats not fair if your account get deleted :(

It's not going to die out. It may slow down for a while, but it's certainly not going to die out. Think about it, they've been making ganster movies since the beginning yet The Departed and The Town are huge successes and we've seen romance stories forever yet Titanic is one of the highest grossing movies of all time and Twilight is all the rage just now. Things like that don't die out....ever.

I think if there is variety in comic book movies, they could go on forever. How many horror or romance movies has there been and they keep being popular because they have variety. That means Marvel and DC has to keep making different types of comic book movies. This is going to be tricky when making movies about Hawkeye and Green Arrow or Aquaman and Namor. The general public will see them as pretty much the same character and it will be a turn off. Same for the Martian Manhunter, leave him in a Justice League movie but not in his own movie, to the general public, he is too similar to Superman. However, when it comes to making movies about the members of the Justice League and the Avengers, they couldnt be anymore different so they will have great variety.

Another thing is studios will have to recognise when
there is an end point for comic book characters before movies about them become the same thing over and over again. For franchises like Iron Man, this is a possibility meaning it really should only run for a trilogy.

In my opinion, its not the amount of comic book movies that is being created is the problem, the problem is the constant bloody reboots. A reboot should only be implemented when a franchise is beyond saving. Spider-Man 3 wasnt a good movie but they could of easily brought in this Webb guy to direct a continuation which could of continued on from Spidey 3 instead of the studio bosses looking up their extremely limited dictionaries and going straight for the word "reboot"! If the studios tried to the best of their ability to make a comic book movie that was respectful to the essence of the character(s) it is based on, they wouldnt have to constantly make reboots

Cant wait for Megamind, looks great. I would love to see Will Ferrell in a proper CBM someday though, what role in what CBM, would you guys think he would be good at?

eventually.
but Will is right, we look for heroes

i dont think superhero movies will die out anytime soon because like Will says everyone likes a hero. however, i can see them slow down once they finish up making movies for the big Marvel and DC heroes

I personally can't take anything Will says to heart. He's responsible for ruining large chunks of my childhood (a la Bewitched, Land Of The Lost, etc.).

Superheroes have been around in popular entertainment since men could express their imaginations to each other. They only happen to be cinematically popular currently due to technology catching up to our imaginations in a relatively convincing manner. They'd have made many of these films decades ago if it could've been done convincingly and on budget. The genre just has some long overdue catching up to do before it slacks off a bit again. I don't think that'll be any time too soon though.

will farrell, you're a big fat curly headed f*ck!