Kurt Busiek's Astro City To Be A Feature Film!

Kurt Busiek's Astro City To Be A Feature Film!

Working Title Films has plans for Kurt Busiek's Astro City to hit the big screen.

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By Hawksblueyes - Jul 21, 2010 12:07 PM EST
Filed Under: Action
Source: Deadline



Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, partners in Working Title Films, have made a deal to turn Kurt Busiek's graphic novel series Astro City into a live action film. The deal gives Busiek his first chance at script writing. The Astro City series has won Eisner and Harvey awards for Busiek.

Bevan and Fellner will produce with Busiek, Johnathan Alpers and Ben Barenholtz executive producing.

For those not familiar with Astro City, here is a brief synopsis from Dealine...

Launched in 1995, the series has a Sin City anthology vibe, set in a world crammed with superheros and super-villains. Stories are told from the vantage point of those heroes and villains, as well as the humans who get caught between them. Heroes range from Samaritan, The Hanged Man, The Apollo Eleven--a group of astronauts mutated during a moon landing--to Winged Beauty, a feisty feminist who always saves women first.

Hawksblueyes: I will be looking forward to this one.

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Hawksblueyes
Hawksblueyes - 7/21/2010, 12:49 PM
:}
AshleyWilliams
AshleyWilliams - 7/21/2010, 12:55 PM
Awesome news! I loved Astro City! Best news I've heard all day!
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 7/21/2010, 1:18 PM
Lol, awesome news is right!

[frick]ing love ASTRO CITY, only took 'em 15 years or so to think about it!

GR8 stuff @ HAWKS!

HOLLYWOOD, don't [frick] it up, make it as good as WATCHMEN!
JoshWilding
JoshWilding - 7/21/2010, 1:54 PM
Great news! :) Brilliant find HAWKS!
Hawksblueyes
Hawksblueyes - 7/21/2010, 1:58 PM
Thanks guys.:)

Did my second picture disappear or am I the only one who can't see it?
LEEE777
LEEE777 - 7/21/2010, 2:00 PM
HAWKS @ Nope I can't see it either?

It might be your using a picture format file that don't work on cbm?

Anyway, you da man, excellent news!
hewilldefytheirgravity
hewilldefytheirgravity - 7/21/2010, 2:02 PM
Astro City was a fine comicbook sreies...bring on Jack-In-The-Box. He's one of those bad-asses with no actual superpowers but gets the job done!
Hawksblueyes
Hawksblueyes - 7/21/2010, 2:05 PM
Thanks LEEE! It was there for about an hour. I can't get at it to replace it with it on main.

UncleDrew
UncleDrew - 7/21/2010, 2:06 PM
Never heard of this series, I'll just have to wait and see how it looks
Creature
Creature - 7/21/2010, 2:15 PM
Astro City is [frick]in brilliant
Bandrews1
Bandrews1 - 7/21/2010, 2:15 PM
The comics are cool as hell, so I'll be looking forward to see what they do with this.
valeriesghost
valeriesghost - 7/21/2010, 2:19 PM
SAWEET!! This is one of the comics that got me back into comics
Hawksblueyes
Hawksblueyes - 7/21/2010, 2:26 PM
Thanks to whoever fixed the picture situation. ;}
ThaMessenger07
ThaMessenger07 - 7/21/2010, 2:45 PM
This is gonna be great I loved this series.
ROMACK
ROMACK - 7/21/2010, 4:27 PM
Awesome News Hawks! But it's not Winged Beauty. It's Winged Victory. Plus Jack in the Box, Cracker Jack, the Old Soldier, Silver Agent, The Furst Family, Quarrel, Honor Guard and many, many more.

I have been waiting for this for some time. As a matter of fact I did an editorial Several weeks ago entitled "What about Astro City?" So to me this is great news dude.

For those of you that have never read any Astro City, pick up the trades. Busieck and Ross created an awesome universe. It is definitely worth the read!

Check out my Editorial if you like...
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/fansites/romacksrealm/news/?a=19409
MatchesMalone
MatchesMalone - 7/21/2010, 4:28 PM
I always wanted to read this series, but I just never got around to it. Cool that they're making a movie of it though. I'll have to get some reading done before it comes out. :)
juggy4711
juggy4711 - 7/21/2010, 4:32 PM
Cool. I really dug AC but I think it will be tough to pull off.
Upupandaway
Upupandaway - 7/21/2010, 4:59 PM
Astro City was great. Looking forward to this.
skullboy
skullboy - 7/21/2010, 5:03 PM
Wow, now that would be a huge pulloff. I was a huge Astro City fan. This would be pretty awesome.
KeithM
KeithM - 7/21/2010, 5:10 PM
Great news. Love this series.

People who haven't read it really should. One of the classics.

@Romack: Commented in your editorial - didn't see it at the time or I would have then. :)
ROMACK
ROMACK - 7/21/2010, 7:17 PM
Keith@ lol. I saw that. Thanks man. I've been waitin' on some news. :)

I really hope they can pull this off. With such a large cast of characters it is better suited for a running TV series. They could even start it off with an 8 hour mini-series. I like your idea of having the POV from the citizens of AC. It would be pretty cool.
BubbaDude
BubbaDude - 7/21/2010, 7:25 PM
Romack...that's exactly what I was going to say. An Astro City movie will rock, but this really needs to be a continuing series on a network that could really do it justice, FX maybe?

I've been hoping that this comic book renaissance we're seeing will translate to some serious continuing tv series. Movies are great, but wouldn't you like to have 2 or 3 weekly tv shows to watch? Would beat the hell out of having to wait 2 or 3 years for the next movie.....
rastaZen
rastaZen - 7/21/2010, 7:55 PM
never heard of AC but this sounds really cool :)
ROMACK
ROMACK - 7/21/2010, 8:06 PM
BubbaDude@ Absolutely. I would love to have a few GOOD Comic Book series on TV. Cloak & Dagger, Heroes for Hire, Teen Titans, Astro City and others.
Kyos
Kyos - 7/21/2010, 10:33 PM
Nice! This should be good. :)
IdiosyncraticRoutine
IdiosyncraticRoutine - 7/22/2010, 12:25 AM
Great News! I hope that this turns out well. I LOVED Astro City :)
marvel72
marvel72 - 7/22/2010, 3:28 AM
@ leee777 totally my good man,astro city was a [frick]ing brilliant comic.
i can never decide on which is the best comic movie of all time the dark knight,the watchmen or x-men 2.
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