Ratner To Direct Youngblood

God damnit.

Youngblood is one of my favorite comics ever.

Shaft FTW!

I swear to God, Brett Ratner, if you harm an arrow in his quiver, I will end you!

Dun...Dun...Dun...Another One Bites The Dust!

This guy save the X-men so why not

I'm gonna catch a lot of hell for this but, if you ask me Ratner saved the X-men Franchise. I think 3 was the only X-men film worth watching. But then again I think Brian Singer should be hung by his toes and beat for what he did to Superman..

Man, this really is the perfect match. Both of these guys are the kind of creators the people love to hate, but yet they've both brought pretty pivotal movements in their respective fields, and in their respective fields, everybody knows their name, like them or not.

It's awesome seeing the Ratner/singer devotees rally too. In my opinion, those two made films that were the perfect negative reflection of each other. Neither were perfect, but they both seemed to have what the other needed.

I can't say that I ever felt there was anything deep or all that interesting in the writing of Youngblood but man, it was still fun to read as a kid. Just like most of Ratner's films, it was action packed, funny, and completely over the top. Brett probably sees Liefeld as the son he never had. They're going to have to hire actors with extremely small feet if they want to do the characters justice though. :P

And dude, grif, right on...bring on Wild Cats. You could do a trilogy. The Lee film, The Moore film, and The Casey film. F*&%$ing A. Then they could do a Maxx-like animated feature on cartoon network, in the style of Jae Lee's one-shot... Hey, a man can dream.

Lastson1027, i can only conclude that you liked X3 the best because it was short on character development, plot and heavy on action...evidently the same thing you want to see in a Superman movie!

Will someone in the comic book community please do a great service and kill Brett Ratner please! Do the movie industry a favor also and stop his tyrade of bad movie making. He is like george bush, doesnt know what hes doing.

Why is he even considered for this job?
Brett Ratner. YOU FAIL!!!

Brett Ratner should have directed Superman and Bryan Singer should have done X-Men 3. I don't get all up in arms if the movies aren't exactly like the comics since the comics aren't exactly like the comics original sources ie Ultimate Titles, Year One, etc. As longs as they don't let that Mark Steven Johnson guy direct anything but toilet paper commercials, I will be content to give each movie a chance before I pass judgement.

Yes Rob Lowe will play young blood again and guess what he does with his arrows XD Well i guess Ratner beats Uwe Boll.

If Coats is right and Ratner doesn't direct and Sylvain White does, then let's hope that he does a good job because it seems like he's pickin' up some comic book movies. Sylvain White is directing Frank Miller's Ronin and so hopefully he's a good director so we can have some more great comic book flicks! Unlike Ratner's....


Actually, X-3 wasn't awful. Just too many people died. I don't want to hate on Ratner just because everyone else is. Although, I wouldn't want him touching any of my favorites.

X-3 would've been very good if it was about 45 minutes longer. I still like the movie just for Beast, Colossus, and Iceman actually turning into ice. I don't blame Rattner. How much can a guy change for being with a movie for such a short period of time? I don't think he is an exceptional director either, but I can't disrespect him for his work on X-3. I can disrespect him based on his other films though lol.

Cyclops better be alive if they ever do an X-4.

It should go directly to dvd, sealed in special bags, all with variant chromium covers, with rob liefeld and ratner chopped up into pieces small enough to sandwich in between each triple disk dvd. Collect all three hundred coupons to get the super long extended version on blue ray!

what a bahgin!

X3... moving the golden gate bridge..... that was just awful, and I don't care if Berry has won an oscar... she did Catwoman!!!!

I do think there are better comic books to adapt. I never did care too much for youngblood, so I wouldn't mind if Uwe Boll directed it (the chances of me seeing this in a theater are already slim enough).

Hopefully they C.G. the feet correctly !

haha, Tucker as Bishop..i actually wouldnt put it past him. But yeah i agree X3s shortcomings were not all his fault..it was just a rushed together mess of a movie..but still enjoyable in that id be like yourself, once its xmen ill watch...specially Wolverine doing his thing.

yeah metalhead there was more action but at what expense? Singer at least gave the characters a bit of complexity..they evolved therough his 2 movies..X3 just stopped that in its tracks, added a load of new characters and forgot about the ones the previous movies had already established

I didn't get the hype of "Youngblood". From the three I've read all those years ago, it was basically an X-Factor with Teen Titan elements. Filled with poorly structured stories and Rob Liefeld is such a garbage artist too, so much so, I was surprised he got as much work as he did. The only thing Liefeld did good was create Deadpool, oh, and his hand in the Cable character, in my opinion.

Now a movie? I don't think it'll take, honestly. Brett Ratner attached to this doesn't help it, as a producer or director. Any role where he has a say in its creative direction can't be all that good. Sure he basically had X3 dropped on his lap but in those situations you have an opportunity to show how good of a director you are by being creative with what you got and find clever solutions to overcome all the speed bumps that goes with production. The fact he made it a personal point to have Vinnie Jones quote a friggin' "YouTube" video clip showed the maturity he had in handling the franchise. Sadly, he dropped the ball and showed he was completely out of his element and should stick to brain-fart action movies like his "Rush Hour" series. "Red Dragon" was most likely him at his best.

Anyway, back to "Youngblood". Again I wonder "why?". I'd much rather toss down cash to see "The Darkness" or "Witchblade", hell, even another stab at "Spawn" before I look at a Rob Liefeld circus from the Image vaults. I can't stand that Liefeld, the audacity he has to think himself equal in the company of Marc Silvestri, Jim Lee and Todd McFarlane is so damn laughable I'd like to snap kick a "How to Draw Anatomy" book up his craw for it.

To conclude; stating that "Most of the great graphic novels are gone, and ‘Youngblood’ is one of the few comicbooks left" shows how ignorant he is and how much he's out of his element.

Ratner told Variety that “Most of the great graphic novels are gone, and ‘Youngblood’ is one of the few comicbooks left”.... TO RUIN!!!