[Matrixbeast]

Looks decent. Final scene got a chuckle. I'll check it out.

[ZeoRangerV]

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Originally Posted by algo448

You and Convoy bring up that name all the time, but what the heck is it?

It's a multiversity one-shot comic set in a Watchmen-esque world (albeit a bit more up to date) featuring the original Charlton comics characters they were going to use for Watchmen (so Blue Beetle, Question, Captain Atom, Peacemaker and Nightshade).

It's very good but an incredibly complicated read.

[KRX]

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Originally Posted by algo448

You and Convoy bring up that name all the time, but what the heck is it?

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Originally Posted by ZeoRangerV

It's a multiversity one-shot comic set in a Watchmen-esque world (albeit a bit more up to date) featuring the original Charlton comics characters they were going to use for Watchmen (so Blue Beetle, Question, Captain Atom, Peacemaker and Nightshade).

It's very good but an incredibly complicated read.

Heck, I'm still trying to figure it out!

It'd be difficult to adapt it into a movie, since it took advantage of the comic book medium so much, but, in the right hands, the result could be really interesting.

It's also a Grant Morrison work.

[ElConvoy]

A Multiversity/Pax Americana movie would be impossible to do. It needs to be a comic to work. If you do a movie rendition of it you would need to do a completely different story that does the same things with movies what Pax did with comics.

And most likely you would need Morrison himself to make that work

[KRX]

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Originally Posted by ElConvoy

A Multiversity/Pax Americana movie would be impossible to do. It needs to be a comic to work. If you do a movie rendition of it you would need to do a completely different story that does the same things with movies what Pax did with comics.

And most likely you would need Morrison himself to make that work

Actually, I think it could work with the basic story of Pax Americana. You just couldn't tell it like a traditional movie.

A large part of what makes Pax Americana so complex is in its storytelling. It took full advantage of the comic-book medium to tell its story of a conspiracy surrounding the assassination of the President.

Some of the scenes in Pax Americana translate easily into film. Others do not. But it is possible. Some things would just have to be rearrangement.

[ElConvoy]

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Originally Posted by KRX

Actually, I think it could work with the basic story of Pax Americana. You just couldn't tell it like a traditional movie.

A large part of what makes Pax Americana so complex is in its storytelling. It took full advantage of the comic-book medium to tell its story of a conspiracy surrounding the assassination of the President.

Some of the scenes in Pax Americana translate easily into film. Others do not. But it is possible. Some things would just have to be rearrangement.

But its not just the story I as referring to but much more the whole "How" the story is told. The way the scenes play out, the whole booking telling its story in reverse, the idea of infinity. The Story needs to be a comic to work. Only in a comic you can linger on a single picture for as long as you want. only in a comic you can browse back and fourth and start reading whereever you want, then go forward or even go backwards.

In a movie you dont have this much control over how you wanna experience what you are reading. Especially one that is shown in theaters were the audience can not control the movie only watch it.

[Matrixbeast]

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Originally Posted by ElConvoy

But its not just the story I as referring to but much more the whole "How" the story is told. The way the scenes play out, the whole booking telling its story in reverse, the idea of infinity.

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Originally Posted by KRX

A large part of what makes Pax Americana so complex is in its storytelling. It took full advantage of the comic-book medium to tell its story

You're kinda going in circles here...

[KRX]

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Originally Posted by ElConvoy

But its not just the story I as referring to but much more the whole "How" the story is told. The way the scenes play out, the whole booking telling its story in reverse, the idea of infinity. The Story needs to be a comic to work. Only in a comic you can linger on a single picture for as long as you want. only in a comic you can browse back and fourth and start reading whereever you want, then go forward or even go backwards.

In a movie you dont have this much control over how you wanna experience what you are reading. Especially one that is shown in theaters were the audience can not control the movie only watch it.

There's nothing wrong with having the movie be direct-to-DVD, though. But I do see your point.

That said—in reading the comic panel-by-panel, I think that, while it would be challenging, it could be done. It would be a confusing movie, but one that I think people would watch and rewatch to better understand it.

For instance—the scene in which the Question is investigating Nora's murder, AKA this one:



You wouldn't be able to have translated into film exactly like in the comic. The comic makes use of its space too well to do that. However, if we were to rearrange the movement of the characters and the placement of some of the object, such that this could be read like this—



—then you could still incorporate the key story-telling element in the film while preserving cinematic flow.

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

You're kinda going in circles here...

... My God...

MORRISON!!

[ElConvoy]

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Originally Posted by KRX

There's nothing wrong with having the movie be direct-to-DVD, though. But I do see your point.

That said—in reading the comic panel-by-panel, I think that, while it would be challenging, it could be done. It would be a confusing movie, but one that I think people would watch and rewatch to better understand it.

For instance—the scene in which the Question is investigating Nora's murder, AKA this one:


You wouldn't be able to have translated into film exactly like in the comic. The comic makes use of its space too well to do that. However, if we were to rearrange the movement of the characters and the placement of some of the object, such that this could be read like this—

—then you could still incorporate the key story-telling element in the film while preserving cinematic flow.



... My God...

MORRISON!!

But thats what I meant with that its unfilmable. You cant replicate it you just cant because film and comic are so different mediums. You can make a Pax Americana film but you cant make a film out of Pax Americana if that makes any sense

Morrison you freakin genius!!!

[Sunred]

This needs to be a live action film.

With Ryan Gosling as Bluegrass and the voice of Copper Kid done by one of those vocaloids it is a match made in heaven.


Here is a fan video that matched it with Jetman for extras