Dan Dare - The Film??

[Anorak]

Although it was a bit of a turkey, I thought the 2004 film "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" came pretty close to showing us what a Dan Dare movie for a modern audience could look like.

[dreamticket]

Who knows, a DD film might be a success: George Lucas only created STAR WARS after he was unable to secure the rights to FLASH GORDON, [an equally archaic concept as DD, even in the 70s] but apperently this went down well with audiences.

There's obviously a lot of archaic FLASH GORDON- styled imagery in STAR WARS: they just gave it a glossier sheen with 'lived-in' looking scenarios.

Maybe this success can only truly be 'done once' however, as modern audiences are so jaded with endless fantasy imagery onscreen.

I have never once seen a live-adaptation of a comic book that came anywhere near the dynamic version of a good printed example: the two mediums of film and comics are non-compatible, in my view, despite modern aids like CGI.

Didn't they do a Flash Gordon remake in the '80s?

I think you're right when you say modern audiences are jaded with endless fantasy. I've only ever really liked a handful of comic-strip based movies, and one of those was Ghostworld.

Try giving us good stories instead of endless special effects.

The only comicbook adaptation I'm remotely looking forward to is the Freak Brothers one, and they'll probably never finish that!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdlsHSTNatQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Uffl2vVy8A

[Robbie Moubert]

Characters have to change or, like the old Dare, fade into near oblivion. No kid reading Action or Battle would have wanted the Vicar In Space version of Dare for 2000AD. Likewise, no politically-minded teen/twenty-something that was reading Crisis/Revolver would have wanted the fairly simplistic (again, no insult intended) Eagle version.

Not quite sure how you're joining those dots there. Avoiding a "simplistic" "vicar in space" approach doesn't have to mean the kind of portrayal we saw in Dare. Although, if you really think the original Dare came across as a "vicar in space" then I don't think we'll ever agree on this (and yes, I'm fully aware of the original idea of Dare being a chaplain).