Superheroes saved Hollywood this summer, boosting box office to record heights and funneling $1 billion and counting into studio coffers. Now, emboldened by the success of The Dark Knight, Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Wanted and Hellboy II, filmmakers are stampeding toward comic books and graphic novels to find bigger-than-life stories for the silver screen.
Longtime heavyweights DC Comics (Batman, Superman) and Marvel (Spider-Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four) are trotting out lesser-known characters from their catalogs.
Joining the fray are relative upstarts including Dark Horse, Platinum Studios, Top Cow Productions, Oni Press and Devil’s Due Publishing, which are busy populating the superhero pipeline with a new generation of flawed crime-fighters. As pulp fiction fans pack their bags for next week’s Comic-Con International in San Diego, here’s a look ahead at some of the comic book movies heading for the big screen. (From Wired.com)
