Mandeville Films Developing Cla$$war Movie

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Mandeville Films Developing Cla$$war Movie

Source:MTV

October 4, 2009

MTV is reporting that Mandeville Films, the Disney-based production company behind the recent Surrogates and upcoming The Fighter, has tapped Com.x's "Cla$$war" for feature film development. The 2002-04 comic book series is about a government-sanctioned super-soldier who decides to go rogue and expose the shady programs that created him.

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Posted by: Tha Treyman on October 4, 2009 at 02:12:15

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Posted by: walker on October 4, 2009 at 02:30:44

Hot Damn. Glad to see Com.x finally going some where again

Posted by: Thisk* on October 4, 2009 at 05:51:59

a guy flying. two jets. a burning city. hair on fire. white and blue suit with stars.

Posted by: Dean on October 4, 2009 at 06:25:20

Hmmm, looks like its worth a read.

Posted by: PlanBFromOuterSpace on October 4, 2009 at 09:23:56

It's really good, sort of along the lines of The Ultimates, but it actually came out BEFORE The Ultimates. The artist on the series, Trevor Hairsine, has gone on to do a lot of work for Marvel (including some Ultmates-related proects), and I've become a fan of his work in general. I'm not sure that I've read anything else by the same writer, but I think that every Brit has written Judge Dredd or some other 2000 AD character at some point or another, so it's possible that I have but don't remember.

Posted by: Mantronix on October 4, 2009 at 09:41:55

Custome similar to North-Star hmmmm Good luck

Posted by: Holden Caufield on October 4, 2009 at 10:02:40

Please don't bastardize this. You either make this faithfully or don't make it at all

Posted by: jon on October 4, 2009 at 12:07:26

I liked surrogates, hopefully this adaption is along the same lines.

Posted by: senorashish on October 4, 2009 at 18:48:30

Why?

Why or why are people making lesser known comics into big budget films?

The fan base is not there and, like "Surrogates," the film will bomb at the box office and get mediocre reviews. I mean, did the box-office bombs of "Bulletproof Monk," "30 Days of Night," "Whiteout," and "Surrogates" not teach anyone a lesson?!

Posted by: Gregg on October 4, 2009 at 23:11:04

hate to break it to ya senorashish, but 30 Days of Night opened at #1 it's first week of release and a sequel is coming, so for that movie the only lesson to be learned is this: First one did well, we need to start the sequel.

Posted by: senorashish on October 5, 2009 at 02:11:29

@ Gregg

I did a little research and found that worldwide, "30 Days of Night" was a modest success. It made about $75 million on a $30 million budget. With roughly 50% of the box office gross going to the studio with the theaters keeping the rest, "30 Days of Night" netted about $7.5 million.

That being said, Cla$$war seems like a mixture of Captain America meets Hulk. Don't know how they'll market it or if they'll take this film with a serious approach... It COULD work. It COULD... We'll see...

Posted by: PlanBFromOuterSpace on October 5, 2009 at 09:44:14

"That being said, Cla$$war seems like a mixture of Captain America meets Hulk."

What?

Seriously, please don't complain about smaller titles getting movies and then have no knowledge of what the books are even about. Also, your logic is full of holes. Believe me, Blade had pretty much NO fanbase in the comics at the time of the movie. I mean, it's still relatively small, no Blade book seems to last more than a year, but without the Blade movie, we wouldn't have had X-Men, and without that, we wouldn't have had a lot of the other big budget adaptations of the last decade. Just because YOU'VE never heard of a book (or obviously haven't read it either), it doesn't mean it won't appeal to anyone or won't be marketable. EVERYONE knows who Superman is, but it didn't seem to help HIS last movie one bit. It made 200 million, but it cost upwards of 300, and more importantly, it didn't exactly leave people wanting another. Relatively speaking, "Constantine" was probably more successful.

Posted by: PlanBFromOuterSpace on October 5, 2009 at 09:47:27

Superman cost upward of 300 million I meant, not that it cost upward of 300 the movie (which it also did), another title that really didn't seem all that special to the general public before the movie made an IMPRESSIVE 200 million at the box office.

Posted by: ALPHAFLIGHTRULES on October 5, 2009 at 16:07:46

Where is the Alpha Flight Movie? Mini-me as Puck. Jackman cameo, come on!!!!!!!

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