{"id":1394,"date":"2005-06-02T14:42:25","date_gmt":"2005-06-02T14:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/02\/howto_for_holly\/"},"modified":"2024-12-02T20:44:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T04:44:30","slug":"howto_for_holly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/02\/howto_for_holly\/","title":{"rendered":"How-To for Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blogger Mr. Snitch has written a <a href=\"http:\/\/mistersnitch.blogspot.com\/2005\/05\/how-to-make-fantastic-comic-book.html\"  title=\"How to make a Fantastic comic book adaptation\">great piece<\/a> about the things that often go wrong when great comics are adapted for the screen, focusing mostly on how the upcoming <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0120667\/\" >Fantastic Four<\/a><\/i> movie is likely to suck (sadly, I expect it to do so), while <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.batmanbegins.com\/\" >Batman Begins<\/a><\/i> is likely to succeed (I\u2019m still prepared for the worst). Even if you&#8217;re too ADD to read the whole thing, it&#8217;s worth a look just for the handful of gorgeous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pigdogproductions.com\/jack%20kirby.html\"  title=\"The King\">Jack Kirby<\/a> covers peppered throughout the post. If you dig in more, you&#8217;ll also find a bunch of great links, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookslut.com\/comicbookslut\/2005_03_004682.php\"  title=\"From Comics to Crap\">this one<\/a> which makes a similar argument based on what&#8217;s happened to Alan Moore and Frank Miller books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogger Mr. Snitch has written a great piece about the things that often go wrong when great comics are adapted for the screen, focusing mostly on how the upcoming Fantastic Four movie is likely to suck (sadly, I expect it to do so), while Batman Begins is likely to succeed (I\u2019m still prepared for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2005\/06\/02\/howto_for_holly\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How-To for Hollywood&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultracomics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71020,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions\/71020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}