You can’t grow up playing D&D and loving fantasy novels without being aware of Elfquest, a comic series that started back in the late seventies about a group of Elves seeking out others of their kind and surviving in a world filled with evil humans and trolls. I wasn’t the world’s biggest fan of Elfquest, but I’ve been aware of it for some time.
Hollywood has also been aware of the series, with several attempts to turn it into movies or animated series throughout the decades. They haven’t succeeded yet, but that’s not going to stop them from trying, and Warner Brothers is the latest to give it that old college try. They’ve hooked up with Rawson Thurber (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) to write and direct a feature length picture.
I don’t know what the hold up has been on an Elfquest movie in the past. The epic story seems ripe for adaptation. Maybe in a post Lord of the Rings movie world this will be the right time for the comic to break through.
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This is great news. I'm surprised that it's taken Hollywood so long to figure out what a goldmine Elfquest is in terms of rich, compelling stories with action, drama, violence, passion and most importantly, depth and heart (not to mention a huge, existing fan-base and major sequel and merchandising potential).
This has been a long time coming!!! I'm trying not to get my hopes up but I sooooo hope they can do it this time! It's a story worth seeing on the big screen!
YAHOO!! The best news I ever heard!! :D
I'm so looking forward to this, and you better not let us down by messing with the story, please for once stick to the original tale.
Other than that, I cannot wait to admire it!!!
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You can’t grow up playing D&D and loving fantasy novels without being aware of Elfquest, a comic series that started back in the late seventies about a group of Elves seeking out others of their kind and surviving in a world filled with evil humans and trolls. I wasn’t the world’s biggest fan of Elfquest, but I’ve been aware of it for some time.
July 9th, 2008 at 15:11
This is great news. I'm surprised that it's taken Hollywood so long to figure out what a goldmine Elfquest is in terms of rich, compelling stories with action, drama, violence, passion and most importantly, depth and heart (not to mention a huge, existing fan-base and major sequel and merchandising potential).