{"id":30713,"date":"2013-10-11T07:01:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-11T11:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=30713"},"modified":"2013-10-17T10:38:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T14:38:56","slug":"history-of-the-comic-book-film-so-good-you-wont-know-theyre-from-comics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/10\/11\/history-of-the-comic-book-film-so-good-you-wont-know-theyre-from-comics\/","title":{"rendered":"HISTORY OF THE COMIC BOOK FILM: So Good You Won’t Know They’re From Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a multi-part series, Comic Book Film Editor William Gatevackes will be tracing the history of comic book movies from the earliest days of the film serials to today\u2019s big blockbusters and beyond. Along with the history lesson, Bill will be covering some of the most prominent comic book films over the years and why they were so special. Today, we look at films that got good reviews and award nominations \"paradox\"<\/a>that many people have no idea were adapted from graphic novels.<\/i><\/p>\n

Paradox Press, like Piranha Press before it, was sort of a boutique imprint established by DC Comics. You wouldn\u2019t find Superman and Batman in the pages of a Paradox Press book, but you would find stories that didn\u2019t quite fit in with the mainstream comic book world. Whether it be a scholarly dissection of the art of making comics or \u201cBig Books\u201d devoted to cult topics such as conspiracies or urban legends, tales of a mental patient who thinks he\u2019s Humphrey Bogart or realistically violent crime-dramas, quality works that were too outside of the typical comic book genres found in DC\u2019s regular line-up found a home here. \u00a0And it was from this imprint that DC experienced some of its most successful film adaptations, although many filmgoers had no idea of the film\u2019s origins.<\/p>\n

\"road_to_perdition_xlg\"<\/a>It is only natural that Road to Perdition <\/b>not be considered a comic book film because in 2002, no comic book film at that time had people of such caliber involved in its making. It was championed at Dreamworks by Oscar-winner Steven Spielberg. It was directed by Oscar winner Sam Mendes. Its two biggest roles went to Oscar winners Tom Hanks and Paul Newman. The villain was Oscar nominee Jude Law. And if that wasn\u2019t enough, the film featured a pre-Bond, heck, pre-Layer Cake <\/b>Daniel Craig. Arguably, it could be the only comic book film that people that hated comic books saw, because they had no idea of its comic book origins.
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