Joe Golem and the Drowning City movie

[Middenway]

A Joe Golem movie is in the works.

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Looking at the comments, there's no high hopes due to the guy involved doing it for many movies. I also corrected the article :p

I've not read the book yet, but a Mignola movie is always welcome. I'm just not holding out any hopes until we have some solid evidence of its production (and as Hellboy Animated 3 showed, even that isn't enough to confirm it'll release).

[meorsomeone]

Looking at the comments, there's no high hopes due to the guy involved doing it for many movies. I also corrected the article :p

I've not read the book yet, but a Mignola movie is always welcome. I'm just not holding out any hopes until we have some solid evidence of its production (and as Hellboy Animated 3 showed, even that isn't enough to confirm it'll release).

actually I loved Dark City but admit that after that I never saw another Alex Proyas movie so I cant really say, add to that I havent read Joe Golem.......

my attitude is anything actually creative in hollywood would be a good thing, but that place seems to kill creative, or corporate it up.

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Liz with Hellboy as an example (and then Abe in Animated! Ha!). Blergh.

[Ollie]

Wasn't there supposed to be a Baltimore Movie in the works?

[thwhtGuardian]

Wasn't there supposed to be a Baltimore Movie in the works?

Yeah, but when New Regency(the production company) underwent a change in leadership the plans for the Baltimore movie were scrapped.

As much as I would have liked to see a Baltimore movie, I'm not sure its semi epistolary style would have translated well to the screen. While you can adapt the plot of Dracula with out that feel I don't think the same could be said for Baltimore.

[Kees_L]

For a movie or any kind of further medium-expansion on Baltimore, I feel I would like an emphasis on the ruthlessly tragic or unhappily ending nature to it.

Like how Lord Baltimore would never be able to make better or vindicate evil, whereas he would still be forced to try and battle it, eventhough any evil like plague or blind war atrocities might not ever be a thing to overcome, nor would any demise of vampires or monsters be for making any stuff correct or good or wholesome again.

As tragic or undoable as a tunnel with no light at the end which is coming to crumble.

For a Baltimore movie I'd like it if it would be like just the three ruggedly 'lived-through' men telling their Baltimore-tales at some filthy lowly bar, featuring the weird puppet theatre for a finale. In black and white, with hardly any special effects or action, except for the viewer's imagination to get put to work.
I'd think such would really work. Like such could get to be a hit.

It would take some good actors. Made ugly and raw. Like Christopher Walken or William Defoe as the Doc, Mad Men's Don Draper or George Clooney (CGI-ed heavily into looking worn out) as the Captain, plus the third guy. (Plus undignifiable cameos by both mr Golden and mr Mike of course ).

[the goddamn batman]

Alex Proyas isn't a bad director, but he's worked on some real turd scripts, and you know what they say about polishing a turd.

[thwhtGuardian]

For a movie or any kind of further medium-expansion on Baltimore, I feel I would like an emphasis on the ruthlessly tragic or unhappily ending nature to it.

Like how Lord Baltimore would never be able to make better or vindicate evil, whereas he would still be forced to try and battle it, eventhough any evil like plague or blind war atrocities might not ever be a thing to overcome, nor would any demise of vampires or monsters be for making any stuff correct or good or wholesome again.

As tragic or undoable as a tunnel with no light at the end which is coming to crumble.

For a Baltimore movie I'd like it if it would be like just the three ruggedly 'lived-through' men telling their Baltimore-tales at some filthy lowly bar, featuring the weird puppet theatre for a finale. In black and white, with hardly any special effects or action, except for the viewer's imagination to get put to work.
I'd think such would really work. Like such could get to be a hit.

It would take some good actors. Made ugly and raw. Like Christopher Walken or William Defoe as the Doc, Mad Men's Don Draper or George Clooney (CGI-ed heavily into looking worn out) as the Captain, plus the third guy. (Plus undignifiable cameos by both mr Golden and mr Mike of course ).

That would certainly make for a great movie, I'm just not sure it would be made like that in Hollywood. The best part about Baltimore is that it's protagonist is a barely there, shadow like character that you only ever really learn about from second hand accounts, namely from the three guys in the bar, but I think in a Hollywood movie they'd stray from those short vignettes and try to tell a more linear adventure story with the focus solely on Baltimore.

That wouldn't be much of a problem for Joe Golem though, it is a pretty straight forward action story so it could be adapted pretty easily.

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Baltimore would probably work better, if it was translated from comic to screen, as either a cartoon or at a stretch a TV show. "Normal" movies (i.e. 1hr30min-2hr length films) just aren't long enough to contain any real depth - I mean, look at how much of Hellboy was 'scrapped' for the films.

An animated Baltimore, though? Awesome. Bring. It. ON.

[Middenway]

True. I can't really see Baltimore working as a movie for that very reason, not without substantial structural changes, but Joe Golem could translate very easily.