10 Cartoon Strips That Should Be Films
If Marmaduke can be a movie, why not this lot?
By James WhiteNov 10th 2009
Love Is…
The Original: New Zealand's Kim Grove came up with the simple concept for the strip in the late 1960, as a series of love notes for her future hubby. But she found fame and forte with the idea when the characters - a naked cartoon man and woman (with no genitals, which must make "love" fairly tough) and simple reflections on the nature of romance and relationships.
Our Director Pick: Stephen Daldry hasn't done anything that's as fun as Billy Elliot, so we think he should tackle a rom com while he waits for The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier And Clay to actually work as a script.
The Pitch: Tough one to adapt, this, though the Mail On Sunday did have an alternate, clothed version of the characters in a proper running story strip back in the 1980s.
Still, it's obvious you can't just have whimsical couples wibbling on about love (Richard Curtis has already cornered that market), so let's get a writer like Diablo Cody in to make it a modern-day romantic fable of boy-meets-girl-and-both-over-obsess-about-each-other-in-a-pop-cultural-way.
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minorityreport
Nov 10th 2009, 9:54
Charley's War would make a great film, or a series of them, even.
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Mroobalooba
Nov 10th 2009, 10:50
Wha....no Calvin and Hobbes!!! And the bash street kids have appeared in two cartoons from the Beano videos although it would make a pretty mental film.
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cleanbreak
Nov 10th 2009, 11:07
I would have to say the uk's Dennis the menace. He could square off against the American version, the fight wouldn't last long I fear...
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Aberskene
Nov 10th 2009, 15:47
George and Lynne.....no?!
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CUrraNT
Nov 10th 2009, 17:12
What about Nemi out of the metro? The film: Finding Nemi The plot: She's looking for a good joke... unlike this one!
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CUrraNT
Nov 10th 2009, 17:14
What about Nemi out of The Metro? The Film: Finding Nemi The plot: She's looking for a funny joke... unlike this one!
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CUrraNT
Nov 10th 2009, 17:14
What about Nemi out of The Metro? The Film: Finding Nemi The plot: She's looking for a funny joke... unlike this one!
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CUrraNT
Nov 10th 2009, 17:15
What about Nemi out of The Metro? The Film: Finding Nemi The plot: She's looking for a funny joke... unlike this one!
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Lingdada
Nov 11th 2009, 12:51
The glorious Dan Dare was my Number One hero during the sixties,when I was but 10yrs old and like all kids of that decade,heavily into the SciFi fantasy world of glossy colour comics!! Bring back ths Mekon to a theatre near you!!
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mattburgess
Nov 11th 2009, 18:20
CALVIN. AND. HOBBES.
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