The Original: Original artist Leo Baxendale took the inspiration for the little rotters from a Giles cartoon of pupils streaming from school. The kids themselves debuted in the Beano in 1954 and remain to this day, seemingly locked in a school world of the past (mortar boards etc).
Our Director Pick: Fish Tank's Andrea Arnold. You'll see why in a second.
The Pitch: We're taking the kids and transforming them from a pack of wild, scheme-setting ne'er do wells and re-framing the series as a cutting indictment of modern British education.
So Arnold will craft a tough, searching, Un-PC stare into the state of kids who will do anything to escape the rigors of their lives.
But Plug still has to be terrifyingly ugly.
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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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