is the gl blackest night mini series doable for a dvd movie

[Aberration Sinestro's Sparring Partner Find all posts View Profile Close Aberration]

I could see them doing a movie called Blackest Night that's Hal Jordan & friends facing off against black ring zombies for 75 minutes. But adapting the Blackest Night story straight from the comics in the same amount of time would be too truncated to effectively tell the story, and too confusing for the general audience.

[Old School Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Old School]

might as well keep this one going

[JohnnyV Pictionary Master Find all posts View Profile Close JohnnyV]

you'd really have to butcher the story and back story to fit it into an animated movie. Which is why I'd much rather see original animated features, than converted comics. For example, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is better than any of the converted comic-DVD's I have on my shelf.

[TazzMission Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close TazzMission]

you'd really have to butcher the story and back story to fit it into an animated movie. Which is why I'd much rather see original animated features, than converted comics. For example, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm is better than any of the converted comic-DVD's I have on my shelf.

not unless if they make a trilogy out of it kinda like a 3 disk set. instead of bonus material just give us another part of the film

[Phantom6 Corpse Trainee Find all posts View Profile Close Phantom6]

Not yet.


I'd like to see each of the Corps get a movie first. Build some back story THEN hit the world with the Blackest Night.

[IonFan Forum Member Find all posts View Profile Close IonFan]

for it to be done right it'll have to be made into a trinity

1st movie, Sin. Corps war (thinks to the 1st Flight movie you really don't need "much" of a backstory, and lets be real you need it)

2nd movie, War of Lights (this'll have your s your s your and maybe i little bit of the other Corps all in one "story")

followed by your 3rd movie BN (it'll have all 8 Corps and no one else from the DCU, it is after all a GL(C) story)

doing it this way should work (i hope)

[W.West Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close W.West]

Where's the part where you explain Barry Allen, Mera, Aquaman, Ray Palmer, and the assortment of dead and mostly unrecognizable heroes? Or why the forementioned characters are the stars of the book?

[Mechinoid Hal's Understudy Find all posts View Profile Close Mechinoid]

I'd say yea, they centralize on Barry and Hal enough anyways. Would it not be as good or would they have to trim things down? Probably but definitely doable since they would already have the 2 main characters to follow with the movie setup already.

[IonFan Forum Member Find all posts View Profile Close IonFan]

Where's the part where you explain Barry Allen, Mera, Aquaman, Ray Palmer, and the assortment of dead and mostly unrecognizable heroes? Or why the forementioned characters are the stars of the book?

it's a GL story West you don't need the other in the DCU, in fact you don't even need the dead heroes just the dead for it to work

[Old School Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Old School]

you dont need 3 movies to lead into this one. you just need a brief 5-10 minute briefing on what has gone on.

kinda like the star wars movies

[W.West Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close W.West]

it's a GL story West you don't need the other in the DCU, in fact you don't even need the dead heroes just the dead for it to work

Blackest Night has been a GL story for 4 splash pages. Its a DCU story. If you turn it to a random zombie story it loses what little appeal it had.

[Sylent_Asassin Black Lantern Find all posts View Profile Close Sylent_Asassin]

I don't think it would work. There's far too much backstory and too many characters to introduce... and that's even before getting into blackest night. You would have to introduce practically every charcter in the DCU. In an established team-concept setting with established heroes and villains like Justice League Unlimited, this might work but as a DTV with no history, this would fail miserably.

[Old School Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Old School]

I don't think it would work. There's far too much backstory and too many characters to introduce... and that's even before getting into blackest night. You would have to introduce practically every charcter in the DCU. In an established team-concept setting with established heroes and villains like Justice League Unlimited, this might work but as a DTV with no history, this would fail miserably.

justice league unlimited did very well .. and no way in hell did those same little kids that new the basic heroes knew every character that came through there.

this can work.

[Kane2814 Weaponer of Qward Find all posts View Profile Close Kane2814]

I think it could be done. Of course it would have to lose a lot of the various Corps backstory and would probably have to be a Justice League movie where Hal was prominent rather than be so GL mythos centric, but I can see a movie based on the basic idea rather than a literal translation of the series.

-- The movie starts similarly with a worldwide remembrance of dead heroes. The JLA spends some time reminiscing about various dead heroes to introduce them and let us know what each dead hero meant to each living JLAer. (It doesn't have to be much. Even Barry acknowledging that he mentored Firestorm is enough)
-- Black Rings fall and the dead rise. We get a hint of what's behind it all, but there's mostly just a bunch of dead heroes fighting live heroes with some of them falling.
-- Indigo-1 (or some new character based on her) comes to fill us in on the backstory of Nekron or whatever and provides a plan to defeat Nekron. (this might be the biggest difference, since it'd be more JLA centric it wouldn't involve the other corps, just some pseudo-emotional spectrum nonsense; maybe with various JLA members filling in for representations for each emotion/color with Hal as the conduit)
-- the JLA hold hands and defeat Nekron with the power of emotions. (or something based on what the actual ending will be)

It wouldn't be my first choice for an animated film (the War or Light would be higher on my list removed from Blackest Night) but it could still be interesting because it'd involve a more emotional threat to the JLA.

[W.West Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close W.West]

justice league unlimited did very well .. and no way in hell did those same little kids that new the basic heroes knew every character that came through there.

this can work.

At no point during JLU was backstory needed. Its not the large cast of characters that's daunting, its the emotional connection to this large cast that will mean absolutely nothing without some backstory.