Tuesday, August 29, 2006

No medium is sacred

Every time you turn around, adaptations are being made of our old favorites -- books to movies, classics to graphic novels, even video game characters are popping up on the big screen or in print, and vice versa! What would you like to see get a makeover? What books did you think should have been left alone? Or how would you have done it better...?

Some titles to consider:

classics-->graphic novels
Treasure Island
Beowulf
the plays of Shakespeare

movies-->video games
The Warriors
Star Wars

graphic novels-->movies
V for Vendetta
X-men
Hellboy


video games-->books/graphic novels
Halo
Warcraft and World of Warcraft
Tomb Raider

movies-->books
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The Fog
Serenity
My Neighbor Totoro


video games-->movies
Resident Evil
Final Fantasy
Silent Hill

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