Oh Dear God, They're Actually Making A Youngblood Movie

 

See folks, this is the downside of comic book movies being so successful.  After a summer where the Dark Knight rakes in a half a billion dollars in sales and films like Hellboy 2, The Incredible Hulk and Iron man rule the box office for months on end, it's no big suprise that Hollywood then goes out and buys up the film rights to just about every comic book ever made.

 

And as comic book fans, we know that there are a lot of comics, and I do mean A LOT of comics, that should just never ever get turned into a movie because it's just bound to suck beyond all possible belief.  Rob Liefeld's Youngblood is pretty much at or near the top of that list of movies that should never be made.  Unfortunately though for both us and the world at large, some hollywood execs who obviously don't know a damn thing about comics have gone and done an evil deed indeed.  They've bought the rights to make Youngblood into a live action movie, and they've hired Bret Ratner (the man who ruined the X-Men film franchise) to direct it.

 

When asked why he was going to direct possibly the worst comic book movie ever, Ratner had the following to say.

 

“Most of the great graphic novels are gone, and ‘Youngblood’ is one of the few comicbooks left with tentpole potential,” Ratner told Daily Variety. “It was a real personal passion project for me, and a lot of people wanted (‘Youngblood’), but the amazing thing about the guys at Reliance is the speed with which they’re able to move.”

 

Let me get this straight.  He's signed on to make this film simply because all of the other great graphic novels have already been taken by other people?  So he's acknowledging that there are no good comics left to adapt and that they're scraping the bottom of the barrel here?  Youngblood is getting made because its the only comic book left that they could get the rights to?

 

You'd think that the filmmakers would realize at some point that if no one has grabbed the rights to make this comic into a film yet, there's probably a very good reason for that . . . . . right?  Wouldn't they realize that there's no audience for this film, or that the comic is reviled by fans as one of the worst pieces of trash of all time? 

 

Personally, I'm of the opinion that Brett Ratner actually has some deep hatred for comic book fans and, not being content with having raped the X-Men movie franchise, he is now determined to make us all cry in pain as we are forced to watch trailers and commercials and Entertainment Tonight behind the scenes specials of his next big summer flop . . . . . Youngblood.

 

You'll have to excuse me, I just threw up in my mouth a little. 

 

I wonder if the movie will be like the film and if we'll go a full 90 minutes without ever seeing a single person's feet.  It's well known Rob Liefeld can't draw feet, and if you look at pretty much every Youngblood panel ever you'll see the characters' feet are always cleverly hidden by either an ever-present fog or are cut off by the panel's borders.  I would be totally willing to give Mr. Ratner a warm review for his film if he turns the entire thing into a 90 minute joke about how bad an artist Rob Liefeld is.  That would actually be rather funny.