Sentences with phrase «on the comic book by»

That idea of Fawkes largely stems from his use in V for Vendetta, a 2006 movie based on the comic books by Alan Moore about a mysterious masked revolutionary who brings down a totalitarian regime, succeeding where Fawkes failed by blowing up parliament.

Based on the comic book by Mark Millar, the plot follows a veteran secret agent (Firth) as he takes a young delinquent (Taron Egerton) from the London streets and enrolls him in an academy that trains it's pupils to be 007 - type secret agents.

Directed by Scott Derrickson; screenplay by Jon Spaihts, Derrickson, and C. Robert Cargill, based on the comic book by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko; director of photography, Ben Davis; edited by Sabrina Plisco and Wyatt Smith; music by Michael Giacchino; production designer, Charles Wood; produced by Kevin Feige; released by Walt Disney Pictures.

The movie is based on the comic book by Mark Millar (Wanted) and focuses on a high school kid who decides to become a superhero... with no super powers whatsoever.

Walter F. Parkes and Laurie MacDonald return to produce and Barry Sonnenfeld, who directed the first two films of the franchise, will direct the film from a screenplay written by Ethan Cohen, based on the comic book by Lowell Cunningham.

The story based on the comic book by «Underworld» star, producer and writer, Kevin Grevioux, who helped the helmer write the script.

If that wasn't enough, he is now jumping into the horror genre with another new project based on a comic book by Steve Niles (30 Days of Night).

Written by Jane Goldman & Matthew Vaughn; based on a comic book by Mark Millar and Dave Gibbons.

Directed by Stephen Norrington; screenplay by James Robinson, based on the comic book by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill; director of photography, Dan Laustsen; edited by Paul Rubell; music by Trevor Jones; production designer, Carol Spier; produced by Don Murphy and Trevor Albert; released by 20th Century Fox.

Directed by Albert and Allen Hughes; screenplay by Terry Hayes and Rafael Yglesias, based on the comic book by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell; director of photography, Peter Deming; edited by Dan Lebental and George Bowers; music by Trevor Jones; production designer, Martin Childs; produced by Don Murphy and Jane Hamsher; released by 20th Century Fox.

** 1/2 / **** Image A Sound A Extras A + starring Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Brad Renfro, Steve Buscemi written by Daniel Clowes & Terry Zwigoff, based on the comic book by Clowes directed by Terry Zwigoff

Directed by Nelson McCormick; teleplay by John Rogers, based on the comic book by Warren Ellis; director of photography, Checco Varese; edited by Michael Schultz; production designers, Linda Del Rosario and Richard Paris; produced by Mark Burnett and Charlie Goldstein.

Directed by Robert Schwentke; screenplay by Jon Hoeber and Erich Hoeber, based on the comic book by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner; director of photography, Florian Ballhaus; edited by Thom Noble; music by Christophe Beck; production design by Alec Hammond; produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Mark Vahradian; released by Summit Entertainment.

Based on the comic book by Mark Millar and adapted for the screen by Jane Goldman, Kick - Ass is due for release on 26th March in the UK and 16th April in the U.S..

Cast: Brandon Lee, Ernie Hudson, Michael Wincott, Rochelle Davis, Tony Todd, Jon Polito, David Patrick Kelly, Angel David, Laurence Mason, Michael Massee, Bai Ling, Anna Thomson, Sofia Shinas Director: Alex Proyas Screenplay: David J. Schow, John Shirley (based on the comic book by James O'Barr) Review published October 26, 2014

WANTED * / **** Image A Sound A Extras D starring James McAvoy, Morgan Freeman, Terence Stamp, Angelina Jolie screenplay by Michael Brandt & Derek Haas and Chris Morgan, based on the comic books by Mark Millar and J.G. Jones directed by Timur Bekmambetov

The Cat Returns is based on a comic book by Aoi Hiiragi that's translated as «Baron the Cat Baron.»

The screenplay by Jeff Wadlow (based on the comic book by Mark Millar and John S. Romita Jr.) repeatedly has characters saying so, sometimes preceded by the line, «This isn't a comic book.»

Cast: Aaron Johnson, Mark Strong, Nicolas Cage, Chloe Grace Moretz, Christopher Mintz - Plasse, Lyndsy Fonseca, Clark Duke, Evan Peters, Omari Hardwick, Michael Rispoli, Garrett M. Brown, Stu «Large» Riley, Dexter Fletcher Cameo: Elizabeth McGovern, Craig Ferguson, Xander Berkeley Director: Matthew Vaughn Screenplay: Jane Goldman, Matthew Vaughn (based on the comic book by Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.) Review published August 17, 2010

Not exact matches

But «Ready Player One,» based on a 2011 novel, is vying for moviegoers at a time when the box office has been dominated by serial tales of comic - book superheroes and sequels to established hits, making it tougher for new material to shine.

Meanwhile, Vox recently floated the idea of Fox going all - in on Deadpool by launching a film series, similar to Disney's The Avengers series, that would see his character team up with others from the X-Men comics to form a group known in comic books as the Uncanny X-Force.

She knocks Thor on his divine derriere destroying his famous hammer in the process, and boots him to an alien planet called Sakaar — a place that looks to be influenced partly by Tatooine, partly by District 9, and a lot from famed Marvel comic book creator Jack Kirby.

The design on our label is a character designed by different comic book artists every year.

I make them in the oven too and my son calls them Defeated Potatoes because I flatten them with the potato masher before they go in and they look like they've been stomped on by a dinosaur or some other large creature only an 11 - year - old boy who aspires to be a comic book artist could dream up.

Mars Needs Moms was produced by the team behind «Disney's A Christmas Carol» and «The Polar Express,» and is based on the book «Mars Needs Moms,» which was written and illustrated by Berkeley Breathed, a Pulitzer - Prize winner for his comic strip «Bloom County.»

The researchers state: «What increasingly differentiates the instances of gun violence in PG - 13 films from those rated R is not only the higher frequency in the PG - 13 category but also those films» erasure of the consequences (e.g., blood and suffering) and greater likelihood that the violence will be perpetrated by or on comic book - inspired heroes and antiheroes (e.g., Batman, Avengers, and X-Men).»

Dr Robin Kramer, from the University of York's Department of Psychology, said: «The question of whether the inhabitants of Metropolis could be realistically deceived by Superman's simple disguise has been rumbling since the comic books first arrived on the stands, but the question becomes a serious one when applied to real - world security issues.

At the end of the day, a nerd is a nerd, Kakalios admits comfortably, because he is also a comic book aficionado: «Geeks are people who get turned on by ideas» whether that's about spider powers or quantum mechanics.

One day his physics teacher wrote an equation on the board that explained the relationship between distance traveled and time1 and then proved it by rolling a ball down an inclined plane.2 Dr. Gates realized that physics could deliver mathematics from the fantasy of his books, comics, and imagination into the real world.

Four things that we can do that may reduce our risk of developing Parkinson's disease is exercise, avoiding dairy products, pesticides, and avoid getting hit in the head (which means wearing your seatbelt, bike helmet), and — if you read journal articles written by scientists with way too much time on their hands — avoid getting attacked by extraterrestrials, a leading cause of traumatic brain injury in comic books.

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Started by esteemed editor and reporter Heidi MacDonald, The Beat keeps you in the loop on everything comics related from books to television and film.

Archie Marries Veronica / Archie Marries Betty is an American comic book story by writer Michael Uslan and artists Stan Goldberg and Bob Smith that was The first season of Veronica Mars, an American drama television series created by Rob Thomas, premiered on UPN in the United States on September 22, 2004.

Co-written and directed by Ryan Coogler, «Black Panther» is a radically different kind of comic - book movie, one with a proud Afrocentric twist, featuring a nearly all - black cast, that largely ignores the United States and focuses instead on the fictional nation of Wakanda — and guess what: Virtually everything that distinguishes «Black Panther» from past Marvel pics works to this standalone entry's advantage.

There's a curious insistence in Hollywood action - adventure films these days (doubtless aided by the comic books that provide such an increasing amount of their adaptive material) on the centrality of origins, from the X-Men to Batman to Bond and beyond — often, if not always, revolving around daddy issues.

Comic book artists aren't bound by visual effects budgets, so they're allowed to give us priceless imaginations on paper: new worlds on every page, mystifying beings, dazzling spacecraft, spellbinding powers, and megaton fights.

But Constantine, which follows Keanu Reeves title character as he teams up with Rachel Weisz's Angela to prevent Satan's arrival on Earth, takes a leap out the plausibility window early on, something presumably dictated by the comic book that the film is based on.

The latest film is Black Panther (directed by Ryan Coogler and starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan and Lupita Nyong» o), based on Stan Lee and Jack Kirby's 1966 comic book character of the same name.

Based on Robert Kirkman's award - winning comic book series, The Walking Dead is about a world devastated by an undead apocalypse and the horrifying choices you're forced to make to survive.

The cybernetically reconstructed Richard Drumm is joined by antiquities dealer Paul Farren to aim fire at Justice League and Thor Ragnarock and look back on the year of Superhero and Comic Book Films.

Director James Mangold and writers Mark Bomback and Scott Frank (basing their work on a comic book arc by Chris Claremont and Frank Miller) have taken Jackman to Japan, where Logan / Wolverine confronts his past and a possible new future.

It's actually based on a book called «Wild Pork and Watercress,» by New Zealand comic - adventure novelist Barry Crump, but it's been freely adapted and directed by Taika Waititi, the «Flight of the Conchords» cohort who made the hilarious «What We Do in the Shadows.»

In a summer during the early - to - mid sixties, I surreptitiously acquired a copy of a specific issue of Playboy — not for the pictures, though those were nice, but for an essay on The Great Comic Book Heroes, by Jules Feiffer.

Venom is directed by Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland) from a screenplay by Scott Rosenberg, Jeff Pinkner, and Kelly Marce, which is based on two storylines from the comic books, Lethal Protector and Planet of the Symbiotes.

This review of kick - ass a 2010 superhero / action - comedy film based on the comic book of the same name by Mark Millar and John Romita, Jr is awesome.

I was RALMAO at comments like the ones posted by Linkfx, I mean you want more depth, but there was too much plot & action??? Many got it right, a comic book adaptation isn't on the dramatic side no matter what serious moments are introduced.

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These characters [Professor Xavier and Magneto] were established in the comic books but also in the movies by two other actors and my questions is, did you look at the actors or did you base your performance on the comic book?

Based on the comic book series written by Robert Kirkman and published by Image Comics, «The Walking Dead» stars Andrew Lincoln, Norman Reedus, Steven Yeun, Lauren Cohan, Chandler Riggs, Scott Wilson, Melissa McBride, David Morrissey, Emily Kinney, Danai Gurira, Chad Coleman and Sonequa Martin - Green.

The year was 2009; X-Men: Origins Wolverine just debuted and while Ryan Reynolds take on Wade Wilson was mostly well received their version of «Deadpool» was demonized by most if not all comic book fans.