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Kurt Busiek's Astro City comics in development as a feature film

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From Deadline Hollywood:

Working Title Films partners Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner have made a deal to turn Kurt Busiek's graphic novel series Astro City into a live action feature. The deal gives the prolific comic book writer Busiek his first chance to write the script. Launched in 1995, the series has a Sin City anthology vibe, set in a world crammed with superheros and super-villains. Stories are told from the vantage point of those heroes and villains, as well as the humans who get caught between them. Heroes range from Samaritan, The Hanged Man, The Apollo Eleven--a group of astronauts mutated during a moon landing--to Winged Beauty, a feisty feminist who always saves women first. The series has won multiple Eisner and Harvey Awards for Busiek, who created the series with artists Brent Anderson and Alex Ross.

Aside from his own comic creations, Busiek has written for Marvel Comics staples like Iron Man, The Avengers and Spider-Man, and for DC Comics on Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and others. He continues writing new installments of Astro City, but is also working with Alex Ross on a revival of Jack Kirby's concepts, and Busiek is launching his own urban fantasy series The Witchlands. The deal, brokered by Mosaic's Nick Harris, is worth seven-figures if the film gets made. Bevan and Fellner will produce, with Ben Barenholtz, Busiek and Jonathan Alpers exec producing. The latter trio took a crack at a movie version in 2003, but unlike the many flight-capable Astro City characters, it never got off the ground.
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Glad Busiek is writing the script, but I really think Astro City would work better as a tv show. As they say, it's an anthology series, with a varied cast of characters. Who would you focus on? I suppose they could do The Tarnished Angel storyline, but you would lose some context.
 
Finally! I have been wanting this for a while now I can't wait for the movie...hell, I always thought Astro City would make an epic TV series. :)
 
Peter the Younger said:
Glad Busiek is writing the script, but I really think Astro City would work better as a tv show. As they say, it's an anthology series, with a varied cast of characters. Who would you focus on? I suppose they could do The Tarnished Angel storyline, but you would lose some context.
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I have to agree. Its structured very much like many TV shows. Not sure a movie could capture its scope or feel, even if Busiek is writing.
 
This is potentially great news. I'll watch it, although I'd rather have more Astro City comics!
 
While the structure of the stories is best suited to a TV series it would be very difficult to capture the scale of the comics and do justice to the great costumes on a TV budget.
 
There are any number of individual stories that would work fine as a movie ("Confessions" is probably the most acclaimed one, and would work fine, for instance); if you were trying to capture the overall feel of Astro City as a series, that might be more difficult, but may be you could do it as a big multi-storyline piece with characters going about their day.
 
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