CoMoOm Cast-call: CRAIG THOMPSON'S "BLANKETS"

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So... how about an interlude for all those super-guys with capes and spandex costumes?

"Blankets" is one of the greatest graphic novels published in the last years. It has a huge potential for an alternative/indie kind of movie, full of modern rockband songs and intimate character relationships. That's why here we're not gonna discuss the story line of plot, it's all in the book. We surely will just suggest the team that could fit right in the heart of the film, as well as the list of songs for the movie soundtrack.

And there you... go!

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Directors: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris from "Little Miss Sunshine".

Craig (Gael Garcia Bernal): fantastic actor, good-looking guy. Quite older than the character in the book, but that's just a detail that would not disturb the whole process.

Raina (Jessica Biel): beautiful woman, the one that could make Gael's character become really attached to. Besides, she looks just like the drawing of the book.

Craig's brother, Phill (Rodrigo Santoro) and his wife (Kate Beckinsale): these two would play fast roles, since Phill appears a lot in the book when kid. Two good supporting actors, though.

Mother Thompson (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio): easy job, maybe. The matriarch of the family is a quiet and very religious woman.

Father Thompson (Tom Selleck): the third most important character of the movie. Trough memories and representations of his father attitudes Craig discuss and think over the story main conflict: feelings we have to deal with at the same time that we supress our deepest and unbearable beliefs and prejudices. Life, after all, simple like that.

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THE MOVIE SOUNDTRACK!!!



The Next Big Classic Comicbook-based Movie Teaser is Online!!!

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Stop everything you're doing.

This is THE movie of 2012...

The Dark Knight Rises

{Top Ten Comics That Would Make}GREAT ANIMATED MOVIES!

10- FELL (by Warren Ellis and Ben Templesmith)

Model to be followed: animated "Aeon Flux" MTV series.

09- BATMAN BLACK AND WHITE (by Various)

Model to be followed: the guys from the asian studio that created "Gotham Knight Animated".

08-SPIDER-MAN: TORMENT (by Todd McFarlane)

Model to be followed: there's no doubt that with Marvel-Disney association we could have "The Princess and The Frog" as an inspiration here (2D, please, fellas!)

07- THE LITTLE BEATLES BOOK (by Hervé Bourhis) 

Model to be followed: so the book author is french, isn't he? The perfect path to follow, then, is the french film "The Illusionist" (L'illusionniste).

06-BATMAN: HAUNTED KNIGHT (by Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale)



Model to be followed: this is the cheapest project of all, just get together again Alan Burnett, Bruce Timm and Paul Dini (the guys from the classic animated Bat-series) and... there you go.

05-DMZ (by Brian Wood and Riccardo Burchielli)

Model to be followed: in order to not assume any risk of financial failure the right choice here would be the Ghibli Studios (the producers of Miyazaki's "Spirited Away").

04-THE BURMA CHRONICLES (by Guy Delisle)

The Model to be followed: ready to see a movie with lots of comedy and social-political content? Get the people from Aardman Animations (they made Nick Park's "Wallace and Gromit").

03-WE3 (by Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely)

Model to be followed: mix up tons of 3D-CGI with great voices for the characters, add some frenetic soundtrack by Daft Punk (Tron who?) and follow the disposition of Zack Snyder's "Legend of the Guardians". That's a sure bet!

02-NEW YORK: LIFE IN THE BIG CITY (by Will Eisner)

Model to be followed: for the eternal master of comics and graphic novels, a classic kind of animation associated to some modern and efficient 3D technology, I mean, follow Disney's "Tangled" example. Hard would be the task of persuade Disney guys to produce a DC material...

01-MAUS (by Art Spiegelman)

Model to be followed: okay, guys, this could be the greatest animation ever! Get Robert Zemeckis as the director, accompanied by all his technology from "A Christhmas Carol" and "Tintin". Because of the movie plot and project Spielberg would be invited as the producer and Light and Magic people could deliver us a combination of powerful 3D scenes. John Williams once and for all had to be the soundtrack composer.