Update: Well, I'm told that 'reportedly' should be downgraded to 'not.' In other words, a good source says this isn't happening. Sorry to dash your hopes. Mine are kinda dashed, too. Original article follows. This is a comic book adaptation I can really get behind. As DC Comics starts to get more films in development at Warner Bros., attention is being paid to some of the less obvious titles. One of those is reportedly Starman. (And no, it isn't based on the John Carpenter movie.) While Starman is a character with a long history at DC -- there have been several incarnations -- the version I'd expect the film to focus on would be Jack Knight, the son of the original version of the character, and the core of an award-winning series written by James Robinson from 1994 to 2001. Pajiba says the film is in development under producers Dan Lin...
- 4/30/2010
- by Russ Fischer
- Slash Film
Pajiba has an interesting scoop today, claiming that Warner Bros. is in the very early stages of developing DC Comics' Starman for the silver screen. While they're quite right to point out that Starman has gone through quite a few iterations (dating back to his first appearance in 1941), comic book fans know pretty well that there's only one version that you'd want to adapt and that's Jack Knight, son of the original Starman.
That first appearance I mention is, for those keeping score, Adventure Comics #61 which introduced us to Ted Knight, a scientist who designs a "cosmic rod", giving him the power of flight. Dressed in red tights and a green cape, Ted Knight is just about no one's favorite superhero. Though he was an active member of the Justice Society of America, Starman was pretty forgettable until the 1990's.
Enter Jack Knight, son of the original Starman, created...
That first appearance I mention is, for those keeping score, Adventure Comics #61 which introduced us to Ted Knight, a scientist who designs a "cosmic rod", giving him the power of flight. Dressed in red tights and a green cape, Ted Knight is just about no one's favorite superhero. Though he was an active member of the Justice Society of America, Starman was pretty forgettable until the 1990's.
Enter Jack Knight, son of the original Starman, created...
- 4/29/2010
- UGO Movies
While movie and TV producers scrambled in the early '90s to come up with projects that would capture the spirit—and the wallets—of Generation X, DC Comics was quietly publishing an offbeat superhero series that said more about the concerns and character of the age than a dozen iterations of Reality Bites. Written by James Robinson and drawn by Tony Harris, Starman followed the trend of next-generation superheroes that DC practically mandated in the '90s, though Robinson and Harris' hero Jack Knight came to the family business a little differently than the likes of the new Flash and the new Green Arrow. The son of Ted Knight, the Golden Age Starman, Jack was a nostalgia freak and the proprietor of a kitschy Opal City antique shop when his older brother David—with whom he'd squabbled all his life—was killed during one of his first missions as the new Starman.
- 6/13/2008
- by Tasha Robinson, Noel Murray, Keith Phipps
- avclub.com
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