The Teen Titans are graduating to the big screen with a live-action adaptation.
Warner Bros. Pictures is planning a big-screen live-action adaptation of the DC Comics series Teen Titans, the junior superhero team made up of popular sidekicks, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The tone of the movie will be consistent with other recent Warners’ comic book ventures Batman Begins, Superman Returns, and the upcoming Watchmen, according to Akiva Goldsman, who along with Kerry Foster is producing the Titans film through their Weed Road banner.
Comic book writer/creator Mark Verheiden, who wrote Timecop and The Mask and served as writer-producer on TV’s Smallville, will pen the Titans script. Verheiden is also a writer-producer for SciFi Channel’s Battlestar Galactica.
Teen Titans, which first appeared in print in the early 1960s as a junior Justice League, originally consisted of Robin, Kid Flash, Aqualad, Wonder Girl, and Speedy, the respective young sidekicks of A-list heroes Batman, Flash, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, and Green Arrow. In the 1980s, the series was successfully relaunched with the creative team of writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez, who aged the characters to young adulthood facing more mature themes. This run also saw the addition of original non-sidekick superheros Cyborg, Starfire, and Raven.
The Titans had success on the small screen with a Cartoon Network series that ran from 2003-06 that featured many of the heroes and storylines from the 1980’s comic book run.
While it’s not yet know which characters will appear in the movie, Nightwing — the role Robin matured into — is said to be in the mix.
Not that I’m complaining, but there seem to be an awful lot of comic-based movies these days. I guess the creative pool has really run THAT dry.
well some of the best stories come from books and comics and how we visiualized them in our mind. i dont mind so much comic movies as the movies themselves are usually ok.. but as far as keeping true to the story i get irritated… especially with the x-man spider man movies….
“Best” stories? That’s definitely subjective. Comics are no different than video games or books in this respect - if they’re popular enough (or if somebody’s determined enough), someone who smells money tries to get it made into a movie. The big difference (compared to books, anyway) is that the production design - costumes, look/feel of effects, etc., is already done. Or rather, it _should_ be. Hollywood can’t seem to keep themselves from changing details - and not always for the better.
I’ve never been into the Teen Titans, but I think it’s nice to see a recognizeable DC property that isn’t Superman or Batman making it to the big screen.
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It’s a formula… it’s worked on spiderman and other movies so they expect it to keep on working.
I would probably see this. I would really like to see a Batman Beyond live action movie. A new Batman in the future with old Bruce Wayne as his mentor/advisor
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TITANS!!! If this is anything like batman begins or battlestar galactica, it will be worth seeing. Unfortunately, as was seen with the fantastic four and XMen, it also has the potential to be horribly cheesy with bad acting and/or try to shove a thousand comics into one movie with a fifth of the characters. But I have high hopes.
Is that the same Akiva from SNL/Lonely Island? Also, Nighthawk is a cool ass character, same with Cyborg. But I can’t see this working well - they’ll make it too damn kid-friendly
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Movie moguls seem to be jumping onto the bandwagon imulsively. While superhero movies of late have been earning buck bucks, it is never a guarantee that your movie will follow suit. It’s just like in the old days when Star Wars took the lead in spare war movies. Since then, what other movies in a similar vein are remembered by viewers? While it’s not bad to have these superhero movies, there may come a time when the public will get tired of them. We never can tell if it’s now. Let’s hope this Teen Titans movie will also become a hit.
i think its a great idea.
and having Mark Verheiden write the script will bring a really cool feel that i think Teen Titans deserves.
itsa great story if u take the time to really apreciate it.
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Let’s hope they stay more to the George Perez and Marv Wolfman grown up script and not that pile of an animated series cutsie garbage… That was dreadful.
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I am a huge fan of Teen Titans. I hope they bring in beast boy. I will definitely be at auditions.
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When it comes out i’m taking the day off work!
(i’m in tthe army so that means i’ll be going awol, but a teen titans movie well be woth alittle jail time.)
i do agree with my geek brotheren that if they try to make it too kid-friendly it’ll blow. they should just agree to make it PG-13 and be done with it. the writer they got seems prety soild but i’ve been wrong before. no matter which way they go with it, if the story sucks the movie will suck.
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Anyone know who’s going to do the voice actors for the movie? I wanna know if Ron Perlman is going to play Deathstroke or not. I’m very curious.
I really hope that cyborg could be like the cyborg on smallville like how his attitude was and have skin but then still be a cyborg but just wouldn’t have all that metal on him also for his hand to be able to turn hand into a sonic canon then back to his ordinary human looking hand like some transformers shit but only for his hand and he could still be like a bionic man like how they made bionic woman on the nbc show he could run fast, jump high and have super strenght that would be real tight. But he would still be dark but funny and cool character to watch on the Big Screen. Now to me that sounds like a pretty damn cool cyborg superhero. I think Texas Battle from Coach Carter, Final Destination and is rumored to be starring in upcoming cartoon adaption DragonBall Z movie and I also think Lee Thompson Young could do it also hes done the character before on smallville and hes teenage black superhero before Jet Jackson on Disney he was also in the second adaption of Hills Have Eyes movie playing the character called Delmar maybe now I’m saying maybe Rober Richardson from One on One TV Show, House of Wax movie and he also starred in Coach Carter playing Samuel L. Jackson’s son now I think the first two could do the role some justice now the third probably.