Lions Gate Acquires Niles Graphic Novels for Jane

...once again... where are the best movie ideas coming from??? GRAPHIC NOVELS... say it with me everyone... GRAPHIC NOVELS...

*sigh*, how sad. Many of the best movies are stories written especially for the screen. I wish that Hollywood would create their own "properties" instead of trollig through every other medium.

...gtmac... Hollywood has NO original ideas left... the last one being... ummmmm... let's see something not in print first... no japanise remake... no remake of a remake... no was a book... no was a GRAPHIC NOVEL (I just love that)... no is a sequel... WAIT!!! The Blair Witch Project... believe it or not that was probably the last original film idea that has now been totally ripped off to death. I don't think i'm way off base on this. Even indie films are from novels or books or other medium ideas. The days of written dirctly for the screen it seems are fading fast... I'm sure there are some that are out there and I can't recall... but hollywood is no longer going to spend money on something unless it's tied to something already sucessful in someother medium... sad, but the way of the world.

Hurry for UnOriginalWood!!!

Just a second thought but there are some excellent original screenplays on an annual basis as evidenced by the academy award for "Original Screenplay" however... how many of those actually become mainstream hits... I'm just pointing out that the prestige in writing your own original idea is excellent and commendible and shows a huge amount of talent... but it's not profitable for the studio's anymore so it has now been regulated to lesser budgeted films... unless someone has serious clout, it won't get a budget. Just a second thought on the matter.

heyheyhey, hold on, wait a minute there...
GRAPHIC NOVELS
There. Now, there's no need for a new Blair Witch Project, or a This is Spinal Tap or whatever movie that defines a new genre/concept just to be original. The best movies ever are original screenplays or book adaptations, and since there're still plenty of books to be adapted, the only limit is what lracors says: Budget/BoxOffice.

I'm so sick of people crying about a lack of originality in hollywood. The argument doesn't hold water to begin with but then it's cried over and over again by people who don't have any ideas themselves. You think you can do it better? Then why aren't you doing it?
You make a list of the greatest movies ever made. I can assure you that most of them will have been based on a book or movie or play or whatever.
Just a few to show you what morons you are:
Gone with the Wind
Wizard of Oz
Shane
Lord of the Rings
Jaws
Psycho
Vertigo
Planet of the Apes
Bridge on the River Kwai
The Godfather
Casablanca
Shawshank Redemption
Shindlers List
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Silence of the Lambs
and on and on and on and on.

Original movies in the last few years:

Garden State
Seven
Pulp Fiction
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Three Kings
Lost in Translation
Monsters Ball
Royal Tennenbaums
Memento
Being John Malkovich
Sixth Sense.

And those are a handful and what I could think of off the top of my head. Grow up and find something legitimate to gripe about.

krc638, you are totally correct. Then again, if you've seen Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, you would know what the internet was truely created for, "...sharing porn and [complaining] about movies." Also, those who know nothing of Graphic Novels shouldn't speak, since there is a wealth of creativity coming from there recently. Just look at Sin City! Tell me another film that has looked that original lately. Besides, would everyone rather just go and see some crap squals, like we know X3 will be?! NO! I, for one, would much rather see something like Niles' 30 Days of night that is currently being worked on. Especially since the massive dissapointment that was WAR OF THE WORLDS!!!! As far as I am concerned, there has only been 1 real well made and thought out film this year so far, that being Batman Begins! So who cares if the story came from a different source, would you rather see a well made Graphic Novel film, or another Fast and Furious movie?!

The thing is HollyWood has writers, I know that it may be hard to believe, but they do. Why else would the movie studios need to hire readers. The fact of the matter is that studios all over our land our bombarded with thousands of scripts, but only 450-500 get made into movies. Only 173 make it to the big screen and only 80 are made by the major film studios. In the end it's all money and what the studios think will make it for them. And believe it or not I plan to prove that there are still good stories and movie out there by making and writing my own.

KRC, bless you. I tried to tell people on here a few weeks ago to quit bitching, but then I got bitched at. I guess people just need to have something to complain about. One note, Three Kings is a remake of a Clint Eastwood move called Kelly's Heroes, so you may want to drop that one from the original movies list.

I agree with Mac. One movie that you left off of your list that I thiught was fresh was Adaptation. IMO it was the best movie that has came out in years.