TEEN TITANS #50 (2007).
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Verheiden Talks TEEN TITANS and BSG

CMix: When you go in to pitch something like a Teen Titans movie, isn’t the studio looking for your “take” or “spin” on it? How do you approach a pitch for something like this?

MV: In the case of Teen Titans, its more like how do you see those characters in a live-action movie and how do they react and live in our world?

There’s a lot of ways to go with this, but my "take," if you want to call it that, is to try and make them as real as possible given the circumstances. Possibly a little bit more of a heightened realism in this, much like they’ve done in the comic recently.

The trick is to find a balance between the realism of how they can work in this world so you can connect with them and they feel real to you, and then the fact they have powers, or most of them do, they have fun and do what they do.

We’re not going to make it grim and gritty or anything, but it will have great jeopardy, action and conflict. The bottom line is, we’re going to try and have some fun with it, which is the best way to describe it.