‘Invincible’ Creator Robert Kirkman Reveals the State of the Announced Live-Action Adaptation
Similar to The Boys, Amazon’s animated adaptation of the Invincible comic book also became a huge hit for the company. This animated adaptation of a popular comic offers us a whole new perspective on the superhero genre than that we had been used to while – at the same time – parodying conventional American superhero comics.
Even though it is an animated series, it has managed to attract a lot of interest and became one of Amazon’s most popular programs in a variety of ways. It achieved this by attracting a substantial audience and building a devoted and engaged following. For this reason, it is among the most captivating and watched television shows today.
But, while the animated series is pushing forward, many fans are wondering about the state of the live-action adaptation that was announced by The Hollywood Reporter back in 2017. And while no official updates have been given, the series creator Robert Kirkman has revealed more information about the projects and it seems that it is still happening!
These revelations have been made public by our friends at The Direct, who spoke to Kirkman at the San Diego Comic-Con this year, and this is what he told us about the state of the live-action movie:
“… It’s still in development. We’re still working with Universal. You know, the show is going so well. I think the movie absolutely has to be perfect. And so it’s taking a lot of time, like getting the pieces aligned and getting everything to work so that we can come out and make it as good as it can possibly be. So it’s been in development for a long time, and it’s probably going to be in development for a while longer.”
Source: The Direct
He further commented on how the movie has to be different from the animated series but also true to the original material, also speaking of the difficulties of adapting one story through different mediums:
“Just because, in relation to the show, it has to provide a different experience, it has to still be true to ‘Invincible’ in some interesting ways. But it has to be its own thing. It has to stand on its own. And so that’s something we’re spending a lot of time crafting. But I think when it finally happens, it’s gonna be really cool.”
“Well, I think it’s difficult. And I think you can, that’s why the development process is taking so long because it’s tough to figure out, okay, the comic is this one thing, and then this animated series is this other thing, and now this movie has to be this third thing, it has to provide a new experience, but, you know, maybe tell the same story, maybe tell a different story.”
When asked when we could see the movie, he provided us with a funny and intriguing answer that possibly contains a hint:
“Those are the kinds of things we’re trying to figure out. And it has to be as good as the show, but in a lot of ways, it has to be better than the show because, you know, movies are tough, and you got to get audiences into theaters. And that’s a process. It’s very difficult, but we’ve got a good team behind it. And I think that we’re hopefully going to do something pretty cool, but it may take so long that Timothée Chalamet can play Omni-Man.”
Finally, he was asked about how difficult it would be to adapt a large-scale comic book into a movie that has its practical limitations:
“The movie process is definitely condensing. And that can be frustrating at times, but it’s also a fun challenge. But the animated series, especially for us, I think of it as an expanding process. I think that there’s a lot of different scenes if you compare them to the comic, we do more. We put more emotion in them. There’s more dialogue going on. There’s a little bit more character development happening.”
As you can see, this is definitely good news, as Kirkman seems to have the project in mind and we might just get a decent adaptation, although we might also have to wait some time before it actually happens.
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