Why did DC goof so badly by adapting Doom Patrol for TV instead of cinema? It could be their GotG, but better

Bela Tarr

I can't see how the bargain bin Tarkovski is a good fit for this.

Because DC has never adapted DP to any screen.

The show is a screen test for a feature film. Does this concept work?

The Doom Patrol never had the brand or name recognition of the X-Men and it was overshadowed by other superhero teams in DC Comics.

Are there any Doom Patrol arcs worth reading other than the original run and the Morrison run?

I'm afraid it can't work like that. If they're satisfied with the series performance and make a movie, they need to decide whether they set it in the setting of the series or they make a separate interpretation of the setting. And they lose both ways. If it's the same as the series, new viewers will be discouraged to see it because they haven't seen the series leading up to it. If it's not, the series fans will be disappointed that they didn't get to see the setting they came to enjoy on the big screen.

TL;DR: there are much cheaper and more effective ways to gauge the potential demand for a movie than making a TV series.

Arcudi and Gerald Way runs are fine but really Silver Age and Morrison Era are god tier so just read those

Grant Morrison

Alejandro Jodorowsky. He seems like the perfect director to make a movie where the whole concept is "weird shit happens".
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Nice b8 moron. Tarkovsky wishes he was Tarr.

nah, he would "do his own thing" and it would be shit and barely have anything to do with the source material

Because DC doesn't have a studio like Marvel. They don't get a say in what gets adapted or how, it's all WB. After seeing the Swamp Thing trailer I wish that was a movie

Doom Patrol is way more of a slow burn material. You'd miss out on so much charm and emotional satisfaction by cutting it into a bite-size piece for like 3 hours tops.

It's like smoking a cigar like a cigarette. You can do it, but you're a goddamn idiot.

Sergei Parajanov

pitch me a 2 hour Doom Patrol origin movie

There are issues of Doom Patrol that barely have anything to do with the source material

With Doom Patrol and Swamp Thing, it seems like WB is more concerned with adapting the more well known characters like Superman and Batman. Even the Star Girl series that DC Universe is releasing seems more like a stealth adaptation of Justice Society. Seems more like WB just feels more secure with adapting more of their characters in a low budget series format rather than as a movie.

>last episode had exactly 5 seconds of action
it would flop so bad on the big screen

It doesn't just need to be weird, it also needs to be an entertaining action movie.

Starts out like a normal capeshit movie, except with narration, and then the narrator gradually begins to mess with the heroes in sadistic ways. Then he's revealed to be Mr. Nobody and the team defeats him, not by beating the crap out of him, but by convincing him that his narration sucks.

Swamp Thing IS a movie...

You could easily do action with the Doom Patrol

it's a series

But not with Bela "ten minute long shot of a guy's emotionless face while walking" Tarr at the helm.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_Thing_(film)

Based Ray Wise as Swamp Thing.

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I was talking about this
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You said you wished Swamp Thing was a movie, but it already is.

This. It's like with Suicide Squad. The Squad is at it's best when it's dealing with smaller wetworks stuff but because mass audiences want their movies big and destructive it had to be a world ending calamity. Doom Patrol never would have worked on a big screen because people these days want stupid from movies, and smart and experimental from TV.

No I was talking about after watching the trailer for the show I wished that was a movie. I know there's been two Swamp Thing films already but they were preety camp. Especially the Return

it already is a series too

And it's amazing

It has a movie budget, reportedly they spent 9-10 million per episode which is typical for a horror film.

>reportedly they spent 9-10 million per episode
WB just put out a horror movie that cost 9 mil. That's an insane amount of money for a show

Geez no wonder they cut production short.

Do they really make enough money on TV to justify this budgeting? Unlike movies, series don't bring fat cash from abroad.

I wouldn't have thought so but shows have advertising deals like films and Netflix bought the rights for the foreign release.

Michael Bay

Netflix is a non-entity abroad, particularly in China

DC has always dominated TV

>Netflix is a non-entity abroad
Maybe just in China. About 60% of Netflix users are from outside the US

China is what matters.

money is money

Idris Elba, starring Idris Elba

>brainlets still think that moviees are best for adapting comics and not television

Why did Endgame copy Doom Patrol with the time travel plot?

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The big screen is too small for kino like this
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