As I’ve mentioned a couple of times now, comic book adaptations are becoming more and more popular due to the success of those that have come before. The problem is, there’s an inclination to follow what has worked with more of the same, regardless of whether it’s appropriate or not. Eventually we’re going to get something like Ghost World told in the style of 300, just because it’s popular.
Now studios are really jumping the gun, however. Paramount snatched up the rights to The Foundation earlier this week – a comic that follows the efforts to stop unpublished predictions from Nostradamas from coming true. Here’s the catch though. The comic title, from Boom Studios and created by Kody Chamberlain, hasn’t even come out yet. The story hasn’t been told. The visual style hasn’t been seen. But the studio has picked it up for adaptation nonetheless.
Now, I’ll give some benefit of the doubt here, because the producers behind the adaptation are Andrew Cosby and Ross Richie, who also happen to be the founders and owners of Boom Studios. As well as owning the comic publisher and producing this adaptation for Paramount, Cosby was a co-creator for “Eureka”, that quirky little drama that won audiences last summer on the Sci-Fi channel.
I still think Paramount has absolutely no clue as to what they’ve purchased here. I think they know comic book movies are a potential gold mine and since their producers are also the ones publishing the book they are putting their trust in Cosby and Richie’s opinion. Whether that’s a valid opinion will have to be seen.
