Tag: calvin & hobbes

So, yeah, a Han Solo / Chewbacca origin story.

Jimmie describes it best, I think.

https://twitter.com/jimmiebjr/status/707358012353200128

…But I would pay good money to see an animated Calvin and Hobbes In Space movie that was, in fact, an animated Calvin and Hobbes In Space movie.  No updating for a new generation. No edge. No darn CGI. Write it, draw it, voice it, put it on the screen. DONE.  It’ll make all your money back, and more.

But I’ll go see the Han Solo / Chewbacca origin story, sure.  Why not? The Force Awakens was pretty dang good.

“Calvin & Hobbes: the Movie” trailer.

Yes, I am a bad man who made you click the link.  But look on the bright side:

This movie would not suck.  It could, in point of fact, be a kick-ass indy film that could say some very interesting things about how we come to terms with our childhood thoughts, dreams, and fears.  You could get people coming into the theaters who normally don’t go to indy movies.  You could make your money back on this film.

So I don’t feel guilty.  Neener neener.

Moe Lane

Excuse me while I depress most of you utterly.

As Aaron Allston notes: there is going to be a Marmaduke movie,but not… well, read:

Calvin & Hobbes. If there’s one comic strip just about everyone wishes hadn’t stopped, it was Bill Waterson’s epic about a boy terror and his imaginary(?) friend, a stuffed tiger. They should have hucked “Dennis the Menace” when looking to the funnies and picked up Calvin, but… How it would work: Give it to Pixar and let them work on it without interference. Send Waterson to them in a locked crate so they can study him at leisure. If anyone tried making this in to a live-action film, it would fail so hard that audiences would be killed by the shrapnel.

When you think about it, the fact that there isn’t a Calvin & Hobbes film out there is superficially inexplicable. The combination of nigh-universal audience appeal + actors/actresses fighting to get in on the project + major animation studio capable of handling it should = instant box office mega-mojo.  That it doesn’t… oh.  Right.  That entire ‘eating your soul’ thing that happens to movie executives above a certain level.

Never mind.

Moe Lane