Note the variation here: a studio was attached to the adaptation at this point!
But the story of this long overdue adaptation has been quite chaotic along the way...
I'll remember you quickly that I reviewed the beginning of this series already.
(I still wanna do the rest down the road)
First off, I'd like to point out....I'm in reality not a big fan of adaptations.
Be it the recent wave of Superhero successful adaptations or the 80s/90s ones.
The Walking Dead comics coming to TV screens.
Batman to theatres.
Classic scifi books into movies.
TV shows into full length flicks.
Movies into games.
Games into comics.
Etc..!
The original media is always the best one, the more creative one, and the only one using its medium at full potential.
But I like some of those adaptation. It doesn't mean it's bad!
Simply "less" good.
(some stories are meant to be told through a specific medium, that's all)
Anyway, Tim Seeley's Hack/Slash has always been a sort of homage to the 80s culture of Slasher/Horror flicks.
It's a movie genre!
So it's sort of natural it would come to the big screen at some point.
The question would have been: Would it be a studio project? Some corporate producers pissing on a well loved cult series just to get their share of money off it? Or a more independant project, by that people actually care about the source material?
Would it be an R-Rated horror gory movie like Friday the 13th or Nightmares on Elm Street?
Or some dumb PG-13 cash-in kid-friendly commercial stuff?
Anyway, back when the series started, it was quickly rumoured to be adapted, thanks to a cult following that started out as soon as the first couple of miniseries Hack/Slash had.
Then a Major Studio, Rogue Pictures, was announced.
Most Hack/Slash issues and trade paperbacks actually feature the tagline "soon to be a major motion picture" which has kind of become a running joke by now.
Now we're at a point where this serie is more popular than ever, it is currently being published at Image Comics. The folks over at Image have the means to adapt it themselves.
And what do we get?
Rumours about Megan Fox wanting the role.
One of these two is paid to dress like that.
And would be actually the type of person to die first in an horror movie.
And would be actually the type of person to die first in an horror movie.
That's right.
Instead of getting a proper actress, or some fun gal who would be better suited for the role or deserve it...
Producers, being the usual... huh *stayin' rational, stayin' polite* hum.. money-fags they are want that bimbo-slut who is popular today.
I mean, that's basically saying "Heck! We know we'll screw the movie! We know it will be bad and we're not gonna invest a lot in it. So let's just take whoever is the current popular bimbo of the week!"
Anyway, those are just rumours.
But rumours like this mostly end up true.
My problem with it? Well, she looks like your stereotypical slutty-bimbo that gets killed in the first 10 minutes of a slasher!
Plus she doesn't have the brains for a smartass Cassie! >:(
Even this girl in a "Jean Louis David" hair styling advertisment
here in Switzerland looks a helluva lot more like Cassie than Fox!
And the worse part? She's already saying in every interview she would love to play two comic book characters.
Cassie.
And Fathom.
Alright she could have Fathom.
Who the heck are exactly Fathom's audience? Horny 12 years old geeky kids?
Anyway, here's my own take on an Hack/Slash movie now.
Hack/Slas's already been adapted with live actors. In a stage play, just like Evil Dead the musical. (only, with less singing)
Called Hack/Slash: Stagefright.
It perfectly embrassed its B-movie spirit and even the gory aspect.
So all you would need would be to make a real horror movie out of this content!
And simply cast a scream queen as the main character!
My favorite pick would have been Halloween's Danielle Harris.
In my eyes she's the perfect Cassie, now that she's all grown up!
Seriously, picture her with shorter black hair!
But it seems like Tim Seeley and the other artists use Asia Argento as model for Cassie.
Best known as the daughter of the horror movie master Dario Argento, and she's already appeared as a monster/zombie kickass killer a couple of times.
Specially with her Land of the Dead costume on.
But I guess producers would prefer to go with a younger actress, to portray the 20s-something Cassie from the early books (and to attract a younger crowd)...
Anyway, since the announcement of the latest rumours this year of Megan Fox playing Cassie, Hack/Slash fans have started a movement to get their own voices heard, their own favorite pick for Cassie chosen.
It all started from some little mention on the web, then it went on, the idea grew up amongst fans...
Fans want Allison Scagliotti (Claudia Donovan on SyFy's Warehouse 13) to play Cassie!
I'll give 'em that. Good pick. She could easily look the part!
That's why they started a movement this summer.
The Allisonscag4cassie
Even Tim Seeley agrees with this choice!
And joined the movement himself!
You can see the nice t-shirt they made for Allison, signed by Tim with drawings 'n' all :D
This summer and in September, they did their first couple of shout-outs, hoping to make the studios realize we, fans, have a voice! And we don't want them to mess with Hack/Slash!
Here's the (old) awesome campaign video they did back then:
And here's Allison's answer from her own youtube account:
This gal got the spirit!
Now all we need is for this to actually happen~
Again, check out their page: Allisonscag4cassie
I didn't talk about this earlier, because I really wanted to review an Hack/Slash comic before..and then sort of forgot about it.. My bad! :/
Anyway, I'll have a news post up when they'll do the next shout-out!
