![]() ![]() Enter director Zack Snyder ('Dawn of the Dead'), whose decision to marry live-action with an intensely graphic visual style was the ideal interpretation of Miller's sensibility. ![]() The original graphic novel, sprung from the mind of wunderkind Frank Miller ('Sin City,' 'The Dark Knight'), was like 'Gladiator' on steroids and seemingly tailor-made to get blown up to mega-screen proportions. And with recent advances in CGI, there's no limit to how fantastic the images in these novels may be - in fact, if box office receipts are any indication, the more outrageous the imagery, the better.įor these reasons alone, in retrospect, it really shouldn't surprise that '300' turned into the sleeper blockbuster of 2007. With their thin text, and their bold, image-driven narrative style, even the most niche graphic novels are arguably more camera-ready than your typical best-seller. Perhaps that's why Hollywood has seen so much success with its adaptations of graphic novels in recent years. Due to inherent differences between the two mediums, inevitably major chunks of the source material get left out, to varying results. Adapting novels for the big screen has always been an imprecise art. ![]()
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