Re: DC Movie Treatments
Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 12:47 am
Ah. Much like how I came up with the concept of Jaws 5: Venice and discussed it on Facebook before Sharks in Venice ever came out. That was the PERFECT STORY, and they ruined it.
I mean, I don't have a particular interest in fan fiction, although I do work on comic scripts/outlines for established characters. But it's like Tucker Stone said: "You think DC makes the best Batman comics? No, they make the ONLY Batman comics." Just like Michel Fiffe's Deathzone was a better Suicide Squad comic than anything in the current volume of the legit title, it's hard for me to even consider independent takes on work for hire characters to be fan fiction in the same way that a Harry Potter or Twilight or GoT story would be.
So yeah, I guess I have some sympathy towards authors whose work is subject to fan stories if it actually intrudes on the original work. But for the most part, that seems a rare occurrence. I'm still on the side of letting the nerds have their fun.
I mean, I don't have a particular interest in fan fiction, although I do work on comic scripts/outlines for established characters. But it's like Tucker Stone said: "You think DC makes the best Batman comics? No, they make the ONLY Batman comics." Just like Michel Fiffe's Deathzone was a better Suicide Squad comic than anything in the current volume of the legit title, it's hard for me to even consider independent takes on work for hire characters to be fan fiction in the same way that a Harry Potter or Twilight or GoT story would be.
So yeah, I guess I have some sympathy towards authors whose work is subject to fan stories if it actually intrudes on the original work. But for the most part, that seems a rare occurrence. I'm still on the side of letting the nerds have their fun.