Andrew Lazar, Platinum Studios And Top Cow Target ‘Vice’

COMMENTS (16)

• Really?Out of all the Top Cow properties they choose Vice?I’ve never even heard of it and it just so happens to have been created by the Top Cow president.Figures

  I’d much rather see Witchblade, The Darkness, Magdalena or Aphrodite IX.

  Comment by renner — Thursday February 3, 2011 @ 12:01am EST  Reply to this post

• Agreed with Renner on this one… This comic will never see the light of day as a film. Uninspired & boring. Maybe back in the 80s. Lol.

  It’s all about summer 2012—
  The Avengers
  Edge of the Unknown
  Prometheus

  Comment by The Cove — Thursday February 3, 2011 @ 12:56am EST  Reply to this post

• Pretty sure I read that they’re already working on a “Witchblade” movie, but I could be wrong. Never heard of “Vice” either, but Top Cow seems to do that a lot, that of the heads of the company coming up with something and then handing over an outline to a for-hire writer.

  Comment by bounder — Thursday February 3, 2011 @ 1:03am EST  Reply to this post

• In other words it’s a ripoff of The Mod Squad which was so of its time back in the 60′s. It was updated and turned into a horrible movie in the 90′s. I’m sure Vice will be a big success. (rolls eyes, runs and hides)

  Comment by Vice President of Vice — Thursday February 3, 2011 @ 1:44am EST  Reply to this post

• I loved Silvestri’s stuff going way back.Haven’t read to much Top Cow recently though.

  I think they were doing a Witchblade movie or something.

  Comment by Alex — Thursday February 3, 2011 @ 2:16am EST  Reply to this post

• Oh, yeah! THE MOD SQUAD REDUX – Got it!

  Comment by newoldnew — Thursday February 3, 2011 @ 2:22am EST  Reply to this post

• This sounds similar to Breakout Kings on AMC. I’ll pass on both.

  Comment by goatsted — Thursday February 3, 2011 @ 3:17am EST  Reply to this post

• I liked it when it was called 21 JUMP STREET.

  Comment by Steve — Thursday February 3, 2011 @ 4:08am EST  Reply to this post

• So…it’s The Mod Squad (again)?

  Comment by Here In Flyover — Thursday February 3, 2011 @ 8:31am EST  Reply to this post

  • No it’s not Mod Squad it’s Vice Squad don’t you see the difference? You people in flyover country just don’t get it.

    Comment by Anonymous — Thursday February 3, 2011 @ 11:35am EST  Reply to this post

• Actually, this is nothing like Breakout Kings. I work in a (can’t say) and the assistants watched the pilot and we laughed our asses off. VICE sounds serious, BK is a FUN show.

  Comment by TT — Thursday February 3, 2011 @ 11:49am EST  Reply to this post

• Agree I have kept an eye on all top cow announcements and its always the pilots or long lost comic that get the chance. Are they scared of risking the fan favourite properties. Like darkness etc, witchblade movie was suspended from the looks of things. Unlike marvel there characters are fresh not rebooted

  Comment by ol — Thursday February 3, 2011 @ 12:05pm EST  Reply to this post

• So fun Fox (and every other network save for the home of THE CLEANER) passed on it…

  Comment by Yawning with Yanni — Thursday February 3, 2011 @ 12:24pm EST  Reply to this post

• this IP scam has been going on for awhile. let’s pretend there is actually a graphic novel fan base for an idea by printing a limited edition (or even just doing a few storyboards) and then go to an exec or producer who wants to be hip and hasn’t read a comic book since he was 12 sometime in the mid-80s. there are more or less sophisticated ways of pulling this one off but the idea that somehow the next spiderman or even the next history of violence is lurking somewhere in the vast IP warehouses of these platinum-style companies is… a bit of a crap shoot.

  Comment by doggy — Thursday February 3, 2011 @ 12:31pm EST  Reply to this post

• Ugh, this sounds terrible. Would rather see the feature version of Mr. Belvedere.

  Comment by Dark Knight — Thursday February 3, 2011 @ 4:21pm EST  Reply to this post

• I want to know why all the poster shows people who look like 40 year olds if they’re supposed to be teens. I’d also like to know who the artist who used the cheesy looking bad guys from Death Wish 4 to use as models. I mean when is the last time someone saw a tough guy on the streets sporting a headband? What is this, like 1984?

  Comment by bill — Saturday February 5, 2011 @ 9:08pm EST  Reply to this post