Film adaptation
A comic book adaptation is a film that is based entirely on a comic or on a character from a comic . Since the turn of the millennium , there have been more comic adaptations than feature films in Hollywood , for example Spider-Man ( 2002 ) or Superman Returns ( 2006 ). Comics that do not contain superheroes or action stories, such as Ghost World ( 2001 ), American Splendor ( 2003 ), Road to Perdition (2002) or Oldboy (2003), have also been filmed.
There were also a number of cartoons , for example about Asterix or Lucky Luke . Cartoons about Japanese manga are called animes .
The Batman adaptation The Dark Knight , for example, shows how successful comic book adaptations can be . The 2008 film grossed over $ 1 billion worldwide and won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor ( Heath Ledger as the Joker ).
In South Korea are increasingly since the mid-2000s webtoons adapted. These are manhwas (comics) that have been optimized for the Internet, and since the success of the smartphone , for them. APT by Kang Full is considered the first webtoon to be filmed and was adapted in 2006. The first very successful film adaptation was Moss with 3.35 million viewers in 2010, based on the webtoon of the same name by Yoon Tae-ho .
See also
literature
- Thomas Hausmanninger : Myths of Religion. Comic book adaptations in the USA. In: Thomas Bohrmann, Werner Veith, Stephan Zöller (Eds.): Handbuch Theologie und Popular Film. Volume 2. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-506-76733-2 , pp. 31-51
Individual evidence
- ^ Dal Yong Jin: Transnational Korean Cinema. Cultural Politics, Film Genres, and Digital Technologies . Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick 2020, ISBN 978-1-978807-88-4 , pp. 133-136 .