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[slydon]

I think we have our Faye
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDo8uETC7K8

[Kugai]

Yup

[Insignificant]

Needs more ambiguous accent.

[tomart]

She's close, perky, fun, but not plump enough, imho.

[slydon]

I guess it depends on when she was drawn, but she's definitely only "Hollywood Pudgy"

[Olymander]

Raven, maybe?

[jwhouk]

No, Raven's set up pretty much for Christina Ricci.

[Olymander]

No, Raven's set up pretty much for Christina Ricci.

Well, if you say so.  Going by faces, I think Ashley comes closer to the look I'd think of for Raven (and perhaps personality too), but that's just a personal opinion, naturally.

[CompSarge]

I personally think QC would be better suited for a television series than it would a movie, given its more episodic content.

That said, I could definitely see Zooey Daschenal as Raven. She's got that ditsy/cheerful persona down pat. She'd have to have a bit better rack, though. 

[Kugai]

Live Action or Animated?

[FuseUnison]

I remember Jeph saying something about not having any desire to do an animated series (unless adult swim offered him A LOT of money, lol), so he would probably feel the same way about a movie.  I like the idea of both, but I will say I do think that QC is best in it's current medium.

[gprimr1]

I think about a QC tv show every time I read it, but I imagine that even Adult Swim would make some aspects of it toned down.

That said, I wonder about a direct to DVD series, or maybe even a Netflix series. That way, you could release it as unrated edition and not have to worry to much. The creator of Family Guy did that with some of the more racy stuff Fox wouldn't show.

[gprimr1]

Most of the people would be the real life people who I know that represent the characters in the story.

[questionablecontentfan]

I have thought about this...

[Blyss]

everyone played by Morgan Freeman

You are not the only one that thinks this is a good idea...

[Hanner3!]

To be honest, I think someone could make a movie version of QC and make it work. Just hard work and dedication and apparently a hellava good casting director. Besides, not everyone is gonna be satisfied with how a movie turns out if someone did make a movie. I wonder if it has actually crossed someones mind to actually go for it. Has anyone found anything like actually decent on youtube. I know people try to make and post that kinda stuff all the time. And what would a poster for it look like? Hm? I can't really see anyone famous playing the gang. I feel like they would be to hokey I think.

If someone were actually making a movie of it what would you guys think?

[jwhouk]

It could work, especially if it's a condensation of the first 1,500 strips into a good 70-minute movie.

But Jeph would have to have last word on the dialogue.

[Hanner3!]

I think I actually perused youtube and saw something. Some people have a trailer and a teaser up. I think it looks good thus far. But who knows until we see the actual product you know. 

Glad some independent filmmakers finally have the balls to make something though.

[Carl-E]

Links, or it didn't happen! 

[jwhouk]

The YouTube clips were probably ones mentioned earlier in this thread. Basically it was an acting out the dialogue of the first 10 or so strips (sans Pintsize).

[cat_rant]

I am going to hate myself for this one. But I think Kelly Osborne has the features to be a good Faye. And she has a fowl mouth on her so no worries about delivering the cutting lines. Slap a pair of nerdy black rimmed glasses and a obscure indie band tee shirt on her and there you go.

[stoutfiles]

I highly doubt a QC movie would have every character played by a well-known actor or actress.  It would be low budget due to QC's relatively small following, and therefore filled with mostly unknown actors/actresses.  Possibly some B-movie people in there.

Also, I'm not sure what the movie would be about.  The majority of movies needs some life-altering changes to keep people interested, whereas QC just kinda lumps along with the only drama being some relationship stuff, but not in a fun romantic comedy sort of way like every Hollywood film, nor a romantic indie like Garden State or Juno.  Doesn't come close to a romantic drama.  It'd probably be better suited in the format it's in now, which adapts to a long running TV show.

[cat_rant]

Well it could focus around COD and how the staff join and they redecorate the place with Dora's tips. Then a new business partnership with TSB, throw in Dora and Marten's relationship breakdown. Involve some other plot lines key to the supporting characters and you could pull together a strong plot arch following the journey of friendships and relationships of the characters involved. If it were a low budget production focusing on COD would allow for much of the scenes to take place there. Meaning you can apply your set design budget to doing that space well and maximize your use of lighting ques to change time for when the scene's take place.

[jwhouk]

The movie would have to hit on a couple of key themes:

• Marten meets Faye
• Establish Dora (and Raven) and the Coffee of Doom
• The Talk; Enter Hannelore
• Dora goes after Marten
• Faye's issues & "fling" with Sven
• Enter Marigold; Angus & Faye's "relationship" development
• Angus and Faye get together, Marten and Dora break up

You might be able to get it all in in under 90 minutes, but you'd have to cut some things out.

[Carl-E]

Like Pintsize...

Really, tossing the anthroPC's would be the most efficient way to make a reasonable movie out of it.  Notice how none of jwhouk's key plot points have anything to do with them. 

AnthroPC's would have a natural "kid appeal" if they were included in the movie, but then you'd have to make them "kid safe", and dammit, you lose all the funny.  So it's probabl better without them at all. 


Besides, if they get included, then the movie will become All About Them.  It'll be the only thing the media marketing people will latch on to.  Then you lose the real story in the movie - people who go to see the APC's will go, "What's all this relationship crap?"

[Hanner3!]

Thanks Andy147. What did you think of them? I thought the biggest problem was the audio primarily in the trailer. I hope they fix it and the teaser, it looked good. I think that for some people just starting out it wasn't crap. Plus I thought the music fit and was very funny.

[benji]

The movie would have to hit on a couple of key themes:

• Marten meets Faye
• Establish Dora (and Raven) and the Coffee of Doom
• The Talk; Enter Hannelore
• Dora goes after Marten
• Faye's issues & "fling" with Sven
• Enter Marigold; Angus & Faye's "relationship" development
• Angus and Faye get together, Marten and Dora break up

You might be able to get it all in in under 90 minutes, but you'd have to cut some things out.

You might be able to do all of that in 90 minutes, but it wouldn't make for a very good movie. Imagine watching that as someone who didn't know QC at all: the plot moves at break neck speed through all of these major life changes for these characters. You don't have an opportunity to really get to know or care about any of them before the next thing happens and someone new shows up. In other words, it would be the exact opposite of QC, which gives us a fair amount of intimate detail about characters who we come to care about because we know them so well, even if not much happens regularly in the comic.

Movies are good for telling discreet stories, not so much for long epics. Those teaser trailers make it look like whoever's doing that maybe as the right idea: pick one plot arch and do that. It looks like they're doing the events leading up to the talk through the time Marten and Dora start dating. This is a nice compact little story with a beginning, a middle, and an end.

[lepetitfromage]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the Hollywood golden child- the Trilogy.*

Then we could get a whole buttload of QC on screen 


(*I don't think anyone has mentioned it....I skimmed the thread, please don't shoot if I'm mistaken  )

[Carl-E]

Ready...



Aim.....





Oh, no one else mentioned it yet?  



Stand down, men.  

[Border Reiver]

But I haven't shot anyone yet today!

[Carl-E]

Don't worry, we'll find someone...

[DSL]

As long as you promise, no prequel trilogy with better more expensive visuals at the expense of any pretense of trying to write a story ...

[Carl-E]

Marten Reed - the adolescent years


Now there's  blockbuster material!

[nonethousand]

Did anyone see this?

trailer 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk4ItZE6wik

(I think not, since there are no comments around the video's posting dates )

[Carl-E]

Ten posts up, two days ago, Andy147 posted it. 

[nonethousand]

Ten posts up, two days ago, Andy147 posted it. 

dammit. sorry folks.

[lepetitfromage]

I was thinking......an indie version of American Pie? 

minus all those shitty releases with hardly anyone from the original cast....

[jwhouk]

Ideally, you could do a storyline around the first 600 strips or so, but the problem is that there's no good "pause" point between 1 and 660.

[stoutfiles]

And a film which ends with Marten and Dora getting together (unless it's part 1 of a trilogy, or some such) would seem bizarre to any QC fans, wouldn't it? It'd be like ending the film of Gone With The Wind with Rhett and Scarlett happily married.

That's how the sequel ended.

[wrwight]

I'm sure QC fans wouldn't be the only demographic. The question would be whether or not they were the primary demographic. Comic book movies come to mind when I think about this, 'cause many of them were perfectly good movies that grossed well, but comic book fans hated them (of course they went and saw them anyway, as I'm sure most of us would for a QC movie, even if it got terrible reviews by other QC lovers). A movie ending with Marten and Dora together would probably be just fine, though. To the fans of the comic, it would just be "part one" so to speak, even if there were no sequels. To people who had never heard of the comic, it would be a good happy ending.

[AbsentiaFall]

Questionable Content (2011) Teaser Trailer and Questionable Content - Trailer 1 look like what Hanner3! was referring to.

So glad I didn't have to post them myself. That could have been awkward.

Marten Reed - the adolescent years


Now there's  blockbuster material!

That could be interested. So much angst though...

[Carl-E]

A movie ending with Marten and Dora together would probably be just fine, though. To the fans of the comic, it would just be "part one" so to speak, even if there were no sequels. To people who had never heard of the comic, it would be a good happy ending.

Suddenly, all I can think of is Some Kind of Wonderful. 

[akronnick]

And a film which ends with Marten and Dora getting together (unless it's part 1 of a trilogy, or some such) would seem bizarre to any QC fans, wouldn't it? It'd be like ending the film of Gone With The Wind with Rhett and Scarlett happily married.

That's how the sequel ended.

What sequel?

Yes I know about that fan-fiction that got published back in the 1990's where Scarlett moves to Ireland and becomes a witch or something. In no way shape or form do I consider that canon.

[AbsentiaFall]

What sequel?

Yes I know about that fan-fiction that got published back in the 1990's where Scarlett moves to Ireland and becomes a witch or something. In no way shape or form do I consider that canon.

And even then, he pretty much leaves her for dead pregnant with his child. Not really a happy ending to that relationship...

[Kugai]

If it is done as an animated film, I want Peter Cullen to voice Jimbo

[wrwight]

And a film which ends with Marten and Dora getting together (unless it's part 1 of a trilogy, or some such) would seem bizarre to any QC fans, wouldn't it? It'd be like ending the film of Gone With The Wind with Rhett and Scarlett happily married.

That's how the sequel ended.

What sequel?

This vaguely reminded me of something.

[Hanner3!]

If it simply ended with Marten and Dora. I would be happy. I was really upset when they broke up in the comic. I just hope it ends well.

[AbsentiaFall]

If it simply ended with Marten and Dora. I would be happy. I was really upset when they broke up in the comic. I just hope it ends well.

When I first read the comic I was expecting the Marten/Hannelore set up to be explored. I mean, it would have lended itself to some REALLY awkward situations, whether or not they actually ended up together.

[jwhouk]

I may be repeating myself, but here goes:

You couldn't do an EXACT, linear progression of the strips to produce a good movie script. However, there are a lot of individual snippets of dialogue from actual strips that you could use to move the story along - and enough that you could come up with a coherent strip.

The first part of a QC movie would have to include "When Marten Met Faye" (essentially the first few hundred strips or so). This would cover the introduction of most of the main characters, except for Raven - but she could be included as the lead-in to "The Talk".

The biggest snag after "The Talk" is that we're introduced to Hannelore immediately afterwards, and Faye ends up going home to Savannah while Marten and Dora make teh kisses - but Marty ends up getting fired from his workplace.

Of course, a way that this could all be "tied together" is a revelation that Faye is relating all this to Dr. Corrine. The movie would end with Faye heading back to work - and everything is basically all right (for now, anyways).

[AbsentiaFall]

I may be repeating myself, but here goes:

You couldn't do an EXACT, linear progression of the strips to produce a good movie script. However, there are a lot of individual snippets of dialogue from actual strips that you could use to move the story along - and enough that you could come up with a coherent strip.

The first part of a QC movie would have to include "When Marten Met Faye" (essentially the first few hundred strips or so). This would cover the introduction of most of the main characters, except for Raven - but she could be included as the lead-in to "The Talk".

The biggest snag after "The Talk" is that we're introduced to Hannelore immediately afterwards, and Faye ends up going home to Savannah while Marten and Dora make teh kisses - but Marty ends up getting fired from his workplace.

Of course, a way that this could all be "tied together" is a revelation that Faye is relating all this to Dr. Corrine. The movie would end with Faye heading back to work - and everything is basically all right (for now, anyways).

Would it honestly have to start with "When Marten Met Faye"? In many ways that's just retreading the "When X meets Y" of almost any movie of the genre. And also, audiences don't want nor need the story to progress like "And then Marten met Dora, and then Marten met Hannelore, and then Faye met Dr Corrine". Slice of Life comics work because you can end each one with a joke. If you string them together, and expect a cohesive narrative from beginning to end, you're not going to be in for a good time.

All in all, I look at it like the Harry Potter franchise. Sure, some people would have been fascinated seeing all the things described in the first book about what Harry did between the prologue and Chapter 1, but that's not where the story arc began and it would feel like a pointless montage. In a different vain, a lot of people were upset the S.P.E.W. storyline was left out. Most of the non-fanboy public never batted an eyelash, and would have found it completely pointless. A QC TV show could start at the very beginning, but a QC movie would be foolish to.