Vertigo (DC Comics) - Adaptations in Other Media

Adaptations in Other Media

• Swamp Thing (1982), based the long running comic that started in DC comics and had ended its run in Vertigo Comics created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson. The film was produced Benjamin Melniker, and Michael E. Uslan. The director was Wes Craven. It was followed by the 1989 sequel The Return of Swamp Thing.
• Constantine (2005), based on the (John Constantine): Hellblazer series of comics.
• A History of Violence (2005), based on the graphic novel A History of Violence written by John Wagner and illustrated by Vince Locke. The film was directed by David Cronenberg and starred Viggo Mortensen and Ed Harris.
• V for Vendetta (2006) based on the comics series by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, and produced by the Wachowski Brothers.
• The Fountain (2006), developed alongside the graphic novel by writer/director Darren Aronofsky (the OGN was illustrated by Kent Williams).
• The Losers (2010), based on the Vertigo Monthly series of the same name, which was created Andy Diggle and Jock.

Future film projects

• In July 2007 that New Line Cinema was developing Y: The Last Man with director D. J. Caruso and screenwriter Carl Ellsworth.

• New Line Cinema announced in June 2005 that it had optioned We3, with that comic's writer, Grant Morrison, then in negotiations to write the screenplay. As of November 2010, the status of the film is that Morrison has written the script, but the project appears to have stalled, partially due to concerns over the level of violence. Morrison said in an interview that "Relativity Pictures keeps saying they're doing it, and they still haven't done it", and that he can't say anything more as it stands.