If you can believe it, comic book adaptations were once a rare -- and ballsy -- thing in Hollywood. Before we got shared cinematic universes, there was just a handful of non-Marvel or DC comic book movies that, generally, audiences had no idea were based on comics in the first place.
Of all the indie publishers, Dark Horse Comics owned the ‘90s comic book movie landscape. Dark Horse’s relationship with Hollywood dates back to the ‘80s, when the small, Oregon-based publisher began getting licenses to make comics based on existing film franchises, like Alien, Predator, Star Wars, Godzilla, and Conan, among many other titles.
In 1992, Dark Horse founder Mike Richardson sought to reverse the process and bring the company’s original properties to film, thus creating the production arm Dark Horse Entertainment to make it happen. Richardson struck a deal with producer Lawrence Gordon and Largo Entertainment, resulting in an office at the Twentieth Century Fox studio lot, where after three years, a half-dozen films went into development -- including The Mask and Timecop, which debuted at #1 in their respective opening weekends.
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Of all the indie publishers, Dark Horse Comics owned the ‘90s comic book movie landscape. Dark Horse’s relationship with Hollywood dates back to the ‘80s, when the small, Oregon-based publisher began getting licenses to make comics based on existing film franchises, like Alien, Predator, Star Wars, Godzilla, and Conan, among many other titles.
In 1992, Dark Horse founder Mike Richardson sought to reverse the process and bring the company’s original properties to film, thus creating the production arm Dark Horse Entertainment to make it happen. Richardson struck a deal with producer Lawrence Gordon and Largo Entertainment, resulting in an office at the Twentieth Century Fox studio lot, where after three years, a half-dozen films went into development -- including The Mask and Timecop, which debuted at #1 in their respective opening weekends.
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