Shooting War, the bleakly cynical look at a near-future war that began life as an online strip, before morphing into a graphic novel, is
about to change its form again. The Forbidden Planet blog is today reporting
that Dan Goldman and Anthony Lappe’s creation has now been optioned as a
feature film.
The web comic always had a somewhat cinematic, or
televisual, feel, with the shape of the frames carefully chosen to feel like it
was an HDTV news broadcast beamed in from the future. It’ll be interesting to
see which details from the ground breaking strip survive in the movie. Will John
McCain be the President in 2011? Will the producers dare to bomb a branch of Starbucks in
the first scene?
As Joe notes over at Forbidden Planet, a great deal more movies
are planned than are released (the quoted producers have several other properties in development including an adaptation of late night TV favourite The Equaliser) but material of such obvious cinematic promise should
be hard to ruin. Shooting War: The Movie is something to look forward to.
Shooting War, the bleakly cynical look at a near-future war that began life as an online strip, before morphing into a graphic novel, is
about to change its form again. The Forbidden Planet blog is today reporting
that Dan Goldman and Anthony Lappe’s creation has now been optioned as a
feature film. 
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