Comic series adapted in the cinema

[cacou]

Some comics like Asterix were made and adapted into movies -- not animated films but movies with real human beings.

Some years ago, a film has been produced based on Spirou and Fantasio (see below)

The result seems out of touch and does not look very convincing, I must say, but could you imagine a movie with actors playing regular Disney characters? and how would such a creature look like?

[That Duckfan]

A lot of the problems with these movies is the tone. People hear the word comic book and try to make everything as big and brash as in a comic. That barely works on TV, let alone in a movie.

I think the most successful animation-to-live action adaptation of recent years is the two Paddington movies. Which keeps Paddington as a CGI bear, but turns everyone else into real people. If you did that to Duckburg, with a bit of Grinch-inspired make-up putting dognoses and pignoses on the human characters, but keeping the ducks and mice computer-animated, that might be a way to do it.

The first problem I run in to is the casting. You need solid character actors, and those are a dying breed. A lot of the names I could mention are from a previous generation, or just happened to be in the latest Coen brothers/Wes Anderson movie. But just coming up with someone to play Jones is a tall order. As for the animated characters, I would rely on proven voice actors over big names in the industry, although you could make one or two exceptions. Peter Capaldi could do a decent Scrooge, I think.

[TheMidgetMoose]

Would the characters be like humans dressed like ducks and mice, or would the characters essentially be "humanized," e.g., "Donald Duck" becomes "Donald Smith" or "Donald Dunn," and he wears pants and speaks intelligibly? There was a 1980's version of the educational short Donald's Fire Survival Plan which, bizarrely, featured human versions of Donald, Huey, Dewey, and Louie. They were played by Dave Bodin, Randy Josselyn, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, and Josh Miller. The human "Uncle Don" falls asleep reading a Donald Duck comic book and dreams of himself as the animated, waterfowl Donald Duck. This is what human Uncle Don and his nephews looked like:

I actually thought just the other day that a humanized, more adult feature film or series adaptation of The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck would be awesome, though I'm thinking that the characters' names and appearances must be heavily altered. Even the first name "Scrooge" is probably a bit too cartoony for a more serious, live-action film. Keeping the duck names and the cartoony outfits while having the characters played by real-life humans would just seem off-putting to me. Even the personalities should be tweaked a bit so as to not reach their typical, cartoonish extremes. The only way I could see keeping the names, clothes, etc. in a live-action adaptation is if it was some universe-hopping comedy, probably akin to Disney's Enchanted, which I've never seen before but which I believe is basically about characters from a run of the mill Disney fairy tale flick being transported into the real world and becoming real people while retaining their fairy tale traits. Maybe this film could start in the comic/cartoon world, but somehow (probably something to do with Magica's magic or a new Gearloose invention) the group our teleported to our world, keeping the same personalities but having these strange, new human bodies. That might could be a funny movie if done right, though it would probably be a bit clichéd.