![]() (Something Street Fighter can't say for itself.) Aside from that, Timecop stands out as a strong dramatic piece for JCVD, in an era where acting wasn't really a top priority for action flicks. So technically, Hardware could be set in the Dredd universe…(It’s fun to think about.) Timecopįirst off, this movie gets one big thing right: They actually address that Jean Claude Van Damme has a French accent. While Hardware wasn’t intentionally based on a comic, upon its release, director Richard Stanley was taken to court by comic creators Steve MacManus and Kevin O’Neill, who claimed they had written a very similar story in Judge Dredd Annual 1981, called “SHOK! Walter’s Robo-Tale.” O’Neill and MacManus won the case, forcing the studio to credit them on later releases of the movie, which would then constitute Hardware as the first-ever 2000 AD film adaptation. ![]() Unfortunately for the couple, the machine starts rebuilding itself, and once again, begins a hunt for human flesh. The film stars Dylan McDermott as a post-apocalyptic drifter, who discovers several pieces of a defunct killer-robot in the desert, which he then takes back to his girlfriend (Stacey Travis) for her anti-totalitarian government art. ![]() So in honour of the medium that spawned them, we’ve selected seven landmark (or in Barb Wire’s case, super weird) ‘90s movies that you may not know were actually based on comics…ġ990’s Hardware is a highly underrated, visually striking movie that impressively offered a focused, character-driven sci-fi story in the landscape of lame Terminator knockoffs. 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. 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. 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. Of all the indie publishers, Dark Horse Comics owned the ‘90s comic book movie landscape.
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