'Elfquest' adaptation dropped by Warner Bros
Published Jan 25 2012, 18:31 GMT | By Mark Langshaw
The studio pulled the plug on the comic book adaptation because it does not wish to compete with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
Rawson Marshall Thurber was to direct Elfquest, which was announced back in 2008. The project was based on the 1978 comic by Wendy and Richard Pini.
"After close to four years of suspense - and longer than four years of your much-appreciated interest and support - the word has come down from Warner Bros. And the word is 'no'," Wendy Pini wrote on the Elfquest Facebook page.
"Their simple explanation is that they don't want to compete with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. This was a possibility, among several, that we were prepared for. It is a relief, at last, to know."
Elfquest began life as a self-published title before being picked up by Marvel Comics. More recently, DC Comics held the rights to the property.
Watch a trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey below:
Warner obviously didn't have much faith in the project -- "being similar to something successful" is usually high on a studio's wish list, unless they're aiming to release at the same time, and if that why not just move the date?
January 25th 2012 at 10:28pm