{"id":69,"date":"2006-12-20T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T21:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/2006\/12\/comics-that-never-were-1\/"},"modified":"2006-12-20T16:57:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T21:57:00","slug":"comics-that-never-were-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/?p=69","title":{"rendered":"Comics That Never Were #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know that you abandoned<\/span> Ronny Rocket… If you’re not going [to] make it into a film, perhaps a graphic novel–?<\/span><\/p>\n

Are you a psychic?!<\/p>\n

Wha… you’re doing that?<\/span><\/p>\n

I’m doing that. It’s in the early, early stages.<\/p>\n

To me, comic books are the closest thing to creating a film without actually making the film.<\/span><\/p>\n

You’re a very sharp guy. That’s exactly what’s happening. It’s almost helpful to the film to realize that in another form and maybe see some things that may help you later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014David Lynch<\/a>, interviewed by Film Threat<\/a> nearly seven years ago<\/div>\n

The original Ronnie Rocket film script<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course, Lynch has<\/span> tried his hand at cartooning, with decidedly mixed results<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Case closed!: Movies aren’t comics, and comics aren’t movies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know that you abandoned Ronny Rocket… If you’re not going [to] make it into a film, perhaps a graphic novel–? Are you a psychic?! Wha… you’re doing that? I’m doing that. It’s in the early, early stages. To me, comic books are the closest thing to creating a film without actually making the film. You’re a very sharp guy. That’s exactly what’s happening. It’s almost helpful to the film […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[268,274,326],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-comics-that-never-were","tag-comics-vs-movies","tag-d-lynch"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comicscomicsmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}