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Just to talk about this to people who might understand.
Some years ago I scripted up an entire run for a horror versus comic I felt I could get behind. Halloween versus Hellraiser. An Alternate what if universe.
At the time, horror crossovers were doing okay and I knew this idea was so well researched that it would also appeal to hardcore fans.
I started building momentum for it with people. An agent was interested but wanted me to crack the problem of getting third party permission. This is where the problems came. Regardless of how well scripted it was, my hopes to bring the two comic publishing divisions of those rights together were never going to work. If only I had realised sooner. It got stuck in red light Hell, which is ironic, as even the cenobites wouldn't venture there willingly!
I later found out that the same problem had happened when someone tried to make the same thing but as a movie.
You know, it's funny though, it may not have worked commercially anyway because I was worried about the Halloween parts of the comic - all for the sake of others. You see, it heavily referenced timeline and characters from the much disregarded Halloween 6, and the director's cut to boot! Yep, that's how hardcore this got! I figured that the setting and characters perfectly worked for this, and that I could write them into something that made sense in this AU. The added element of Cenobites and Leviathan in the mix really shook that up. The other thing I did that was worrying too, was making use of the classic Michael Myers with everything the films had established. Not the Rob Zombie remakes. Which means I fully embraced the druids as being the element in the background behind Michael. But for this it worked I thought, a faction versus a faction, so to speak. God versus God. Thorn versus Leviathan, ultimately.
I just thought I would share this story of what never was. I did put the scripts online here and there, hoping to encourage someone to draw it all up as a free webcomic (if only I could draw). That will likely never happen of course.
Lesson learned. Don't touch IP at all unless they ask directly. Don't hope to persuade companies to sort it out.
But it does get you thinking doesn't it? How did those other crossovers ever come about if this is all so hard? And there have been some really embarrassingly messy or bad crossovers!
Some years ago I scripted up an entire run for a horror versus comic I felt I could get behind. Halloween versus Hellraiser. An Alternate what if universe.
At the time, horror crossovers were doing okay and I knew this idea was so well researched that it would also appeal to hardcore fans.
I started building momentum for it with people. An agent was interested but wanted me to crack the problem of getting third party permission. This is where the problems came. Regardless of how well scripted it was, my hopes to bring the two comic publishing divisions of those rights together were never going to work. If only I had realised sooner. It got stuck in red light Hell, which is ironic, as even the cenobites wouldn't venture there willingly!
I later found out that the same problem had happened when someone tried to make the same thing but as a movie.
You know, it's funny though, it may not have worked commercially anyway because I was worried about the Halloween parts of the comic - all for the sake of others. You see, it heavily referenced timeline and characters from the much disregarded Halloween 6, and the director's cut to boot! Yep, that's how hardcore this got! I figured that the setting and characters perfectly worked for this, and that I could write them into something that made sense in this AU. The added element of Cenobites and Leviathan in the mix really shook that up. The other thing I did that was worrying too, was making use of the classic Michael Myers with everything the films had established. Not the Rob Zombie remakes. Which means I fully embraced the druids as being the element in the background behind Michael. But for this it worked I thought, a faction versus a faction, so to speak. God versus God. Thorn versus Leviathan, ultimately.
I just thought I would share this story of what never was. I did put the scripts online here and there, hoping to encourage someone to draw it all up as a free webcomic (if only I could draw). That will likely never happen of course.
Lesson learned. Don't touch IP at all unless they ask directly. Don't hope to persuade companies to sort it out.
But it does get you thinking doesn't it? How did those other crossovers ever come about if this is all so hard? And there have been some really embarrassingly messy or bad crossovers!