1987 was a happier time...a more optimistic era...a time when we could dream of things like this:
Where'd this come from?
You see, 2000 AD had just announced...
Oh, so bright and optimistic! How could they know what was really to come??
And that particular poster?
A fan-submitted poster by Danny Cannon in 2000 AD #534 (1987). So full of hope and promise--Ridley Scott? Harrison Ford?!? Music by Peter Gabriel???
But be careful of what you wish for. Because 8 years later, that exact same Danny Cannon would be the one to direct this:
That is an irony so horrifying it should have been in an EC comic book.
So let that be the moral of the story--don't get too excited when they announce that one of your favorite characters is being made into a film--or you may one day find yourself directing a much-reviled, terrible version of it. It happened before, it can happen again...
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