Wired already called All-Star Superman the smartest Man of Steel movie ever made. But you can check our comics-based math by entering our contest to win a free iTunes download of the film, as well as a Superman cap and T-shirt.
“ All-Star Superman is one of my top three superhero movies ever,” visionary comics writer Grant Morrison told Wired last year about the animated feature adaptation of his acclaimed miniseries. “Only the superfans are going to complain, because the film has about 90 percent of my stuff in it. Much of it is actual dialogue taken from the book.”
Adapting Morrison’s sublime out-of-continuity tale of the Man of Steel’s last days was left to the animated film’s late, great screenwriter Dwayne McDuffie, who passed away one day before All-Star Superman debuted February 22 on DVD, download and demand. The veteran comics creator and writer compressed six issues of Morrison’s alternately cerebral and heartwarming miniseries into a feature film more ambitious than any Superman film in history.
“It was impressive that Dwayne was able to condense entire issues of 22 to 24 pages into tight, satisfying eight- or ten-minute complete scenes,” Morrison explained in a recent press release. “To take a whole issue and make it into an episode that felt complete in itself inside a larger narrative was ingenious and was a great way to translate the book’s serial structure into a feature film. I hope Dwayne knew how much I appreciated his work on this.”
One entrant will fly away with a free iTunes download of All-Star Superman , as well as the Superman cap and distressed T-shirt at right. Bonus points goes to the candidate who makes the best case for the next film adaptation of Grant Morrison’s stunning work.
“Seeing All-Star Superman left me quite keen to see some more,” Morrison said in the film’s press release. “It would be fun to see what they could do with Final Crisis.”
That’s more optimistic than Morrison seemed to feel last year, when we asked him about the possibility of adapting Final Crisis to film.
“I think we want fantasy again,” Morrison told Wired last October. “We want worlds we can get into. We want to be superheroes. I think the audience is ready for wilder stuff. But Hollywood is still mostly dealing in a conservative mind-set, so I can’t imagine a Final Crisis film happening anytime within the next 100 years.”
Contest ends 12:01 a.m. Pacific on March 25, 2011. Winners must live in the United States. Note: If you do not have an e-mail address or Twitter handle associated with your Disqus login, you must include contact information in your comment to be eligible. Any winner who does not respond to Wired’s notification within 72 hours will forfeit the prize.
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