Nontraditional Comic Book Movies
You won't find the MCU or DCEU in this trivia game showcasing nontraditional comic book feature film adaptations.
15 questions · Published August 14, 2023
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
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1. What Oscar-winning actor plays a Depression era gangster in 2002's "Road to Perdition"?
FUN FACT
Film director Steven Spielberg gave Tom Hanks a copy of the "Road to Perdition" (1998) graphic novel as a gift while Hanks was filming "Cast Away" (2000).
- Multiple Choice
2. Which action movie legend plays a time traveling police officer in 1994's "Timecop"?
Jean-Claude Van Damme plays a police officer in 1994 AND 2004 who fights time-travel crime in "Timecop," based on the 1992 Dark Horse Comics anthology "Time Cop: A Man Out of Time."
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3. What beloved Hollywood classic loosely inspired the plot of Pamela Anderson's cult hit "Barb Wire"?
No less a film authority than legendary film critic Roger Ebert noticed in his review of 1996's "Barb Wire," that the film's plot is practically lifted whole cloth from the 1942 classic "Casablanca."
- Multiple Choice
4. What storied magazine began publishing the original "Addams Family" comics in 1938?
Creator Charles Addams began working as a cartoonist at The New Yorker in 1932 and published the first "Addams Family" comic in 1938.
The magazine did not run another "Addams Family" comic after the success of the 1964 television adaptation.
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5. Which comic book turned movie did Jamie Hewlett of the rock band Gorillaz co-create in the late 1980s?
Jamie Hewlett first began publishing "Tank Girl" in the now defunct Deadline comics magazine in 1988.
The 1995 feature film adaptation was a commercial failure but has since gained a rabid cult following.
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