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Robservations with Rob Liefeld

The Image Cinematic Universe! (What could’ve been)

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Robservations with Rob Liefeld

Comic Book Industry, Comic Books, Rob Liefeld, Visual Arts, Arts, Comics, Comic Artists, Books

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

When Image Comics exploded in the 90’s, Hollywood was quick to come knocking on the door. How is it that we don’t live in a sea of Image Comics movies and shows? Rob takes you through all the near misses and might have been’s and discusses how it could all still come together. Plus, DiCaprio, Cruise, Pitt, Chalamet…will they ever suit up as comic book heroes?

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0:00.0

Today we consider the possibility of the image cinematic universe.

0:18.6

What could have been.

0:20.1

Absolutely what could have been. What should have been. We look at all of it. All the action that Image Comics garnered from all across the media from the minute it was launched. All of those options and dealmakings. Why didn't an image cinematic universe come together? What's on store? What can be done? Rome wasn't built in a day and neither

0:38.9

was the MCU. Is there hope for an image cinematic universe? We look at all of that today. We

0:43.9

continue to consider a world without image comics with more kind of absolute results of what

0:52.3

happened had image not appeared on your comic store shelves.

0:57.5

We also consider Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Cruise, Matthew McConaughey, Brad Pitt, Timothy

1:03.6

Salome, will they ever, ever be in a comic book movie?

1:08.0

That is for you to listen and decide today on our latest episode of

1:13.6

Robeservations.

1:18.6

Hey everybody, or should I say, dearly beloved, we are gathered here today for another edition of Rob's observations gosh that sounds good

1:29.9

i should i should uh work more prints more music into my opening anyway thanks for joining me

1:36.1

it's rob we're gonna do what we always do is mix it all up in a nice cocktail of pop pop culture

1:42.6

comic books sci-fi, all of it.

1:45.6

We're going to jump right into it today because, again, everything we see is so much of what we see

1:52.5

is coming from comic books today.

1:55.7

And we know of so much of what we get by that.

1:59.8

I mean, we are aware of so many of the sources even though

2:03.5

probably the sources aren't getting you know picked up or sampled in in the same way that we

2:10.3

in the common community would want them to but the uh the the the as they're called the IP

2:15.5

uh the intellectual property and and here's where i'm

2:17.9

to slow it down a minute you have no idea it took me a long time to get used to it it's

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