10 Image Comics That Would Make Great Movies (And How To Make Them)

Saga's creators have gone on record as saying they don't want to adapt their multi-award winning sci-fi series for the big screen, and with admittedly good reason.

Though writer Brian K. Vaughan (there he is again) has expressed some interest in adapting his work as a video game, specifically one that centres around secondary characters, he, and artist Fiona Staples, maintain that comics allow them the scope and budget to do pretty much whatever they want, whereas TV and film incur a lot more constraints.

Still, it's an understatement to say that Saga is one of the most popular, beloved indie comics of the decade, possibly the Century, so to not at least try bringing it to a larger audience seems like a wasted opportunity. Full of bonkers otherworldly characters and conflicting armies, Saga is a fantastical space-opera epic all about love, conflict, and childcare in a time of war and racial tension. It features some of the finest world building I've ever read in a comic book, as well as some one the most articulately formed characters.

James Gunn almost seems like too easy a choice to direct a Saga adaptation, but considering he's the best space-opera director not currently making a Star Wars movie, he'd be an absolute shoe in for this.

Much more than just a Disney-controlled safe pair of hands, Gunn's back catalogue is full of foul-mouthed, schlocky, decidedly un-PG characters, something Saga has in abundance. There are few filmmakers who could bring testicle trolls, spider-legged bounty hunters and talking seals to a theatre near you, ut if anyone can, it's James Gunn.

Which of these comics would you most like to see on screen as a movie? Share your picks below in the comments thread.