10 Image Comics That Would Make Great Movies (And How To Make Them)
5. The Wicked + The Divine
What do you get when you mix and issue of NME with a book about religious mythology? You get The Wicked + the Divine, and while that combination might sound excruciatingly boring, it's anything but. An eye-popping series that places pop stars in the role of modern day gods, it's a wonderfully weird exploration of how we treat our pop-culture idols.
Written by former games journalist Kieron Gillen, The Wicked + The Divine is a glossy, pop-literate dark fantasy, the likes of which we've never seen before, either in print or on screen. Every single image leaps out at you - Jamie McKelvie's issue covers have become so iconic, they're regularly used as variant covers for other Image series like Shutter and East of West.
Drive director Nicholas Winding Refn would be the perfect choice to adapt The Wicked + the Divine for screen. His last effort, The Neon Demon, was a flawed yet visually striking critique of supermodel culture, a film that landed on a lot of the same beats as Gillen's book.
Refn also has a keen ear for an earworm score, something that'd be essential in a movie about godly pop stars.