10 Image Comics That Would Make Great Movies (And How To Make Them)
2. Morning Glories
Morning Glories creator Nick Spencer has become well known as the controversial writer behind Captain America's most recent run (you know, Hail Hydra and all that), but he got his first break in comics working with Image.
Morning Glories is a mixed bag of a series - at times an absolutely riveting read that drip feeds cliffhanger after cliff hanger, and at others, a nonsensical, time-hopping mess that owes a lot more to the final episode of LOST than it does to that show's lauded first series.
Still, it's a concept that's absolutely ripe for adaptation, were some of its more whimsical ideas reigned in somewhat. Teen or 'YA' fiction is all the rage right now, and while most YA adaptations are fairly overwrought sci-fi allegories about 'why high school is bad', Morning Glories cuts out the middle man entirely.
The Morning Glories Academy is a seemingly normal, somewhat preppy boarding school, but beneath its friendly facade lies a faculty involved in torture, murder, abuse and supernatural rituals.
Though my previous reference to LOST might plant ideas about a JJ Abrams adaptation being the optimal route, I'd nominate Kings of Summer and Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts for the task. He's already tackled coming of age movies, and while Kong: Skull Island is still an unknown quantity, he certainly seems willing to take on big budget genre movies.