Library Home Page: Let's Explore Graphic Novels: Movie Adaptations

Filmmakers are always searching for fodder to turn into the next summer (or holiday) blockbuster. Comics have been mined over and over to produce movies for the popcorn public. Graphic novels have inspired some great films. A sampling of films adapted from graphic novels is listed below.

300
King Leonidas and 300 Spartan warriors battle King Xerxes and his Persian army at Thermopylae in 480 b.c.
A History of Violence
A mild-mannered man becomes a hero through an act of violence that has far reaching repercussions for his family.
Constantine
Irreverent supernatural detective, John Constantine goes to hell and back to solve a case.
I, Frankenstein
Frankenstein's creature finds himself caught between a centuries old battle between good and evil.
Persepolis
A coming-of-age story of an outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution.
RED
Former Black Ops agent Frank Moses assembles his old team to survive a high-tech assassin.
Road to Perdition
A hitman's son witnesses what his father does for a living.
Sin City
The story of life in corrupt Basin City told through the lives of three people.
The Crow
A man who has been brutally murdered comes back as an undead avenger of his and his fiancee's murder.
V for Vendetta
In a future British tyranny, a masked freedom fighter plots to overthrow it with the help of a young woman.
Wanted
A frustrated office drone learns that he is the son of a professional assassin.
Watchmen
In an alternate 1985 where former superheroes exist, the murder of a colleague sends active vigilante Rorschach into his own sprawling investigation, uncovering something that could completely change the course of history as we know it.