Nine "Unfilmable" Comic Book Stories

For years, Watchmen was considered too huge a story to be adapted to the silver screen.

Well, now that that’s happened, suppose we check out some other comic books and graphic novels that most people figure might be too tricky for film.

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"Preacher" is currently kicking around Hollywood, but any version that could potentially hit screens would have to be watered down to the point of... well, pointlessness.

Watchmen was only 12 issues—Preacher was 75 issues chock full of blasphemy, sodomy, vampirism, debauchery, Old West legend, and batshit insanity. This story of a disillusioned man of faith who gains divine powers and then walks the earth on a mission to kick God's ass is also an invitation to boycotts and churchy outrage.

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