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Disaster, most likely.
I was thinking about how I could bring this up on Barbelith, but there's just no way I could write about this better than Jim Treacher, so I'm just going to quote him - but please, read his blog. It's one of the best.
From the Hollywood Reporter:
Columbia Pictures has picked up feature film rights to Rob Liefeld's Internet comic strip "Shrink!" as a vehicle for Jennifer Lopez to star in and produce through her studio-based Nuyorican Prods. The project marks the first pickup by the studio for Nuyorican since the company signed a three-year first-look feature film development and production deal with Columbia this year (HR 4/11). "Shrink!" is a comic strip in the vein of "The Far Side" in which a voluptuous female psychologist is seen treating superheroes. No writer is yet on board to adapt "Shrink!" The project will see Lopez star as the psychologist.
If you know anything about comics, and for your sake I hope you don't, Rob Liefeld is sort of the Kevin Costner of that industry. Hasn't done anything worth paying attention to in years, if ever. Consistently loses large amounts of money, hand over fist over every other body part. Talentless. Charmless. Stunningly inept. Keeps getting work somehow. "Shrink!" is quite possibly the worst work of his career, and that's just about the harshest thing I've ever said about anything, ever. It's at SpinnerRack.com, but the link is broken. In addition to all the other traffic in the wake of this announcement, I'm sure everybody who's ever read it is checking it out again. "That can't be right, they can't possibly be making a movie out of that shit..." If I could only remember any of the "jokes"... There was one superhero with big nuts, I vaguely remember something about that... You know what, it was probably just so brain-blisteringly hilarious that I've had to wipe out all conscious memory of it just to be able to function on a day-to-day basis.
Here's a representative example of Liefeld's artwork:
This is what I'm saying. That was the cover of something the publisher wanted to sell to people. And his writing isn't even that good.
On the bright side, Will Smith was supposed to make a movie out of another one of Liefeld's sequential-art trainwrecks, and that never happened. And over the years Liefeld has made several other attempts to get his lack of vision on the silver screen, but they all failed. Let's hope this doesn't break the streak.
Anyway, here's one of those god-awful Liefeld "Shrink" strips:
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