2008 Movie News Archives

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February 13, 2008: Stan Berkowitz Talks Scripting “New Frontier”

Newsarama.com has published an interview with Stan Berkowitz, discussing the process of scripting "Justice League: The New Frontier" and the challenges faced in trying to squeeze the comic book story in to an animated film.

    "It was liberating because I was working with a PG-13 rating. New Frontier is a little bit more adult. While I won't call the material that ran on Cartoon Network childish, and among superhero shows it was more adult than most, but working with a PG-13 rating certainly felt great to the artists and myself. The language is more adult. So is the art. There is also one other key difference. When you do a show that's aimed for children, there's a big taboo against representing death. Superheroes are all about life and death situations. It's not life and blank. By allowing us to take this more realistic view, it also made the whole thing a lot more adult.

    "Right from the beginning, where Hal Jordan has to deal with the Korean soldier, you couldn't do that on TV. We tried to stay as close to the comic as possible there. Even more important, right at the beginning we had a suicide. That's absolutely taboo in a children's thing. They are afraid that's something children would emulate."

Read the entire interview at Newsarama.com.



2008 Movie News

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