nerd4hire
03-24-2008, 09:19 PM
Dark Horse editor Scott Allie attempts a small explanation on comics licensing for Whedonverse titles in a recent interview...
CMix: For those who don't quite understand how licensing works, please explain why Buffy and Serenity are Dark Horse comics and Angel: After the Fall isn't -- even though they are all characters created by Joss Whedon?
SA: We don't own any of these things, nor does Joss—Fox owns Buffy and Angel, and Universal ownsSerenity. And they can lease out their property to whoever they want.
We license Buffy and Serenity, but now IDW licenses Angel. We licensed Angel for a while, and we let it go, which I regret.
CMix: Does the deal with Universal have any effect on what you do with the comics properties? Will we see more Dark Horse comics made into movies? Or more Universal films made into comics?
SA: It will lead to more films made from our comics, but it doesn't really effect what comics we'll publish. Movie studios are complex companies, in which each division sort of works as a separate company.
The people we license comics from, like Serenity, are very different from the people we make movies with, like Hellboy.
Interview: Scott Allie on Serenity, Buffy and the Joss Whedon Universe - ComicMix news (http://www.comicmix.com/news/2008/03/24/interview-scott-allie-on-serenity-buffy-and-the-joss-whedon-universe/)
CMix: For those who don't quite understand how licensing works, please explain why Buffy and Serenity are Dark Horse comics and Angel: After the Fall isn't -- even though they are all characters created by Joss Whedon?
SA: We don't own any of these things, nor does Joss—Fox owns Buffy and Angel, and Universal ownsSerenity. And they can lease out their property to whoever they want.
We license Buffy and Serenity, but now IDW licenses Angel. We licensed Angel for a while, and we let it go, which I regret.
CMix: Does the deal with Universal have any effect on what you do with the comics properties? Will we see more Dark Horse comics made into movies? Or more Universal films made into comics?
SA: It will lead to more films made from our comics, but it doesn't really effect what comics we'll publish. Movie studios are complex companies, in which each division sort of works as a separate company.
The people we license comics from, like Serenity, are very different from the people we make movies with, like Hellboy.
Interview: Scott Allie on Serenity, Buffy and the Joss Whedon Universe - ComicMix news (http://www.comicmix.com/news/2008/03/24/interview-scott-allie-on-serenity-buffy-and-the-joss-whedon-universe/)