The long-mooted movie adaptation of Wendy and Richard Pini’s Elfquest – announced in 2008 with director/writer Rawson Thurber (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story) – has been dropped.
Co-creator Wendy Pini claims the movie, based on the Seventies fantasy comic, was playing second fiddle to The Hobbit, saying, “After close to four years of suspense—and longer than four years of your much-appreciated interest and support—the word has come down from Warner Bros. And the word is ‘no.’
“Their simple explanation is that they don’t want to compete with The Hobbit. This was a possibility, among several, that we were prepared for, it is a relief, at last to know.”
