Many moons ago Hollywood adapted plays and novels to make films, then comic strips and radio plays were successfully mined for box office gold. Later television series were turned into epic, popcorn-selling tent-pole movies. It seemed almost anything could be morphed into a feature film: A theme park ride–Pirates of The Carribean; a computer game–Resident Evil; even a Saturday morning cartoon that’s pretty much a half-hour commercial for a nifty toy–Transformers.
