I didn’t see see this among the avalanche of Comic-Con news and images, so I’ll go ahead and post the convention teaser poster for Whiteout, based on the 1998 Oni Press miniseries by Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber. It’s obviously based on Frank Miller’s cover.
(Via Greg Rucka)
Related: Read the first issue of Whiteout on Lieber’s ComicSpace page
July 31st, 2007 at 11:03 am
Cool.
July 31st, 2007 at 11:53 am
That looks awful. I understand they’re trying to mirror the Frank Miller cover for the collection, but poses that work in comics don’t work in real life. Also, the cut n’ paste job on her face looks bad too. It’s a little too small.
I’m still looking forward to the movie, but this poster just looks like a rush job.
July 31st, 2007 at 12:05 pm
IMHO she looks a little too pretty for the role. Also, her face is slightly pornish. Why is a woman in a HUGE parka making a seductive surprise face in a whiteout? Regardless, I liked the book and think the movie has a lot of potential.
July 31st, 2007 at 12:19 pm
She doesn’t look very seductive at all to me. That’s porny?
July 31st, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Maybe Eskimo-porny. Usually regular porny photos show some skin.
July 31st, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Everything that made it an eyecatching hand drawn illo makes it look rather ridiculous with an actual person in the picture.
July 31st, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Whoah…..
That’s all kinds of bad.
July 31st, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Her feet look huge.
July 31st, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Mmmm Eskimo-Porny with a Brit accent. This should be a fun flick. Given the amount of money Frank Miller has generated in hollywood lately, copying his cover only makes sense. Or at least what passes for it at a movie studio.
July 31st, 2007 at 2:32 pm
The image doesn’t bother me so much as that cheesy tagline. “See your last breath”? Um…okay. That just doesn’t sound as ominous as I think they think it does.
July 31st, 2007 at 2:37 pm
That’s not based on Frank Miller’s cover… that’s Frank Miller’s cover airbrushed and kate beckinsale’s head slapped on. And if it’s not the cover… it’s sure not kate beckinsale…
what a lousy poster.
July 31st, 2007 at 5:30 pm
As much as I’m looking forward to Whiteout, that is an odd teaser poster.
July 31st, 2007 at 7:04 pm
Not a good poster…but then I’m used to Kurt Russell in a parka
but the story seems like a winner (no I haven’t read it yet). I’ll definitely check the film out…
August 1st, 2007 at 3:39 pm
“Also, her face is slightly pornish. Why is a woman in a HUGE parka making a seductive surprise face in a whiteout?”
Maybe that’s just her natural face?
August 1st, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Wow… If this were all I saw, I wouldn’t touch the movie with a fifty-foot pole. Her face looks like it was photoshopped on, and that catchphrase is enough to make me gag. This… Is horrible.
August 2nd, 2007 at 2:44 pm
“Also, her face is slightly pornish. Why is a woman in a HUGE parka making a seductive surprise face in a whiteout?”
It’s a sad day when people automatically equate “seductive” with “porn.”
August 2nd, 2007 at 7:33 pm
For a different way of looking at it, I think the attitude the poster represents is great. A couple of years ago, when they were doing A History of Violence, you’d have had to put a gun to someone’s head to get anyone to admit that the source material was a comic book. Clearly that’s not the case anymore.
Of course the bad luck is that the teaser-poster came out just as we released a new edition of the book with a different cover, but that certainly didn’t stop people from picking the book up at Comic-con.
August 2nd, 2007 at 11:01 pm
I don’t know why they didn’t use the cover for the old collection of the body and the footprints. It’s a very effective image, and better than a bad photoshop job.
August 5th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
LOL…I think its cool and a teaser …one of those one of three posters and works …maybe a bit of snow in front of her face would work better.
would have airbrushed her actual breath though.
cant wait for this. steve…congrats you bastard!!