The challenges of selling the film to moviegoers who have no familiarity with the graphic novel would seem to be even greater, as the comics tales have no clear central protagonist and no characters with worldwide recognition.
Las Vegas Weekly, for instance, criticised the film for not enough of a central protagonist and character depth.
For one thing, it'd need to find focus within a fiction that permits its central protagonist – and, presumably, a companion or some – to travel anywhere in space and time.
This time around, McCarthy tackles her main research concerns from a different angle, replacing herself with others as her work's central protagonist, and at the same time emphasising the sharing economy.
Certainly, the nods to Steven Spielberg (this film's executive producer) are there, beginning with Abrams' use of a group of kids as the film's central protagonists -- and setting the film in 1979.
Fresh twists lie ahead but the immediate risk of another attack in Manchester appears to have been neutralised, the central protagonists rounded up and detectives increasingly emboldened by the investigation's success.
Tomorrow we will be strong!" The man of the hour was Mohamed Beltagy, one of the central protagonists of the Egyptian Revolution and perhaps the country's most versatile and dynamic politician.
The central protagonists of Naked (1993) and Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) are both questioning and anarchic, but whereas Johnny is burnt up with inward-looking frustration, Poppy is an optimist, who knows how to channel her feelings positively and responsibly.
The film's central protagonists are American, British, and Australian POWs who are confined to a prison camp deep inside Nazi Germany.
The novel, "It Is Good We Are Dreaming," builds off three central protagonists — a pair of sisters and a German-American mechanic, Gus, who is imprisoned in a United States internment camp.
At the turn of the twentieth century, Brückner was one of the central protagonists in a vigorous debate in science and society about global climate variability and its political and economic significance.
