I found a couple of really cool posts about the secret strategies used behind the recent Cowboys and Aliens movie flop. If you are the creator in the mindset for having your work picked up by big movie producers, here is one strategy that technically worked?

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/07/29/the-secret-story-behind-cowboys-and-aliens/

If you want to know why the movie did so bad, I also found this post that will be a guiding light to you and probably help some of your creations come off a little better when you pitch you comic before another big movie executive.

http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood-prospectus/post/_/id/31772/bomb-shelter-why-did-cowboys-aliens-fail

I really liked the graphic novel when I got my hands on it. I could go on and on about why making a movie from a comic book is bad for you and bad for the industry, but I won’t.