Mark Millar bites on Matthew Vaughn’s game, makes own Indy Superhero film!
by Chris Eaton- Source: Millarworld.tv
Bat-shit crazy comic writer to become bat-shit crazy film director!
Leave it to Mark Millar to boldly go where only Frank Miller dare go before him! Seems that the man who wrote WANTED, KICK ASS, ULTIMATE FF and CIVIL WAR, wants to take a crack at making a honest to god motion picture.
In the words of the man himself:
Bet you didn’t see THAT coming, laddies and lassies!
But this is one of several big surprises planned for next year and you’ll hear a bit more about this in February when we start to release details. What is it? Who is it about? Well, that’s all a secret for now, but I learned a lot from Kick-Ass and love having the same creative freedom I have with comics when I work in cinema. I never want to be a studio bitch and go in there pitching for them to love me. The closest I came to this was a couple of calls regarding Superman, but pretty much none of my plans ever revealed as I didn’t like the idea of anyone nicking them.
Similarly, I don’t like the idea of asking for funding and justifying scenes with the money-men so I’m doing what Matthew Vaughn did with Kick-Ass and just making it outside the system with private investors. The financing is all secured and the movie stands or falls on how good I can make it, doing what Matthew did and just selling it once completed.
As you can imagine, I couldn’t be more excited. More as it happens, but this might just beat out War Heroes and American Jesus as my follow-ups to the Wanted and Kick-Ass movies. Have two other pictures about to go into development (and Wanted and Kick-Ass 2, of course), but I think you need to scare the Hell out of yourself every once in a while and something totally new like directing should do the trick.
The big question: Are you allowed to direct without wearing a baseball cap? Is it the modern version of the 70s BEARD?
So it looks like he’s taking a page out of Mathew Vaughn’s book and making this little picture out side of the studio system. Bold choice, but for a man who could be claimed as the bastard love child of Tarantino and Alan Moore, I cant think of any other way to get this man’s unmolested vision to the screen. If his comic writing is ANY indication to what he’ll put on film, its safe to say that it’ll be something that’s utterly violent, offensive that smiles while offending you just a bit.
Now its just a matter to see if he can really DIRECT a film, something that Frank Miller has yet to prove wholeheartedly.
Millar bites on Matthew Vaughn’s game, makes own Indy Superhero film!
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Tags: Civil War, Kick Ass, Mark Millar, marvel, Mathew Vaghn, Ultimates, Wanted