Mark Millar’s Directorial Debut to be a Superhero Film!
Wanted and Kick-Ass! creator/author, Mark Millar, has recently announced on this personal website that he will have his directorial debut with some type of superhero film. The author is a no holds barr kind of guy so take all this with a grain of salt. Last year he spouted off on multiple occasions that he was developing a new Superman franchise that was going to be a trilogy and some big high profile director was going to come in and direct it. That never came to be.
“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.”
What are your thoughts on this? It seems like it is going to original and not directing a DC or Marvel character. This is pretty common with films now that directors feel passionate enough for a project they go and secure private financing and the film’s buzz gets so big that the studios always pick them up. We have seen that with Kick-Ass! especially but even the buzz around similar conceptual films like Solomon Kane, which has yet to find a US distributor.
