Mark Millar to Direct Superhero Feature!

Wanted and Kick-Ass comic book author Mark Millar has announced on his official website that he will make his directorial debut with a superhero feature:

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.


Sources: Mark Millar

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  1. -comrade-

    Damn. I was hoping the Superman Reboot would happen.

    2 years agoby @taberjohnson18Flag

  2. CBF

    He pretty much states that he is not doing Superman, but I would love a comic book film with Millar at the helm. Just so long as it doesn't turn out as disappointing as Frank Miller's "Sin City." Eck.

    2 years agoby @comicbookfanFlag

  3. Brainiac

    i like millar but idk if i'd like his version of superman, if anyone knows of any superman he has written let me know so i can check it out. but all of wut i have read of his involves heroes who swear and use racial slurs and sh*t. i mean he made Captain America bad ass and anti-french. and Wesley Gibson from Wanted raped and killed ppl (comic version, not movie). I don't think he would definitely do that to Supes but i would be slightly nervous bout it.

    either way though it sounds like his movie isn't the supes trilogy so i'm all for it.

    2 years agoby @thebdFlag

  4. ZanyZap

    You and the rest of the movie-world.

    2 years agoby @zanyzapFlag

  5. Mutant

    I would love to see a Millar trilogy on Superman. He's just awesome.

    2 years agoby @zenderFlag

  6. -comrade-

    Good news.

    2 years agoby @taberjohnson18Flag

  7. Cripple

    Hell yes to him doing superman

    2 years agoby @crippleFlag

  8. T.Clark

    Yeah, I want him to write Superman.

    2 years agoby @insertusernamehereFlag

  9. Bane5000

    Warner bros,or the Seigel family, take not...let Millar do his superman trilogy, ull thank him later on :]

    2 years agoby @bane5000Flag

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