Mark Millar maakt superheldenfilm

Nadat er al eerder films zijn gemaakt over zijn comics Wanted en Kick-Ass, besluit comic-legende Mark Millar nu ook zelf in de regiestoel plaats te nemen. In onderstaande tekst, afkomstig van zijn officiële forum, is duidelijk te merken dat Millar er zin in heeft. Hij geeft echter nog niet aan over welke comic de film gaat. Dit wordt pas in februari 2010 bekend gemaakt.

Millar gaat de film geheel zelfstandig opnemen omdat hij geen invloed van buitenaf wil op zijn regiedebuut. Deze aanpak is te vergelijken met de aanpak van Matthew Vaughn met Kick-Ass. Hij nam de film eerst op en zocht daarna een maatschappij die de film wil distribueren. Die vond Vaughn uiteindelijk in Lionsgate. Van Millar comics komen komende jaren ook films uit als Wanted 2, War Heroes en American Jesus. Mark Millar op zijn website Millarworld:

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.