On Friday, OWF’s Nicola Balkind spoke to Kick-Ass and Wanted creator Mark Millar at the Glasgow International Film Festival in what turned out to be a rather lengthy interview. We taped the conversation but it won’t be posted for a little while just yet as we are currently editing the footage.
I wanted to get this up right away though as it’s topical. Now, as anyone who has read OWF casually for the past two years will know, Millar attempted to get a Superman movie off the ground at Warner Bros. well before anyone else had any interest in doing so.
By my timeline, the closest he got was in the summer of ’08, in a pitch he made to the studio with his Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn. Our opening question to Millar was about the Superman situation, which he answered refreshingly extensively, going so far as to give his blessing to Team Nolan who this month were hired to bring The Man of Steel back to the big screen…
For every project that comes out of Hollywood, they talk to 100 guys. They have conversations with people: sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesn’t. I’m not actually that interested in doing other people’s characters. The only stuff I’m really interested in is the stuff I was into when I was wee. I’ve been offered some pretty cool films, and I always turn them down, but Superman was the one I always really loved when I was a kid. I tried to get it myself, unsuccessfully, about 4 years ago, then about 2 years ago Matthew Vaughn (director of Kick Ass) and I tried to get it. They were more interested in him than me, and they had a conversation with him about it… At the time nobody was very interested in doing a Superman movie – the last one had lost 200 million – and it was a bit toxic at the time. Then, they just lost interest in us. They talked to some others like the Wachowskis, James McTeigue and a few others. Now, David Goyer and Chris Nolan have got it, which is brilliant. As a fan, I’d love to see a great Superman movie and I think that Dave Goyer is the man. The Batman films have been brilliant, so I hope they can carry that same magic over.
Stay tuned for our full exclusive chat with Millar – in which he talks candidly with OWF about Superman, Wanted 2, his upcoming comic book projects Nemesis and more!!
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Well, I’m sure Nolan and Goyer were worried about Millar’s blessing, and now that they have it they can go forward with more confidence than they could have otherwise.
I’m so sure everyone was waiting on pins for the deranged moron himself to give his okay to this project.
And so, the drug-addled moron who thinks rape, pointless cursewords and 12 year-olds using immense vulgarity is now weighing in on Superman. As if that somehow is a seal of approval? What an inbred fool he is.
Hey Mark, there’s a reason you’re not on this project and NEVER will be. Take a look at Kick-Ass, then ask yourself what person with an I.Q. higher than their shoe size would let you anywhere near their work?
Wanted was almost totally different than the graphic novel –and one of the few instances I’ve seen where a movie adaptation FAR outdid it’s literary source material!– and I guess Millar is now somehow deluding himself into thinking he’s some sort of movie heavyweight now?
I’d sooner truth Frank Miller!
why don’t you go back to the perverted pedophile crap you peddle and leave the serious work to the serious artists. Besides, if a fool like millar has signed off on this project that’s one strike against it in my book!
Jaysmack you know nothing you hill billy.
Mark Millar has done more for progressing comic books that you could ever possibly fathom.
Your last comment just came across as someone with sour grapes. Keep your jealousy in touch you retarded buffoon.
Fucking idiot.
Your screenname alone marks you as a Millar-devotee. Try not to eat too many more rats in your mother’s basement.
Mark Millar had an interesting concept for a new Superman movie franchise, it would have been pretty cool to see.
Tho I like the idea of the Nolan’s and Goyer rebooting Superman – it’s just frustrating that we’ll have to wait so long for it. Oh well.
By the way, I’m not sure if Millar actually said “they have my blessing” or anything like that (tho I haven’t seen or read the complete interview, only the parts shown)he just seemed to acknowledge that it’s a good idea.