Kevin Smith says he's in talks for a comic book movie!

Kevin Smith has revealed to Wizard Magazine that he is in talks to direct a comic-book movie but interestingly he doesn't actually mention which one. We know that he was attached to direct The Green Hornet for quite some time and he was also attached to a Green Lantern movie and a Green Arrow flick (he likes his green!) at various stages of his career but none of them came through. I think with everyone knowing that Smith is such a huge comic-book geek, it wouldn't be too long until we saw him behind the camera of one of his beloved characters...

€œI think that by that point, by my 10th film, I€™ll be ready to take on something that is very visually oriented...The 10th movie I think is going to be a comic book movie - not €œThe Green Hornet,€ though. There€™s something that we€™re kind of negotiating on right now which would actually be pretty cool. I don€™t know what the audience for it would be, but I would dig making it because I€™ve always been a fan of the character. I can€™t say what it is though, because they haven€™t locked it in.€

Interesting, interesting. It's something a little different then if he's saying "I don't know what the audience could be for it" so it won't be something like Spider-Man 4 or a revival of Daredevil (which I've actually thought for a while he might attempt at with his pal Ben Affleck). Let's take a gander at what he could mean....

SUPER MAX - Slash Film hint towards this one being the movie he is talking about. You may remember this is the project that I thought was one of the most innovative and exciting comic book projects to ever be greenlit in the movie industry when Warner Brothers bought it. I called it The Shawshank Redemption meets Superhero's, where The Green Arrow has been wrongly imprisoned in a cell containing the back catalogue of DC's villains. I've fallen in love with the project ever since writer David Goyer gave us this quote...

€œHe€™s Green Arrow for the first 10 minutes of the movie, and then he€™s arrested and his secret identity is revealed€.They shave his goatee and they take his costume and send him to prison for life, and he has to escape. It€™s like €˜Alcatraz,€™ and he has to team up with, in some cases, some of the very same villains he is responsible for incarcerating in order to get out and clear his name€.

I thought it would be a given that Goyer would want to direct this baby himself but actually I don't think that's ever been confirmed, so Smith could be up for this. It would certainly fit into the category of being a little different and we all know Smith is a huge fan of the character as he's already wrote several of his own Green Arrow comic-book issues and would slot nicely into his schedule as Warner Brothers are looking for a Summer 2010 release and Smith has two movies to keep him busy before then. It's all just speculation from Slash Film at the moment but it seems like it's not entirely an unsubstantiated one. Smith is probably the wrong guy though for the film as much as I respect that he loves the character. This one needs a dramatic/thriller director, someone who can make it as realistic as possible but also keep it in the realm of the superhero. Not easy granted but Singer did an admirable job with it in the first X-Men movie.