Wanted, the film based on Mark Millar and J.G. Jones’ six-issue 2003 miniseries, will hit theaters at the end of this month, and the Universal Pictures marketing machine is chugging along in anticipation of the big day. Just in case you lost track of this one in all of the Iron Man and Incredible Hulk…
Universal Pictures recently stepped up the promotional efforts for their upcoming adaptation of Wanted, the creator-owned Mark Millar/J.G. Jones miniseries published by Top Cow, with a pair of online items worth noting. In addition to a behind-the-scenes video that premiered on Empire Online this week and features some interesting thoughts from Millar about the project,…
Mark Millar’s Kick-Ass hasn’t even released its second issue and it’s already supposedly headed to the big screen courtesy of Matthew Vaughn, the director of Layer Cake and Stardust. Vaughn, who was attached to X-Men: The Last Stand before Brett Ratner took over and who is currently attached to the film adaptation of Thor, will…
When I first heard about the upcoming big-screen adaptation of Mark Miller’s Wanted, I was, as I usually am in these situations, skeptical. Hollywood’s treatment of comic books has ranged greatly over the years and produced some seriously bad movies such as Daredevil, Ghost Rider and The League of Extrordinary Gentlemen. However, to be fair,…
In a bid to excite fanboys for the movie adaptation to Mark Millar’s Wanted, Universal Pictures used its panel at WonderCon 2008 to show an extended clip from the film. IGN has a full report on the clip. The scene shown was that of Fox (Angelina Jolie) saving Wesley (James McAvoy) from an assassin in…
Marvel recently announced plans to reunite Civil War writer Mark Millar and artist Steve McNiven on an upcoming arc of Wolverine that takes the "ol’ Canuknucklehead" years into the future to a post-Apocalyptic Marvel Universe. In this interview with IGN, Millar discusses the connections between Clint Eastwood, John Constantine, Hulk and Wolverine that influence his…
When Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris (screenwriters for X-2: X-Men United and Superman Returns) stated that they would NOT be writing the new live-action Superman sequel, Warner Bros. Pictures announced they would be looking at new pitches. Mark Millar (Ultimates, Civil War) was immediately vocal in his desire to take on the task. “I want…
Marvel editor Tom Brevoort posts Mark Millar’s original memo/pitch for Civil War. Comic Book Resources presents the third part of their look at Homosexuality in Comics. Blogcritics reviews a pile of DC and Image comics, starting with Dynamo 5 #3. Blogcritics also has a Marvel comics review, and is particularly fond of Nova #4. Forbidden…
