Night Watch director heads to Hollywood
Filed under: Deals, Universal, Newsstand, Comic/Superhero/Geek
Timur Bekmambetov, Russian director of Night Watch (the cool-looking but possibly terrible vampire/horror/action flick we discussed yesterday), has signed a deal with Universal to helm his first English-language film. The movie, Wanted, is based on a series of comic books by Mark Millar. In the series, "a nebbishy white-collar worker who discovers his father is the world's most evil supervillain." Um, ok. That sounds sort of awesome, actually. After his really, really evil dad is murdered, "the son is recruited into a covert organization and trained to take up his father's legacy."Wow. So wait - he goes to the dark side, instead of reclaiming his family honor by fighting the evil his father wrought? How refreshingly (and weirdly) not-very-Hollywood! Could someone familiar with the comics fill us in a little bit here, both in terms of plot and visual style? Do you think they would translate well on film?
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12-08-2005 @ 11:08AM
Scott Cederlund said...
This could translate very well into a movie. Millar cast this himself as the main characters look a lot like Eminem and Hallie Barry. The story is about a son following in his missing father's footsteps. That father just happens to be one of the most powerful supervillains who's secretly running the world.
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12-08-2005 @ 12:07PM
Finished.Law.School said...
Going to the dark side is more realistic in current society. Movies are always about people making moral choices. I do not believe that there is that much good in people...
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12-08-2005 @ 8:32PM
Dimitrios said...
I read the comic book series and to be honest with you I was less then impressed and I guarantee you that people watching the movie will not be all that happy with the ending.
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12-08-2005 @ 6:08PM
Mr Keeper said...
If this movie ever sees the light of day, I will be very surprised.
It'll be in Development Hell by Easter.
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