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Rodriguez's Madman is Official
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Okay, so back in May when I told you Rodriguez was finally ready to make action happen on the Madman property he's courted the rights to for so many years, what I really meant by "ready to make action happen" was "ready to make action happen in another seven months or so." Yes, although it was beginning to look like this year was just going to be another in the long line of "Hey, Rodriguez is going to make Madman!" rumor years which ends in defeat (we've had a number of those years since the latter end of the last decade), it turns out we've finally got some actual news coming. Rodriguez has landed a deal with the good folks at Dimension Films, and will follow largely the same path he took in creating Sin City. That is to say, he's enlisted the comic book creator (Mike Allred) to co-write the script with him and thus plans to stay very true to the original source material.The entire project will be put together at Rodriguez's Troublemaker Studios. Probably due to his already hefty plate of projects, Rodriguez will not actually be directing this one, instead tapping familiar collaborator George Huang to helm. Said Rodriguez of the team he's assembled: "George has always had a really great grasp of the books, and Michael is just about the coolest guy you'll ever meet, his Madman comics are nothing short of visionary." Yours truly is very excited about this combination.
Rodriguez to Bring Madman to the Silver Screen?
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Why did Robert Rodriguez quit Grindhouse? The latest rumor on the block says its because the
man is (finally) interested in making action happen on his movie adaptation of the comic Madman. Rodriguez has
possessed movie rights to the property since the dawn of time (or at least the late nineties), and periodically rumors
begin to circulate about him getting behind the camera for a Madman flick. These rumors surface every year or
so, and thus far have always proven false -- but they are back again, this time with the help of Madman's comic creator
Mike Allred. Allred recently mentioned to a large convention crowd that Rodriguez is set to start filming this very
month, and that he (Allred) himself has been busily at work on "hundreds of storyboards."Exciting news? Yes. I, like most comic geeks, love the Madman property and have been eagerly awaiting the film since it first entered the rumor realm several years ago. Rodriguez's success with Sin City gave his comic book credentials real legitimacy, and it has been said he plans on doing the co-director deal with Allred just like he did with Miller. We can only hope the union will prove as glorious.
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