On his MySpace blog, David S. Goyer follows up on his weekend announcement that he’s sold Warner Bros. on a Green Arrow/DC Universe villains movie concept called Super Max:
Is it real? The answer is “YES”, it’s a real project. It’s just in the early stages of development, but amongst the tidal wave of super-hero movies hitting the screen, this more classically post-modern take could be pretty damn fun.
The basic concept actually came about through Justin Marks, a terrific young writer my wife Jessika (a producer) had previously worked with. They thought the idea of a prison-break story set in a jail designed exclusively for super-villains was a cool one. And I heartily agreed. After some discussion, we decided it would be fun to frame a super-hero and toss him into the meta-human mix.
From that point, it seemed like the next logical step was to set the film in either the Marvel or DC Universe. That way, we could populate the movie with all sorts of cool B and C-character Easter Eggs. We eventually landed at DC. Green Arrow, given his hard-hitting, moralistic tendencies, seemed like the most interesting hero to put through the institutional wringer.
I vote for Wentworth Miller as Oliver Queen.
April 10th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Argh, I can’t wait.
April 10th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
To the Editor,
May I suggest adding scrolling to your popup windows? I wanted to see who drew that nice Green Arrow cover, but can’t see the bottom of the image when I blow it up. Thanks.
April 10th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
The arrow keys on your keyboard will allow you to scroll the image.
April 10th, 2007 at 9:06 pm
Scott McDaniel. I saw this by clicking “view image” in Firefox, which opened it in its own full-sized window. Yay!
April 12th, 2007 at 7:15 am
Sounds cool. Makes me want to see Bru’s Daredevil in Cell Block D filmed even more, though.