Actor Hugh Jackman is teaming with television and comics writer Marc Guggenheim to create Nowhere Man, a Virgin Comics series designed to be adapted into a movie — for Jackman, of course.
The title will be published as part of the company’s Virgin Voices imprint, which includes comics co-created by Nicolas Cage and Dave Stewart.
According to Variety, Nowhere Man is set in a futuristic world “where mankind has traded privacy for safety.”
John Palermo, Jackman’s partner in Seed Productions, told the trade paper could first be a video game before being made into a movie.
March 25th, 2008 at 11:04 am
Wasn’t that the original name for Mike Sangiacomo’s Epic series? I thought Marvel kiboshed that name for legal reasons.
March 25th, 2008 at 11:22 am
The comic book will be probably published as “Hugh Jackman’s Nowhere Man”.
Jackman’s a nice guy and good actor but he also starred in “Van Helsing”. That alone makes me question his taste and judgement in any kind of creative endeavor.
It’s one thing to agree to star in “The Fountain” because you want to work Aronofsky, it’s a whole other thing to star in such schlock and drivel as “Van Helsing”.
March 25th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
I was just hoping this might somehow connect to the old “Nowhere Man” TV series from the mid 90’s… A fine show that was ahead of its time, and one that few people watched.
I look at a show like Lost which — deservedly — has gotten all kinds of accolades and a huge following, and I think that Nowhere Man might’ve made a much bigger splash if it had only come along later.
As for this other “Nowhere Man,” I might check it out. Jackman’s projects are hit and miss, and I’m not a Guggenheim fan (When Lost is done I either watch the episode again, or else my TV goes off… No Eli Stone for me), but this sounds like it’s at least worth a look.
Even if it is a calculated project being made to become a movie.