What could be better than Marvel developing a Runaways movie? How about getting Brian K. Vaughan to write it?
According to The Hollywood Reporter, you can add the Runaways to the list of projects Marvel has in the incubation stages. Vaughan, who co-created the book with artist Adrian Alphona, will write the screenplay. Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige will produce.
No word on when the film will appear, but the article mentions Marvel does have a pretty full slate already lined up through 2011.
May 22nd, 2008 at 5:25 am
This is wonderful news!!!
May 22nd, 2008 at 5:29 am
Oh happy day! Can’t wait for this!
May 22nd, 2008 at 5:51 am
What could be better than getting Brian K. Vaughan to write it?
Getting Whedon to direct it, too
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:14 am
News of a runaways movie is great news. But that bkv will penn the script makes this fantastic news. I hope alphona is employed in a role similar to what gravnov played in iron man. Nice to see marvel put faith behind a smaller newer property that i think has great crossover appeal and would entertain regardless of age.
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:36 am
There is a God!
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:57 am
Wow. I mean W-O-W! BKV doing the script is great. Now, if he we could only get him to come back and write the comic, I’d be in Heaven.
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:03 am
That would be awesome. His Runaways was prolly my favorite run ever on a comic. And it is just screaming for corss over.
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:25 am
WOW!!!!!!!
THIS IS THE BEST MOVIE NEWS I’VE HAD IN AGES! And BKV to write?! What could be better!
This is SO gonna rock! I can’t wait!
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:50 am
Wow. I mean W-O-W! BKV doing the script is great. Now, if he we could only get him to come back and write the comic, I’d be in Heaven.
Truer words have never been spoken.
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:51 am
“Wow. I mean W-O-W! BKV doing the script is great. Now, if he we could only get him to come back and write the comic, I’d be in Heaven.”
Truer words have never been spoken.
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:04 am
Simply perfect.
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:25 am
I was just thinking yesterday how easy this could be made into a film this could be a new generations Goonies (although agazillion times cooler
I’ll start camping outside my local cinema now
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:28 am
Hopefully the first film adapts the first 18 issues.
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:30 am
Has someone at Marvel been reading my dream journal?
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:37 am
Holy freaking cool!
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:39 am
While this is pretty fantastic news, it’s so far away. I hope Runaways keeps its quality that it has always had till then.
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 am
This is indeed awesome news. A friend showed me the news last night a little over an hour after it was posted and I was going crazy over it!
With BKV writing it I’m a happy man. We’ll have to wait 4 years (minimum), but it’ll be worth it.
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 am
Very good, but I do hope they perhaps will have a suprise or something new twist for those who have read it before. Perhaps change the traitor or another item.
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:27 am
Awwww yeeeaah! truth to be told, I geeked out last night when I saw the news and inmediately posted them on the Ramos Runaways article and many more places. This is gonna be the sofa king sweeeeeat.
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:32 am
@19 - Agreed, change the traitor for a twist but who? can’t be denied it would hurt fan-wise knowing what happens next to them and how would that change things in the comic, but still 100% agreed!
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:41 am
I’d prefer to either see a faithful adaptation or a whole new adventure with the Runaways, myself. I hate it when things are “adapted” for the screen and random elements are changed just ’cause.
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:50 am
Grr, I love Runaways, but I really am nervous about this one. The whole “my parents are evil thing” may come off super cheesy on the big screen.
Also now that I think about it the whole “I cut myself and gain superpowers” thing is just inappropriate.
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:31 am
Great news! Awesome. I bet it beats both Justice League and Teen Titans to the screen.
(”No duh”, I know…)
May 22nd, 2008 at 11:53 am
Much as I’ll hate to admit this…..this is even better news than the rumors about the Cloak & Dagger and Power Pack Movie{s}…..
…And with BKV doing scripts, how could this not be a success…??
May 22nd, 2008 at 12:08 pm
so cool! But who here thinks that maybe it would have been a better TV series…seriously
May 22nd, 2008 at 12:41 pm
@22: yes, it’s inappropriate and would push the movie to a PG-14 or something. So, I can live with a change with that situation, but only if handed maturely, no cheap tricks, dumb FOX 4kids scapegoats or anything that undermines the audience.
May 22nd, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Awesome! BKV writing it is excellent. can’t wait.
May 22nd, 2008 at 1:13 pm
yeah is awesome, but common we haven’t heard nothing from the upcoming ex machina movie that supposedly he was writing?
May 22nd, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Well, if they adapt the first story arc you can be sure that Cloak & Dagger as well as The Vampire Kid arcs would be cut out. Still, that leaves a pretty hefty story with lots of character moments and action.
And I agree that getting Joss Whedon to direct this would be great.
Now everything else would depend on the casting.
May 22nd, 2008 at 1:46 pm
The cast will be the hardest part to get, IMO if they want to be successful with this movie, Marvel Studios is ought to get actual ACTOR teenagers and none of the CW losers or Disneylodeon tween pornstars.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:13 pm
holy crap holy crap holy craaaaaaap!!!! SO exciting!!
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:32 pm
Wow they acually heard my prayers.
May 22nd, 2008 at 2:34 pm
the best comic movie news so far
after transformers of course
May 22nd, 2008 at 4:15 pm
SWEET. This book was begging to be adapted. Maybe Wheedon would get involved too. Man–let’s make this soon before Dakota Fanning gets too old to play Molly.
May 22nd, 2008 at 8:43 pm
I like this; Marvel using its newly-won box-office clout to get a wide-variety of its characters in the theaters. With this and Edgar Wright’s planned Ant Man, Marvel is showing a wonderful indie film sensibility which I hope they keep no matter how big their grosses get. And best of all, we know they don’t need to lean on their two oldest properties to make hit movies (so so sorry I just couldn’t resist).
Not a Runaways fan but this is great news. Good luck to all involved!
May 23rd, 2008 at 2:40 am
Wow, this is an excellent decision by Marvel. Runaways is a perfect property to convert to the big screen. So long as the director listens to BKV, we’re in for a gem. That’s provided they don’t make dodgy casting decisions. Casting Molly will be difficult.
And given the volume of superhero movies that are being released recently, this will be a welcome shift in tone.
Here’s hoping The Hood gets the go ahead as well.
May 23rd, 2008 at 3:48 am
Isn’t Whedon busy working on getting his newest show cancelled?
May 23rd, 2008 at 1:30 pm
I’ve thought about a Runaways movie so many times but I never thought it’d actually get made - this is the best thing I’ve ever heard! It’s perfect for adaption ‘cos it’s not bogged down in years of continuity. I do wonder how they’d fit the first volume into one film…the Cloak and Dagger + Topher parts are sure to be first to go.
May 28th, 2008 at 12:33 am
I just had a major geek out moment- this is great news, Perfect choice of writer!!!
September 25th, 2008 at 6:08 am
Great! Are there any Infos about the status of the production??