Dear Boys and Girls,
I’m just out of bed and hardly slept a wink. Weirdly, the baby slept right through and we could have had a clear eight hours, but I was still buzzing about the big announcement last night. It’s pretty much the biggest thing that’s ever happened to me so as you can imagine adrenaline is coursing. For those who missed, I’ve just signed a contract with Fox to work on ALL their Marvel movies, details of which can be seen here. [Added link to our story]
It’s way too early to talk about plans just yet, but as you can imagine the idea here is to make exactly the kind of superhero movies you and I want to see most. There literally isn’t a more talented bunch of film-makers to be working with and the team at Fox are incredibly excited about this bold new direction too. I also want to post this here to say thanks for the hundreds of emails I woke up to this morning and the thousand-plus tweets I got overnight from well-wishers. I wish I had time to reply to them all today – I usually reply to most of my tweets @mrmarkmillar – but this morning was an AVALANCHE and so I just wanted to so a big thanks, that I’ve read every one and that they’re hugely appreciated. A highlight, I think, was well-wishes from Stan The Man himself. That’s like the Pope sending a message. Couldn’t have been more exciting.
But my biggest thanks has to go to director Joe Carnahan, I think. It was Joe who suggested me to the bigwigs at Fox for this role as he’s always been a supporter of what I did in comics like The Ultimates and so on. He and Matthew Vaughn – both of whom have a very strong relationship with Fox – really pushed for me to get this gig and I just want to publicly thank them both for their support.
Right, better get my Scottish ass showered, dressed and onto work. Kick-Ass 2 resumes shooting here on Monday and I’m on set the week after next, but a TON of stuff to get written before I can get down to Pinewood. Finished issue 2 of Jupiter’s Children yesterday for Mister Frank Quitely and issue one of Kick-Ass 3 is now in the can too. Oh, and thanks to everyone who picked up Hit-Girl #3 this week. We sold out by yesterday afternoon and will be going back to press on this and with the FOURTH printing of issue one. Thanks again for spending your hard-earned cash on these Millarworld books and keeping it away from the Romney campaign!
Right. Work. Catch you all later and I promise you are in for an awesome few years. If you’re on this board you know how much I’m INTO this stuff.
Lotsa love,
MM
PS Went to see Dredd last night with my nephew and we absolutely loved it. Totally recommended. Urban and Thirlby are phenomenal in the two leads. Just inspired casting who totally had me from the moment they appeared. The world of Mega-City One also beautifully realised. Thankfully not the usual CGI tosh we get with future-scapes, but a solid, frightening, real and working city with lots of great little Easter eggs around like the Chopper graffiti. It was a pretty close to perfect movie and a GREAT script by Garland. Go see it.
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The only way to fix this and make it look as if it was coming from one place is to give it all back to Marvel let them make the movies and allow Fox to distribute X-men , Sony to distribute Spider-man etc…
Otherwise basically he is just trying to copy Marvel studios which won’t work. Or get Marvel to include Fox without Fox giving anything up which will be unprecedented especially since Fox has been inflexible regarding the characters in the past.
Agreed
As with all comic book movies involving Fox, I’ll hope for the best but expect the worst. We’ll see if Fox actually lets Millar make his mark, but I have my doubts.
and to be true, i mean the original story in the comics was also an accident but with gamma rays or so,as i remember. so my point is the accident in space was boring and the after effects and the reactions of the 4 were too campy. i want it bigger and more dramatical and more serious. they can put like in all marvel movies a good dose of jokes,but not every 5 minutes.
I would love to see spider-man,ff,x-men, and the rest of Marvels properties share characters together and just build alternate and sometime the same universes. However i do not like the idea of just x-men teaming with the Fantastic Four i like the tone of the first two x-men and being the huge x-men fan i am i would feel like i was pushed away from the films.
The hell will they “complement” the MMU with the crap they keep pumping out? I only see one way this will work… the rights MUST be returned to Marvel Studios!!
Spiderman has a lot more momentum as a standalone hero before they start putting him into the Avengers. For that reason I really don’t actually care, or necessarily want him in the Avengers movie universe… yet. Marvel have the main avengers as well as a good choice of general marvel heroes to add in there. The characters they don’t have aren’t needed Particularly FF have enough synergy amongst their own team atm as well. We still need a decent FF series with silver surfer coming in again later too, and heck, then put them with X-Men is they start to lose steam. May I add marvel have enough on their plate to add the X Men to the avengers Universe as well and therefore wouldn’t be able to explore the rich X-men universe properly. But I would like to see how they could incorporate other comics into X-men films, lets use Fox’s version of FF as a test before its time to mosh the whole thing together, probably when there’s a new generation to enjoy them as well. We get so many goodies atm lets not use up all that this superhero surge has all at once. People seem to want everything to happen now. They moan about the old X-men and spiderman trilogies, but dont these new marvel films and x-men film feel that much better cos the superhero genre grew in front of us