The love affair with Mark Millar continues in Tinsle Town. WANTED, KICK ASS, AMERICAN JESUS and now NEMESIS, are all books that have or will soon become movies.
20th Century Fox purchased the rights to Millar and Steve McNiven's graphic novel NEMESIS.
IGN is reporting that Fox has acquired the screen rights to the Marvel/Icon series and attached
Tony Scott (Man on Fire, Top Gun, Taking of Pelham 123) to direct the screen adaptation. Scott will also produce the film, along with his brother Ridley, via their Scott Free Productions banner. They're currently looking to hire a screenwriter.
If you are not familiar with Millar's latest creation, it's basically what if Batman were the Joker? Billionaire Matt Anderson dons a costume and uses an array of hi-tech gadgetry to avenge the deaths of his parents -- except they were supervillains and now so is he. And his victims? The world's top cops. He first set his sights on Asia before coming to Washington D.C. where he locks horns with Blake Morrow, the police chief who caught his parents.
I am a fan of the NEMESIS comic. I enjoy the idea of a character that has all the talents and resources of Bruce Wayne and Batman, but using them for an opposite purpose. I enjoy watching Anderson outwit, outmaneuver and out-muscle everyone. He's the ultimate villain. He's a sane Joker. A wealthy Penguin. An intelligent Black Mask. He's Lex Luthor behind a mask.
