Nacho Vigalondo Talks About Adapting Mark Millar's Supercrooks

Are you doing Supercrooks next?

"I’m involved in Supercrooks and Windows. Those are my next projects and it really depends on them what comes first. Those are two projects are in a really advanced situation. I didn’t write them. The scripts are already made so I hope they happen. Supercrooks is not a superhero film. It’s a supervillain film. Mark Millar explained to me that when you watch The Godfather, it’s about criminals all the time. You don’t get to see the cops in those films. It’s always about the mafia. In this case it’s the same. We’re going to show only supervillains and not superheroes. Superheroes are in the background."



Did you get an early copy of the comic, since it’s not published yet?

"So far the comic book is being made. In fact, it’s like what happened in Kick-Ass. The comic book was written at the same time the movie was made. The movie’s an adaptation of the comic book because Mark Millar is the author of everything, but it’s a tricky situation. It’s more complex than it seems. It’s not an explicit average adaptation."



Would either of those be bigger films for you?

"Yeah, because my budget so far is so low. An average budget for me is a big budget. If you give me $3 million, for me it’s a big budget. That’s the thing."



Are you going to do ‘Supercrooks’ for only three million?

"No, no, no, no, no. Supercrooks is going to be more expensive than that. I don’t know, maybe I discover that I’m not able to make movies with a big budget. I don’t know, who knows?"