"The sequel is an entirely different beast from the first story. It opens up the world and expands upon everything we've seen before with new leads and an entirely new set-up. 'Nemesis' was always intended to be a 12-issue story with three four-issue series. Each one is interlinked and builds, but they're also quite self-contained and work as stories in their own right. The only character who returns from the first volume is the old guy on the beach on the last page of the last issue. You realize that the Nemesis idea, this concept of dressing up and being a super-villain, is basically a holiday for rich guys. A few times a year, these guys take a few weeks away from their multi-national companies and spend a bunch of money to feast upon the poor. It's the 1% having fun messing up the lives of the 99%."
"I've alluded to the fact that the first Nemesis was an electronics billionaire, and the opening scene of 'Nemesis 2' is a funeral," Millar said. "The funeral is of a world-famous computer genius. He was one of the world's richest men, he was the original Nemesis. We have a little fun with that, dropping hints on who he really might have been and how his death was covered up. At the service, all these other billionaires are around talking about who's going to be next in the costume. Who gets the next shot at this in their little secret society? We get a new storyline from that about a father and a twenty-something son, but the story of 'Nemesis 2' comes at the concept from a different perspective. The first one was all about people having to deal with a billionaire monster who was terrorizing them. In part two, we flip it around so people can see the inside of this club and how they train for all this to go out and have fun. And part three will be out in 2013, wrapping the whole thing up."
Well, it's hard to argue with just how good that sounds! Here's what Millar had to say about the big screen adaptation of the first volume. Thankfully, it appears that the Tweets between him and Joe Carnahan were indeed completely misunderstood and work on the movie is indeed still moving ahead.
"The writer, Joe Carnahan, is coming over here to Scotland in a couple of weeks so we can really get our teeth into the 'Nemesis' movie, which is very exciting as I'm a huge fan of his stuff. There's been misreports online, as Joe tried to say, that the deal got killed at Fox, but this is nonsense as we only finished the paperwork and got paid about 12 weeks ago. Some blogger just saw tweets between Joe and I where Joe was talking about the draft of a treatment he'd done with his brother not being used, but it was more of a miscommunication, the exec who was in charge having moved from the company a few months back. Everything is exactly where it was a few weeks ago."