UPDATE: Mark Millar contacted CBM to let us know that the MTV interviewer had a bit of a problem understanding his Scottish accent, and got some facts wrong. Get the corrections HERE, or at the MTV link below.
Speaking with MTV, Scottish comic book writer Mark Millar(
Kick-Ass,
Wanted,
The Ultimates) said that the upcoming film version of
Nemesis will be a huge budget adaptation and with that they can decide who will play the lead characters.
"They reckon the budget on this thing will probably be around $450 million mark. It's a very expensive film, it’s got a lot of big set pieces. So the nice thing is, it means we can hopefully afford who we want to work with."
He said that Tony Scott is the best director for this movie and is looking forward working with him.
"Tony Scott has to be at the top of the list, he's a Hollywood legend. Every single person in the country probably has at least one of his movies on DVD. So the idea of Tony Scott doing a superhero movie in itself would be exciting, the idea of doing mine is just crazy. It's something I’m very, very exciting about."
He continued saying that he will be a producer along with co-creator of the comic book Steve McNiven.
"I’ve written the comic and I'll serve as a producer, and I always make sure my artists get to be producers as well, which is what I did with J.G. Jones on ‘Wanted’ and John Romita Jr. on Kick-Ass and now Steve McNiven on Nemesis"
As for being true to the comic book he added
"I think it should be pretty much identical. I mean, Tony and I talked at length about it. He says one of the directions, though I love it, 'I'd like the guy not to be in a white superhero costume,' and I thought, 'Well, that’s the whole point of it,' so we ended up not agreeing to do that. [But] I think he's going to stay as faithful as he can. It's a big studio picture, [so] we won't have the same kind of control we had with Kick-Ass, which was a much more intimate affair, but I feel very confident in Tony’s hands.
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Update: MTV seem to have rectified some of the stuff in the article. They now say that the budget for the film will be 150 Million and that Nemesis WILL don the white costume.