Mark Millar's NEMESIS Lands PROJECT POWER Directors, But Doesn't Sound Overly Comic Accurate

Mark Millar's NEMESIS Lands PROJECT POWER Directors, But Doesn't Sound Overly Comic Accurate

Nemesis has been in development hell for what feels like forever, but the Mark Millar comic book is finally moving forward at Warner Bros. with a pair of directors...and a very different premise!

By JoshWilding - Sep 01, 2020 02:09 PM EST
Filed Under: Nemesis
Source: Collider

After directing Project Power for Netflix, directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman have signed up to take the helm of Nemesis for Warner Bros. according to Collider. Weirdly, the site doesn't mention that this is an adaptation of Mark Millar and Steve McNiven's comic book of the same name.

This could be because the project  is billed as a sci-fi action thriller, and the premise has little in common with the comic book.

In Millar's story, Nemesis basically had all of Batman's resources with The Joker's personality, and went on a mission which saw him wreak havoc across the globe, matching wits with a police detective and committing a series of heinous crimes.

This movie, on the other hand, "is said to follow a genius engineer who witnesses the President of the United States commit a deadly crime and teams up with a vigilante to take down the President and his corrupt government." That really doesn't sound like the comic book!

Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) penned the most recent draft of the screenplay, following a previous version by Stephen Chin (War Dogs).

This is one of a number of different projects the duo is developing, but it's a strange decision to take Nemesis and transform it into what sounds like a generic thriller, making the title character a regular vigilante in the process. That misses the point of what Millar and McNiven were going for, and it sounds like the writer has little to no involvement here. 

Check out Millar's reaction to the news below:

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regularmovieguy
regularmovieguy - 9/1/2020, 3:03 PM
Honestly, I thought the directors did a decent job with Project Power. The story could’ve been better fleshed out but the movie had a pretty kinetic style that I dug.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 9/1/2020, 3:12 PM
Lol the [frick] is the synopsis???
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 9/1/2020, 3:14 PM
If you are going to diverge from the source material so much what is the point of even adapting it?



Just make an original movie.
Origame
Origame - 9/1/2020, 4:42 PM
@TheUnworthyThor - in fairness, nemesis really isnt a good book. And this means we won't get an actual nemesis movie. That'll save some sanity.
Matador
Matador - 9/2/2020, 2:37 AM
@Origame - The closet's thing to that is The Super.
Origame
Origame - 9/2/2020, 3:32 AM
@Matador - not really. The titular character was straight forward a villain. Its basically a what if batman decided to use his superhero skills and tech to just indulge in selfish desires.

The main character of super is, arguably, just as moral as any superhero out there. And the point of THAT story is a satire of how superhero stories glorify vigilantism because so much of good and bad is subjective. For example, a lot of people will agree cutting someone in line is immoral, but isnt something worth addressing outside of calling them an a hole. Yet the main character of super attacked someone for just that.
MUTO123
MUTO123 - 9/1/2020, 3:16 PM
Holy shit, that sounds NOTHING like the book!
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 9/1/2020, 3:17 PM
I really would like to hear what Millar thinks of this.

Speaking of him and his work, there was also a TV show Netflix was shooting last year, Jupiters Legacy. Was that finished or also forced to close down production due to COVID-19 concerns?
NewAtrocitus3
NewAtrocitus3 - 9/1/2020, 5:41 PM
@NinnesMBC - According to Wikipedia, it started in July 2019, so it's possible they're still set to premiere this year, or what's left of it.

Of course, Netflix gonna Netflix, so they haven't made an effort in advertising the show, so it's likely the show is gonna go unnoticed.
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 9/1/2020, 3:18 PM
Is there some information missing because I don't see the connection.
tmp3
tmp3 - 9/1/2020, 3:26 PM
I mean, I've heard great things about Promising Young Woman at least
2013venjix
2013venjix - 9/1/2020, 3:28 PM
I'm just about fed up on more creative licences and less comic accurate in comic book films and (mostly) TV.
Canon108
Canon108 - 9/1/2020, 3:49 PM
They should call it something different, the new concept sounds idiotic.
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