Mark Millar, along with Matthew Vaughn, is in overdrive touring for the promotion of Kick-Ass. He has stated on more than one occasion that Stan Lee has inspired him to create his own characters and stories which would also give him more creative control than previous artists. AMC caught up with Millar and had a few questions for him especially new projects:
"Sony's been pitching War Heroes as The Hurt Locker meets X-Men, ever since The Hurt Locker won the Oscar. [Laughs] I had some meetings with people about American Jesus last year, and producers, they said, "We absolutely love it -- but can you take Jesus out?" And I said, "Jesus is in every single scene. What are you talking about?" We may make it outside the system. We're going to start the screenplay for a new property as soon as we get home from Texas."
Millar was pressed for details on the "new property"
"All I can say about it is that it jumps genres. I like the superhero genre, and there's another genre Matt's crazy about. We're co-writing this."
He did not bring this up in the interview but Millar has spoken about his desire to write and direct his own
Scottish Superhero Movie sometime later this year.
There has been a lot of interest in his upcoming
Nemisis comic book. He had even received a call from a producer saying he was "big fan of the series."
"It's 100 percent true and was the most shameful thing I had ever heard. I mean, I absolutely love the fact that it happened. Obviously, it's very flattering. Hopefully, they associate the name with cash, you know? You know Robert Duvall's character in The Godfather? The consigliere? Matthew Vaughn has being doing that with me: talk to this guy, don't do that project, don't work with that director, he's not very good. So far, I've already gotten three offers and turned them all down, so hopefully he's right."
Nicholas Cage is the biggest name actor from
Kick-Ass and has been labeled as "difficult" by some of Hollywood but not by Mark:
"No, no, not at all. Nic could not be nicer. I mean, he's probably getting the same salary as every other person there paid together, but he just pitched in with everyone. He was the first guy on set, the last guy to leave. I was kind of hoping for some gossip, that somebody would be a pain in the ass, but everybody was really, really nice."
So, who's the bigger Superman fan between Millar and Cage?
"I was about to say me, because I have Christopher Reeves's cape hanging up on my wall in my office, but Nicolas Cage called his son Kal-El, so I think he's probably got me beaten."
DogsOfWar-How frickin cool would it be to have Christopher Reeve's original
Superman cape hanging in your office? Also,
Kick-Ass will have some cameos with John Romita Jr. playing a bartender and Millar playing a homeless drunk.