If you haven't heard of Nemisis, its the latest(but as yet unreleased) project from Mark Millar(Kick Ass, Wanted). A couple of posters for the series garnered some controversy a while ago because Millar taglined them, "What if Batman was The Joker?"..and on the other, "What if Batman was a c#nt?". Very subtle. Anyway, thats the premise. What if a Bruce Wayne type turned all of his resources to being a villain rather than a hero.
According to a post on Millar's blog, Sam Raimi and Guy Ritchie are names that are currently being floated to direct a film interpretation of
Nemisis. At the moment, though, this appears to be pure speculation on his part. The movie adaptation hasn’t, by all accounts, even been greenlit yet. And the comics themselves, drawn by frequent Millar collaborator Steve McNiven, don’t hit the shelves until March this year.
“The bad news for us is that he’s the world’s only super-villain,” says Millar. “That means he’s got freeze guns and jump-jets and all these James Bond gadgets and he’s using them against us.
“To entertain himself, he picks a different cop every year and makes his life a misery. The book opens with him [frick]ing over Japan’s top cop, and then our story, the mini-series, takes place as he shifts his attention to Washington and his first American attacks.”
It does sound pretty cool. And Millar is a great writer, so hopefully its something worth waiting for. And even though the movie has no greenlight, with Wanted and Kick Ass out there, expect
Nemisis to follow suit.