Superhero movies are all the rage right now, but it's the decidedly kid-unfriendly, non-superhero titles of Vertigo Comics that seem to be getting quite a bit of attention from movie executives, too—and now, another Vertigo character could be emerging from the swampy depths and into theaters.
Collider reports that producer Joel Silver—currently promoting the release of "Whiteout" based on the Oni Press comic book by Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber—is interested in pursuing a new "Swamp Thing" movie, based on the popular DC Comics and Vertigo character.
"I'm developing a picture now that I'd like to do," said Silver. "I'll hopefully do 'Swamp Thing,' which is a movie we've had for a long time. We think that would be great to do in 3D. There are a couple of projects I'm thinking about [for the format] but not everything." Read more...
Producer Joel Silver's expectations for his Guy Ritchie-directed "Sgt. Rock" movie might be on the back burner, but that doesn't mean the Hollywood power-player behind "Sherlock Holmes" and "The Matrix" isn't looking at other comics right now for material. In fact, it now sounds like Silver has his eye on DC Comics' Lobo, the intergalactic biker with a fowl mouth and Gene Simmons-styled eye makeup.
However, the movie version of Lobo might be slightly more family-friendly than his original comics incarnation, according to Silver.
"I think it's structured now as a PG-13 movie," Silver told a group of reporters, according to SCI FI Wire. "I think we've done it that way, but I love it." Read more...
While on the London set of Guy Ritchie's "Sherlock Holmes," producers Joel Silver and Susan Downey provided an update of sorts to a few other comics-themed projects currently on their plate -- namely "Sgt. Rock" and "The Losers" -- and offered up an explanation as to why we haven't seen much forward movement with them.
Silver told SuperHeroHype that the progress of Quentin Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds" had basically back-burnered Ritchie's plans for a "Sgt. Rock" movie, since both films would share an edgy, WWII-themed story.
"It made sense to kind of jump off 'Sgt. Rock' and jump onto 'Sherlock Holmes,' because it was something that was really different and unique," said Silver "'Inglourious Basterds' is a war movie and I'm looking forward to seeing it, but it's something that was a direct competition to 'Sgt. Rock' so I felt that we should hold off and do that when we can." Read more...
For a guy who's spending October sending souls to hell, Marc Andreyko sounds pretty happy go lucky. While talking about his upcoming Wildstorm series "The Ferryman," Andreyko -- the writer behind DC Comics' critical darling yet low-selling comic "Manhunter" -- had nothing but sunshine and rainbows for his collaborators on the project, including film production legend Joel Silver ("The Matrix," "Roadhouse") by way of his Dark Castle production shingle.
"All that I was given by Silver was that he's always wanted to do a contemporary version of Charon and the River Styx – the Ferryman who ferried souls across into Hades. That was pretty much it. He wanted to do something contemporary with it. Go!" explained Andreyko of the book which debuts on Wednesday, October 8, and which you can see the opening pages from below. "I came up with how that would work and how the Ferrymen today – there'd be many of them because of the world's population, and they'd almost be skip tracers. If you sold your soul to the devil, eventually that contract is going to expire. And unfortunately, most people who sell their soul to the devil don't want to go quietly." Read more...
