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Universal Developing Villains Feature

October 28, 2008

Universal has acquired the movie rights to Viper Comics' graphic novel "Villains" and hired Matt Jennison and Brent Strickland to write the adaptation. Sean Bailey is producing via his Idealogy, says The Hollywood Reporter. The graphic novel, by Adam Cogan and Ryan Cody, puts super bad guys center stage and is described as follows:

Nick Corrigan is an aimless 20-something who discovers that his aging neighbor used to be the notorious supervillain known as "Hardliner", now retired and living in hiding for the past few decades. Rather than turn him in to the authorities, Nick decides to blackmail him in exchange for lessons in the fine art of career super-crime. But the old pro is about to teach his student some lessons he'll never forget.

Idealogy's Matt Smith is executive producing. Viper Comics' Jessie Garza will co-produce.

Idealogy is also developing Tr2n at Disney with Joe Kosinski directing. Jennison and Strickland are writing Wonder Woman for Warner Bros. and Joel Silver.

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Posted by: JokingNiteStark on October 29, 2008 at 00:38:07

Ha, so somebody is working on Wonder Woman. Good luck with that DC.

Posted by: Woot on October 29, 2008 at 00:40:05

O boyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy >.>

Posted by: Blood Red on October 29, 2008 at 00:48:11

Um, this sounds exactly like the book-turned-movie "Apt Pupil" except that it's about a super-villain and not a Nazi.

Actually, it is the same thing.

Posted by: The R-dale Cowboy on October 29, 2008 at 00:50:11

I always wanted a movie told from the perspective of a super villain. This is what Wanted was supposed to be like.

Posted by: Cy-Ed on October 29, 2008 at 00:50:34

WANTED 2!!!!!

Posted by: THE MOVIEMASTER on October 29, 2008 at 01:04:03

DANG THATS STORY SOUNDS AWESOME ITS SO SIMPLE YET SO COMPLEX DEFINETLY GONNA GO READ IT

Posted by: Ken on October 29, 2008 at 01:08:56

THe interesting news is about WW!

Posted by: GassyDrainage on October 29, 2008 at 02:21:03

Good call Blood Red; I thought the same thing.

Posted by: SpiderJiba on October 29, 2008 at 02:33:36

yay..... Apt. Pupil 2!!!

wow, that aint right.. I loved Apt. Pupil... arguably Bryan Singer's best work.. i wonder what he might think about this

Posted by: Lawrence on October 29, 2008 at 07:13:49

Wonder Woman won't work as a feature film... The main reason it'll be appealing to male audiences is simply because guys want to ogle at Wonder Woman's physical assets... lol

Posted by: Batzarro: The Bright Peasant! on October 29, 2008 at 07:19:00

radioactive supository: WOndy doesn't live IN the Amazon forest or river. Wether she spend time inside some Amazons, though, that I can't tell.

As for The main event, sounds good. I really think it...wait! WOnder WOman?

Posted by: Dr. Doc on October 29, 2008 at 09:07:52

hopefully WW will finally get off the ground

Posted by: BIGW1966 on October 29, 2008 at 09:17:06

wow this story which I have not read, sounds based on the description to be an exact ripoff of the Stephen King Story "APT PUPIL" That story was about a kid who discovers that one of his neighbors is a Nazi War Criminal who is in hiding. Instead of turning him in he blackmails him into teaching him stuff about what he did. It ends up the Nazi guy twists him up and makes him into a killer.

The story became a film directed by Brian Singer and Starring 'ol Magneto himself as the Nazi.

I wish people would try to get a little more original with thier idea's.

Posted by: APT PUPIL RIP OFF on October 29, 2008 at 09:32:30

BIGW1966 is absolutely correct. This a rip off of Stephen King's Apt Pupil published in the book Different Seasons - the same book that gave us The Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me. In the case of Apt Pupil, the book was much better than the movie.

Posted by: DeusEx89 on October 29, 2008 at 12:00:00

haha,that guy to the left looks like seagent neumann from the dead space comics.

Posted by: INK on October 29, 2008 at 12:01:15

BIGW1966 & APT PUPIL RIP OFF

You guys are quick. Didn't read ANY of the posts above yours i take it.

Posted by: The Dude on October 29, 2008 at 12:30:42

Wonder Woman would be an epic fail. Her character just doesn't fit anymore. I think audiences would have a hard time connecting with her and her abilities. OOOOO, a golden lasso! Yeah, I'll pass.

Posted by: Ken on October 29, 2008 at 12:36:09

Yeah! Wonder Woman!

The possibilities are great! It doesn't have to be campy...

It could be like the film 300, but on Themescira.

They can demonstrate the extremes of feminism as she enters "man's world."

And what is wrong with good ol' cat fightin'?

Don't think that only men would come to "ogle" women (they would indeed), but women would want to see a woman exhibit physical power over men, power that isn't sexual in nature.

Posted by: joblo800 on October 29, 2008 at 12:53:10

this is apt pupil with "super" in front of the villian lol. kinda sad.

at least we got some REAL superhero news with WW!

Posted by: Doctor Who on October 29, 2008 at 12:59:59

Hey is this WW movie the animated one DC is making to compete with Marvel Studios films or is this an actually live action vehicle to get Justice League going? And yeah, this sounds like this is a graphic novel hollywood bought the rights to so they can cash in. What's with all the Graphic Novel movies. Not all of them need to be movies.

Posted by: cable on October 29, 2008 at 13:27:36

so many heroes for DC and all they done so far on big screen is batman and superman lol but better get something going cause MARVEL is kicking ass over DC so far. lol

Posted by: Andy on October 29, 2008 at 13:33:09

Ken said: "The possibilities are great! It doesn't have to be campy..."

No, it doesn't "have" to be - but it likely will, not necessarily in how it's written or acted but in the way audiences react. I mean, come on, a supermodel-type donning a bodysuit or barely-more-than-a-swimsuit and fighting crime? In live-action that just looks ridiculous (and in fact it is).

"Don't think that only men would come to "ogle" women (they would indeed), but women would want to see a woman exhibit physical power over men, power that isn't sexual in nature."

In reality the average woman is *not* interested in a female heroine of that nature. Why? Because it's simply a masculinized version of a woman. Not that a woman *can't* engage in tough physical action, but simply that that's not among the strongest natural attributes of the average woman.

Posted by: Andy on October 29, 2008 at 13:39:12

As a followup to my prior comment, compare women in comicbooks with an actually *believable* female heroine, Ripley from the ALIEN flicks. She's believable because she's not a woman trying to prove herself to men, or a woman who loses her femininity. She responds to a situation that forces her to respond that way or else die. Ripley is totally believable precisely because she doesn't come across as a feminist trying to "mannify" herself.

Posted by: Frerezar on October 29, 2008 at 13:44:11

wonder woman is undoable as a realystic movie, assimple as that.

Posted by: Batzarro: The Bright Peasant! on October 29, 2008 at 16:35:02

Andy: Now come on, have a little imagination in there. Batman isn't the most believable, possible, credible concept.

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