Tony Scott to Direct Mark Millar’s Nemesis

Posted by on August 9th, 2010   Filed under: Action, Books/Comics
Source: Bleeding Cool

After seeing the trailer for his latest film Unstoppable, and reading about him possibly adapting a John Grisham novel, believe it or not there was even more Tony Scott news that broke over the weekend (and I didn’t even report the earlier rumour about him being considered to direct Wolverine 2). It looks like he will be directing a comic book movie after all. Writer Mark Millar was hyping up a secret announcement over the past week via Twitter, and was finally able to reveal to the world on Saturday that his latest comic book Nemesis has been acquired by Fox and that Tony Scott is currently attached to direct. This could be pretty interesting…

Millar is, of course, the same guy who dreamed up Wanted and Kick-Ass, and from what I hear Nemesis is kind of along the same lines. The idea has been loosely explained as follows: what if Batman was actually The Joker? The story follows a billionaire genius who is hellbent on avenging the death of his parents — the difference is that he is a super villain instead of a hero. The art is drawn by Steve McNiven and it is published by Icon Comics, although there are only two issues out so far.

From what I understand, Tony Scott has quite a few projects to choose from for his next film, so this won’t likely happen right away. Still, when you think of both Wanted and Kick-Ass, Scott is a great choice to make a similar over-the-top action flick. I wasn’t a fan of Domino, but I can see that crazy editing style being put to good use here. Has anyone out there read the comic? Are you looking forward to a big screen adaptation of Nemesis or are you sick of Mark Millar?



  • 1138

    I haven’t read the comic but I always consider Tony Scott the poor man’s version of his brother Ridley.

    I think Tony is quite good on the cinematic level with beautiful visuals but his movies feel less substantial…sort of like a candy…tastes good but nothing to really fill you up.

    Though I did like Man on Fire. But I rarely enjoy a Tony Scott film. Does this announcement of him directing nemesis intrigued me? Not really…with Tony it’s a wait and see kind of thing.

  • Jonny Ashley

    I’ve read the first two issues of Nemesis, and so far I’ve been pretty let down by it. The criticisms of Millar being a “juvenile” writer is starting to sink in with me. I think that the juvenile thing works perfectly for something like Kick-Ass where the main character is a high schooler, but Nemesis was pitched as an intelligent battle of wits between grown-ups.

    The whole way that the Nemesis character speaks reflects the “What the fuck did you do today?” attitude that made me cringe during Wanted. I had fun with Wanted however. I would still like to see this film to see if it will play better on the big screen than it does on the comic book page.