Silver Surfer Solo Film Being Prepped and 'Thor' May Get Director
Filed under: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and Sequels
According to the LA Times today, 20th Century Fox is already prepping a solo spin-off for the Silver Surfer. The Marvel character features in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, opening this weekend, and Fox is apparently hoping that pic performs well enough to give the Surfer his own movie, because the studio has hired comic book writer/screenwriter J. Michael Straczynski to pen the thing. Straczynski has written for a number of Marvel titles, including the new series Silver Surfer: Requiem, he created the sci-fi series Babylon 5 and he recently delivered scripts for The Changeling, to be directed by Clint Eastwood, and the zombie adaptation World War Z. The LA Times article claims the Silver Surfer movie would be darker in tone than the new Fantastic Four sequel, possibly in response to fan criticisms of the sequel's PG rating. I've never actually read the Silver Surfer comics, so I'm not sure how dark is appropriate for the character, but I'll always take a more grown-up comic adaptation than something geared toward young children.More exciting for me is the news, also mentioned in the LA Times piece, that Thor may soon have a director. Unlike the Surfer comics, The Mighty Thor was a title I followed for years, and so far the closest thing I've had to seeing the hero/god on the big screen is his 'cameo' in Adventures in Babysitting (and I doubt he'll be in the remake). Supposedly Layer Cake director Matthew Vaughn is in negotiations to helm the comic adaptation, which was greenlit last summer and which has a script by Mark Protosevich (Poseidon). I'm not a huge fan of Vaughn's directorial style and I was happy when he dropped out of X-Men: The Last Stand (though now I think he'd have done better), but I'm willing to give him a chance with Thor. I think his style may actually be appropriate for the god of thunder. Besides, we've so far only seen one film from him; his next, Stardust, arrives in August.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
5-08-2008 @ 11:19AM
mr.perfect said...
unfortunatly.. many of the marvel movies have horrible stories... i only go to see them for the action scenes. what we need is a secret wars movie... that would be the shit
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9-15-2008 @ 8:22PM
Dan Rigg said...
you know in fantastic 4 2, they really made Silver Surfer alot less powerful then he is., in the comics, he would easily whoop the fruitastic four, thats why the movie was such a let-down. half of it was that stupid wedding, a solo movie would be cooler! looking forword to it! (by the way wenworth miler should be the silver surfer) PLEASE??? :D
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6-18-2009 @ 5:31AM
JEFF MAKOR said...
I remember the Jack Kirby drawn editions of the surfer comics.
People forget that it was Kirby and not Stan Lee who created this masterpiece.
I nearly wept after seeing the film-the lack of Galactus and that original storyline could have easily been brought up to date, but the film makers went for a completely new audience.
Not much aof a tribute to Kirby in there, either.
Stan took most of the credit and that bugs me to this day.
If they do a dedicated surfer/Norrin Radd movie, they ought to stay behind the origin and show the full extent of the power and the glory of this amazing story.
Nuff said.
Jeff Makor
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10-08-2007 @ 7:09AM
D Outing said...
are you kidding...the only two directors that can pull off techo/computerization with story content and credibility is George Lucas or Stephen Spilberg.
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11-26-2007 @ 7:29AM
ebencs said...
The Silver Surfer Requiem comics really sucked and if they are using the writer of those comics then the movie will be a flop!!!!!!!!!!!! Also most people who grew up reading the silver sufer who beats Thor in one comic by the way ,knew that the writers of Fantastic 4 2.,down played the Silver Surfer powers,which made the movie a little disappointing .So if they do not get a true fan of silver surfer they will not create a worthy picture. Thank You.
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