Star Scottish writer Mark Millar has talked to STV about his latest comic books Superior and Nemesis, both of which are being turned into big-budget Hollywood adaptations.
After speaking to us about his first directorial effort Miracle Park, a superhero-based micro-budget film currently being shot in Scotland (that article coming soon), the Kick-Ass and Wanted creator talked to us about some of the other projects he has going on – and he’s certainly not short of work at the moment.
He said: “It’s funny, I always do a load of stuff at once. In the morning I was working on Kick-Ass 2, and in the afternoon I was working on a Marvel project, the stuff I’ve been doing for the last 10 years, like Captain America, Thor and Iron Man and those characters. I find it quite interesting mixing things up like that.
“More and more over the past couple of years I’ve realised what really excites me is creating new characters, having them out as comic books and then selling them on as movies, and then brings a lot more people back into reading the comic books. So I focus mainly now on Millarworld.”
Millar added: “I’ve got three new projects now there, two of them are getting turned into films at the moment. One of them is called Nemesis, which I’m doing with Tony Scott over at 20th Century Fox, and a new book I’ve got out just now called Superior, which is my very first ever children’s thing, it’s aimed at an all-ages audiences.
“Normally my stuff’s guys getting shot in the face, so I thought while my daughter is still young enough to enjoy a family movie I thought I’d make one of those. Then there’s some new stuff coming up which hasn’t been announced yet that I’m working on at the moment.
“I always seem to have quite a full plate, and yet spend a lot of time just lying about the house, I don’t know how it works!”
This week the writer is working as an ambassador for the Glasgow Film Festival, curating its Superheroes in Glasgow strand which began last night with a sold-out screening of Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut and continues on throughout the week. (Another thing that he spoke to us about.)
With his “day job”, Millar went on to explain that he didn’t find it odd switching between work on Nemesis and Superior: “Doing the violent stuff and doing the family-friendly stuff appeals to both sides of my brain. I love ET as much as I love Reservoir Dogs.
“I think if I was just doing violent, horrible stuff all the time I’d get a bit sick of it, so it’s nice to have the light and the shade together, and it makes the work a wee bit more interesting.”
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