Mark Millar's NEMESIS gets $150 Million Budget & Top Gun Director

I am one of the few people within my circle of comic book geek friends that enjoys Mark Millar's "Nemesis." Batman has always been my favorite character in any genre, hands down. I enjoy the twist of having a "Bruce Wayne" type character on the other side of the law. Batman can stop anyone using his money, intelligence and/or physical attributes It's nice to read a story where we try to find someone or something that can stop an evil Batman with these same abilities.

So I was excited when Mark Millar and artist Steve McNiven’s antihero story “Nemesis” is going to be brought to life with "Top Gun" and "Enemy of the State" director Tony Scott.

Here are some things we know about the film from Mark Millar.

“They reckon the budget on this thing will probably be around $150 MILLION mark. It’s a very expensive film, it’s got a lot of big set pieces,” he told MTV News while promoting his recently launched "CLiNT" comics magazine. “So the nice thing is, it means we can hopefully afford who we want to work with.”

Millar said he discussed who he’d like to see in the title roles with Scott recently, and told the filmmaker, “In my head I saw Johnny Depp versus Brad Pitt, and he said, 'Well, that sounds good,’ and he has some of his own ideas as well. He’s just going to go around and get a script together and then take it out and see what he can find.

“Tony Scott has to be at the top of the list, he’s a Hollywood legend. Every single person in the country probably has at least one of his movies on DVD," said Millar. "So the idea of Tony Scott doing a superhero movie in itself would be exciting, the idea of doing mine is just crazy. It’s something I’m very, very exciting about.”

Source: MTV

Millar's NEMESIS is Hitting the Big Screen

The love affair with Mark Millar continues in Tinsle Town. WANTED, KICK ASS, AMERICAN JESUS and now NEMESIS, are all books that have or will soon become movies.

20th Century Fox purchased the rights to Millar and Steve McNiven's graphic novel NEMESIS.
IGN is reporting that Fox has acquired the screen rights to the Marvel/Icon series and attached Tony Scott (Man on Fire, Top Gun, Taking of Pelham 123) to direct the screen adaptation. Scott will also produce the film, along with his brother Ridley, via their Scott Free Productions banner. They're currently looking to hire a screenwriter.

If you are not familiar with Millar's latest creation, it's basically what if Batman were the Joker? Billionaire Matt Anderson dons a costume and uses an array of hi-tech gadgetry to avenge the deaths of his parents -- except they were supervillains and now so is he. And his victims? The world's top cops. He first set his sights on Asia before coming to Washington D.C. where he locks horns with Blake Morrow, the police chief who caught his parents.

I am a fan of the NEMESIS comic.  I enjoy the idea of a character that has all the talents and resources of Bruce Wayne and Batman, but using them for an opposite purpose.  I enjoy watching Anderson outwit, outmaneuver and out-muscle everyone.  He's the ultimate villain.  He's a sane Joker. A wealthy Penguin. An intelligent Black Mask.  He's Lex Luthor behind a mask.