Comments on: Oh, Mark Millar!

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Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:51:40 +0000

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Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:17:39 +0000

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by: Wraith

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:17:27 +0000

It should also be noted that the early HANCOCK trailers were reedited in order to remove the words “jackass” and “punkass” out of the trailers.

I should also point out that commercials for reality/documentary movies like JACKASS and BADASSSSSS were ONLY shown at late night and/or on (NOT only on) certain cable stations.

by: MarcusLusk

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:49:33 +0000

Use of the word in a line of dialogue on tv is NOT the same thing as using it in a film title. Any examples of “ass” being used in a tv show’s title or a mainstream film’s title? Not that I know of. It IS an advertising problem. (And it should be.)
I think the chances of a major studio releasing a film called “kick Ass” are about the same as Warner going with Millar’s imaginary Superman project.
But if it gets him off Fantastic Four, I say go for it.
(Gee, I wonder if they’ll use the “F**k Crime!” tag for the film?)

by: JWH

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:41:08 +0000

“Ass” passes just fine in early primetime. I remember the first time I heard it said on Fresh Prince of Bel Air. It is not a deterrent to advertising.

by: Wraith

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:59:55 +0000

KICK-ASS will not be easy to market because of the title. You can’t advertise a movie (I’m talking about TV commercials) with the word “ass” in the title except at late nights or on MTV. So unless the title of the movie is changed from “KICK-ASS” to “KICK-BUTT” I don’t see a huge marketing opportunity for this movie.

by: Paul O'Brien

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:29:18 +0000

“I can’t believe Kick Ass is already a movie.”

Doesn’t surprise me at all. There’s a high concept premise (”ordinary kid becomes real world superhero”). Superhero movies have done well lately. This is a variation on the theme, close enough to be easily marketable, but different enough to be… easily marketable. It’s got sequel potential if it does well. It doesn’t have to be expensive. And it’s by the guy who sold WANTED, so there’s a glimmer of track record there. Okay, the comic’s not done yet, but Hollywood’s more interested in the concept.

Millar’s agent had plenty to work with.

by: SvenMascarenhas

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:23:13 +0000

Considering how he’s completely messed up the current Marvel Universe with Civil War, I’m not sure what success, if any, Mark Millar is deserving of right now.

by: Christopher Moonlight @ Moonlight Art Magazine

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 04:03:53 +0000

Ultimate Fantastic Four’s first issues were some of the greatest super hero comics, ever.

by: MarcusLusk

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:22:56 +0000

I was indifferent to Millar til he took over the FF with Hitch. Now I can’t wait for him to leave. The guy has made quite a rep for himself scripting high-profile books like The Ultimates and I was actually looking forward to seeing his take on Marvel’s First Family. But what a trainwreck.
I guess there’s no real editor in charge, otherwise they’d have explained to Millar the difference between a “copyright” and a “patent” before that first awful FF went to press. Yeah, Reed Richards makes a ton of cash off his “copyrights.”
And that’s just nit-picking. Nevermind Johnny Storm bedding a bank robber and Ben Grimm hitting on a schoolteacher right in front of her students with sexual innuendo that probably has Jack Kirby spinning in his grave.
So this is what the emperor is wearing this year.

by: Lawson

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:22:27 +0000

If Millar can make a lot of money off his comics work in Hollywood, then good for him. Ditto for all the other modern comics creators who have gotten rich with movie and TV treatments of their work.

Still … it makes me sad for the poor old bastards who created the Big Guns that have made hundreds of millions of dollars through movies and TV shows, characters like Superman and Batman and Robin and the Flash and Green Lantern and Spider-Man and the Hulk and Iron Man and the Fantastic Four and the X-Men. A few of the shrewder old guys worked the system and did OK, like Stan Lee and Bob Kane, but a lot of them ended up in poverty or close to it.

by: Franklin Harris

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:36:27 +0000

Actually, I can’t think of a less-deserving writer in comics.

I rather like Kurt Loder’s review of “Wanted,” in which he highlights the “schoolboy nihilism that made Mark Millar’s six-issue miniseries a sometimes disagreeable read” that was wisely left out of the film. Along with just about everything else Millar came up with, except the title itself.

“Schoolboy nihilism,” to one degree or another, perfectly sums up most of Millar’s output.

by: Matthew Craig

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:40:35 +0000

Kick-Ass shouldn’t have been a comic in the first place.

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by: Evie

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:27:54 +0000

I really like Millar’s work, but I can’t believe Kick Ass is already a movie.

by: James Van Hise

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:34:31 +0000

Interesting photo. Aside from the fact that it’s a rare photo in which Angelina Jolie looks like a normal, very attractive woman (instead of being photographed to look like an Amazon Queen), wasn’t she shot to look taller than James McAvoy in the film?

by: Christopher Moonlight @ Moonlight Art Magazine

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:18:43 +0000

“and you know what? He’s earned it.”

I couldn’t agree more. Mark Millar is my new hero.

by: Jer

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:51:01 +0000

(He actually has a few choice words for the hapless robot, who really shouldn’t be held accountable for his release date.)

I’ve got to assume that this is a joke, because there’s no way in Hades that Millar actually thinks that there were a substantial number of people trying to choose between seeing the G-rated “Wall-E” and the R-rated gunfest of “Wanted”, right?

Right?

by: mario

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:43:17 +0000

“million-selling, graphic novel Wanted”

yep, just a wee bit stretched this tidbit