When the folks at Warner Bros. begin searching for
a writer for the studio's planned Superman franchise reboot, they need look no
further than Mark Millar. In a recent interview with G4, the Scottish-bred author
of Wanted and Kick-Ass resumed his lobbying for the Man of Steel gig, laying
out his ambitious plans for an epic, seven-hour trilogy in the style of Lord of the
Rings. (Turns out you can do a proper trilogy in less than nine hours if you
don't have a dozen endings. Who knew?)
What makes him the right guy for the job? Among
other impressive Supes fanboy credentials, Millar bragged to G4 that he'd
purchased the corpse of the cat saved by Christopher Reeve in the first
Superman flick, had it stuffed and mounted it atop his piano. Impressive.
Creepy, but impressive.