Writer/director David S Goyer told SCI FI Wire that Warner Brothers likes his draft for Super Max, a proposed film centering on the DC Comics superhero Green Arrow, and that they seem prepared to move ahead with the movie.
“The studio really likes the script,” Goyer said in an interview at Comic-Con. “Green Arrow seems to be one of the characters in the wake of this phenomenal summer … book-ended by ‘Iron Man‘ and ‘The Dark Knight.’ I know that [for] Warner Brothers, Green Arrow is one of the characters that they’re really interested in [and] seem to be interested in moving forward with next.”
Supermax centers on Green Arrow, who finds himself framed, stripped of his identity and imprisoned in a high-security penitentiary for supervillains, with whom he must team up to clear his name and escape.
“It started out as a supervillain-escape idea, and the idea was, well, we can either go Marvel or DC,” Goyer said of the genesis of the idea. “And I talked to both of them, and I kind of said, ‘Well, who can you give me?’ Because I needed a superhero that I can bounce off of. And I don’t know. For my money it was, if we went Marvel, it would be Captain America. If we went DC, maybe Green Arrow. And Green Arrow seemed like the best fit.”
Goyer added that Warner seems all the more eager to move forward with a movie based on the second-tier comic hero in the wake of “Iron Man,” which is also based on a second-tier hero (unlike Spider-Man or The Incredible Hulk).
“Green Arrow is, you know, probably on the same level as Iron Man,” Goyer said. “And, yeah, I mean when a movie like Iron Man does $300 million, and DC, Warner Brothers, realizes, ‘Wow, we’ve got 20 of these kinds of characters.’ I don’t know, it’s an interesting twist though, because Super Max didn’t start out as a Green Arrow project.”
source:Â worstpreviews.com
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