Tim Story Might Direct The Losers
OK, I have a confession to make: I really enjoyed the first Barbershop movie. I never saw the sequel or Beauty Shop, but they weren't directed by Tim Story, so they bear no relevance to this article. Taxi, on the other hand, was so blatantly stupid and awful that I'm pretty sure it somehow violated the Geneva Convention. Seriously: why the hell did anyone try to give Jimmy Fallon a movie career? And then there was that rotten celluloid abortion known as Fantastic Four that did enough business to garner the sequel known as Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Needless to say, I don't have high hopes for this weekend's comic book movie release, even if they did get Doug Jones and Laurence Fishburne to team up to play the titular cosmic being.
Now, it seems like Tim Story is looking to adapt the short-lived but critically well-received Vertigo comic, The Losers. Well, I think it's based on the Vertigo version of the comic. There was also a WWII-era comic that DC ran for about fifteen years until it was canceled during Crisis on Infinite Earths. I liked the second series better, which focused on a special-ops team which declares war on the CIA when their handler tries to kill them.
"I told my agents I didn't want to do another comic book," Story said. "I had been in the world of fantasy and I wanted to do something very edgy, a realist action movie. I wanted to find something like a 'Bourne Identity' or 'Black Hawk Down."'He was sent "Losers" and fell for it right away.
"I was like, this is great -- and then I found out it was a comic book," he said, laughing. When he read the comic, he found it to be "incredible."
You know, I liked to read the Fantastic Four comics when I was growing up, and I was pretty stunned at how Story managed to butcher the origin for Marvel's First Super Family in 2005, so I'm already cringing about what the man might do to a lesser-known comic series.
"Fantastic" director eyes another comic book story [Yahoo Movies]
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Posted to Miscellany on 11 June 2007
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