Millar Wants to do Superman

Writer Mark Millar, who's comic book Wanted is currently on the big screen with James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie, told London's Daily Mail that he has hopes of doing a Superman film in the near future. From the interview:

But Mark's big dream is making a Superman movie.

He said: "Since I was a kid I've always wanted to reinvent Superman for the 21st century.

"I've been planning this my entire life. I've got my director and producer set up, and it'll be 2011. This is how far ahead you have to think.

"The Superman brand is toxic after that last movie lost $200 million, but in 2011 we're hoping to restart it.

"Sadly I can't say who the director is, but we may make it official by Christmas.

"But fingers crossed it could work out, that would be my lifetime's dream."

Millar also penned the DC Elseworlds saga Superman: Red Son. The three-issue mini series tells the story of a world where baby Kal-El's rocket from Krypton crashes in the Soviet Union instead of the American Heartland. Could this be the story Millar wants to bring to the big screen?