{"id":30378,"date":"2012-09-27T14:37:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T20:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/27\/and-in-the-role-of-the-20th-century-fox-joss-whedon-mark-millar.html"},"modified":"2014-11-07T12:49:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T19:49:51","slug":"and-in-the-role-of-the-20th-century-fox-joss-whedon-mark-millar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/27\/and-in-the-role-of-the-20th-century-fox-joss-whedon-mark-millar.html","title":{"rendered":"And in the role of The 20th Century Fox Joss Whedon, Mark Millar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hmm.<\/p>\n

On the one hand, Millar can be creative. Even edgy. He has cinematic experience. While I don't know that he's dome all that much with either the X-franchise or the Fantastic Four with Marvel, he's got strong comic book writing chops.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, he's sometimes too self-consciously edgy for his own good, and occasionally comes across as a poor man's Garth Ennis. He did a decent job on The Authority<\/i> after Warren Ellis left, but in a much mroe straightforward fashion.<\/p>\n

Looking at the role — creative consultant — it's not clear how much this really parallels Whedon's role with Disney\/Marvel's movies (given Whedon also has some writing and directing involvement, too). \u00a0But I think, at a minimum, it's a positive sign that Fox is bringing in some decent comic book talent to try to unify and amplify the comic book vision of their currently held Marvel franchises. And I'm betting we'll see some cross-over, too.<\/p>\n

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The Civil War writer will oversee creative efforts on X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Wolverine and Fantastic Four.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMark Millar, the co-creator of Kick-Ass and writer of Marvel\u2019s best-selling Civil War crossover, will serve as a creative consultant to 20th Century Fox as they navigate the tricky waters of their X-M…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Hmm. On the one hand, Millar can be creative. Even edgy. He has cinematic experience. While I don't know that he's dome all that much with either the X-franchise or the Fantastic Four with Marvel, he's got strong comic book writing chops. On the other hand, he's sometimes too self-consciously edgy for his own good, … Continue reading “And in the role of The 20th Century Fox Joss Whedon, Mark Millar”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-disney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129339,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/01\/04\/no-more-marvel-stuff-for-joss-whedon.html","url_meta":{"origin":30378,"position":0},"title":"No more Marvel stuff for Joss Whedon","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 4-Jan-16 10:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's not at all surprising, given his previous comments -- and the fact that he's- worked like a dog on Marvel stuff to date- been able to more than scratch that itch to play with those characters- has eleventy-zillion ideas of his own that he wants to pursuePeople making this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11632,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/28\/bt07_uncivil_thoughts.html","url_meta":{"origin":30378,"position":1},"title":"BT07 – Uncivil Thoughts","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 28-Jul-07 9:20am","format":false,"excerpt":"Civil War\u00a0(Marvel) [collects #1-7] w. 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