Mark Millar to Work on Fox's Marvel Upcoming Adaptation!

In recent news, Ultimate X-Men writer Mark Millar has been chosen to serve as a creative consultant for Twentieth Century Fox's upcoming projects based on Marvel Comics properties.  Comic Book movies keep rising to the top in Hollywood, it's like Comic book movies hit the movie jack pot, being that recently "Marvel Studios demonstrated that just like in the comics, separate stories and characters can be brought together in a shared, interconnected cinematic universe." - Rob Keyes

Twentieth Century Fox plans to do the same with the X-Men and Fantastic Four franchises and they’ve hired Mark Millar to be their very own mastermind on the future projects. He will help guide the future X-Men movies along with Josh Trank’s Fantastic Four reboot.

Upcoming for the studio is "The Wolverine," starring Hugh Jackman, directed by James Mangold; "X-Men: Days of Future Past," directed by Matthew Vaughn; and a reboot of Fantastic Four, to be directed by Josh Trank ("Chronicle").

Mark Millar, writer for The Ultimates and Marvel’s successful Civil War crossover as well as "Wolverine: Old Man Logan," is also founder of Millarworld (millarworld.tv), where he continues to develop existing film franchise titles Wanted and Kick-Ass, as well as newer comic properties The Secret Service, Superior and Nemesis.

Here is Millar's Official Statement:
“As someone who has spent his entire life obsessed with both comic books and movies, this is essentially my dream gig as it's a unique combination of both,” stated Millar. “I spent ten years working at Marvel and am really happy with the work I did on the comic side of things so the idea of working with these characters now in a brand new medium is enormously exciting for me. I really like the Fox team, love this bold new direction they have for their franchises and am proud to be working alongside some of modern cinema's biggest talents. James Mangold is incredible, Matthew Vaughn's one of my closest pals and Josh Trank gave us, in my opinion, one of the greatest superhero movies of the last decade with 'Chronicle.' The invitation to join this crew was maybe the coolest phone call I've ever had.”

The Wolverine hits theaters July 26, 2013.
X-Men: Days of Future Past hits theaters on July 18th, 2014.

Source: Marvel, SR

X-Men/Fantastic Four cover art by Pat Lee.