Frank Miller's Hard Boiled (Ben Wheatley)

[Akijama]

EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros is negotiating to acquire the Frank Miller and Geoff Darrow comic book Hard Boiled, with the studio poised to set Free Fire‘s Ben Wheatley to adapt and direct. The film will be a co-production between Solipsist Films and Hollywood Gang, produced by Stephen L’Heureux, Bernie Goldmann and Gianni Nunnari. Solipsist did Miller’s Sin City, and Hollywood Gang did Miller’s 300.

Miller’s got those credits and Darrow also is widely considered one of the great artists of his generation, and the third big brain on the Matrix films, which he helped the Wachowskis design. Hard Boiled debuted in 1990 and focuses on insurance investigator Carl Seltz, who learns that he’s really a homicidal cyborg tax collector codenamed Nixon. A fellow robot informs him that he’s the last hope for their race to escape their programmed slavery.

WME and Independent Talent Group-repped Wheatley has heat from Free Fire, the raucous actioner that stars Armie Hammer, Sharlto Copley, Brie Larson, Sam Riley and Cillian Murphy. A24 acquired after the pic following its Toronto bow. It will be released March 17.

http://deadline.com/2016/11/hard-boi...os-1201858344/

[NARMAK]

I have literally no idea about this comic other than it shares the same name as the Chow Yun movie Hard Boiled but if you'd have told me a low rent movie production house decided to make a film about a Insurance man who turns out to be a tax collector robot, I'd have laughed and said it sounds about right for a barrel scraping production joint.

So the question is, what would make this such a decent movie? Subject material sounds absurd. iRobot and Robocop or heck Ghost in the Shell seem to have better premise to do the whole Robot wants freedom type story. Or the ultimate example is perhaps Blade Runner.

[Batmon77]

Maybe u should read the comic and then judge if its absurd.

[MasterCrayola]

Is this happening before or after his remake of 'The Wages of Fear'

[sandman slim]

Never, ever thought this would get made. Wheatley? Hiddleston? Robot ultraviolence?

Instantly one of my most anticipated films. This is gonna

[NARMAK]

Originally Posted by Batmon77

Maybe u should read the comic and then judge if its absurd.

I don't need to read it to make a judgement that the concept sounds absurd. All reading would do is make it more clear how they executed that concept as a comic and imagine how it might get made into a movie OR alternatively I wait till it's made and see if it stands up.

Sound good? If not, please know that it was a rhetorical question.

[Batmon77]

Originally Posted by NARMAK

I don't need to read it to make a judgement that the concept sounds absurd. All reading would do is make it more clear how they executed that concept as a comic and imagine how it might get made into a movie OR alternatively I wait till it's made and see if it stands up.

Sound good? If not, please know that it was a rhetorical question.

Feel free to judge a book by its cover.

A teenager gets bit by a radioactive spider and becomes a superhero.
Its sounds absurd as well but the source material is much more than the concept.

So it still has the same legit excuse to be made into a movie as Howard The Duck or Squirrel Girl.

We wouldnt have this genre if we were to judge these concepts by folks who didnt read the source material and didnt contribute to its cult status.

The Transformers or The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.........Seriously??