Stan Lee Getting an Adventure Film About His Life

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Fox Buys Stan Lee Life Rights for 1970s-Set Action Adventure Movie (Exclusive)

Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey are attached to produce.

Stan Lee is coming to the movies.

Yes, the iconic co-creator of Marvel Comics characters has made countless appearances in movies but this time, it’s a slice of Lee’s life that is getting the cinematic treatment. But not in the way you might expect.

Twentieth Century Fox, the studio behind the most Marvel movies after Disney and the studio behind the X-Men and Fantastic Four franchises, has acquired Lee's life rights with a goal of creating a period action adventure movie, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Marty Bowen and Wyck Godfrey, the producers behind such movies as Twilight, The Maze Runner and the upcoming Power Rangers, are attached to produce what is being described as being in the tone of Kingsman: The Secret Service, or as one insider put it, “Roger Moore’s 007,” with Lee as the hero with an alter ego.

Lee and Gil Champion, Lee's partner at POW! Entertainment, will executive produce the project.

The story of Lee has been well-documented. Lee, born Stanley Lieber, grew up poor in the Bronx, and entered the comic book publishing world at the age of 17 in 1939, working for his uncle at Timely comics.

Lee’s dream was to write the “Great American Novel” and he was considering quitting when his wife, whom he considers the great love of his life, convinced him to give write the comic ideas he wanted to as one last shot at the business.

Thus, in his 40s, Lee co-created The Fantastic Four, which launched the Marvel Age of Comics. Lee, and mostly with artists Kirby and Steve Ditko, created hero after hero – Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, The X-Men, Iron Man, The Hulk, among many others – revitalizing the decaying publishing house and changing the face of pop culture forever.

In the 1970s, Lee moved to Hollywood, where he wanted to pursue a dream of seeing his characters adapted for the big and small screens and hobnobbed with the town's luminaries.

But this will be no biopic but rather an adventure with Lee as the main character. Kingsman and Roger Moore James Bond movies had dapper heroes who quipped one-liners, and in Moore’s case, flirted with the ladies, as they parried with larger-than-life evildoers.

No writer has been hired to flesh out the story so the projects existing details could morph. Exec Matt Reilly is overseeing for Fox.

CAA repped Lee in the deal.