Brian K. Vaughn

Marvel Planning a January – July 2011 Shoot for RUNAWAYS

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: July 13th, 2010 at 3:49 pm

Either Marvel’s Runaways is going to be far more epic than originally thought, or I’m having serious trouble understanding the reported shooting schedule for the film.  Production Weekly tweets “Marvel’s ‘The Runaways’[sic] is planning a January – July 2011 shoot.”  For those who don’t know, Runaways was created by Brian K. Vaughn (Y: The Last Man) and is about a group of teenagers who run away from home when they discover their parents are supervillains.  Each runaway has a special power or ability, so there will obviously be some special effects required and daring heroics to be shot.

But there’s nothing in the books to suggest that a seven month shoot is required to tell a contained story that takes place in LA and involves a handful of young actors.  And when you stop to consider that this isn’t a flagship superhero and the property is known only to comic book readers, you can hopefully begin to understand my confusion.  Hopefully, we’ll have a better grasp on the situation soon.

Joss Whedon, Peter Sollett in Running to Direct Marvel Comics’ RUNAWAYS

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: April 5th, 2010 at 12:09 pm

Director Peter Sollett  (Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist) is in negotiations with Marvel Comics to helm an adaptation of Brian K. Vaughn’s Runaways, but Joss Whedon may be in the running as well.  Deadline says Sollett is in talks with Marvel for the gig while The Playlist says Whedon’s under consideration to take the helm.  As you can expect, I side with Whedon, not only because I don’t much care for Nick and Nora, but because Whedon has shown he knows how to write smart, believable teenagers.  Oh, and he just so happened to write the second volume of the comics.

Deadline describes the project as, “The Breakfast Club with superheroes,” which really doesn’t do justice to the series created by Brian K. Vaughn (Y: The Last Man).  Yes, it does start out with a group of kids who don’t have anything in common.  But instead of growing close due to a stay in detention, they runaway together because they discover their parents are supervillains, and an eclectic bunch at that: mob bosses, alien invaders, dark wizards, mad scientists, telepathic mutants, and evil time-travelers.  The kids steal their parents’ gadgets and discover their own special powers as they try to avoid being caught by their illegal guardians.  The first two volumes of the series are great and I highly encourage you to pick them up.

Exclusive: Shia LaBeouf talks Y: THE LAST MAN – Says the Project Could Still Happen

by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub    Posted: June 21st, 2009 at 4:31 pm

For the last few years, director D.J. Caruso has been trying to bring Brian K. Vaughn and Pia Guerra’s “Y: The Last Man” to the big screen.

D.J. has always said he wanted Shia LaBeouf to play the series’ protagonist Yorick Brown. But recently, Shia has said the character is too close to his “Transformers” role and that led to everyone speculating the project wouldn’t happen.

Not so fast, says Shia.

You see, yesterday I sat down with the in-demand actor as a reporter for our partner website Omelete. Shia is out doing a lot of press for “Transformers Revenge of the Fallen” and I got some time with him on camera. In the next day you’ll be able to see the entire interview, but after the jump you can see Shia explain his love for “Y: The Last Man” and how the project might still happen.

He also says one of the reasons they’re not making it is, “the script is not ready to be shot. DJ is making a different movie right now. He’s making “Jack and the Beanstalk”.

Interesting. More after the jump:

Shia LaBeouf Won’t Be THE LAST MAN

by Matt Goldberg    Posted: June 9th, 2009 at 2:17 pm

In a recent interview with Wizard Magazine, Shia LaBeouf has taken himself out of the running for the role of leading (and only) man in the planned adaptation of Brian K. Vaughn and Pia Guerra’s  brilliant comic series “Y: The Last Man”.  LaBeouf tells Wizard, “You take Sam and you put a monkey on his shoulder.  I don’t know if it’s that big a differential. It seems like he’s the ordinary guy in an extraordinary situation again.”  I understand that LaBeouf doesn’t want to be pigeonholed and do roles that seem repetitive but I’ll say that A) The dramatic material in playing Yorick would far exceed anything that could come out of a “Transformers” movie; and B) if that’s his new criteria for judging which films he will and won’t do, he’s basically ruled out about two-thirds of all Hollywood movies.

LaBeouf continues, “I’m not willing to make that movie currently, and may be too old to play the role by the time it does come around.”  Clearly not a lot of faith in director D.J. Caruso and writer Carl Ellsworth to make it happen in the near-future and with Caruso currently in negotiations on Masi Oka’s “The Defenders”, it looks like we won’t be seeing the adventures of Yorick Brown and Ampersand any time soon.

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