It’s been a long, meandering road to the big screen for Capcom’s iconic Blue Bomber, but according to The Hollywood Reporter, Catfish duo Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman have come into contention to write and direct Fox’s long-in-development Mega Man movie.
Negotiations between 20th Century Fox and the creative duo are ongoing, but THR’s report goes on to note that those talks are nearing the final stages.
Since its inception in 1987, Mega Man has launched a full-blown media franchise spanning books, comics, spinoff animated series, and more than 50 video games. Next month, Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 will become the latest addition to that genre-defining body of work when it makes a beeline for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
In terms of Fox’s big-screen adaptation, though, this is the first tangible sign of progress since Castlevania‘s Adi Shankar pitched his own, R-rated rendition of the pint-sized Blue Bomber.
Negotiations between 20th Century Fox and the creative duo are ongoing, but THR’s report goes on to note that those talks are nearing the final stages.
Since its inception in 1987, Mega Man has launched a full-blown media franchise spanning books, comics, spinoff animated series, and more than 50 video games. Next month, Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 will become the latest addition to that genre-defining body of work when it makes a beeline for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC.
In terms of Fox’s big-screen adaptation, though, this is the first tangible sign of progress since Castlevania‘s Adi Shankar pitched his own, R-rated rendition of the pint-sized Blue Bomber.
- 7/19/2017
- by Michael Briers
- We Got This Covered
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