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David Goyer writes "Super Max"

By: Karl Schneider
Date: Monday, April 09, 2007
Source: Wizard

According to Wizard, David Goyer has is developing a script based on the Green Arrow at Warner Brothers.

The film, titled Super Max, is a take on take on supervillain incarceration in the DCU. It revolves around a wrongly convicted Green Arrow who has been whisked away to the super max prison for out-of-control heroes and villains where he's now forced to face a number of inmates he put there.

“He’s Green Arrow for the first 10 minutes of the movie, and then he’s arrested and his secret identity is revealed,” Goyer tells Wizarduniverse.com. “They shave his goatee and they take his costume and send him to prison for life, and he has to escape. It’s like ‘Alcatraz,’ and he has to team up with, in some cases, some of the very same villains he is responsible for incarcerating in order to get out and clear his name. Of course, tons of people try to kill him while he’s in there. We’ve populated the prison with all sorts of B and C villains from the DC Universe. For the fans, there will be all sorts of characters the hardcore comic book junkies will know, but they’re all going to be there under their human names and no one is wearing a costume, but there will be a lot of characters with powers and things like that.”

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Comments/Responses
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SavetheCheerleader13 • Apr 09, 2007, 01:22am •
I like this concept a lot. I really hope it's executed well.

TKay42one • Apr 09, 2007, 01:49am •
All I can really say at this point is...Huh. Interesting. I don't really have a big enough opinion about GA to decide anything about the concept, so I'll wait for any die hard Green Arrow fans to start posting about why this may suck. It seems like this might have made a better Batman movie involving Arkham Asylum, but we'll see.

As long as they don't get Christopher Lambert and call it "Fortress 3".

TKay42one • Apr 09, 2007, 01:54am •
Also, is this going to tie in at all with the supposed JLA movie they were talking about attempting?

maverickrenegade • Apr 09, 2007, 03:02am •
i for one am not to pleased to hear this ... considering this character has not had a "Green Arrow" movie of his own.

I am a firm believer in the fact that you must introduce a character first (in film anyways) before plunging an unknown audience into a story like this. (like the first spiderman and fantastic four movies were made with bigger things in mind afterwards)

Make a Green Arrow movie first THEN give us this one! Because if you start with this story first, non-comic fans (which out number us comic fans) will have NOOOOO idea what the hell it is and thus it will suffer at the hand of the cirtics / box office.

So while this is a step in a good direction ... it is unfortenatly not the right direction.

SinisterPryde • Apr 09, 2007, 03:07am •
Hmm. Had to check to make sure the story wasn't posted on April 1, then reported on here days later.

It is an interesting take, but if they're going to do this film, why not just do either a new super-hero, or someone who has had less exposure lately. Not that everyone watches Smallville, but I think the mainstream is going to be confused that advertises a hero going to jail and doing the super-human take on Prison Break.

vampiresuck • Apr 09, 2007, 04:10am •
I don't see a problem with this at all to be honest. Who cares if he doesn't have an 'establishing' film. The fact that they are using a well known DC character will get the comic fans and non readers regardless as the synopsis sounds great and could be done without a known superhero, ie one they just make up for the films sake.

madmanic999 • Apr 09, 2007, 04:24am •
Not sure if I see this working, but I agree definately an interesting concept... reminds me of the first 20 minutes of Batman begins when he is in the prison....

evilron • Apr 09, 2007, 06:27am •
Good concept. I think this could actually work. Someone like Green Arrow doesn't really need an origin movie.

Captmathman • Apr 09, 2007, 07:28am •
I agree, evilron. This could be pretty cool; DC fans get the film on one level, while casual viewers can just enjoy a "Prison Break" style movie. I think this could be a modest hit.

wessmith1966 • Apr 09, 2007, 07:33am •
This will never see the light of day. There's no way a studio's going to greenlight a super hero project that gets rid of the hero in the first 10 minutes and then turns it into an old fashioned prison escape movie. Why would DC want to see Green Arrow on the big screen not being Green Arrow; it's a waste of their character. Non-super hero fans will see the Green Arrow costume in the trailer and think "not another super hero movie" and stay away. Super hero fans, who are well read about these movies thanks to the web and genre magazines, will know that it's not a super hero movie, but a prison movie that wants to cash in on their box office money by teasing them with the Green Arrow character and stay away. Nope, I don't see Goyer ever getting this past the printed page. He'll probably turn it into a limited series for DC.

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