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Sounds like a new and different idea! I like it. Although it may turn out really bad..but i will hold full judgement until footage is seen or until i go and read this story online.
Mandalay Pictures wants to build a movie around Machine Man, a novel whose pages are being posted online each day by author Max Barry. You can check it out at his official website. Variety reports the shingle has picked up film rights to the thriller that Vantage Books plans to publish in 2011. Mandalay's Peter Guber and Cathy Schulman will produce the project.
Plot Concept: Story concerns a tech engineer who's tired of going through life average and unnoticed, so he replaces parts of his body with titanium upgrades of his own design. He then discovers that he isn't the only one with plans for his new body. As Barry writes the book, he's revealing one page of the tale each day as part of an interactive literary experiment in which suggestions from readers are integrated into the plot as the story unfolds.
Sounds like a new and different idea! I like it. Although it may turn out really bad..but i will hold full judgement until footage is seen or until i go and read this story online.
Sounds sort of cool. It isn't the first cyborg film and hopefully we'll have A Deathlok film before this
I think this sounds good, particularly Hollywood getting outside of itself to find new stories and voices. Maniacs, please visit http://www.persona-non-grata.com
Sounds to me like Mandalay would shut this experiment down on day 1 that they own it. Are they goig to go to everyone who made a suggestion and say "Here is you $6.97 for you addition of a bio-weave on the characters brain on page 125 of Machine Man. Now please sign this 17 page legal form to say we paid you for the idea and you have no further right to it"?
I like the interactive nature of the story, but am disappointed with the title. I guess that Marvel doesn't have a true trademark on the Machine Man name. Along the lines of what Wiseguy said, I'd even be more excited about a Deathlok production.
I guess we'll need to wait and see how this one plays out.
DeeJay4ADay, I had totally forgot about Machine Man. Yeah I guess Marvel doesn't have the name copyrighted
fail - just make the million dollar man already, but with serious tones - not some million dollar watermellon bs
I thought this article was about the Marvel character, too. Also, I seem to recall that there was a Deathlok movie being developed at some point. What up with that?
Add to the list who thought it was Marvel's Machine man. In the comic book world hes a hero on the d list so wondering why make a moviel about him insted of someone more poplular and exciting like jarvis or aunt may. This one sounds not so bad.
It's like if Wikipedia were turned into a novel...Pass.