Super-Mann flick

Director of THE INSIDER finds new project

By Patrick Sauriol     April 07, 2003

Director Michael Mann (THE INSIDER, HEAT) will helm TONIGHT, HE COMES for Artisan Pictures. The superhero-themed project was written by Vincent Ngo and will be produced by Akiva Goldsman, the writer behind BATMAN AND ROBIN and A BEAUTIFUL MIND. Ngo originally wrote the script six years ago and by the time Goldsman got involved with it last summer, he couldn't believe it hadn't been turned into a movie yet.

Mann's involvement is a major leap forward in the project's development. Little is known about the story except that it involves a fallen superhero who is befriended by a 12-year-old boy, and that the costumed hero falls for a surburban housewife. It sounds like it may be more in the vein of UNBREAKABLE rather than SUPERMAN.

Filming is scheduled to commence next year.


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