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Speaking to SYFYWire after today's TCA Legion panel, writer/director Noah Hawley confirmed the 'magical' Doctor Doom solo script is a work in progress.
After the remarks Noah Hawley made to Collider at today's Legion panel regarding Doom in light of the Fox/Disney merger, SYFYWire's Tara Bennett asked Hawley about his upcoming projects, including writing the script for A Pale Blue Dot, a screenplay adaptation of Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, and most notably, the script for an origin story solo film for one of Marvel's most iconic villains, Doctor Doom, a project he initially revealed at SDCC's Legion panel in July of last year.
What Hawley had to say gives a more concrete idea of what stage the solo film is at currently, and definitively answers, that for now, it is moving ahead:
“I’m still writing [Doom] and it’s really fun and exciting. It’s its own movie. I feel like those [superhero] movies often work best when you marry genres. Captain America: Winter Soldier, I thought was a great marrying of a Cold War movie and a comic book movie. And this has its own alchemy of genre that I am really excited about. It won’t be surreal. I’m not trying to do that, but it’s going to tell me what it wants to be on some level. You have a character in Doctor Doom who uses magic, so the movie should be magical on some level. It’s all an exploration that I’m going through.”
What's most exciting to hear from these remarks is that Hawley confirms that Doom will be using magic in the film. It seems a given, but after two different takes on Doctor Doom firmly avoiding ascribing his power set to magic, it's a needed clarification and a breath of fresh air. He also states that it won't be surreal à la his take on the acclaimed series Legion.
While it's certainly gratifying to hear that there is definitive traction on Hawley's Doom solo, the fact that he has so much else on his plate is cause for concern: Hawley is reportedly in the middle of working on the aforementioned Cat's Cradle and A Pale Blue Dot scripts, in addition to being the showrunner of Legion, which began filming this September and is set to premiere its second season in April. Hawley is also still attached to FX's Fargo and a fourth season is expected to be released in 2019, according to FX Networks CEO John Landgraf. It's unsure when the script for his Doctor Doom film will be finished.
Another prominent roadblock is the finalization of the Disney/Fox merger, which according to several outlets, will be completed within 12 to 18 months. The fate of films in earlier stages, like Hawley's Doom, are left in question.
However, another film further along in development is Gore Verbinski's Gambit. With Channing Tatum attached to star, the film is scheduled to shoot this March, with a February 2019 release date. Keeping this in mind, before news of the merger, Fox had two other untitled Marvel films planned for 2019: June 7th and November 22nd. With Deadpool 2, Dark Phoenix, and New Mutants all being released in 2018, sequels to any of them look unlikely in such a short time (besides possibly Drew Goddard's X-Force). The road may be left wide open for one of these untitled films to be Noah Hawley's Doom solo film.
After the remarks Noah Hawley made to Collider at today's Legion panel regarding Doom in light of the Fox/Disney merger, SYFYWire's Tara Bennett asked Hawley about his upcoming projects, including writing the script for A Pale Blue Dot, a screenplay adaptation of Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle, and most notably, the script for an origin story solo film for one of Marvel's most iconic villains, Doctor Doom, a project he initially revealed at SDCC's Legion panel in July of last year.
What Hawley had to say gives a more concrete idea of what stage the solo film is at currently, and definitively answers, that for now, it is moving ahead:
“I’m still writing [Doom] and it’s really fun and exciting. It’s its own movie. I feel like those [superhero] movies often work best when you marry genres. Captain America: Winter Soldier, I thought was a great marrying of a Cold War movie and a comic book movie. And this has its own alchemy of genre that I am really excited about. It won’t be surreal. I’m not trying to do that, but it’s going to tell me what it wants to be on some level. You have a character in Doctor Doom who uses magic, so the movie should be magical on some level. It’s all an exploration that I’m going through.”
What's most exciting to hear from these remarks is that Hawley confirms that Doom will be using magic in the film. It seems a given, but after two different takes on Doctor Doom firmly avoiding ascribing his power set to magic, it's a needed clarification and a breath of fresh air. He also states that it won't be surreal à la his take on the acclaimed series Legion.
While it's certainly gratifying to hear that there is definitive traction on Hawley's Doom solo, the fact that he has so much else on his plate is cause for concern: Hawley is reportedly in the middle of working on the aforementioned Cat's Cradle and A Pale Blue Dot scripts, in addition to being the showrunner of Legion, which began filming this September and is set to premiere its second season in April. Hawley is also still attached to FX's Fargo and a fourth season is expected to be released in 2019, according to FX Networks CEO John Landgraf. It's unsure when the script for his Doctor Doom film will be finished.
Another prominent roadblock is the finalization of the Disney/Fox merger, which according to several outlets, will be completed within 12 to 18 months. The fate of films in earlier stages, like Hawley's Doom, are left in question.
However, another film further along in development is Gore Verbinski's Gambit. With Channing Tatum attached to star, the film is scheduled to shoot this March, with a February 2019 release date. Keeping this in mind, before news of the merger, Fox had two other untitled Marvel films planned for 2019: June 7th and November 22nd. With Deadpool 2, Dark Phoenix, and New Mutants all being released in 2018, sequels to any of them look unlikely in such a short time (besides possibly Drew Goddard's X-Force). The road may be left wide open for one of these untitled films to be Noah Hawley's Doom solo film.
before this ever becomes official.
