Marvel Studios honcho Avi Arad has let slip a few tidbits about the identity of the heretofore unnamed director interested in the Silver Surfer movie. "There is a director who should make Silver Surfer," Arad recently revealed. "He is mentally committed to it [but] he's doing another movie now. ... What's most important to me about this guy, first, is that he's incredible with visuals. But he's also a spiritual guy, a Zen Buddhist."
Hollywood Elsewhere has pegged David O. Russell (Three Kings) as the filmmaker in question. When asked by Rope of Silicon, however, if Russell was the director, Arad replied, "That's news to me."
IGN FilmForce recently investigated another possible director but to no avail. Richard Linklater has referenced Zen Buddhism in a number of his films, and also shares an agent and manager with Chris Columbus, one of the producers of the Fantastic Four film who also so happens to be directing Sub-Mariner.
Alas, both a longtime source, as well as Linklater's reps, denied that he was the director of Silver Surfer.
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