SUBMITTED BY Typhon24
January 24, 2003 — From the Comics Continuum:
Bill Jemas, who is writing Marvel's upcoming Namor book with Andi Watson, said that the upcoming Sub-Mariner movie was an impetus for the new title. Namor is part of Marvel's Tsunami initative, and Jemas, Marvel Comics COO, talked about the title during a phone press conference on Wednesday.
"Namor, the Sub-Mariner is a real part of the fabric of Marvel's history and at one time had been one of the most important early characters in the universe," Jemas said. "And within the next couple of years, Namor is going Hollywood. Universal Studios purchased the rights to the character, they have a first-class creative team in full-scale development of the property and our job at Marvel - as you saw with Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimate X-Men and then Daredevil and Elektra and the Hulk - and once we know a property is going Hollywood and characters are going to hit the big screen, we make a real emphasis to do the things that comics book do best, which is help get a groundswell behind the character early and also relate the character in terms that a very, very important comic-book market can understand.
"One of the reasons Hollywood is so interested in comic books is because that they like the buzz that comic-book fans create and they understand that comic-book fans in general are pretty good at predicting media trends. So our job is to get out there and make Namor work in the comic-book market."
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