SUBMITTED BY Typhon24

July 3, 2002 —

From Sci-Fi Wire:

Screenwriter David Self told SCI FI Wire that he is adapting Marvel's Namor the Sub-Mariner comic series for the screen, but won't base it on any specific comic storyline. "It's a totally different project, because I don't have a specific storyline to adapt," Self said in an interview. "I just have sort of a mythology of Namor and some incidences, some characters that come and go during Namor's life. I have a much freer hand to create a different, new story. But I'm also not being handed a great, exciting moment or concept or story, so I've got to do my own legwork, so to speak. For me, I saw a unique story I could do with it and take off from Sub-Mariner to make a different type of new comic book movie."

Self was vague on the details, but said the movie would be an origin story. "I think to a degree it will be. People don't know Namor as well as they know other Marvel heroes, and I think it's an identity story, so that's well-suited to an origin story. That's how we plan that project in general terms. It's definitely a challenge to decide how to approach it. You have obligations to bring the audience up to speed with the character. There's different ways to go about doing that." Self has been on the Namor project since November 2001, with no specific start date for production.