Sub-Mariner

[Brian in Mesa]

Chris Columbus to Direct Sub-Mariner
Source: Variety
December 3, 2004

Chris Columbus, director of the first two "Harry Potter" films, will direct and produce Universal Pictures' adaptation of Marvel's Sub-Mariner, reports Variety.

Marvel Studios chairman-CEO Avi Arad and former Universal production president-turned-producer Kevin Misher are producing the film along with Columbus and his 1492 Productions.

David Self (Road to Perdition) wrote the script and is executive producing the film.

Sub-Mariner is based on Marvel's first superhero, Prince Namor, a half-amphibian man from the kingdom of Atlantis. A troubled rebel with a fierce temper, he has both helped the human race and fought against it when humankind polluted his underwater kingdom.

 

[azdad1978]

So this movie will be a heavy CGI movie then?

 

[Pariah]

doesn't need to be, unless you're counting underwater effects as computer generated images.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Chris Columbus dropped out of this project.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Jonathan Mostow to Helm Sub-Mariner
Source: Variety
September 2006

Universal Pictures has signed Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines director Jonathan Mostow to rewrite and direct Marvel Studios' Sub-Mariner.

Variety says Mostow has cleared his schedule to make Sub-Mariner his next film. The comic, created by cartoonist Bill Everett in April 1939, centers on a young man who discovers he's actually a descendant from the long-lost kingdom of Atlantis. He turns out to be the key man in a brewing war between the underwater world and our own.

Kevin Misher is producing through his Misher Films along with Marvel Studios. Universal's Peter Cramer is overseeing for the studio, Kevin Feige for Marvel. David Self wrote an earlier draft of the screenplay.

Mostow's past credits also include U-571 and Breakdown.

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I like Mostow's films. Can't wait to see what he does with this character.