Goyer to the Max!

David Goyer is usually only as good as his director. So it’s highly unfortunate that he’s started directing his own scripts. Dark City and Batman Begins were gold, but there he had Alex Proyas and Christopher Nolan to guide. Now he’s directing his own stuff, the end product has been pretty dire.

Goyer is no doubt talented, but I think he’s a writer first and foremost and not a director. Nevertheless, Hollywood seems to dig him and he’s attached to direct Magneto and produce Super Max, the Green Arrow in prison movie written by Justin Marks.

Wizard magazine caught up with the writer/director and he gave them the low down on Magneto:

“We’re scouting and budgeting now. It’s the origins of the X-Men with Magneto and Charles Xavier. We’ve done some scouts and it mostly takes place in Europe and Argentina. We’re doing budgets and we’re sort of halfway crewed up, and so that’ll be the big question: whether we can bring it in for a price. But that’s all I can say.”

And Super Max:

“We haven’t even officially turned in a script for that yet. The idea is that they’re mostly sort of third-tier DC villains, but that was part of the fun, that they’re relatively obscure. But Icicle is in it from JSA—from my days on writing that. I mean, people will recognize most of them. What we did was present to DC a list of people we wanted, and then they went through it on a case-by-case basis and told us whether we could have them or not.”

Both sound quite exciting projects, Magneto is the one X-Men spin-off I want to see, and Super-Max seems like a cool way to get some of the lesser known DC characters out there.

source - Wizard

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I agree that he’s usually only as good as the guy he writes the script for but I’ve read Goyer’s draft of Batman Begins and it was amazing.

Yes Christopher Nolan took it up a notch and made it amazing but Goyer’s draft deserves much praise for reinventing Batman.

Comment by Matt Holmes | August 29, 2007

You’ve got to hand it to Goyer as a gifted writer. The prospect of the Magneto spin-off is something that’s got me psyched up. His whole Holocaust background and its impact on his outlook on humanity and mutation could make for some magnificent, really rich character study. I look forward to seeing this unfurl in film, especially as Magneto is probably my favourite X-Men character.

Comment by James Clayton | August 29, 2007

“What we did was present to DC a list of people we wanted… and told us whether we could have them or not” LOL like DC’s crappy roster of movies gives them the luxury of “deciding” which of their no-doubt super-lucrative stable of “characters” they will deign to “allow” anyone to use.

DC’s been a second-rate publisher for over thirty years. Given how it was DC whose Batman bastardization nearly ran the comic book movie genre into the ground, (and Catwoman was no help to DC’s credibility) they oughta be falling all over themselves to have Goyer take their crappy roster and try to make them into something they’ve never been before–namely, profitable!

Comment by JaySmack | August 29, 2007

Goyer Sucks! did anyone see Nick Fury with the Hoff? he’s wrote few other stinkers as well,Blade 3 stunk did it not? and he directed that!Not really lookin forward to Magneto,(Geez’who came up with one?)
I often wonder just how much he had to do with the Batman Franchise and how much it had to do with Nolan, I dont know there’s something about this guy he seems to be a bit of a Hack to me!
The Supermax seems like an interesting idea,so long as he stays away from it.
Not sure why the suits are so keen to have him direct stuff.

Comment by The Glove | August 30, 2007

Keep in mind Goyer wrote Blade 1 and 2. That movie single-handedly revived the comic book movie, after Batman & Robin, (written by a true talentless hack, Akiva Goldsman, who’s now about to butcher Teen Titans) all but killed the genre.

He’s inconsistent in his writing quality, true, but that says nothing about his writing ability. As far as directing goes…maybe the third time’s the charm. But I’m not optimistic.

Comment by JaySmack | August 30, 2007

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