Brian K Vaughn’s Roundtable
DreamWorks has acquired Roundtable, a new action comedy spec script from comic book and LOST scribe Brian K Vaughn. The story for Roundtable revolves around “Merlin assembling a bunch of modern-day knights to battle a resurrected ancient evil, only to discover that today’s knights are all washed-up athletes, cowardly scientists or Academy Award-winning actors.” Apparently it’s an update to the classic King Arthur legend, described as more Ghostbusters than Excalibur. Sounds like an incredibly strange concept if you ask me, but Vaughn has earned my faith.
His Y: The Last Man is the greatest comic book series ever created. It’s very accessible, if you don’t like comic books I highly m you pick up the first trade paperback at Barnes and Nobles - You’ll be hooked. His other comic books, Ex Machina, Runaways, and Pride of Baghdad, have all been highly acclaimed. Y: The Last Man and Runaways are both being developed into big screen films. Recently he’s been working as a writer and co-producer on the hit television show LOST.
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Marvel Studios and Brian K. Vaughan Developing Runaways Movie
I knew it was going to happen eventually, Marvel Studios has announced that they will be brining Brian K Vaughn’s Runaways to the big screen. Vaughn, best known for the critically acclaimed Y: The Last Man Series (also in some stage of development with DJ Caruso and possibly starring Shia LaBeouf), created Runaways in 2002 with Adrian Alphona, and is also penning the screenplay. It should be noted that Vaughn is also a co-producer and writer for LOST.
The series follows a group of teenagers discover that their parents are an organized group of super villains called The Pride. On the run from their homes, the group bands together and begin a journey of discovery, both of their parents’ origins and of their own inherited powers.
Unlike most other books in the Marvel universe, the individual Runaways story arcs are collected in small, manga-sized trade paperbacks. In 2006, the series won the Harvey Award for best continuing/limited series. Geek god Joss Whedon, a vocal fan of the book, took over the series after Vaughan and Alphona left at issue #24 of the title’s second volume.
Marvel is not ready to set a date for this latest adaptation or the previously announced Ant Man.
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Y: The Last Man creator Brian K. Vaughn Aspires to Direct Movies
Brian K. Vaughn wants to direct a feature film, but not the big screen adaptation of his popular Vertigo comic book series Y: The Last Man.
“I would like to direct, but much smaller things, along the lines of something I’ve done in comics where it’s much more personal and I would have complete control over and doesn’t involve a hundred million dollar budget like Y with planes falling out of the sky and people bleeding out of every orifice,” Vaughn told at Wondercon 2007.
Before becoming a comic book writer, Vaughn studied film at New York University.
“Do I want to direct? Yeah, very much so. But I’m pretty bad at it, which I probably shouldn’t announce because it would take me out of the running. I love it but I have no interest in directing Y: The Last Man, it’s just much too huge of an undertaking.� I think I’d just much rather turn that over to someone else.”
Y: The Last Man is currently set up at New Line Cinema where Vaughn was given the opportunity to draft the screenplay.
“I think most people are like ‘Why isn’t it an HBO series?’ Like, it can only be a television series to be done correctly. I never felt that way. Maybe because I’m the only person who knew exactly how Y ends and I’ve always been able to see it as something with a three act structure - something with a clear beginning middle and end,” explained Vaughn.
The Eisner Award winning writer also explained that the film version is much different from the comic book series:
“I just went back and started to reread stuff that I started writing probably when I was 25, when I first started working on the book - and all I see is ‘Oh my god this is terrible.’ It’s just aweful looking at those early issues. So I just found stuff that I wanted to fix and change,” explained Vaughn. “I took the themes that I loved, and there is all the characters that hopefuly you love, but it’s an entirely new story. It’s an entirely different medium, movies from comics, so I wanted to come up with something new so that people that just love the book aren’t bored. It’s like you’ve enjoyed it once, I have an obligation to give you something new.”
And while nothing is officially greenlit, that could change tomorrow.
“It’s a very slow road, these movies getting made,” said the writer. “Nothing could happen or you could hear a big announcement tomorrow.”