The Bad Guy
(Comic Cover)Paramount Pictures is in talks to buy rights for the cult comic book "The Bad Guy," to be developed as a feature by Barry Josephson ("Men in Black"), reports Variety.
David Hayter, one of the top scripters of superhero fare such as both "X-Men" pics, "The Hulk," and "The Scorpion King," will exec produce.
In "The Bad Guy," the notion of superheroes saving the world has been turned on its head by writers Jason Harris and Zack Morrissette. Instead, the duo have fashioned a world in which a lone alienated mortal takes on genetically engineered superheroes who, as crime disappears, have become arrogant and bored.
"What 'The Bad Guy' does is take the big bright world of 'Spider-Man' and put Dirty Harry into it," Hayter said.
Story also will involve a female with empathetic talents who is able to read the feelings of the lead character.