Noah Hawley Confirms DOCTOR DOOM Script Is Being Worked On

[Norrin Radd]

Noah Hawley’s Doctor Doom Movie Is Written, But Don’t Expect to See It Anytime Soon

Geeks with a taste for the highbrow were amped last year when Legion and Fargo auteur Noah Hawley announced that he was working on a film starring the world’s greatest supervillain, Marvel’s Doctor Doom, for Fox. The hooded baddie has made a few screen appearances before in the four attempts at a movie about his arch-foes, the Fantastic Four, but this would be a solo outing for the bad doctor. Hawley further whetted appetites when he said he wanted his Doom picture to be a “political thriller” about the travails of the character, who is typically depicted as the monarch of the fictional Eastern European country of Latveria. Anyone looking for something more substantial in their superhero fare has cause to be intrigued by this particular project. Now, we’ve got good news and bad news.

The good news: Hawley has a finished screenplay. “I wrote a script that I really like and the studio really likes,” he tells Vulture, though he adds, “It needs a little work.” The bad news: it’s not getting filmed in the near future. Hawley said there are a pair of roadblocks. The first is the fact that he’s about to direct Natalie Portman and Jon Hamm in the astronaut drama Pale Blue Dot. Speaking about revisions to the Doom script, Hawley says, “It’s hard for me, at this exact moment — because I start shooting another movie in five weeks — to do that work. So, I mean, my hope is to go back to [the Doom movie] after [Pale Blue Dot].”

The other barricade is a corporate one. As of now, Fox holds the movie rights to the Fantastic Four franchise, which includes Doom. As you may have heard, Disney — the parent company of Marvel Comics — might devour Fox, which would mean Disney’s Marvel Studios (the folks who make the Avengers movies) would suddenly have access to the FF and their eternal nemesis. The merger is very much up in the air at this point, and Hawley’s Latverian project is up there with it. “I know there’s also a little uncertainty, given the potential for a Disney merger and the fact that Marvel may regain control of X-Men and Fantastic Four,” he says. “They may have a plan of their own in a desk drawer. I just don’t know. So, I think there’s sort of a sense of uncertainty.”

Nevertheless, like Doom facing down the Beyonder in the first Secret Wars crossover, Hawley remains optimistic in the face of these long odds. “I think the studio would like to make it,” he says. “I think we’re all just trying to figure out how and when we’re gonna do that.” Bah!

 

[Wargames]

Franco in a multiple man movie could be dope

 

[BXKingPin82]

im actually kinda intrigued y by a Multiple Man movie.

@ Old Man Hawkeye killing all the Multiple Men.
muthafukka had a gang consisting of himself.

 

[parallax]

A doom movie. Literally putting the cart before the horse because people don't know better. It's probably not gonna happen anyway, but still

 

[AnonymityX1000]

Kinda off topic but thiz account is a funny follow and posts dope Doom fan art:

 

[Jx2]

What most intrigued me about this article was finding out that this brilliant man is adapting one of my favorite books from my favorite writer of all time in Vonnegut’s Cats Cradle. If that ends up seeing the light of day I’ll be overjoyed

 

[Concerned Citizen]

The idea of a Doom movie seems underwhelming and lazy and I’m a huge fan of the character. It’s just Fox admitting that they can’t do the FF right and instead are gonna go for a quick cash grab with the best character from the books.

I haven’t been following the Disney purchasing Fox news closely but if it doesn’t work out then Fox should do the Sony Spider-Man deal with Disney, let Marvel make the movie the right way and cash that check after it becomes another blockbuster.
Truth be told, I’m not even too interested in seeing Doom vs FF movie so much as I am seeing Doom vs. Dr. Strange and Iron Man.

 

[Jimmy Two-Times™]

Not happening.

FOX and Marvel just don't go together.

 

[PoorAndDangerous]

Word on the skreets is they're considering Fassbender, Christoph Waltz and Hugh Jackman. I'd prefer Fassbender.

 

[Black White Sox Hat]

Leave the god alone..

Why can't they just to make a good Fantastic Four movie with him as the villain?

His own movie sounds like shyt.

 

[Bleed The Freak]

 

[jay211]

I endorse this!

 

[jay211]

Word on the skreets is they're considering Fassbender, Christoph Waltz and Hugh Jackman. I'd prefer Fassbender.

Jackman played one of the most legendary Marvel characters in Wolverine, for 20 YEARS! How could they cast him as another character in their universe??

 

[Bleed The Freak]

I endorse this!

Been saying dude for over a year and a half.

He's younger than Waltz, doesn't have the Fox baggage of Fassbender or Jackman and crushes it as the "rage under the surface" guy- see Red Eye or Peaky Blinders.

He's my #1 choice.

 

[Bleed The Freak]

Jackman played one of the most legendary Marvel characters in Wolverine, for 20 YEARS! How could they cast him as another character in their universe??

He's prolly through with the genre but Jackman would make an excellent Dr. Hugo Strange