Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman Reunite to Adapt Mark Millar’s ‘The Secret Service’

Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman – the director/screenwriter duo that turned Mark Millar’s graphic novel Kick-Ass into one of 2010’s surprise hits – are once again teaming up. This time they’ll be adapting Millar’s comic book The Secret Service – a title that featured art by Dave Gibbons, the artists behind Alan Moore’s Watchmen.

In the same way that Kick-Ass gave audiences a real-world, deconstruction of the superhero genre, ‘The Secret Service’ does the same thing for the James Bond/Jason Bourne super spy movies. The story features a Bond-like hero, who is forced to induct his yobbish nephew into the world of espionage.

Comic book writer Mark Millar is now seen by Hollywood as something of a goldmine. In fact, Twentieth Century Fox have employed him as a creative consultant to guide their X-Men and Fantastic Four movie franchises. Meanwhile, a sequel to Kick-Ass is due out this summer.

Millar rose to fame writing The Authority – a comic book that featured a group of superheroes who believed the ends justified the means. He’s now written several creator-owned series like Wanted, Kick-Ass and The Secret Service along with a number of mainstream superhero series (inducing Superman: Red Son for DC and Civil War for Marvel).

Source: Guardian