Some news for all my readers who happen to be comic book nerds!

...and for everyone else out there. According to this article from cinematical, Fox has acquired the film rights to Mark Millar's (Wanted, Kick-Ass) new comic series, Nemesis, and Tony Scott (The Taking of Pelham 123, Deja Vu, Man on Fire) has been attached to direct. Since this has just been announced, and since Millar has yet to finish publishing his Nemesis comic series, this project may be years away from a release, however, this may be a project to keep an eye out on, especially with casting news and the like.

Nemesis follows the son of a billionaire who grows up to become a super villian. The series is intentionally almost identical to the Batman story, only Nemesis goes the complete opposite direction.

In my opinion, while I've enjoyed Millar's previously mentioned comic series, I personally think he's a one trick pony. He does the sarcastic type of writing rather well, but that's where it ends for me. I was not too impressed with the film adaptations of the two series, even though Kick-Ass was far better than Wanted. While most critics agree Tony Scott is little more than a studio hack, there is a small contingent of critics that believe he is one of the greatest action film auters of this time.

So what do you think? Would you look forward to this project?