Marks on Hack/Slash

Posted by bob in Comics, Films, News on August 12th, 2008

As discussed in previous news, Todd Lincoln (From Dusk till Dawn) will be directing the big screen adaptation of Devil’s Due’s, Hack/Slash.  Now screenwriter Justin Marks reveals more intimate details on the plot.

In an interview with Newsarama, Marks excitedly reveals the Hack/Slash film adaptation will take a new direction in which it will be “the first chance [we will get] to see a slasher movie where there is more than one slasher!”  Slashers, for those of you who are unfamiliar, are what the government calls “Revenants” and whose purpose is solely to kill.  The film will be heavily character based and “[you're] going to get to know the people who are surviving and dying.”

Viewers will get to follow Cassie and her partner, Vlad’s, hunt from one slasher to the next, while we “[build] out the mythology of how this world works with its undead slashers.”

In concluding his interview, Mark proudly discloses that “[He's] been pulling lines, moments and scenes from the comic leading up to the numbered run that fans will notice.”  The film is written with an “R rating mentality” and fans should expect nothing less with original creator, Tim Seeley, being closely involved in the production.

Marks has become one of the hottest comics-related screenwriters in Hollywood.  In addition to Hack/Slash, he wrote the much lauded Green Arrow script formerly known as Supermax, and likely to be the next DC Comics-related film to go before the cameras. Marks will also be writing comics material for Devil’s Due.