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Joe Cornish teaming with 20th Century Studios
for Mark Millar's Starlight
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After nearly seven years of attempting to get a film
adaptation of Mark Millar's six-issue limited comic
off the ground, 20th Century Studios is partnering
back up with Joe Cornish to write and direct the
feature debut of Starlight, according to Deadline.

Published in 2014, the comic centered on Duke McQueen,
a hero who saved the universe in the past and came
back to Earth to get married, have kids and grow old,
though with his children having left and his wife
dead, he's left alone with memories of his adventures
that no one believes, until his old rocket ship with
a call form a distant world beckons him back for his
final and greatest adventure.

A film adaptation was first announced in 2013 when
20th Century Fox announced its development and 2014
saw the studio hire Gary Whitta (Rogue One: A Star
Wars Story) to write the script, though after
languishing in development hell for years and the
studio subsequently being acquired by Disney, the
project started from scratch. Brian Dukes is set to
oversee development on Starlight for 20th Century
Studios.

Simon Kinberg (X-Men franchise, The 355) is set to
produce alongside partner Audrey Chon via his Genre
Films production label and Nira Park, who previously
worked with Cornish on the well-received family
adventure The Kid Who Would Be King at 20th Century
Fox.

Millar is best known for creating Wanted, Kick-Ass and
the Kingsman graphic novels that were later turned into
film franchises as well as Old Man Logan, which would
be the main source of inspiration for Hugh Jackman's
final outing as Wolverine, 2017's Logan, and penning 
Civil War, which would be adapted into Captain America:
Civil War for the Marvel Cinematic Universe.


<https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/1169245-joe-cornish-teaming-with-20th-century-studios-for-mark-millars-starlight>

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