Plot: Unknown. Based on the Marvel comic book character. The Sub-Mariner is the prince of Atlantis, a short tempered ruler who clashes often with the surface dwellers.
Directed by: Christopher Columbus
Written by: David Self
Starring: ?
Produced by: Avi Arad, Kevin Misher, Christopher Columbus
Studio: Universal Pictures
Release Date: ?
News:
3 December, 2004
Christopher Columbus has decided to go swimming with Marvel. He has signed on to both direct and produce a movie based on the Marvel Comics character the Sub-Mariner.
David Self wrote the script. It builds a rich undersea culture and deals with Prince Namor's torn loyalties between the surface and undersea worlds.
Producer Avi Arad said, "This is a giant project. Chris and I have been talking about this for six years, and once he saw where we were going with it and the world we were going to create, he jumped in."
Columbus will begin production on the super-hero flick after finishing shooting his adaptation of the Broadway musical Rent.
Thanks to The Hollywood Reporter.
4 October, 2002
According to a Marvel press release, Universal and Marvel have a final deal in place to make the movie. Producer Ari Avad said, "Sub-Mariner will be an epic underwater tale of majestic fantasy."
1 May, 2002
Universal is pushing this project forward. David Self has been hired to write the screenplay and executive produce the project.
26 July, 2001
Coming Soon! is reporting that actor Daniel Day-Lewis has been rumored to have shown interest in the part of Prince Namor to producer Avi Arad.
13 June, 2001
Universal Pictures is in negotiations with Marvel Comics for the film rights to one of Marvel's few still available properties. Avi Arad and Kevin Misher will produce a potential film based on the Sub-Mariner character.
"One of the great things about this property is, given the technology at hand today, it will be exciting to see the depiction of life under the sea (in the film)," Misher told The Hollywood Reporter. "What other movies have done to depict life in outer space, we hope to do with the mysteries that lie under the sea."
"This is one of Marvel's biggest franchises because it deals with a world that has not yet been explored in film -- the undersea -- and that is absolutely the next frontier," Arad said. "Even though it was first published in 1941, 'Sub-Mariner' has modern-day implications because if you look at the undersea and what's happening there, you have to address such issues as Exxon Valdez and the oil spill, undersea bomb testing, pollution and global warming."
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