Invincible creator Robert Kirkman explains why the live-action film is taking so lengthy, including that it has to “stand on its own.”
A live-action adaptation of Robert Kirkman’s Invincible was introduced 4 years earlier than the animated sequence even premiered on Prime Video, and nonetheless, there’s been little motion on the film. Is it even nonetheless occurring? Based on Kirkman, apparently so. They’re simply taking their time with it.
“It’s still in development,” Kirkman stated at San Diego Comedian-Con (by way of The Direct). “We’re nonetheless working with Common. You understand, the present goes so effectively. I feel the film completely must be good. And so it’s taking quite a lot of time, like getting the items aligned and getting every little thing to work in order that we are able to come out and make it pretty much as good as it could possibly presumably be. So it’s been in growth for a very long time, and it’s in all probability going to be in growth for some time longer.“
Kirkman is conscious that the Invincible film “has to provide a different experience” from the animated sequence. “It has to still be true to Invincible in some interesting ways,” he stated. “But it has to be its own thing. It has to stand on its own. And so that’s something we’re spending a lot of time crafting. But I think when it finally happens, it’s gonna be really cool.” The method of figuring that out is why the event course of is taking so lengthy. Does the film inform the identical story or transfer in a special route? Whereas the animated sequence can embody every little thing from the comedian and extra, the film must condense the story, which is its personal problem. Kirkman then joked that the event for the film may take so lengthy that “Timothée Chalamet can play Omni-Man.“
The second season of the animated Invincible sequence wrapped up earlier this yr and has already been renewed for a 3rd and fourth season. The sequence follows Mark Grayson (Steven Yeun), the son of an extraterrestrial superhero often called Omni-Man (J.Ok. Simmons). Mark later inherits his father’s talents, together with nice power, flight, pace, and a few invulnerability, and turns into the superhero often called Invincible. He additionally discovers that his father’s race, the Viltrumites, doesn’t precisely have peaceable intentions towards Earth. Along with Steven Yeun and J.Ok. Simmons, Invincible options the voices of Sandra Oh, Seth Rogen, Gillian Jacobs, Andrew Rannells, Zazie Beetz, Mark Hamill, Walton Goggins, Jason Mantzoukas, Mae Whitman, and extra. As for what number of seasons the present may final, Kirkman has beforehand put the quantity within the seven-to-eight vary. Perhaps the film received’t arrive till after the sequence concludes.
