By Germain Lussier/March 27, 2013 12:14 pm EST
When Matthew Vaughn dropped out of X-Men: Days of Future Past, many speculated it was because the Star Wars Episode VII job was up for grabs. That may or may not have been the case, but Mark Millar came out and said Vaughn’s departure from X-Men was to collaborate on a project called The Secret Service. Millar wasn’t lying.
The Secret Service was a five issue mini-series, co-created by Millar and Gibbons, which started last summer and just wrapped up earlier this month. Millar described the book as follows:
And here’s what he said in November 2012 about why he and Vaughn were so passionate about getting the project done asap:
Have you read the comics? Is Vaughn a good fit? Are you excited this is his next project?
What we’re doing is that ‘Kick-Ass 2? is filming now, and next year we’ll start production on ‘Secret Service’ which I did with Dave Gibbons, and Matthew and I have been talking about that for years. We thought Matthew was going to do X-Men first, but we found out there were actually a few imitators of ‘Secret Service’ in the works. People think you’re lying when you say you’re not trying to get your comics made into movies so quickly, but the two reasons it happens like that is first because it’s the best ad for the comic you’ll ever have. And for me, selling the book is the most important thing. The second reason is because people are always trying to rip you off. Somebody will start to work on a spec screenplay about your idea. There are three other projects I know of now about a James Bond kind of guy taking a street kid and turning him into a spy. Three screenplays were already going through Hollywood about this! So Matthew and I said, ‘F*ck this. We’re not letting anyone steal our ideas.’
UPDATE:
Fox’s THE SECRET SERVICE will drop 11/14/14. Matthew Vaughn directs from Mark Millar (“Kick-Ass”) & Dave Gibbons’ comic series.
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