Joe Carnahan Confirms That Work Has Begun On The NEMESIS Screenplay

Finally! With pretty much every single one of Mark Millar's creator owned comics heading to the big screen, it has astonished many that Nemesis isn't among them. Well, it is now! Joe Carnahan has confirmed that he and his brother have started working on the screenplay. Read on for details!

By JoshWilding - Nov 20, 2012 02:11 PM EST

Filed Under: Nemesis

He's no longer helming Daredevil, and despite having plenty of other projects on the horizon, Joe Carnahan (The Grey) has confirmed that he and his brother Matthew have now started work on the Nemesis screenplay. Earlier this year, Mark Millar (who created the comic book series with artist Steve McNiven) revealed that Carnahan will also helm the adaptation and you can read his reaction to the news below. Liam Neeson has previously been attached to play 'Blake Morrow', the police detective who the titular villain targets. Fingers crossed that they decide to keep the costume, eh?

My brother and I have begun 'Nemesis...' This script is gonna be a beast.
— Joe Carnahan (@carnojoe) November 20, 2012

The bearded genius who shot Bin Laden AND made The Grey in the past 2 years has just started Nemesis movie. GO GO! @carnojoe!!!!!
— Mark Millar (@mrmarkmillar) November 20, 2012

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26 Comments

GLprime2814 - 11/20/2012, 3:01 PM

The comic is sick good, only way I can see this being "Beast" is to go scar face all over this

sexfoodcomics - 11/20/2012, 3:14 PM

Oh man that' means we will definitely see Liam Neeson as Blake morrow!!!!!

AlexDeLarge87 - 11/20/2012, 4:17 PM

Hope it ends up being good.

Neeson as Morrow
Patrick Wilson, Michael Fassbender, Guy Pearce, Charlie Hunnam or Matthew McConaughey would be cool Nemesis.
McConaughey did one [frick]ing psycho role in Killer Joe and that made me think he could be interesting Nemesis.

CaptainObvious - 11/20/2012, 4:30 PM

Is the costume intentionally unoriginal?

TheManWithBigEars - 11/20/2012, 4:50 PM

Tom Hiddleston 4 Nemesis!

Bread - 11/20/2012, 4:57 PM

Michael Fassbender for Nemesis FOOLS

Temple - 11/20/2012, 5:13 PM

YESSS! Reading the comics, it already felt like a movie, so this gunna be huge.

Temple - 11/20/2012, 5:24 PM

@INSTANTJUSTICE Let me guess, TDKR? If so, Nemesis already did it back in May 2010 and batman isn't the first to do that you know. The point is, nobodys copying or stealing anything, So they don't have to change anything for this movie.

RaleighAntrobus - 11/20/2012, 5:37 PM

"Finally! With pretty much every single one of Mark Millar's creator owned comics heading to the big screen, it has astonished many that Nemesis isn't among them."

Most of them suck, so...

Bandrews1 - 11/20/2012, 6:55 PM

This is good news to hear :)

StSharp - 11/20/2012, 7:08 PM

I hope theyre able to translate him well without making people want to hate him and not even love him a little. Nemesis is dark as hell but you just cant stop reading! lol

Optimus83 - 11/20/2012, 7:09 PM

Batman vs. James Gordon. ...I'am sorry, the Joker

iuhgluiblbjjkhkjhkljh - 11/20/2012, 7:46 PM

If only grif were here to remark on the terribleness of Mark Millar and or Nemesis.

evilness - 11/20/2012, 10:41 PM

Grif = CBM legend

mark millar = first class douchebag
greenlighting adaptations of his comics, while pushing everything else to the side.

where's the FF reboot mother[frick]er?

pepe - 11/21/2012, 2:36 AM

Nemesis is a f*ng ripp-off... Aaaait

Bread - 11/21/2012, 4:02 AM

Come on guys, flatline still counts...

Bread - 11/21/2012, 4:04 AM

Sorry, just had to say that :)

plasticman - 11/21/2012, 9:55 AM

If he were younger I love to have seen Michael Keaton play Nemesis. I suppose he still could. Definitely Neeason for Morrow.

mattattack - 11/21/2012, 11:23 AM

Hell yeah!!!!

maxxgone - 11/21/2012, 4:10 PM

fassbender or guy pearce as nemesis would be too amazing. and yes, neeson as morrow would be perfect as well.

it would also pull him out of the 'taken' slump that is on the horizon. he does a part 3 of that shit & we can kiss his cool factor [frick]ing a.d.i.o.s.

Bread - 11/24/2012, 10:34 AM

could u imagine if Bale played Nemesis? The [frick]ing chaos that would cause in our community

Joe Carnahan Confirms That Work Has Begun On The NEMESIS Screenplay

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