There are a lot of good things to say about Alex Proyas as a director (ok, I wasn’t totally thrilled with I, Robot… but that seemed like one hell of a tough film to pull off). The man who did films like “The Crow” and “Dark City” is apparently being lined up by the studio to direct the forthcoming “Silver Surfer” film.
The good folks over at slashfilm give us this:
Marvel producer Avi Arad revealed the following tidbit in article about super hero filmmaking in Australia: Arad would not name the films he planned to shoot in Australia, but he did reveal he was attempting to hire an Australian director for one of the movies. He declined to say the director’s name, but there has been speculation Australian director Alex Proyas was being wooed to direct the film adaptation of another Arad project, ‘Silver Surfer’.
It should also be mentioned that Alex Proyas is listed as “Announced” and “In talks” on the IMDB with regards to directing the Surfer.
Personally, I don’t like this move at all. I like Proyas, but a Silver Surfer movie?!?! I think he shouldn’t take it. Fantastic Four 2 was so lame, and the Surfer character was a disappointment of Jar Jar proportions (he’s the Silver Surfer… he never talked…. and not one single solitary fight scene. What the hell were they thinking?).
I’d much rather see Proyas take on something else… but if not… he’ll at least make the Silver Surfer a hell of a lot more interesting than FF2 did.
