Attack the Block‘s Joe Cornish Has Decided to Make Mark Millar’sStarlightInto a Movie, of All Things

The three moviesJoe Cornishhas direct have been the incredibleAttack the Block , the serviceableThe Kid Who Would Be King , and the long - look approaching adaptation of Neal Stepherson’sSnow Crash . So , certain , why not have his next movie be about an former , grumpyJohn Carterwannabe , who ’s called in for one last mission from the alien macrocosm he used to relieve ?

Starlight is one of the tamest , most thoughtful entries in Mark Millar ’s funnies career , which means to say it ’s still reasonably violent but not gratuitously so . There ’s very petty shock note value in the tale about the elderly Duke McQueen , who used to travel to the world of Tantalus , where he saved the globe many clip over , in a ‘ 30s sci - fi pulp magazine form of way . Once he was stuck back on Earth , however , no one believed his tales other than his married woman . By the time the series — and presumptively the movie — starts , the child have long since moved out and Duke ’s been a widower for a year . And that ’s when his erstwhile starship reappears to take him to take him on a final escapade .

This news come viaDeadline , and it seems like an leftover project for Cornish to take , and odd source material to be produced since there are still plenty more sensational / merchantable Millar comics to plunk from . However , between The Boys , Invincible , The Umbrella Academy , and the forthcoming Jupiter ’s Legacy , I would n’t mind a slight more earnestness in my sci - fi superhero entertainment … assuming Starlight ever makes it to yield .

Art by Goran Parlov.