{"id":14147,"date":"2002-05-03T18:32:31","date_gmt":"2002-05-03T23:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/05\/03\/tarantino-to-give-marvel-character-a-head-start\/"},"modified":"2002-05-03T18:32:31","modified_gmt":"2002-05-03T23:32:31","slug":"tarantino-to-give-marvel-character-a-head-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/05\/03\/14147-tarantino-to-give-marvel-character-a-head-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarantino To Give Marvel Character A Head Start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img-www.theonering.net\/images\/frontEW.jpg\" ALIGN=LEFT class=\"no-lazyload\"> From <a HREF=\"http:\/\/us.imdb.com\/StudioBrief\/\" TARGET=NEW>IMDB<\/a>: Quentin Tarantino is dusting off another Marvel comic-book character, Mort the Dead Teenager, who was originally created with a movie version in mind, Roger Friedman of Foxnews.com reported Wednesday. Larry Hama, who wrote the four issues of the Mort series, told Friedman that when he was at Marvel, &#8220;I thought we should come up with some new characters who could be turned into movie characters.&#8221; Unfortunately, he said, the Mort comics &#8212; about a teenager who was decapitated in a train accident &#8212; were regarded by Marvel as &#8220;too dark and too hip,&#8221; went out of print, and became a cult classic. The film will likely be directed by Dean Paraskevopoulos and star Elijah Wood in the title role, Friedman said. Tarantino and partner Lawrence Bender&#8217;s A Band Apart Productions will coproduce the movie with Madonna&#8217;s Maverick Films; Dimension\/Miramax will distribute.<br \/><br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From IMDB: Quentin Tarantino is dusting off another Marvel comic-book character, Mort the Dead Teenager, who was originally&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-main-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-3Gb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}