Disney’s remake of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, to be directed by McG, recently hired Justin Marks to re-write the script.  Justin Marks, of course, is the hottest writer in Hollywood who no one’s heard of.  So far he’s written the Street Fighter Movie, a script for a He-Man movie, a script for a Voltron movie, a script for a Green Arrow movie, and got hired earlier this year to adapt Hack/Slash – a comic book about a FEMALE ASSASSIN with EXPOSED PANTIES, whose title sounds like Nick Nolte’s to-do list.

Anyway, as /Film says, “Marks is well known in Hollywood as a screenwriter who gets the geek niche,” and continues to get work based on that perception.  So really, the best thing for his career right now would be if none his movies ever came out.

Rogue pictures is planning another lame-sounding comic book movie called Hack/Slash.

Comicbook, created by Tim Seeley and Stefano Caselli, revolves around Cassie Hack, a young woman who travels the country and takes on homicidal maniacs and serial killers along the way.  The actioner will be heavy on comedy and horror. [Variety]

The film will be directed by Todd Lincoln and scripted by Justin Marks, who’s on a roll lately. Though none of his movies have been made yet, he’s also been hired to write Voltron: Defenders of the Universe, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Supermax (a Green Arrow movie), and Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.

I’m sure this guy’s a real talent and all those movies sound like really great ideas. My only concern is that he stays true to the Green Arrow character and his quiver of boxing-glove, glue-trap, and net arrows.  It’d be a shame if he tried to modernize him, and we ended up with something silly, like an eye-poke arrow, or an arrow with a boot on it.  I mean, where’s the drama, man?

Though I think a rap-metal arrow is something to consider.  You could fire it into a crowd and the bodies would hit the floor.