Every now and again a director tasks me. Challenges me. Taunts me with their information. Recently it’s been Robert Rodriguez. He’s been taunting me with the knowledge that he was going to do a ‘Superhero’ movie, after the film he’s about to work on.

Now Robert’s been incredibly secretive with me about his next project. In an almost ‘hide and seek’ sort of way. But basically, all I know about his NEXT film is that involves two kids, is apparently wild and is not BEDHEAD.

Well, when Robert mentioned at South By Southwest that he had a Superhero film in the works my mind immediately began reeling. Taking in every single thing I knew about Robert’s comics taste, which are... similar to my own, and began making a list of characters that Robert would be interested in making a film on based solely upon Robert being a friend. This would be like you looking at a close friend and trying to figure out which of the 75 superheroes you’ve discussed in the last 45 minutes he would most want to turn into a film.

Well, this was of course completely unpublishable. I mean. The fact that Robert MAY be doing a Superhero movie was ludicrous, until I knew which one. And Robert was the last person I wanted to find out about it from.

You see. He tasks me and I shall have him. So.... I deployed a Robotic Drone to monitor each of the comic properties that I felt Robert was interested in. Scouring for every bit of knowledge I could gather. And tonight... at approximately 2:45 in the morning, the Robotic Drone came back with the golden chalice.

MADMAN

That’s what my sources tell me. Apparently, Robert has just acquired the film rights and is set to work with Allred to create what would be one of the coolest friggin comic movies to be made this side of HELLBOY.

According to my guys in the monitoring room, Allred will be coming down this summer to write this sucker up with Robert as the possible film after his children’s flick.

Folks... I believe this is a perfect mix of project and director. The mere thought of a Robert Rodriguez MADMAN is... well numbing. Personally I’ve felt that action and comedy were Robert’s strongest suits and MADMAN is the absolute perfect mixture for Robert’s manic directing skills. And in a lot of ways.... Well, this is as exciting if not a bit more so than the SPIDER-MAN project because... Well, frankly David Koepp doesn’t instill a lot of faith in me at the moment with that property.

You know. With Guillermo Del Toro making HELLBOY. With Bryan Singer making X-MEN. And with Robert Rodriguez making MADMAN... We live in incredibly cool times. (unless of course my sources on this one are wrong, in which case they’ll need to be flogged till the flesh no longer hangs from their bones.

Can you imagine where Robert would take ol Frank Einstein’s third eye? Or what he’d have Frank do to his doctors? WAAAAY to friggin cool.

Now a bit of a warning about this story. It isn’t scripted yet, so you’re gonna have to remain calm and collected on this one for quite a while I bet. It won’t be getting started till sometime after our computers don’t work anymore.