Noah Hawley’s ‘Doctor Doom’ Movie Will Be A Political Thriller
By Ethan Anderton/March 23, 2018 10:30 am EST
The Observer recently had a chance to talk to Noah Hawley about his developing Doctor Doom movie, and while he wasn’t prepared to offer up specific details, he did provide a hint as to what kind of approach he’s taking:
The general prospect of a villain’s origin story doesn’t sound all that enticing. However, we’ve also never gotten a movie like this before to effectively judge whether it can work or not. It’s interesting that Hawley wants to focus on Victor Von Doom as the leader of the fictional nation of Latveria, much like Black Panther focuses on T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) as the king of Wakanda. The difference, of course, is that the man who is the protagonist in his origin story could turn out to be the antagonist of another.
However, it remains to be seen if audiences are interested in a movie about a villain with no superheroes to fight. We’re talking about a comic book movie that doesn’t fit into the parameters of what we’ve come to expect from the genre. But maybe that’s exactly what this genre needs. We’ve seen innovation in the form of an R-rated drama like Logan and a raunchy, meta comedy like Deadpool, so it would make sense that the studio behind those movies is still interested in shaking up what the formula for what a comic book movie can be It’s certainly a different approach to what Marvel Studios is doing, and that’s not a bad thing.
Will the Doctor Doom Movie Ever Get Made?
For Hawley’s part, he’s not privy to what’s going on behind the scenes, “That’s not clear to me yet. I haven’t had any larger Marvel-based conversations about if they have plans for the X-Men universe or if they have plans for their other Fox-controlled comic properties. I would have to imagine there’s a plan in a drawer somewhere.”
