Smith, who also wrote Falling Down , will soon begin work on a second draft. Although Chaykin is not directly involved with the production he is in regular communication with the producer. I love Howard. We're being pretty true to the comic book. Although there's great interest at the studio and plans are to proceed forward aggressively on the picture, Wedaa's current priority is the filming of Brian DePalma's Mission To Mars .
Plans are also underway for a Mission to Mars comic book.
One revelation is that, although Chaykin is an experienced screenwriter, he will not be writing a script for this movie. It'd be nice to have the chance to write it, but it's nothing I can even consider at this point. If they waited for me, we'd just never see the movie. The comic book property was optioned by David Voegel, president of Hollywood Pictures for the Jacobson Co. to develop and produce. Hollywood Pictures hopes to gain a movie franchise a la Men in Black .