Released by : Touchstone/ Spyglass Entertainment
ETA: Unknown
Development Status: Script Revisions

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Thursday 6th March 2003: Mage Update:
Spyglass Entertainment have charged the producer of the movie Andrew Cosby with rewriting the script. The movie is alos being produced by Ross Richie.

Wednesday 28th August 2002 : Mage Update:
Work continues to progress on the upcoming Mage movie with word coming in that Director Zack Snyder is hard at work on the script with John Rogers. Producer Ross Richie had this to say about the project "Right now we're real happy, John Rogers is back on the project." It is thought production may start in Feb/Mar next year with a 2004 release date.

13th August 2002: Mage Update:
F. Gary Gray has left the Mage director's chair. He's off to do The Italian Job remake instead. Now, a guy named Zack Snyder, who makes his directorial debut, will helm the film.

3/4/02
Looking back to our previous update in August of last year, this was already known, but Wizard World announced officially that F. Gary Gray will direct Mage for Spyglass Entertainment. The article also included a couple of quotes from Mage's creator Matt Wagner.

"I think Gary's a great choice," Wagner said. "He handles drama very well, he handles character very well, he handles comedy very well and he handles action very well. All those elements are really prevalent in the 'Mage' screenplay."

Gray is also in line to direct the remake of The Italian Job (check out the page we posted last week for more details), but it looks like this one may go first.

Mage - the movie is to follow Mage: The Hero Discovered, "Wagner's inaugural 15-issue Mage mini-series from 1985". Adam Simon (Bones, Brain Dead), is doing a polish on John Rogers' screenplay. Click here for the full article at Wizard World.

Also if your interested in Mage's creator Matt Wagner take a look at his official site.

6/8/01
Writer John Rogers has been talking to CHUD about Mage now that they have a director attached in the form of F. Gary Gray (The Negotiator). "Gray's a great choice, He's not going to do some big, dumbed-down slick superhero movie, he's going to do it gritty and cool and right. We don't have some old guy who thinks this is kitschy or an action figure franchise, we've got one of 'us'. Whether they keep me around or not, after a year's worth of drafts on this thing, I sleep well knowing he's the captain of the ship." (originally appeared at CHUD).


Mage is a comic book property that has been in development for quite a few years now. Mage was created by acclaimed comic book artist Matt Wagner and for a good few years of the development process Kevin Smith was continually talked about in connection with writing the script for the Mage movie. But his scheduling didn't work out so had to drop out of the scripting duties.

Also rumoured to be interested in starring in a Mage movie are Robin Williams and Vince Vaughn, we stress these were just rumours from a couple of years back, but we did hear that Mage creator Matt Wagner did speak to Vince Vaughn about the role.

The option on making a Mage movie is held by Critical Mass Entertainment who are developing it for SpyGlass Entertainment. SpyGlass ,as you might know, brought us the mega hit The Sixth Sense a couple of years back. Producing the movie are Andrew Crosby and Ross Richie.

Hired to write the script after Kevin Smith had to drop out was a John Rogers and Matt Wagner had this to say about that "Everybody on the production end loved his material and the minute I read his stuff, I knew we'd found our guy. John's really got the right combination of action, wit and heart that'll bring Kevin Matchstick to life on screen. Plus, he's a huge fan of the comic. Bingo. It's not going to be a panel-by-panel rendition. I don't think it should be a panel-by-panel rendition. The whole point is to catch the various high points and a lot of the visual things that people remember from it, like for instance, Kevin falling through the elevator. It's just important to catch those scenes. They don't necessarily have to be in exactly the same points they were in the book. that's what translation is all about."

The movie then went forward to Touchstone who have asked for several tweaks to the script, the word on the script is very positive, the movie has had budget approval of around $70 million and matt Wagner had this to say about how the adaptation of Mage is coming along "Nobody has yet used the word green light, but they keep approving everything that comes through!"

The rights also came up for renewal and thankfully Spyglass renewed them, which is always a good sign that a company is serious about getting a movie made. Further tweaks are being made to the script and a hunt for a director is the next item on the agenda for the producers.

The most recent word on a Mage movie is that it has a date pencilled in on Spyglass's own website for release in December 2002, can this be true, is there enough time to get that done? I suppose there is if things start hotting up on the project

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