Johnny Depp And Brad Pitt To Star In NEMESIS?

As you know, 20th Century Fox bought the screen rights to NEMESIS based on the graphic novel written by Mark Millar (Kick-Ass, Wanted) and illustrated by Steven McNiven. Published by Marvel this past spring, it’s currently on its second issue. Scott Free will produce and Tony Scott is set to direct. They’re moving fast with this project, already talking to a screenwriter for the adaptation. Graphic novelist Millar who’ll also serve as executive producer of the project previously said he wanted Johnny Depp to lay Nemesis and Brad Pitt as Blake Morrow. Via Bleedingcool, Millar spoke on Richard Bacon Show and revealed that those two A-listers are exactly the stars that Scott is thinking as well…

That’s who the director’s going after, yeah.
Tony Scott, brother of Ridley Scott… I just got a call from him, literally about a month ago… it was one of those very surreal things. This is a $150 million budget… he said “Who do you fancy for it?”… I said “I dunno, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp” so he said “That’s good, we’ll give them a call”.

NEMESIS is about Batman-like billionaire genius Matt Anderson who becomes a masked villain, out to avenge the death of his beloved parents who were also villains. His number one target is police chief Blake Morrow who captured his parents. Nemesis’ cop-fighting vendetta brings him to the masterplan of taking D.C. and President hostage and finally getting his hand on Morrow. You can read his complete plot over at Wikipedia,