"We really need to find a guy who has that kind of visual style — not unlike Zack Snyder,” Sarkar told MTV News. “You need a guy that’s that kind of visionary to do ‘Rex,’ because it’s a really visually complex world.”
When asked who he envisioned helming “Rex Mundi,” Sarkar didn’t hesitate to name-drop the director who has already tackled graphic novels by luminaries Frank Miller and Alan Moore.“The challenge with ‘Rex’ is that its world is going to be, visually, really different,” Sarkar explained. “Even the comics that Arvid and Eric originally did, which were sort of an alternate Paris of the 1930s… we’ve gone even further out with it, in an interesting way, with the adaptation from Jim [Uhls], who did ‘Fight Club.’”
The thriller, set around mysteries of the Knights Templar and Holy Grail, has had a long road to get to where it’s at now. As Nelson blogged here on Splash Page, even though “Mundi” beat “The DaVinci Code” to publication, Dan Brown’s explosion of popularity initially eclipsed the comic in Hollywood.
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