{"id":61518,"date":"2014-06-18T08:41:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T07:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=61518"},"modified":"2014-06-18T08:41:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T07:41:47","slug":"malignant-man-james-wan-in-talks-to-direct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/malignant-man-james-wan-in-talks-to-direct\/","title":{"rendered":"Malignant Man James Wan in talks to direct"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/malignant-man.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-61519\" alt=\"malignant man\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/malignant-man.png\" width=\"616\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/malignant-man.png 616w, https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/malignant-man-300x161.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\"><\/a>James Wan&#x2019;s comic book <strong><em>Malignant Man<\/em><\/strong> has been picked up by Fox, and the film is being developed with the <strong><em>Saw<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Fast & Furious 7<\/em><\/strong> director in talks to direct.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2014\/06\/malignant-man-movie-james-wan-fox\/\">Deadline<\/a> reports that Wan is involved in developing the sci-fi\/horror comic, co-written by Michael Alan Nelson&#xA0;and illustrated by&#xA0;Piotr Kowalski,&#xA0;into a film, although his involvement as a director is not yet confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The story focus on &#x201C;Alan Gates, a cancer patient with a terminal diagnosis who is resigned to his fate until he discovers that his tumor is actually a mysterious parasite. Granted a second lease on life and incredible, otherworldly powers, Alan must fight against an evil army buried beneath society&#x2019;s skin, all the while unlocking the secrets of his forgotten past.&#x201D;<\/p>\n<p>Wan has stated that he&#x2019;s done with horror, although <strong><em>Malignant Man<\/em><\/strong> certainly sounds like there&#x2019;s a fair bit of horror in there.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Malignant-Man-James-Wan\/dp\/1608860701\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1403077097&sr=8-1&keywords=malignant+man&tag=scifinowmag-21\">buy <em>Malignant Man<\/em> in paperback for &#xA3;8.73 at Amazon.co.uk.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox acquires James Wan&#8217;s comic book Malignant Man as a possible next film for the Saw director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":61519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2615,3],"tags":[3116,3834],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/malignant-man.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}