Depp or Pitt to Play Lead in Millar's Nemesis?!!!

By:   Blair Marnell (Courtesy of:  splashpage.mtv.com)

Last month, Mark Millar announced that "Top Gun" director Tony Scott had signed on to direct an adaptation of Millar and Steve McNiven's "Nemesis." And while the film is still in very early pre-production, Scott is already pursuing some A-list actors according to Millar.  "I just got a call from [Scott], literally about a month ago," said Millar during an appearance on the Richard Bacon radio show (via Bleeding Cool). "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.'"

Earlier this week, Millar told MTV News that “We’re probably about nine months away from production starting, at the earliest, because Matthew [Vaughn]’s got to do 'X-Men: First Class.'"  “Matthew just wants to get ‘X-Men’ done next year then hopefully we’ll just go straight into ‘Kick-Ass 2,’" added Millar. "That’s the plan.”