Matthew Vaughn to direct film of Mark Millar's 'Superior'

Matthew Vaughn has bought the rights to Mark Millar's comic book Superior.

The story tells the tale of the first superhero to be diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

It'll be the second time X-Men: First Class director has worked on a Millar title, having helmed another of his graphic novels, Kick-Ass.

Millar told Comic Book Movie News: "My Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn has bought the movie rights to Superior from me and Leinil Yu. And Leinil and I am also teaming up with the MS Society, who want to use the character as it's the first superhero with multiple sclerosis."

He added:


Superior follows the tale of a young boy living with multiple sclerosis who is granted a magic wish and transformed into his favourite big screen action hero.

Instead of fighting crime, he uses his abilities to end the war in the Middle East, feed the starving, rescue people from natural disasters and anything else the public wants.

The cinema release for Kick-Ass 2: Balls To The Wall has been scheduled for 2012, so it's likely any work on Superior will have to wait until at 2013.

'Kick-Ass' director Matthew Vaughn to work with Mark Millar once more

Kick-Ass director Matthew Vaughn is set to work with writer Mark Millar once again.

Scottish comics writer Millar wrote Kick-Ass, which the pair brought to the big screen to great success last year. Now, Vaughn has acquired the rights to his two newest properties, Superior and The Secret Service, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Few details are known about the latter-title, but Vaughn is credited as co-creator alongside Millar and Watchmen legend Dave Gibbons. Superior concerns a comics-obsessed teenager with multiple sclerosis who is given the chance to become a superhero - of course, at a heavy cost.

Millar’s other title Nemesis, about a super-villain, is also being prepped for a big-screen adaptation, although Kick-Ass 2 is not yet in production.

Talking about the recent success of comic book movies, Millar told The Guardian earlier this year:


He continued: "Popular novels don't have a lot of ideas. Whereas comics tend to have about 20 great ideas in every issue. So if you buy a comic-book concept it tends to have the legs to be a big movie franchise. What's amazing is there's been about 30 made in the last 10 years and almost all of them have made a lot of money."

Vaughn achieved huge Hollywood success this year with X-Men: First Class.