Marvel have a lot of projects on their plate for the future so, in order to combat this, the comic book company is developing a writers program with the intention of tackling all their planned adaptations.
Variety reports that the program will be modeled after Walt Disney’s fellowship program whereby writers are taken on and given the chance to work with executives in the development of new projects.
Marvel will aim to recruit more than half a dozen writers a year; all of whom will have to sign non-disclosure agreements and non-negotiable contracts even before meeting executives. If successful, they will be contracted for a year where anything they create during that period will be owned by Marvel. Further, Marvel will have first look/last refusal on anything the writers create and or have created for up to 24 months post-contract. In return, writers will earn a reported 100k. Is this cattle-call desperation?
You’d think after “Iron Man” made half a billion dollars, Marvel could afford to just pay big name writers to write for them. Is this a way to get fresh, new minds and ideas? A simple cost cutting measure? A business prospect? A way to get writers to do whatever they want?
You can read more about Marvel’s future in The Playlist’s two part preview “Beyond Iron Man 2.” The first installment focuses on Iron Man 2, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers while the second looks at Iron Man 3, Ant-Man, S.H.I.E.L.D., Captain America 2 and The Avengers 2.
