Comics writer Stan Lee is rewriting the first draft of his new superhero movie Foreverman for Paramount Pictures with Hellboy co-writer Peter Briggs.

“I’m producing this with Bob Evans for Paramount, and I get to work with a lot of great directors and writers nowadays,” Lee said in an interview. “Peter Briggs is coming from England next week. He sent me the first draft, and we will be working on a rewrite together.”

Lee declined to divulge any details about Foreverman, saying that he may change substantially during development. But Lee added that he created the new superhero much as he helped create Marvel Comics’ Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, The Hulk, Daredevil and many other classic heroes. The Foreverman character will be an Everyman kind of guy who fights criminals and tries to save the world, but is plagued with his own personal problems, which he often has more trouble solving.

Lee said he doesn’t have much trouble coming up with new sorts of super powers, but often gets asked what kind of super gifts he would want himself. “Immortality” is the usual answer. But after finding himself forgetting people’s names, like that of his co-writer Briggs, Lee said he now answers super-memory. “When someone comes over and shakes my hand, I used to say, ‘Pleasure to meet you,’ and they would tell me we just had lunch the day before,” Lee said. “So now I say, ‘It’s a pleasure to see you,’ just in case I forgot that I’ve seen them before.” Foreverman is expected to shoot sometime in 2007.

Source: SciFi Weekly Issue #448