Nutter Will Direct “Freemind”

Long-time, award-winning televison director David Nutter will jump from the small-screen to the big-screen as the director of the upcoming adapation of “Freemind.”

“[Nutter] is a very character-driven director,” said David Uslan, who’s producing the film with Marc Rosen of Rosen/Obsts Productions and Robert Keyghobad. “This was a very non-comics comic book, based purely around a character — so he’s the perfect person for it.”

Nutter was a producer and prolific director on “The X-Files.”  He has worked in the director’s chair for “Smallville,” “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,” “Supernatural,” “The Sopranoes” and “Band of Brothers.”

“Freemind” was created by longtime comic book creators Bob Layton and David Michelinie , and drawn by Dick Giordano. The series chronicles the adventures of a wheelchair-bound genius who creates an android body in order to live normally, only to discover that he has superhuman powers when occupying the alternate body.

“You know how humans use only 5 percent of their brain? He ends up transferring 100 percent of his mind, so when he goes into this new body, suddenly he has powers that he never thought he would — mental telepathy, psychokinetic powers, etc,” explained Uslan. “The only problem is, he doesn’t want these powers. He just wants to be a typical human being.”

The script writer for the project will be announced at this weekend’s New York ComicCon.

“He doesn’t want to have all these powers and be responsible like Peter Parker,” he added.