Michael Allred's quirky superhero Madman finally is being brought to the screen by producer
Robert Rodriguez and his Troublemaker Studios shingle. The modern tale is an eye-popping riff on the Frankenstein myth, wherein a dead car-crash victim is reincarnated by mad scientists and stitched back together in the form of a scarred super-being with clairvoyant senses who wears a costume to hide his hideous visage.
Swimming With Sharks helmer George Huang directs and is co-writing the script with Allred, whose participation will reflect the hands-on approach that Frank Miller indulged in with
Sin City. Rodriguez was long attached to the project, but handed it over to Huang after the two bonded over their first features back in their Columbia Studios days and eventual working relationship on
Spy Kids 3. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide