Zwigoff and Clowes will build "$40,000 Man" movie

Terry Zwigoff will rewrite and direct "The $40,000 Man" with Dan Clowes, with whom he collaborated on "Ghost World," according to an item in the Hollywood Reporter: Link. The tale centers on a famous American astronaut who is badly injured in a car wreck, and is then rebuilt by the government to be a "bionic man" -- but on a skimpy budget of $40,000, he's one cheap cyborg. (thanks, Susannah Breslin!)

[#1 posted by Flying Squid , September 17, 2007 7:22 AM]

With Zwigoff and Clewes doing it, I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt, but that joke was old when Mad Magazine did it in the 70s.

[#2 posted by Ferry , September 17, 2007 8:09 AM]

Hell, Wong Jing did a version of this in 1995 starring Stephen Chau called 60 Million dollar man, though I think in the movie it was really more like 6000 dollars. Lot of slap stick humour and somewhat childish jokes, but thats pretty much what you'd expect from that duo.

[#3 posted by monopole , September 17, 2007 9:01 AM]

Sadly, a Iraq war soldier with 2 amputations (not uncommon w/IEDs) will run $36,000 in iLimbs alone:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/18/robo_hand_gets_big_hand/

[#4 posted by gpeare , September 17, 2007 9:27 AM]

With a score by the Cheap Suit Serenaders, natch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Crumb_&_His_Cheap_Suit_Serenaders

[#5 posted by Brandon Valentine , September 17, 2007 11:08 AM]

This pales in comparison to the news that Rob Schrab and Dan Harmon are working on a feature film script based on Heat Vision and Jack. I smell Oscar.