Star Wars legend Mark Hamill has signed on to direct the movie adaptation of his comic book series The Black Pearl.

The Black Pearl won’t be Hamill’s first foray into movie directing as he directed Comic Book: The Movie which was released back in 2004.

The Black Pearl initially started life as a movie script but was then adapted to the cult comic book series it is now.

“We started getting interest from some pretty big producers a while ago. But then it started to take on a life of its own where it became this huge mega-budget comic book movie. This was the exact opposite of what we wanted to do.”

Well, it seems that Hamill has got what he wanted as the budget for The Black Pearl has been set at a measly (in comic book adaptations at least) 7 million dollars.

Mark Hamill will direct while he shares writing duties with Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson.

Photo courtesy of www.comicbookmovie.com

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