Marvel Looks To Hire Writers For Movie Projects

Marvel is actively looking to hire scribes to adapt their over 5000 character library into films.

The writers group will be similar to that created by the fellowship program the Walt Disney Co. has been running since 1990. Latter enlists a dozen scribes to work with creative execs to develop films for the studio and TV shows for ABC, the Disney Channel and ABC Family.

Marvel will invite up to five writers each year to work on specific projects, said a source familiar with the deal. Those could include staffers behind Marvel's comic books. Tenpercenteries around town are currently pitching potential candidates with writing samples.

Writer will get paid for the year they are in the group and whatever they write during that time will end up as the property of Marvel. The final decision of whose scripts get used will be made by Kevin Feige, Marvel Studio's president of production, and Marvel will have the option to keep working with the writers in the group after the designated year time period if they so desire.

Potential members are currently being recruited for the first group now and those like Justin Theroux, Mark Protosevich, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely and Zak Penn, who are currently adapting "Iron Man 2," "Thor," "The First Avenger: Captain America" and "The Avengers," respectively, will not be part of the group.

Source: Variety