9. Scott’s Anecdote
Us: Ok, just to put you at ease, his anecdote actually starts, “The guy who wrote Sons of Anarchy, his name’s Kurt Sutter and I think he’s a really good writer, so this is no reflection on him.”
Sutter: Well, there you go. Yeah, Scott definitely does his own thing!
10. Wishful Comic Character
Us: Finally, is there any comic character that you’d like to take a shot at adapting or working with?
Sutter: You know, I’ve been working with Boom! for awhile now—they do the Sons of Anarchy comic, and I sort of got pulled into that world—and I actually have two projects with them now. One was initially a script for a series called Lucas Stand, this sort of demon-hunter thing, which is so out of my milieu. But I sold it to them, and we have a first issue coming out in June. And then I sold them another project about… [Starts to laugh] I almost can’t say it, but I love this f—ing story so much: it’s basically about vigilante nuns!
So I’m sort of coming into the comic book world from the other direction, creating content for other people rather than adapting stuff. But I’m such a big fan of all this superhero stuff. It’s very interesting: being a TV kid, I was introduced to all of that stuff through cartoons—Batman, Superman, all the DC stuff, and then obviously Spider-Man—so I didn’t get it so much through the comic books as I did through the 750 hours of TV I watched every week.
But I will say that, although I haven’t seen [Captain America: Civil War] yet, I love the notion of this Black Panther character, and Chadwick [Boseman] is such a good actor. I just think that to take human issues and s— that still plagues our society, like racism and poverty and s—, and somehow work that into the fiction of a world where superheroes live…that’s just an interesting direction to go in. And I don’t know what direction they’re going to go in with that character, but to me, if you’re a dude who can kill somebody in an instant, and they call you the N-word, what do you do? [Laughs] How can you not f—ing explore that? That dynamic is fascinating to me. But here I go again: expanding the Marvel Universe in the wrong direction. See, this is why I never get hired!
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