Adam Scott is best known for a myriad of roles, like his turn as the likable love interest in the sitcom Parks and Rec, the jerk brother in the movie Step-Brothers, and his incredibly intense and multifaceted Lumon employee in the psychological thriller series Severance. He has played a lot of interesting characters, and as a self-described “comic book nerd,” a role in a comic-based movie seemed like a good fit, but unfortunately, the movie he signed on for, 2024’s Madame Web, was a box office bomb.
When talking to Comic Book about his upcoming season of Severance, Scott was asked if he could see himself in another comic movie, and he responded:
“I’m not sure. I think that it’s a genre that I, certainly, as an audience member, participate in. I like seeing all those movies, I watch them all.”
While promoting Madame Web, Scott talked about his own comic book origin as a kid who grew up buying comics from the Atlantis Fantasyworld comic book shop in California. He said on The Jess Cagle Show:
“I was really into comics as a kid. I actually grew up in Santa Cruz, California, where they shot Lost Boys. And the comic book store in [1987’s The Lost Boys] was the comic book store that I would go to just about every day to get all my latest comic books. And my next door neighbor owned it, Joe Ferrara, and so I would go in there every day, and he would have the latest comics that I was interested in.”
I love that story! As a huge fan of The Lost Boys, I get how that would be the perfect introduction to the world of comics. I would have wanted to shop and hang out there too. It sounds like Scott just doesn’t know what the future holds, but I hope he is able to get back into the world of comic book films, and make one that holds up a little better. He’s a fantastic actor, and it would be cool to see him step into that world.
