The Comic: Millar taps into every comic-book fan’s fantasy/nightmare with this six-issue yarn about a young boy who realises various villains from the Marvel universe have begun making their way into the real world. Think Last Action Hero…actually, don’t.

The Movie Version: As we’ve hinted at with the above reference to Arnie’s 1992 clunker, this sort of postmodern whimsy is notoriously tricky to pull off without it collapsing under the weight of its own ambition. That said, reign in the number of heroes and villains involved (in the comics, practically everyone on the roster turns up), keep the glib in-jokes to a minimum, and it just might work.

Dream Director: Nobody handles this sort of real-world/fantasy-world mind-fuck better than Charlie Kaufman, so if anyone could tie it all together, it’d be him. Or maybe Brett Ratner…we jest of course! Aaaaaah.

Dream Cast: Hmm, you’d need a wide-eyed newcomer to play the little boy, so we’d like an unknown in that role. As for the heroes and villains, whoever Marvel have got locked into a 100-movie deal can continue their sentence here.