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The Visual Effects Supervisor for X-Men: First Class, John Dykstra, is going behind the camera for his directorial debut with the feature film Super Zero, an adaptation of an award-winning graphic novel written by Jeff Lemire called Tales From the Farm.

According to Variety, Rhythm & Hues Studios is working with writer John [/link]Carr and producers Steven Gilder and Alec Chorches with Dkystra in the director’s chair. The project will be moving quickly in the next few weeks with securing casting decisions, financing, and /or distribution commitments to prepare for appealing to studios.

Super Zero is an “edgy by family-friendly” story about “an orphaned ten-year-old who goes to live on a farm with his uncle. As their relationship grows strained, he befriends the town’s gas station owner, a former pro hockey player, and the pair escape into a private fantasy world of superheroes and alien invaders.” This will be...

John Dykstra, the visual effects supervisor for “X-Men: First Class,” may soon have the title of director under his sleeve. According to a new report, he might get behind the camera for a movie based on Jeff Lemire's “Tales From the Farm.”

Variety has indicated that the film is set to be re-titled “Super Zero," and a screenplay has already been written by John Carr, with Alec Chorches and Steven Gilder attached to produce. The movie will be live action, but it will use some visual effects, too.

The producers plan to push the film heavily at this year's Comic-Con International in San Diego.

While Dykstra hasn’t directed a feature film thus far, he has been a second unit director, and he’s won a pair of Oscars for his visual effects work in 1978's “Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope" and 2005's "Spider-Man 2."

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You may not know his name, but you certainly know his work. John Dykstra is a 64-year-old visual effects legend who has been working in the effects industry since Silent Running in 1972 and Star Wars: A New Hope in 1977, working on Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Batman Forever, Spider-Man 1 & 2 and even X-Men: First Class. Variety is reporting that Dykstra is now set to make his directorial debut with a project called Super Zero, which is the film title for the graphic novel Tales From the Farm written by Jeff Lemire. VFX house Rhythm & Hues Studios is developing, with Steven Gilder and Alec Chorches producing. Dykstra explained: "I've been so involved in films that are primarily based on the action sequences and over-the-top visuals that this to me was incredibly attractive just based on the depth of the characters and the evocative nature of the story." ...

For any film fan even vaguely interested in the technology and craft of filmmaking, the name John Dykstra should need no introduction. He got started with Silent Running, had a major credit on Star Wars, and was a key participant in the development the Dykstraflex motion-controlled camera system, which made possible many of the complex Star Wars special effects. John Dykstra doesn't actually have a great many film credits -- far fewer than you'd expect from someone who began working in the early '70s -- but now he is set to direct his first film. Super Zero will be based on the graphic novel Tales From the Farm, the first in Jeff Lemire's set of Essex County stories, and the project is expected to make its first big showing next month at Comic Con. Variety [1] says that John Carr has scripted the film based on Jeff Lemire's graphic novel.

Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor John Dykstra ("Spider-Man 2," "X-Men: First Class") has scored first feature as a director - "Super Zero" reports Variety.

Based on Jeff Lemire's graphic novel "Tales From the Farm," the family-friendly story follows an orphaned 10-year-old who goes to live on a farm with his uncle. As their relationship grows strained, he befriends the town's gas station owner, a former pro hockey player, and the pair escape into a private fantasy world of superheroes and alien invaders.

The project is a live action feature with extensive effects sequences to be handled by Rhythm & Hues Studios. John Carr has penned a screenplay while Steven Gilder and Alec Chorches are producing.

According to reports, VFX Supervisor, Oscar-winner John Dykstra ("Star Wars", "Spider-Man 2") will direct the feature "Super Zero", based on the Top Shelf graphic novel "Tales From the Farm," by Jeff Lemire.

"Super Zero" screenplay is by John Carr for producers Steven Gilder and Alec Chorches.

The story follows an orphaned boy, living on a farm, who befriends the town's gas station owner, a former pro hockey player, as they 'escape' into a fantasy world filled with superheroes and alien invaders.

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Academy Awarded John Dykstra, who served as a special effects supervisor on many great projects ever since has finally aligned to make his first feature – Variety reportedly revealed that he just signed on to direct a film named Super Zero, an adaptation of the graphic novel Tales From the Farm, by Jeff Lemire.

John Carr has written a script, and Steven Gilder and Alec Chorches are producing.

At San Diego Convention Center on this July they plan to seize Comic-Con occasion to attract public attention to Super Zero project. Producer Gilder said that Lemire and the publisher, Top Shelf Productions, therefore will make an appearance.

Furthermore, Gilder added the producers aim:

to have a strong hard push in thesenext weeks, either locking cast and/or getting commitments from financing and/or distributors, (then) going to the studios with a package.”

Presumably Super Zero will be live action with extensive vfx sequences.