"Youngblood" creator Rob Liefeld revealed on Twitter earlier today that "New Moon" director Chris Weitz had drafted a script in 1996 for a movie based on Badrock, one of the fan-favorite Youngblood superheroes. Describing the screenplay as a "Beavis/Butthead/South Parky take on a kid superhero," Liefeld said studio New Line balked at the film's initial budget and eventually dropped the project.

I got in touch with Liefeld to find out more info about the "Badrock" movie that never happened, how Weitz got involved and some details about the film's plot.

MTV: So if I understand your updates on Twitter correctly, Chris Weitz wrote a "Badrock" script in 1996? How did he get connected with the character?

ROB LIEFELD: New Line Cinema optioned "Badrock" as a film. They dug the story of a kid whose life was so crap that he took his father's experimental, government-funded super serum and transformed himself into a gigantic, indestructible boy of stone.

It was another film in the style of "The Mask," which had been so successful for New Line. Studio chief Mike Deluca hired Chris Weitz and his brother Paul to write the script. They had just finished "Antz" for Dreamworks and they accepted the assignment and turned in a great, great script.

MTV: Did you ever meet with Chris Weitz about it?

LIEFELD: Yeah, we met several times, we talked about the comics. The source material was a two-part origin story I had done for "Youngblood: Strikefile" that dealt with the aftermath of the day Badrock transformed and the government took him into protective custody to study him.

MTV: Did Youngblood appear in the script? Who was the bad guy?

LIEFELD: The bad guy was Blackrock, a candidate for the super-soldier project that Badrock's father was developing who takes an amped-up version of the same serum in order to defeat Badrock after he escapes. ... There was no Youngblood appearance, but a mention of an organization that could maximize Badrock's powers and abilities is suggested at the close of the film... in the same vein as [Nick] Fury in "Iron Man."

MTV: You mentioned it was a "Beavis & Butthead/Southpark"-style story. What else can you say about it?

LIEFELD: The Beavis/Butthead/South Park of it all was the approach to Badrock as a real kid from a broken home with such irreverence and attitude. He super-farts and knocks a group of kids unconscious at a concert, and stage-dives and nearly kills the kids in the mosh pit.

He quickly realizes the extent of his power and strength and has some real teenage anger with a destructive shell to express all his frustration. He has a teen friend who is helping hide him, and it's very much in the vein of Tom Hank's "Big." The script was sweet, funny and action-packed.

MTV: You said studios balked at the price tag, but how close did it get to being produced?

LIEFELD: When the script came in at the start of 1997, the entire movie industry was cutting costs left and right, and the budget on the "Badrock" film was tagged at close to $75 million. New Line wanted a movie closer to $55 million.

The climactic battle between Badrock and Blackrock was very similar to the Hulk vs. Abomination scene, and the pair were going to destroy Los Angeles, tearing up the Groman's Chinese Theatre, Hollywood and Vine... it was a huge, all-CGI fight. The cost of Badrock being CGI the entire film became a budgetary problem. You can see that the "Fantastic Four" films never bit on that aspect with The Thing either.

Chris and Paul Weitz followed all the studio notes and turned in a scaled-down script, then "Lost in Space" came out and tanked for New Line, following disappointing returns on "Spawn," and they backed away from big-budget films for several years until diving into "Lord of the Rings."

I've followed the careers of both Weitz brothers with great enthusiasm, and they have proven over and over again how ridiculously talented they are. I believe this is the only script they wrote that has not been produced. I'll probably adapt their "Badrock" script as a comic book in the next year: "Badrock: The Comic Book Adaptation Of The Movie That Never Was."

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