Gal Gadot is hot. But, it’s disgusting that all Hollywood has to offer is comic book retakes. They are bankrupt, like their benefactors in DC.
I believe it was the late Robert Osbourne, host of TCM who said it best.
In the early days of film, the public were raised on the classic literature, so the movie producers made movies of the classics.
Today’s youth has been raised on comic books and “graphic novels”, so the producers make movies of the same.
As I have said in the past, fifty years ago a superhero movie would be made on the cheap, in black and white, crappy special effects, a true “B” movie, to be shown at a drive-in theater double feature as the bottom half of HERCULES AND THE MOON MAIDENS.
Today they are given the top billing, financing and CGIs.
Our youth today truly live in an age of fantasy.
Trust me, there are plenty of good ideas in Hollywood. The problem is that the people who actually make the decisions about what gets made are bean counters who are concerned about return on investment. The way they look at it is why risk a couple hundred million making something that no one has ever heard of, that they have no experience or predictability in marketing, when you can spend that same money to make something that everyone has heard of and which they know has a large audience, that they know how to promote, and that will most likely guarantee they’ll make money.