Posted on 12/01/2018 7:48:59 AM PST by EdnaMode
Forty years ago the big holiday hit was Superman, Hollywood’s very first superhero blockbuster. Warner Bros marketed the movie by promising the sky to moviegoers: “You’ll believe a man can fly.”
Now, four decades later, that promise should be rewritten to reflect a new era of superhero blockbusters: “You better believe a woman can fly, too.”
Deadline broke the news this week that Sony is ramping up a Spider-Women film that will feature three female iterations of Marvel’s wall-crawling Spider-Man and a script by Bek Smith. The project joins a growing wave of female superhero projects in the works that will test the conventional assumption that the mask-and-cape genre is a “boys only” sector.
Skeptics would point to the all-female revamp of Ghostbusters as a reminder that gender stunts with genre properties can fall flat. But the success of Wonder Woman has been a lighting-rod moment for a female “super-empowerment” craze. It’s been energized further by the #MeToo movement and representational politics of the moment as well as the changing demographics of the Comic-Con fan world.
The result: More than a dozen female superhero film projects are in the pipeline from Sony, Fox, Disney’s Marvel Studios and Warner Bros. The wave of female heroes extends to television and Hollywood’s new high-profile streaming site launches as well.
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You go GET BACK IN THE KITCHEN!
Fewer and fewer reasons to go to the movies (for guys)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rC5v5dLMW2A
Domestic Violence is Fun!
Comic Book talk alert.
multi verse of Spider totems.
So, Reed & Franklin Richards along with Molecule Man knew of these other “Earth’s” and recreated them. along with every dangerous villain.
Thing weren’t this crazy back in the 70’s to 2000. But that Clone Saga stuff, the children of Gwen Stacey before she was killed, Peter Parker’s deal with Mephisto..
“You better believe a woman can fly, too.”Guess the fact that there was a Supergirl film released in 1984 has utterly escaped the author.
Especially with the development of CGI, the dominance of women in super-action (and other) flicks has been going on for quite a while, as well as even in foreign TV shows, usually shown on PBS, like Downton Abbey, Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, Frankie Drake Mysteries.
Expect to see “Jane Bond” soon.
Hollywood conveniently forgets just about everything. That’s why we have remakes, reboots, and re-imaginings year after year.
No doubt there are many porn sendups of Jane Bond.
I loved Bond movies as much as anyone out there. With political correctness taking no prisoners in destroying society, will kill Bond.
Something Blofeld, Spectre, and all the outraged tailors, humiliated chefs, and jealous husbands failed to do.
These abominations will flop worse than Madonna’s hooters.
LOL
That island where Wonder Woman comes from... How do they reproduce?!
This is all about STEM, the new meme that says that women are the victims of discrimination and are really just as good as men. Then explain why there are mens’ teams, and womens’ teams.
The Lesbian that runs the Marvel thing said she plans to include every Gender there is so stay tuned ,LOL
Maybe figuring the Web-Woman cartoon?
This comes as a big surprise.
I’ve always had a crush on Catwoman and Harley Quinn.
Yeah, that's why they put 'em in daisy duke shorts and other tight clothes. You've got your own cigarette now baby, you've come a long long way.
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