This year, James Gunn’s DC experiment officially launched, Superman fighting Lex Luthor is a standard, table-setting adventure that didn’t make me beg for a Superman 2, but also didn’t let Superman watch his father die in a tornado when he could’ve easily saved him with superspeed without anyone noticing.
The next DC event is hosted by director Craig Gillespie, best known for his work on I, Tonya and Cruella.
From the trailer, it looks like Supergirl is traveling through space when she meets and joins a young woman who is in the midst of some shit with intergalactic bounty hunter Lobo, played by Jason Momoa.
Between DC movies and Minecraft, Jason Momoa’s entire livelihood is on life support, receiving nonstop intravenous drips from Warner Bros studios. Depending on how negotiations go, Momoa is about to become the face of Netflix or the new Third Reich.
I pray he acted his ass off in this movie. He’s about to get traded to the Washington Wizards.
What makes Supergirl different from Superman?
Supergirl has always been one of my favorite comic book characters.
Sent from a dying planet as a teenager to protect her baby cousin, only to be knocked off course and arrive to find her baby cousin is a grown ass man fighting monsters and catching falling airplanes from the sky.
Kara never gets a childhood on a Kansas farm, learning from Ma and Pa Kent.
Here’s what Gillespie said about the difference between his protagonist and James Gunn’s Superman:
“This is really an anti-hero story. She’s got a lot of baggage and a lot of demons coming into this, which is very different from where Superman is in his life.”
Seems like we’re in for a classic case of someone “fighting their demons” story but with super strength and aliens, which is all I ever ask for.
If you didn’t love watching Superman get pelted for 2 hours, letting everyone and anyone beat his ass up and down the globe, literally, then I think you’ll love Supergirl, a character who appears like she’ll choke a bitch if the situation requires it. Or even if it doesn’t. She’s choking people.
Give me a Superman who chokes people. Go away, Zack Snyder, I’m not talking to you.
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