Did anyone else look at the final trailer for Christopher Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY and think to themselves… “No, I’m good”? Or was that really just me?
I understand the SUPERGIRL film cratered on release. I haven’t seen it. I saw one of the trailers, and it looked like a Guardians Of The Galaxy film. I haven’t read the graphic novel it’s based on, although one article I saw this week suggested it’s a riff on TRUE GRIT, with Supergirl in the Rooster Cogburn role, and I guess the TRUE GRIT structure didn’t provide enough stakes so the film added in the poisoning of the CGI dog. The thing about TRUE GRIT is that it doesn’t really hang if Rooster Cogburn is 21, so I presume there’s more to it than that. I dunno, maybe Jason Momoa as Lobo was supposed to be Rooster Cogburn, but I hear his appearance is basically an extended cameo. All of this means that I don’t have an informed opinion, which means I don’t have an opinion worth listening to.
In the film press I read, there seems to have been a lot of talk about whether this should really have been the second film from the new DC regime, whether there was any appetite for the character, many comments about the massive rounds of audience testing, observations that it plays a hell of a lot more like a James Gunn film than a Craig Gillespie films, lots of backseat driving.
Listen, Supergirl’s tv show lasted literally twice as long as Wonder Woman’s and she was a lot more recent in the culture than the gap between Lynda Carter and Gal Godot. It was a fair call and not the worst idea for a follow-up to the Superman film on the face of it.
It’s possible, however, that they just didn’t know where their audience was.
The other week, I mentioned DOCTOR WHO and their not seeming to know where their audience was landing - if eight year olds are really watching alt-universe Regency fops fucking on BRIDGERTON, then space babies and cuddly toys aren’t landing where your audience is. On the other hand, maybe a cosmic comedic murdery take on Supergirl just wasn’t where people were. Maybe everyone went to see BACKROOMS and OBSESSION instead, because those films knew what they were and weren’t tested to death first.
