Black King
12-16-2009, 04:32 PM
http://g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/701374/Taylor-Swift-In-Line-To-Play-Supergirl.html
Could we have a new Girl of Steel?
Singer, Taylor Swift's popularity is at an all time high. Besides dominating the charts and garnering sympathy from most of America as a recent victim of high-douchery, she's also making her acting debut in the upcoming romcom, Valentine's Day. However, it's possible that another character she may be in line to play would have the power to melt to Kanye's face with an ocular heat ray, should he try to interrupt her again. That character is none other than Supergirl.
While there are many more young actresses in the running for the project, Swift is the apparent favorite. According to info widely released from various "inside sources:"
"The 'Love Story' singer - whose music albums have sold a combined four million copies, making her the best-selling musician of 2009 in the United States - is reportedly the hot favourite of movie bosses desperate to bring the Girl of Steel back to the big screen, despite the original 1984 movie being a critical and box office flop." Also adding: "Hollywood is short of female heroes and the time is right for a new Supergirl."
Would the performance of that last Supergirl movie be relevant to this one's prospects? Grossing just over $14 million, the 1984 film with Helen Slater was notorious for being one of the biggest failures in the genre of superhero films. However, that film still has its proponents to this day who swear by the notion of it being an underrated masterpiece. (You'll get no such advocacy out of me.) However, I think the fact that it LOOKED schlocky and gimmicky, made it very hard for moviegoers to take it seriously. That may not be something that needs to be worried about in this particular case.
As odd as this sounds, this has the potential to be very important to the genre. Should even the rumor of its very existence prove true, it may not have to overcome the obstacles of its predecessor. For one thing, there's no doubt that it would reflect the sensibilities and interests of today's tweens and teens who consider the first season of Hannah Montana as being "back in the day." (So don't look for it to get too wacky with Kryptonian idiosyncrasies.) With Taylor Swift as Kara Zor-El, it would become something that would fall right into the laps of what is a very lucrative demographic -- specifically the one that made the Twilight Saga huge.
Don't look for any elite, Crisis on Infinite Earths nods to geeks on this one. In fact, besides gawking over some leggy pics, I wouldn't expect any geek support, either. However, what has to be considered is the fact that the entertainment industry has miraculously managed to make concepts such as vampire, werewolves, and wizards into fodder for teenage girls. Perhaps this version of Supergirl could be the watershed moment for widening the appeal of "real" superhero movies. If that were indeed to occur, then look for things to explode even more ubiquitously than they have already.
Could we have a new Girl of Steel?
Singer, Taylor Swift's popularity is at an all time high. Besides dominating the charts and garnering sympathy from most of America as a recent victim of high-douchery, she's also making her acting debut in the upcoming romcom, Valentine's Day. However, it's possible that another character she may be in line to play would have the power to melt to Kanye's face with an ocular heat ray, should he try to interrupt her again. That character is none other than Supergirl.
While there are many more young actresses in the running for the project, Swift is the apparent favorite. According to info widely released from various "inside sources:"
"The 'Love Story' singer - whose music albums have sold a combined four million copies, making her the best-selling musician of 2009 in the United States - is reportedly the hot favourite of movie bosses desperate to bring the Girl of Steel back to the big screen, despite the original 1984 movie being a critical and box office flop." Also adding: "Hollywood is short of female heroes and the time is right for a new Supergirl."
Would the performance of that last Supergirl movie be relevant to this one's prospects? Grossing just over $14 million, the 1984 film with Helen Slater was notorious for being one of the biggest failures in the genre of superhero films. However, that film still has its proponents to this day who swear by the notion of it being an underrated masterpiece. (You'll get no such advocacy out of me.) However, I think the fact that it LOOKED schlocky and gimmicky, made it very hard for moviegoers to take it seriously. That may not be something that needs to be worried about in this particular case.
As odd as this sounds, this has the potential to be very important to the genre. Should even the rumor of its very existence prove true, it may not have to overcome the obstacles of its predecessor. For one thing, there's no doubt that it would reflect the sensibilities and interests of today's tweens and teens who consider the first season of Hannah Montana as being "back in the day." (So don't look for it to get too wacky with Kryptonian idiosyncrasies.) With Taylor Swift as Kara Zor-El, it would become something that would fall right into the laps of what is a very lucrative demographic -- specifically the one that made the Twilight Saga huge.
Don't look for any elite, Crisis on Infinite Earths nods to geeks on this one. In fact, besides gawking over some leggy pics, I wouldn't expect any geek support, either. However, what has to be considered is the fact that the entertainment industry has miraculously managed to make concepts such as vampire, werewolves, and wizards into fodder for teenage girls. Perhaps this version of Supergirl could be the watershed moment for widening the appeal of "real" superhero movies. If that were indeed to occur, then look for things to explode even more ubiquitously than they have already.