Well, Frank “Boom Boom” Balkin was up to the task, and got the straight info on the rumored “Supergirl” film reported on Filmjerk.com.
It turns out that (unbeknownst to the DC editors I queried) Akiva Goldsman really does have a Supergirl film in development. However, the assertion that the film consists of nothing more than a crunched down abridgment of the first fifty issues of my run on the comic is apparently without foundation. According to Goldsman’s people, the treatment would not be a version of any one particular Supergirl, but instead an agglomeration of several different comic book incarnations…the aim being to produce a dark and less-than-sunny version, which doesn’t sound like either version of Supergirl as I’ve written her. Based on that info, my guess is that the alleged treatment included on the Filmjerk website was a summary of the first fifty issues prepared by someone working for Goldsman as an informational piece (which would explain the specific references to the comics) rather than something by Goldsman himself intended to serve as a film treatment.
Nevertheless, I was dead wrong in thinking that the entire report was without foundation, and Filmjerk scooped everybody, including me. Although I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised, considering dámņëd near every DC character with any name recognition is in development these days. But because of that, it means very little that Goldsman is attached to it at this point. I mean, heck, who’d’ve thought that a Kevin Smith-generated Superman script based on Superman vs. Doomsday–the most high-profile, media-reported comic book confrontation in a decade–would have burned alive in development hëll? So those of you worrying that a Supergirl film would be a camp repeat of “Batman Forever,” keep in mind the odds of any film ever being made are very slim.
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I’m not worried about a Supergirl film being a camp repeat of “Batman Forever”…I’m worried about it being a camp repeat of the first Supergirl movie!
A Supergirl movie, huh? How about DC giving us the Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman films they’ve been promising before Supergirl. And don’t get me started about the Wonder Twins…..
Don’t take me Wrong But, I had my Share of Superman and Batman movies, Tv series, Cartoon, ETC.
And start to make Super or BAt related movies is like actualy doing a Superman Or Batman movie. I don
It still boggles my mind that the man who “wrote” the scripts (can we call any of that writing?) for two of the dimmest movies ever made won an Oscar. I haven’t seen “A Beautiful Mind” yet, and it may deserve its accolades, but I think that Goldsman was disqualified from even being allowed to watch the Oscars after his Bat-fiascos. Nonetheless, he has an Oscar when so many far more talented writers can’t even get jobs, let alone accolades.
“I don’t have anything agaisnt Supergirl in Particular but DC could make a lot or ” cheaper” movies and promote Other Characters.”
The immediate problem with this thinking is that it flies in the face of potential investors, AND tie-in merchandise marketeers. People who would stand to benefit economically from a comic book-based movie usually prefer to back characters with an already proven track record.
Hey, Peter! Perhaps you ought to pitch a Supergirl screenplay treatment, since Goldsmith’s already cribbing from you…. 🙂
KET
” from a comic book-based movie usually prefer to back characters with an already proven track record.”
well, Blade doesn