Superman ist ein Abendkasse, aber der schwierige Teil kommt als nächstes | Die Frage ist nun, ob DC Studios den Schwung mit Filmen über Supergirl und Clayface halten können.
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Some of Superman’s success can also be attributed to the basic fact that he’s a character whose lore most people are familiar with — something the movie acknowledges by glossing over Clark Kent’s tragic backstory and dropping you right into his life as an established superhero. But the same can’t exactly be said for Superman’s cousin, Kara / Supergirl, and B-tier Batman villain Clayface.
Thanks to CBS’s Supergirl and HBO Max’s Harley Quinn animated series, Kara and Clayface have had pretty big presences on the small screen in recent years. But the characters have always had somewhat lower profiles compared to DC’s other heroes and villains. Viewed through one lens, DC Studios following Superman up with Supergirl and Clayface reads as a calculated move to avoid following in the examples of the MCU and DCEU, which were both fleshed out with a series of features focused on the kinds of A-list characters you see on lunchboxes and bookbags. But the upcoming features also feel, at least on paper, informed by the way that studios like Marvel and Disney have gotten into the habit of expanding their genre franchises with ill-conceived spinoffs.
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Seeing Sunday! It’s
Clayface is going to becan interesting sell, but Supergirl I can see being a success its pretty much riding off Superman.
So far, Gunn has been at his BEST when taking a number of C and D list characters and introducing them to viewers. The *Guardians* movies turned a group that was obscure even to comic nerds and made them household names, with only one of them (Peter Quill) getting anything like a traditional origin story.
Supergirl isn’t hard to grasp as a concept if you already have Superman.
And Clayface doesn’t need to be at all ‘comic accurate’. It’s being pitched as a horror movie, so it doesn’t need to be ‘comic book’ at all.
The way they introduced Supergirl in the movie makes me believe they have no intention of creating a movie around that character.
I guess it’s too much to hope for to have Clayface be the Alan Tudyk version from the Harley Quinn cartoon and for his „Stephanie“ to make an appearance. (Maybe we’ll find out if her and Chad really slept together!)
He is… AN ACTOR! HUZZAAAAH!
(Yes, I know none of this will happen. *sigh*)