Two entire Sundays have passed since the last Superman announcement. Rumor had it that we were getting one on Easter Sunday, but apparently someone at Warner Bros realized that would be quite poorly reported.
I imagine this is that story.
According to Variety, Antje Traue has nabbed the part of Faora, General Zod’s right hand woman. You might remember her from Pandorum, but I’m sadly unfamiliar with her work.
It’s long been rumored that Man of Steel would bring back a Krypton villainess, though it was believed that it would be Ursa. But Faora was the inspiration for Ursa, so Zack Snyder is simply going to the original source for the character — Action Comics #779 472.
Faora is, as you probably know, an expert at the Kryptonian martial art of Horo-Kanu. She also hates men. Really, really hates them. She imprisoned and tortured over 23 Krypton men, which is the kind of thing that will earn you 300 years in the Phantom Zone, but a medal in Themyscira, so pick your location for your death camps more carefully if you live in DC Comics.
It will really, really be interesting to see how the movie blogosphere perceives that after Sucker Punch. So many essays are going to be written. So many. And none of them are going to be kind.
ETA: I forgot to give a shout-out to Latino Review, who initially discovered it was Faora, not Ursa, in Man of Steel.
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To remember her from “Pandorum”, you would have to remember “Pandorum” in the first place. If it hadn’t played to mostly empty shows for the 2 weeks that it ran at my theater, I’d have no other reminder that it existed other than NetFlix’ constant insistance that I “might like” it based on my interest in “Starship Troopers”.
Also, holy shit, hasn’t “Sucker Punch” already been pretty much percieved as a piece of shit that people stopped talking about 2 weeks after it came out? By the time “Superman” rolls out, that film will have gone the way of “Pandorum” (which you might like, based on your interest in “Sucker Punch”). Your girl boner for Snyder’s most recent film has us concerned.
From what I remember she kicked some ass and spoke with a French(?) accent. Seemed comfortable with genre stuff. I didn’t hate Pandorum. Thought it was an interesting failure. So that’s one-up on Sucker Punch.
Never heard of her before, but she looks the part. As long as Snyder doesn’t dress her in a bra, thong and stockings and claim it’s third wave feminism.
So, there’s never been a director (coughJuddApatowcough) that the blogosphere decided was misogynist, and kept harping on repeatedly with each successive film? Really? Never?
Welcome to the Internet, you must be new! That *would* explain the undisguised glee at using the phrase “girl boner” which you just heard somewhere, think is awesome, and are sure the Internet would TOTALLY appreciate because it, like, hates girls or whatever.
So, going on the assumption that you’re new to CHUD and websites in general, I feel I should point out you can click on my name and find all the times I’ve mentioned Sucker Punch post-release, which would be all of three times, not counting the review/column I did on it, which is sort of customary on a movie website.
Of those mentions, one was about Amy Adams and reflected the fact that Warner Bros was trying to deflect the SP discussion (it was its opening weekend, and it was doing poorly), and turn eyes towards Superman. CHUD is a movie website, so we tend to mention that kind of thing. The other mention was about an actor who had just been in Sucker Punch. Again, you’re clearly new to movie sites, but it’s customary to mention the actor’s last film and whether or not they were good in it. There were a lot of films released in March, it was a bit of a fluke it happened to be the one that doesn’t give you “a guy boner.” (OMG, see what I did there?)
And because this is a movie website, and because I read a lot of other websites, I like to try and guess the future conversations a director’s work might inspire based on past reactions I’ve seen. We throw in remarks like that from time to time, try to give the news a little more flavor when we’re writing about it. It’s crazy, I know. You’d have to be *obsessed* to mention that actors and directors made past films.
But please, continue, and welcome to the world of movie sites. You’ll be really unique on the Internet with the whole smart-ass thing. No one else does that.
i cannot wait for something that shows the visual look of this film
Awesome.
I, too, take serious offense to JohnDoe’s post! Using an apostrophe to indicate the possessive form of a word that ends in X?! For fuck’s sake!
(Just foolin’ around. On topic, this woman is imposing AND really attractive. Where was she when they were casting Wonder Woman?)
You’re obviously not new to writing on the internet yourself, which I can clearly see in the way that you hammer home the same sarcastic point at the end of each paragraph. Well done. I’ll leave it to the pros from now on.
Still, I’m sticking to my guns on the “No one’s going to really seriously discuss Sucker Punch when Man of Steel comes out” thing. It’s a misfire, and while it got a lot of press on sites like this, it was a relatively small misfire, as Snyder hadn’t exactly been untouchable up to that point, and no big names had their careers hurt by the failure of the film. While Snyder may sneak some of his trademarks into Superman (something involving speed and/or ramps, perhaps), they’re completely different animals, so there probably won’t be much in the way of comparisons between the two. Talk of “Sucker Punch” will most likely be relegated to career retrospective pieces or mentioned in passing if “Man of Steel” is a big hit, as there will likely be the “a strong return to form after the failure of…” comments.
While it was more highly regarded, or at least not universally pissed on, “Scott Pilgrim” springs to mind as a film that got a similar amount of attention from sites like this (was it Devin that just wouldn’t stop beating that particular dead horse?) that also underperformed. If Edgar Wright’s next project is closer in style or tone to his earlier works, “Pilgrim” probably won’t be discussed too much when that next project rolls around. Just as HIS next film will be touted as “from the director of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz”, “Man of Steel” will always be from the director of “300”, “Watchmen”, and “We don’t need to talk about 2010-2011, so please move along”.
I think I thought of girl boner in about a half a second. Yeah, I’m sure I heard it somewhere at some point, and I only used that term because “girl hard-on” is just too silly, and I really, really wanted to be gender-specific in my remark. By the look of your response, you clearly put more thought into my girl boner (I mean my use of the term, not my…man, I’m digging a hole here) than I did, which kind of killed the fun of it, so from now on, it will be JUST boner, so as not to not to upset the female writer on the site.
Also, while I’m here and being read on the interwebs by an actual CHUD writer, I’d like to plug my next project, which is “Abduction”, starring the (and I swear I’m using this for the last time) girl boner-inducing Taylor Lautner! In it, I’m sure a bunch of shit happens, and most of it poorly-acted, but it features CHUD-favorites Jason Isaacs (who I got to be the body double for) and Alfred Molina (who really, really tried to say nice things to me about Pittsburgh), so at least a few of the 120 minutes or so will be highly watchable!
Read the name Faora and immediately remembered a comic book I had long before Action Comics #779. Try Action Comics #472. Link: http://superman.wikia.com/wiki/Faora. The character has been around a long time.
My bad. I had double-checked it (I’m bad with issue numbers) on that very site, but got the numbers swapped with the Variety story. #779 is another Faora, a metahuman from Pokolistan.
I will correct it immediately. Thanks.
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