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Yesterday, It’s On the Grid announced that a Hawkman movie was in development. Producers Adrian Askarieh, Gregory Noveck and Will Hacknerand are overseeing it for Warner Bros, and are in need of a few good screenwriters.
The idea that a Hawkman movie is in development isn’t too much of a surprise. Warner Bros wants to mine the DC stable as thoroughly as Marvel is mining theirs, and Hawkman is a dude, which makes him way more marketable than Wonder Woman.
What is a surprise is the approach they’re taking. Let me just reproduce the logline in full:
Part INDIANA JONES/DA VINCI CODE, part GHOST tentpole about the fictional superhero that appears in D.C. Comic books. He used archaic weaponry and large, artificial wings attached to a harness made of the Nth metal that allows flight. Most incarnations of Hawkman work closely with a partner/romantic interest named Hawkgirl or Hawkwoman in his fight against supervillains. Based on the DC comic.
Because when you think Hawkman, you think Indiana Jones and his milquetoast imitators! Yes, Carter Hall was an archeologist who liberated items from a museum for his crime-fighting, but the similarity is slight. The emphasis has always been on his being the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian prince…who was then retconned into an alien … who was then retconned into an Egyptian prince who was exposed to the alien Nth metal, forcing him into a constant cycle of reincarnation.
But hey, completely snubbing a character’s real origin and abilities worked beautifully for Jonah Hex. Do that again!
To be fair, this is still in early, early stages of development and it’s a logline designed to be punchy. And Indiana Jones has become a shorthand for archeologist, leading to permanent depression in those sturdy academics who spend their lives on pot shards.
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Lame. Where is my Booster Gold movie? On the upside if Hawkman is green lit then we have the just as boring Marvel Comics’ Falcon to look forward to if they haven’t shoehorned the dude into the Avengers movie. If they haven’t, then let’s get cracking on a Defenders movie!!! There you go, true believers!!!!
I don’t know how this wouldn’t look moronic rendered live action. Perhaps this could be the Jack Black superhero parody we’ve been told we’re pining for…
The kids with the Hawkman lunchboxes get beaten up by the kids with the Batman and Superman lunchboxes.
Though points if they cast Brian Blessed and let him shout a lot.
Sounds like Hawkman could be the Thor of the DC movie universe in that he sounds almost too ridiculous to work on his own without any sort of ties to the “real world”, which hasn’t been established yet. Maybe he’ll fit in better with whatever gets set up by Green Lantern, if they try to work him into future JLA continuity at all.
I won’t go see it unless the yank the costumes and special effects tech used for the hawkmen in the 1980 Flash Gordon film out of moth balls. That’s THE BEST!
Seems I read some of these same comments on the board before Transformers came out. And Thor. And I know that NO ONE HERE will be going to see that Green Lantern turkey. Yet all these films tend to do elbows-and-assholes money. Go figure.
Yawn.
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