DC’s Newest Movie Project is For the Birds

Which costumed hero is D.C. optioning for a movie next? Could it be the long fabled Flash movie? With the Wonder Woman pilot cancelled, could they be bringing Adrianne Palicki instead to the big screen? Or perhaps is there a noir-ish Martian Manhunter flick in the making? The answer may surprise you. Coming from waaay out of left field, D.C. has begun searching for writers to helm a new Hawkman movie.

That’s right, Hawkman, the character with the most convoluted origin and history this side of Donna Troy. The logline for the movie claims that the film will be “Part Indiana Jones/Da Vinci Code, part Ghost,” which it seems will only complicates an already confusing premise. There is hope however, because as the logline continues, it reads “Most incarnations of Hawkman work closely with a partner/romantic interest named Hawkgirl or Hawkwoman in his fight against supervillians.” So, if we’re really lucky, we may get some badass Hawkgirl mace to the (bad guy’s) face action out of this crazy ordeal. But on the flip side, we might get screwed and only get to see Shiera in flashbacks or in scenes where she simultaneously makes love to Carter, and molds an ashtray, while in a spectral form.

A Hawkman movie has the potential to be amazing. However, if the writers attempt to consolidate Hawkman and Hawkgirl’s vast array of origins, I have a feeling the final product is going to be a little…

(Via Screen Rant.)

Have a tip we should know? tips@themarysue.com

Author

Close

Susana Polo

Susana Polo thought she'd get her Creative Writing degree from Oberlin, work a crap job, and fake it until she made it into comics. Instead she stumbled into a great job: founding and running this very website (she's Editor at Large now, very fancy). She's spoken at events like Geek Girl Con, New York Comic Con, and Comic Book City Con, wants to get a Batwoman tattoo and write a graphic novel, and one of her canine teeth is in backwards.

twitter