Post by formersamhmd on Nov 20, 2017 12:57:21 GMT
Nov 19, 2017 12:54:01 GMT @deblovesbeccy said:
From what I heard both 'Catwoman' and 'Elektra' made more money at the Box Office than the entire 3 'Punisher' movies and 'The Punisher: War Zone' was meant to be a sequel to the 2004 movie but Thomas Jane walked out of the series. Both 'Catwoman' and 'Elektra' were horrible but the problem with 'Catwoman' was one of the biggest examples of sexism towards female characters in comic book movies. It was not about Selina Kyle and they used a script for another movie and made some changes to it and called it 'Catwoman.' They wouldn't dare make a 'Batman' movie about a guy named Todd who could turn into a bat and drank people's blood or a 'Superman' movie with a blonde surfer named Mick that had a flying surfboard but that is exactly what they did with the 'Catwoman' movie and they stupidly thought it would be successful. I went to the movie threatres to see 'Catwoman' when it came out and a lot of people were saying "what is this" and "that is not Catwoman" and Warner Bros essentially tried to sabotage the 'Catwoman' name by making a horrible movie that wasn't about Selina Kyle 'cause Michelle Pfeiffer and Tim Burton abandoned the original movie and they had a deadline to get the movie completed. Elektra was written as an 'Elektra' movie but it was a sequel to a movie that was generally considered a flop and was so poorly written the main star (Ben Affleck) walked out of it and called it the worst movie he ever did. 'Elektra' should have not been the first Marvel female superhero movie - that should have went to Ms Marvel (Carol Danvers) - Marvel's biggest selling female superhero of all time and Ms Marvel should have also been in the MCU before Black Widow. Very few female lead comic book movies are given no matter how popular and how many comic books they sell. 'Witchblade' is the biggest example of this and the movie with Angelina Jolie as Sara and Marc Silvestri writing the script could have been the biggest selling female superhero movie ever made since it was at the height of Angelina Jolie's career and 'Witchblade's popularity. Angelina Jolie was a fan of the series which is why she signed on to it and thought it would have been big but the studios wouldn't let a female lead comic book movie have a chance at success just like Warner Bros screwed Peter David out of the 'Supergirl/Linda Danvers' movie in the early 00s 'cause one of the heads didn't want an edgier Supergirl than Superman on screen. Ron Marz said it best when he said Hollywood hates strong women and he could write a comic book series that sold a billion copies but don't expect to see it on screen anytime soon if it had a female lead. When choosing to make movies of superheroes they skipped over all the biggest selling female lead comic book series or put them on hold and scrapped them but made movies of the most obscure male lead series 'cause they had male leads. Hundreds of male and female comic book writers have said it and people who worked in the industry. They didn't want any female lead comic book movies like Witchblade, Fathom, Hack/Slash, Darkchylde, Birds of Prey,the Magdalena, Supergirl (Linda Danvers), Shi, Razor, Soulfire, Warrior Nun Areala etc having any success 'cause they believed strong female superheroes were emasculating to men and pushed the belief that we wouldn't want them 'cause we only like Romantic Comedy movies. Now things are changing but are moving at a very slow speed and I will always say the industry is sexist until we get a big screen 'Witchblade' movie 'cause there is no other comic book series that has been that successful and spawned its own universe of spinoff series like as the Darkness, Aphrodite IX, The Magdalena, Artifacts, the Angelus, the Necromancer, Switch etc that has never had one chance at the big screen. Stan Lee called 'Witchblade' the greatest comic book series he didn't create and actually said on one of the graphic novels when he was praising it up it would be a forced to be reckoned with on screen.
The fucked up thing about this is the fact that a TV show did the character more Justice than any of the films. I'm only 10 episodes in and I'm already begging for a second season!