Thursday, March 31, 2011 7:00PM - By Guest Writer
Pow! Zap! Boom! Divorce dramedy! Ah yes, the old Hollywood staples…
Most films and comics are made to indulge fantasies, whether they be about super-powered revenge or undying romance. Super relishes this and throws it back in your face – with a laugh. So you want to be a hero? Well your homemade costume is gonna look like crap. Want to save your former lover? They may not want to be saved. Want to swing wrenches at wrong-doers’ heads? Well it’s gonna be messy, and they’re probably gonna cry. It shows how hilariously incompatible our fantasies are with reality, even when those fantasies are entered into with the most noble and heroic intentions.
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Thursday, March 31, 2011 11:36AM - By Damon Houx
James Gunn started his career in 1996 writing Tromeo and Juliet for famous schlock impresario Lloyd Kaufman. Six years later he was writing the big screen Scooby-Doo, and ten years later he had written and directed Slither for Universal studios. Now, James Gunn has made Super, his “arthouse-grindhouse” film about Frank (Rainn Wilson) a short order cook who – when his wife leaves him for a drug dealer/bad guy – is told by God to become a superhero. It’s a weird movie, which is why he did it on the cheap. But it’s also a very personal movie for its writer/director, one that took nearly ten years to come to gestation.
Friday, February 25, 2011 2:07PM - By Krystal Clark
The first official poster for James Gunn’s upcoming superhero flick, aptly titled Super, has been released. The film features Rainn Wilson (“The Office“), whose face and terrifying eyes are the focal point on the one sheet. If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if Batman was poorer, less in shape, and less intelligent you’d have Super. Check out the full sized poster below…
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Wednesday, October 20, 2010 10:53AM - By Krystal Clark
The first clip from director James Gunn’s indie comic movie Super has been released and it features “The Office” star Rainn Wilson like you’ve never seen him before. He plays a makeshift super hero who calls himself Crimson Bolt, and goes around town punishing criminals in his own unique way. Take a look at him in action…
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Friday, July 23, 2010 6:16AM - By Mali Elfman
Director James Gunn, actors Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Liv Tyler, Nathan Fillion, Michael Rooker and producers Ted Hope and Miranda Bailey were all in attendance to mock one another and show the first piece of footage from their upcoming film Super at Comic-Con 2010. Super is a film written and directed by Gunn about a ‘down-on-his-luck’ man who attempts to win his wife back from arms of glamorous drug dealer.
***Video up now. See it after the jump!***
Will Super be worth your precious time?
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