Friday, April 1, 2011 10:30AM - By Damon Houx
It’s a tough road for women in a super-hero movie. Few get to be more than love interests. But that’s not the case in James Gunn‘s Super. Ellen Page she gets to play the superhero sidekick, who’s way more trouble than expected. And for Liv Tyler, she gets to play not the love interest of Rainn Wilson‘s superhero Crimson Bolt, but his wife – who’s succumbed to addiction yet again and has left him for another man. Neither is waiting around to be saved, and that may have been what drew both to Super, which opens Friday in theaters and on VOD. We talked to both women about the film. Check it out.
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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 1:00PM - By Damon Houx
Being a superhero ain’t easy according to Rainn Wilson. For one, the costumes suck. Rainn was talking about his latest film Super, which hits theaters and VOD Friday. The character James Gunn came up with for him is a slightly disturbed short-order cook, who loses his wife (Liv Tyler) to a scumbag and is told by God to become a superhero. It’s a strange film but Wilson was more than game to play his slightly off leading man, who gets a superhero side kick in Libby (Ellen Page) – a comic book fanatic more than happy to play along and forces her way into being his side kick and names herself “Bolty.” Check it out.
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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, March 4, 2011 4:08PM - By Krystal Clark
The first trailer for James Gunn’s feature film Super has been released. The movie is about a vigilante superhero and his overeager sidekick. Rainn Wilson and Ellen Page are the sadistic duo that take matters into their own hands when the cops fail. The play by their own rules and the law need not apply. Check them out in action…
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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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Thursday, July 29, 2010 2:58PM - By Krystal Clark
One of the many panels we covered at San Diego Comic-Con was James Gunn’s Super. It’s a small superhero movie that feature big talents like Ellen Page, Liv Tyler, Nathan Fillion, and Rainn Wilson who plays the main character. Over on the director’s official website he posted the first photo of Wilson in costume as Crimson Bolt — the most unconventional hero you’ll ever meet. Take a look…
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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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