Gunn: "Dagens superhjältefilmer måste förändras"

Under marknadsföringen av The Suicide Squad passade filmskaparen James Gunn på att kritisera många av dagens superhjältefilmer och hur lite risker dessa tar i dagens filmklimat. Via The irish Times menade han att det är viktigt för hjältegenrens överlevnad att utvecklas, våga ta mer risker för att inte tappa fästet som exempelvis västern-filmerna:

"We know about the way cowboy films went, and the way war films went. I don't know, I think you don't have to be a genius to put two and two together and see that there's a cycle to those sorts of films, you know and that the only hope for the future of the comic book and superhero films is to change them up. They're really dumb. And they're mostly boring for me right now."

Gunn att han har älskat allt från Superman till Iron Man och använde Alan Moores Watchmen som ett exempel på hur man kan ta en "råare" approach för att inte filmerna ska kännas så polerade och identiska"

"I loved them at the beginning. I was really excited when they first started making those movies. It was about the visual effects when I saw Superman as a kid. I still love that movie. Okay, I know, that's a guy on wires and bluescreen with this sort of crappy visual effects. And then when Iron Man came out, I was in. You're able to make a guy fly around who looks like a guy flying around. And that was a beautiful thing to be able to do. But if the movies don't change, it's gonna get really, really boring.

I was always influenced by Dave Gibbons art and Alan Moore's Watchmen where the costumes didn't fit the superheroes perfectly, and they had a little bit of a paunch. They weren't all perfect bodies; they weren't all beautiful. When they fought, they were kind of getting in the stupid Bartleby thing of getting into bar fights. There are people trying to do some different things with superheroes. So, it's not 100 per cent a rule that everybody isn't, but a lot of superhero films are boring. And so for me, I think it's just about bringing in other elements."

Om The Suicide Squad, som får premiär i augusti, kommer att bjuda på någonting helt nytt återstår alltså att se. Håller du med Gunn om dagens superhjältefilmer eller är de bra som de är?