Some mogul finally decided to make a Captain Marvel movie. A screenwriter named John August was even hired to pen the story.
August has several notable movies to his credit (The Corpse Bride, Big Fish and … um … Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle), so it’s entirely possible the project will be worthwhile.
Unfortunately, his taste in comics is a bit suspect.
Still, we can’t blame a feller for preferring Judd Winick to C.C. Beck. Taste his subjective, after all, and no self-respecting Hollywood-ite would ever be caught extolling the virtures of the past over whatever’s “young” and “hip.”
This quote, however, did set your friendly neighborhood Keeper on edge.
DC publishes hardcover anthologies that gather up decades’ worth of Captain Marvel comics. If I were writing a dissertation on the evolution of the Captain Marvel character, these would be invaluable. But I’m not. So every time I read one of these, I’m struck with the same realization I encounter trying to watch The Honeymooners or a black-and-white movie: Wow. Old things suck.
He doesn’t like black-and-white movies?!? There’s no love for Doctor Strangelove, The Manchurian Candidate or Manhattan???
(Let alone Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, etc. etc. )
We’d grumble about “kids these days,” but August is nearly 40.
He’s old enough to know better.
