When I first dropped into L.A., I wanted to be a superhero!
When you see a superhero that looks like you and lives in and fights in a neighborhood that is sort of like yours, it’s empowering to a degree that makes you have hope. That is the power of storytelling, and that is the power of images.
Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model – a superhero, if you like – who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle – then they would be motivated to move more.
I, for one, suffer from a little bit of superhero fatigue.
I like Ned Leeds. I love the character so much. He’s a very new character in the MCU. I think he’s a very fresh take on people in the superhero world. Some superheroes crack under pressure, and Ned Leeds, who is not a superhero, doesn’t.
I want to be my son’s superhero.
I think I’d like to do a big movie with a strong female lead, whether or not she would be a superhero. I’m more interested in characters like Scarlett Johansson in ‘Lucy.’ I’m less interested in people with superpowers because I can’t identify with them.
Before I found out you couldn’t get bitten by a radioactive spider and shoot webs out of your wrist, I wanted to be a superhero when I grew up – until I was, like, 8.
I hope that people understand that with education, we can be our own superhero.
Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called ‘Carbolic Soap.’ One was a cop film called ‘Dead Right.’ And the other was called ‘A Fistful Of Fingers.’
Most superheroes are young or in their 20s, and as you can see with Black Lightning, he’s in his mid-40s and he has a family, so that affects you a bit differently as opposed to being a young, single superhero.
I’m a fan of Superman as created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Remember that Jerry and Joe created a character that was the biggest superhero of all.
I’d like to get into the superhero genre. I’d love to do either a DC or a Marvel character.
I’m still waiting for my first big Hollywood paycheck… maybe I’ll play a superhero.
I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in ‘The Avengers,’ kicking butt.
Historically, diversity has been a real issue for superhero comics – so we need to do something about it, crafting strong, modern heroes for a modern audience.
I did my ‘Hulk,’ but it was not easy. If I do another Hulk film it will always be compared to the Ang Lee thing, and my first one… if I come back, I’d love to do another superhero, something different that I can really put my touch on.
I’ve always dreamed of being a superhero, and I actually got to play one!
People may recognize me as some sort of superhero, but it’s different. Spider-Man and all these other superheroes, they get superpowers and do what they want to save the city. If we need to save Hong Kong, we can’t rely on superpowers, we can just rely on the people.
Everyone’s asking if I’ve been offered a superhero movie, and no, I definitely have not.
Since childhood, I wanted to become a superhero. When I do anything in real life, I believe that I am a superhero, like in the way I fight, dance, or jump.
I think that’s a huge theme in superhero books across the board: When you have this massive power, how do you use it responsibly? When do you intervene? Those are the big questions.
I know, who doesn’t want to play a superhero, right? And everyone wants to play Superman or Batman. Everyone wants to play a superhero.
When bobsled is going right – and it sometimes goes wrong – it’s the closest thing I could imagine to being a superhero.
The fun of superhero comics is finding ways to turn the pieces that you know so that they’re suddenly about things that you want them to be about, as long as they’re true to the core and true to the DNA of the mythology.
I love the new Marvel films, but I am not crazy about them. It is no longer a sub-genre or a fanboy genre. It has become so mainstream. You cannot say, ‘I love superhero movies.’ Everyone loves superhero movies now.
I see ‘Cyborg’ as probably the most iconic African American superhero within all of the comic worlds.
I kind of love being a superhero.
There haven’t been a lot of superhero movies with female leads, and there have been even fewer – if any – that were truly funny. I heard Ant-Man was, but I haven’t seen that yet. So, that would be my goal, my dream – to be a super-heroine who’s not afraid to be feminine and also not afraid to make people laugh.
My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.
I don’t think working in superheroes is slumming it. I’m proud of this form. I like this. There’s nothing inherently masculine about power fantasies. There’s nothing inherently masculine about superhero comics. There’s nothing inherently masculine about mythology. About science fiction.
In Hollywood, the guy who plays Batman and Spiderman also plays normal characters. The biggest stars in the world want to play different characters. We can’t give the excuse that because an actor played a superhero in his previous film, his next one won’t work.
People want to see something that isn’t necessarily somebody walking around in a superhero costume.
I’ve always loved movies and animation. When I was little, I was always pretending to be some alter ego superhero. For years it was Ultraman, ninjas, Spiderman and other cool super heroes.
When you’re a kid, and you’re a superhero lover, the holy trinity is Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, so to be able to take any of those and play with it is a huge joy.
It’s every boy’s dream to play a superhero.
Hearing that you fit into someone’s idea of a superhero is a huge confidence builder.
Wonder Woman isn’t Spider-man or Batman. She doesn’t have a town, she has a world. That was more interesting to me than a kind of contained, rote superhero franchise.
I don’t plan or schedule my career thinking first I will play a common man, then a police officer, then a superhero. I love good scripts, and I don’t care if I play the main part in it or not. I want to be a part of good films. That’s my dream… ‘Jacobinte Swargarajyam’ was that film for me.
Black Panther is a great film’. It has the most compelling villain of any Marvel movie, and it deals admirably with the issue of diminishing jeopardy in a million superhero films where the world is going to end.
For me, there’s a deeper genre appreciation for what a coming of age story can be about. To apply that to a superhero world, for me, that was very exciting.
‘Flying Jatt’ is a superhero movie, and the villain needs to be really strong.
We have always looked upon Hollywood superheroes like Super-Man and Spider-man, but Baahubali is our own Indian superhero, and the connection people have made with this franchise is unprecedented.
Everyone knows Spiderman is my favorite superhero of all time. My favorite supervillain? George W. Bush.
Viewers who invest two hours in a superhero movie often leave feeling entertained but somehow dumber.
I love Marvel. I’d be happy to do other projects with them at any time. They’re a great company – I love all the guys and girls over there – they always are able to get a really fun cast for almost every project they have, which is often. And, of course, who doesn’t want to be a superhero?
I was a huge fan of the Justice League growing up. I watched all of the cartoons, all of the animated series, all of the movies, superhero related, since my personal beginning.
I was huge fan of most of the animated series growing up in the golden era of ’90s superhero animation. I didn’t care who was producing – it was much more about the specific heroes that I connected with.
If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s everything that I’m not.
I’m a big veteran of being able to, in one comic, explain to you everything that you need to know to get forward in the story without you having to refer back to years of continuity and a universe in these superhero comics.
Superheroes have always been my thing. I’ve always loved their great allure, whether it’s your traditional superhero like Batman or Superman, or even Greek Mythology, heroes like Zeus.
There isn’t just one kind of person that can play a superhero.
As a kid, you run around the house pretending to be a superhero, and now to be doing it as a job, I feel very lucky.
I don’t want to be stuck to one character. I think that’s what can happen when you take on a superhero movie.
I think a superhero would be awesome to play.
It’s a dream role for me to play a superhero.
Before sequels became the most reliable way to make a buck, Bond set the standard for lavish serial adventures. Before Hollywood found gold in multimillion-dollar adaptations of comic-book characters – in the Superman, Batman and Spider-Man blockbusters – Bond was the movies’ first big-budget franchise superhero.
With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there’s a certain amount of just going on faith.
I want young women to see my name on ‘Avengers Assembled’ and to know that there are women who write mainstream superhero comics, and if it is something that interests them, it can be done.
