\u201cIt\u2019s like the last week in school, and we gotta tell the kids they\u2019re still working,\u201d Gillespie muses.<\/p>\n
Perhaps not to get senior jitters, Alcock even declines to watch a rough cut of sizzle reel dailies prepared for the press. \u201cI don\u2019t wanna watch,\u201d she nervously laughs, acutely aware that she\u2019s in the last stretch of her first film, Hollywood or otherwise, and it\u2019s time to bring the thing home.<\/p>\n
Yet for those of us who stayed to see the footage, we got something compelling, haunting, and frankly unlike much of the marketing Supergirl has revealed to the public in the 13 months since our stopover in Leavesden. Scored to a moody, female-fronted cover of Radiohead\u2019s \u201cCreep,\u201d the loneliness and isolation of Kara Zor-El, Last Daughter of Krypton\u2014who unlike her more famous boy scout cousin can remember Krypton\u2014is put in full context.<\/p>\n
Some of the same trailer footage you\u2019ve seen of Kara waking from a hangover to don sunglasses is present, but when juxtaposed with shots of her leaning over a shotglass, or looking glassy-eyed while staring down bad men, it takes on a different cadence. Here is a young woman still stalked by the memory of what she left behind when, also in a scene we saw, Superman (David Corenswet) discovers her in a downed crystal spaceship straight out of Richard Donner\u2019s 1978 Superman. She\u2019s alone in the universe except for the puppy in her arms when she finally lands on Earth. All of which evokes a melancholy closer in temperament to King and Evley\u2019s graphic novel.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hope what you\u2019ve seen so far, and what you\u2019re going to see, just shows you the breadth of what we\u2019re doing at DC,\u201d executive producer Chantal Nong Vo says near the beginning of our tour. \u201cThey\u2019re very different films, obviously, different characters, and very different filmmaking styles.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the day, the promise of this approach departing from producer James Gunn\u2019s previous superhero movies\u2014from last year\u2019s Superman<\/a> to Guardians of the Galaxy<\/a>, although both are clear influences on Supergirl\u2014was clearly visible. As clear as a little girl standing in the ruins of her home, forced to say goodbye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt\u2019s like the last week in school, and we gotta tell the kids they\u2019re still working,\u201d Gillespie muses.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-459209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}