External by Dominic Corry
In this blog for the Herald, I discuss the history of irreverent superheroes on the big screen, which in many ways is longer than the history of “normal” superheroes.
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When the delightfully subversive Deadpool become an unexpectedly huge success earlier this year, Hollywood prognosticators were quick to declare the various ways the film’s insane bounty would affect the already-booming superhero movie trend.
The first impact of Deadpool’s success was that it suddenly rendered Suicide Squad (in theaters next week) a much hotter prospect than it previously had been.
The DC Comics adaptation concerns a bunch of supervillains who are forced by the government to undertake special-ops missions. So basically it’s The Super Dirty Dozen.