You may recall a while back we reported that A Wrinkle In Time director Ava DuVernay (here) and now she’s been talking about it on TV!
The director was a guest on Late Night with Seth Meyers and Meyers, a self acknowledged DC Fan, asked what we can expect from the project, given that it’s not your standard superhero movie and DuVernay stepped forward with the DC knowledge: “[It’s] not just a superhero movie. New Gods, Jack Kirby’s New Gods. It is sublime. So good.”
The New Gods was the Genesis of the uber-villain Darkseid. Also called “Fourth World,” the Kirby creation debuted in a trilogy of related comics written and drawn by Kirby that were published in the very early 1970s: New Gods, Forever People and Mister Miracle. The New Gods came into existence after the world of the gods of classic mythology were destroyed during Ragnarok. The deities inhabit two planets: one is New Genesis, a lush paradise, and the other Apokolips, which sounds like Dante’s version of hell.
DuVernay’s excitement left her visible excited as she tried to put into words: “Once they [audiences who may not know who the New Gods are] know… it’s one of the most lush… the best one.”
When we’ll see the New Gods movie is anyone’s guess, but with their existence set up in the Justice League flashback scene, they should definitely be a movie worth the wait but with Batman, Flash, Man of Steel 2, Nightwing, Cyborg, Gotham City Sirens, Bird of Prey, Suicide Squad 2, Green Lantern Corps, Black Adam, Booster Gold and Justice League Dark all at various stages of production, it could be a while away yet.
Ava Duvernay (@ava) talks a little about New Gods, sounds like she’s taking this extremely serious pic.twitter.com/B0xrFaKgh1
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