Episode Forty-Two - Hancock (2008)
Failure to Franchise · Trev Snyder & Chris Sorgiovanni
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Show Notes
In a surprisingly topical kick-off to our "April Showers Bring April Powers" event, we're taking a look at a film where beloved Hollywood "good guy" Will Smith plays a jerk who the public doesn't really trust, and who is in desperate need of some image-restoring PR. Sound oddly familiar? Well, that's just a happy coincidence, because Hancock was actually a long-gestating project - a superhero genre deconstruction that, ironically, hit theaters just as the superhero genre was really about to take off. What do we think of the film's narrative and tonal shifts? Was Will Smith the right man for the job? And where could sequels actually have gone? We discuss all this, and more.