Cat Vasko Will Write Warner Bros.’ Female-Centric Plastic Man Movie

So brave.

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It's Plastic Man, not Plastic Woman.

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Since they can’t use Plastic Man as the title, I’m guessing it will be called “Box Office Poison”.

These things feel almost like charity at this point. There's no way they're stupid enough to believe there's a huge demand for all-female superhero movies.

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There's no way they're stupid enough to believe there's a huge demand for all-female superhero movies.

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There's no way they're stupid enough to believe there's a huge demand for a Plastic Man movie, in general. The Hollywood Reporter article doesn't clarify what "female-centric" will actually look like because they don't know. None of the other outlets with this story know either. We don't even know if this means a female lead. It probably does, but any outlet saying so has made a jump from the language reported in an effort to get clicks from people on boards like this one.

DC doesn't even give a shite about Plastic Man. He hasn't had his own series since a short-lived, unpopular (but acclaimed) title for kids back in 2004. Part of the joke with his name is that he's been changed/killed so many times that he's barely a character on his own (I think Mark Waid's favorite past time used to be killing and demeaning Plastic Man). This was an explicit joke in the comics in the late 2000s, villain when a seduced him into thinking he was a joke amongst his superhero peers. More writers in the past 30 years have used him as a catalyst for plot than actual hero that drives the plot or saves the day.

If there were ever a comic character you could play around with, without drawing any sincere, deserved anger from a fan base, it should be Plastic Man. That won't prevent people from pretending they care about him, of course.

Name a big budget movie that hasn't been "female centric" in the last 2 years. When End Game ended the original Marvel cast run... It was over for masculinity ever making another run.

Even the new Thor movie, whenever that is, I guarantee will have 4-5 female supporting characters who are all "smarter" than Thor and he will be portrayed as a total buffoon.

It's called clown world.

You forgot Ghostbusters

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If there were ever a comic character you could play around with, without drawing any sincere, deserved anger from a fan base, it should be Plastic Man. That won't prevent people from pretending they care about him, of course.

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Maybe, maybe not.

However, there are a significant jokes that the humor is built around in Plastic Man that actually is male centric. That's a pretty big part to the character's style.


Regardless, taking a male character and turning him female should be a 100% no on any accounts at this point. Not to sky scream, but those are not the characters as they were written. And vice versa. We shouldn't take female characters and make them male either.

This was cool and unique to do, when it was cool and unique, and NOT politically motivated. When artists used to do this, it was more about "What if..." now, and you'll probably disagree, it's about making a statement. It isn't experimentation, it's political theater, and that's why it's a problem.

Think Starbuck in BSG. That was fine, few people complained, and it wasn't meant to be a statement, but rather to add new layers to BSG. And it worked. She had a great arc .

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If Katie Sackoff hadn’t totally owned that role and there were a more vocal group of BSG fans bitching about it, it could have been a problem.

But great casting and good writing covers up a lot of problems.

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Well, that's because it was intentional, and part of the story, not just for show. There was meaning behind the choice, rather than political point scoring.

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There's no way they're stupid enough to believe there's a huge demand for a Plastic Man movie, in general.

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Plastic Man is an awesome character, and a movie about him could have been fantastic.

ETA: Maybe they're doing this to avoid the Mr. Fantastic comparisons? That would at least make sense, but I doubt this will stop people from making those comparisons anyway.