I Am Superman with Patty Jenkins | Development Hell

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Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Between her big hits, “Monster” and “Wonder Woman”, Patty Jenkins wrote an R-rated fairy tale, starring a dog. She hoped that the dog would deliver such a great performance that the Academy would — for the first time — give the Best Actor award to an animal. The story was about a dog program in a prison, a perfect set-up for a story of both canine and human redemption, right? Wrong. That’s the kind of story Hollywood loves, but not the kind of story Jenkins wanted to tell. Enter development hell.

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0:00.0	Bushkin.
0:07.0	You called it a fairy tale.
0:11.0	You called it a fairy tale. Yeah. Do you have is there is there a is there a fairy tale that you were inspired by which fairy tale is this?
0:20.0	I don't know if there's one I think it so the opening for the opening of the movie is and this will just tell you the tone
0:26.9	There's a voiceover throughout the movie and the opening shot is you're pushing in on this kennel in the middle of nowhere and it's out in a field and it's like there once was you know an animal named
0:40.8	bandit and the bandit used to have had dreams of blah blah blah blah
0:45.5	and you're pushing in pushing in pushing in until you get to this pit bull sitting at the
0:48.7	center and it's a thing of fighting pit bulls and he named himself Bandit because and you see a flash of a little boy
0:56.9	that the dog had seen from his kennel far far away playing with his puppy named Bandit and Bandit had dreams
1:01.6	of one day being that dog. And he hoped that one day someone
1:05.1	would give him a chance and believe in him and this dog trainer comes the fighting trainer and takes Bandit
1:10.7	out and is like, come on get out of here and is pushing dragging him along and then he's like, come on, get out of here and is pushing, dragging him along and then he's like,
1:14.6	but that's many, many years ago and Bandit suddenly turns around and just fucking launches at his trainer
1:19.6	and kills the dude.
1:34.4	And at this point in Bandit's life, all Bandit ever wanted was just revenge, you know, like just bloody revenge for the life that he's living. I'm not remembering it verbatim. It a long time ago. But it's like and all he wanted was just one shot just to get payback and nothing more and then you're just
1:39.0	push in on him and he's just got blood down his neck. Welcome to Development Hell, our mini series about the movies that Hollywood never made.
1:55.8	This episode is about a film starring a dog, a misunderstood dog that the filmmaker Patty Jenkins wanted to make.
2:04.9	You've heard of her, I'm sure.
2:06.4	Her debut feature was a monster, an incredible portrait of Eileen Wernos, a prostitute
2:12.2	who killed seven of her clients.
2:13.7	Jenkins wrote and directed Monster Charlize Thorne took the lead role and went on to win the
2:19.6	best actress Oscar for it. Patty Jenkins next to It of Force directing the 2017 version of
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