The film stars Rainn Wilson(The Office) as the husband of Liv Tyler who begins an affair with a drug dealer played by Kevin Bacon. He snaps, puts on a costume, and calls himself The Crimson Bolt. He then gains a sidekick in Ellen Page's fruitcake teenager and sets about fighting crime.
Here are quotes from Gunn:
As many of you know, we went to Comic-Con this weekend and showed the first ever footage from SUPER. As reported on nearly every fan site, the crowd ate it up! The panel consisted of me, Rainn Wilson, Ellen Page, Liv Tyler, Nathan Fillion, Michael Rooker, and producers Ted Hope and Miranda Bailey. I was so excited that everyone changed their plans around to make it to the Con after showing them a cut of the film last week. SUPER is a VERY low-budget film made as a labor of love by all involved – as I said at the panel, everyone on the film, from me, to all of the actors, to the composer Tyler Bates, are all working on the film for the lowest amount the guilds allow. Yes, I know, there have been other films that are superficially the same as ours, movies about real people becoming superheroes – including some very good ones. But ours is the first that, although funny, focuses first and foremost on the emotions of the characters involved. It is a dark, gritty, violent, no-hold-barred independent film that is, I promise you, not at all what you expect.
Actually, even with the emotions at eh forefront it does still sound a lot like
Defendor, but we'l give ya the benefit of the doubt! Here are the panel vids..
Yeah, I know what you're thinking. How can we take this seriously? I mean how on Earth can we be expected to believe that Rainn Wilson could pull a chick like Liv Tyler?
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