Hollywood Today: Stan Lee and Comic-Cons Favorite Doc Superheroes Has DVD Release
November 18th, 2011 | Entertainment
Stan Lee and Comic-Cons Favorite Doc Superheroes Has DVD Release
Commercial director Michael Barnett swoops in with real-life costumed crime fighters
By Darrah Le Montre
(HOLLYWOOD, CA) HOLLYWOOD TODAY 11/17/11 I would be a little worried about somebody with no real superpower, who puts on a costume, and then runs around challenging criminals, said comic book pillar Stan Lee about a band of activists that has sprung up to take the law into their own gloved hands. Real life superheroes are anywhere from 18 to 62 years old, run the gamut of ethnicities and backgrounds and often have no real training to fight crime. But, captured in the award-winning Barnett documentary Superheroes, whose DVD hit shelves this week they appear to be the next big thing.
The film touches on a zeitgeist-y moment. I think were in a very troubled time right now as a society, Director Barnett says, in a Hollywood Today exclusive.
Occupy Wall Street is a very power to the people movement. People are fed up and they feel like they dont have control and they dont have a voice. And theyre trying to create one. This movement [of real life superheroes] is so on par with that. Though a little more eccentric, it is a protest, he asserts.
HBO saved the day, buying the self-funded Comic-Con Indie Film Fest winner, whose budget is yet unreleased, and it debuted on the small screen in October. The doc reflects a private community that is now under international spotlight. Superheroes is enjoying a limited theatrical release as part of Slamdance On The Road.
Shot over 15 months, this lauded and still slyly hip documentary shines a well-balanced light
Read the full story at: HOLLYWOOD TODAY
November 18th, 2011 | Entertainment
Stan Lee and Comic-Cons Favorite Doc Superheroes Has DVD Release
Commercial director Michael Barnett swoops in with real-life costumed crime fighters
By Darrah Le Montre
(HOLLYWOOD, CA) HOLLYWOOD TODAY 11/17/11 I would be a little worried about somebody with no real superpower, who puts on a costume, and then runs around challenging criminals, said comic book pillar Stan Lee about a band of activists that has sprung up to take the law into their own gloved hands. Real life superheroes are anywhere from 18 to 62 years old, run the gamut of ethnicities and backgrounds and often have no real training to fight crime. But, captured in the award-winning Barnett documentary Superheroes, whose DVD hit shelves this week they appear to be the next big thing.
The film touches on a zeitgeist-y moment. I think were in a very troubled time right now as a society, Director Barnett says, in a Hollywood Today exclusive.
Occupy Wall Street is a very power to the people movement. People are fed up and they feel like they dont have control and they dont have a voice. And theyre trying to create one. This movement [of real life superheroes] is so on par with that. Though a little more eccentric, it is a protest, he asserts.
HBO saved the day, buying the self-funded Comic-Con Indie Film Fest winner, whose budget is yet unreleased, and it debuted on the small screen in October. The doc reflects a private community that is now under international spotlight. Superheroes is enjoying a limited theatrical release as part of Slamdance On The Road.
Shot over 15 months, this lauded and still slyly hip documentary shines a well-balanced light
Read the full story at: HOLLYWOOD TODAY