Perspective: Gina Prince-Bythewood is the first black woman to direct a comic book movie. It looks like the future.
adapted by Greg Rucka from the graphic novels he created with Leandro Fernandez, about a roving team of century-hopping vigilantes whose secret power is that they’re impossible to kill off. She was immediately drawn to the relationship between the group’s leader — Andy, short for Andromache, played by a fiercely focused Charlize Theron — and her protege, a formidable Marine named Nile, played by KiKi Layne.
Having supporting characters played by a diverse group of actors attracted her just as much as the story of Andy and Nile.
, but it looks like the future the movie industry increasingly realizes it must embrace in the wake of revived calls for inclusion and representation — on screen and behind the camera.Moments like this have happened before, she notes, but this time feels different. For one thing, she had already successfully pitched two projects focused on black women “that were not a fight for the first time in my entire career.
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