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Speaking at a live session of the
Scriptnotes Podcast, screenwriter David S. Goyer, one of the people in charge
of DC movie universe, was asked how he would adapt J’onn J’onzz, aka Martian
Manhunter to film.
Goyer begun answering by asking
the attending audience two questions.
“How many people in the audience have heard of Martian
Manhunter?”, which the crowd answered with a light applause, and...“How many
people that raised their hands have ever been laid?". Nice Goyer, very
nice, a very good way to completely alienate the audience with wrong and some
say offensive stereotypes.
After this slight moment of
stupidity, Goyer explained how he would transplant the character to the big
screen.
“Well, he hasn’t been rebooted but he’s a mainstay in
the Justice League. He can’t be [frick]ing called the Martian Manhunter because
that’s goofy. He can be called Manhunter… The whole deal with Martian Manhunter
is he’s an alien living amongst us… So he comes down to Earth and decides,
unlike Superman who already exists in the world now, that he’s just going to be
a homicide detective… So instead of using super-powers and mind-reading and
like, oh, I could figure out if the President’s lying or whatever, he just
decides to disguise himself as a human homicide detective. Dare to dream!”
Craig Marzin, one of the hosts of the podcast shifted his attention from DC to Marvel's She-Hulk and asked Goyer if that character was just a tool for sexists ten-year-old boys?
Craig Mazin: The real name for She-Hulk was Slut-Hulk. That was the whole point. Let’s just make this green chick with enormous boobs. And she’s Hulk strong but not Hulk massive, right? … She’s real lean, stringy…
David S. Goyer: She’s still pretty chunky. She was like Chyna from the WWE.
Mazin: The whole point of She-Hulk was just to appeal sexists to ten-year-old boys. Worked on me.
Goyer: I have a theory about She-Hulk. Which was created by a man, right? And at the time in particular I think 95% of comic book readers were men and certainly almost all of the comic book writers were men. So the Hulk was this classic male power fantasy. It’s like, most of the people reading comic books were these people like me who were just these little kids getting the shit kicked out of them every day… And so then they created She-Huk, right? Who was still smart… I think She-Hulk is the chick that you could [frick] if you were Hulk, you know what I’m saying? … She-Hulk was the extension of the male power fantasy. So it’s like if I’m going to be this geek who becomes the Hulk then let’s create a giant green porn star that only the Hulk could [frick].
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