James Gunn Corrects Steven Soderbergh's Suggestions About Superheroes
The superhero film genre’s PG-13 tag often involves cutting certain aspects both DC and Marvel comics aren’t as shy to talk about, with sex being right at the top of the list. Nevertheless, The Suicide Squad director andPeacemaker series creator James Gunn recently came out against Steven Soderbergh's opinions on the matter, claiming there were plenty of steamy scenes to go along with the superpowered action.
Gunn's comments came on the back of a statement Soderbergh (Ocean's Eleven and Magic Mike) recently made, expressing his distaste for the genre due to what he perceives as a complete lack of room for the sex lives of all these superheroes. Soderbergh did concede his movies tend to be much more grounded and that he finds himself unable to detach from reality onto a world where physics seems almost non-existent, yet his main gripe with superhero movies was that “Nobody’s f***ing! Like, I don’t know how to tell people how to behave in a world in which that is not a thing…."
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Leave it then to Gunn to correct his colleague. The Guardians of the Galaxyand Peacemaker mastermind fired back with plenty of examples of superheroes getting it on throughout the history of comic book adaptations. In his usual style, Gunn highlighted works beyond his own, naming the likes of Richard Donner (Superman), Zack Snyder (Watchmen), Tim Miller (Deadpool), and more recently Chloe Zhao (Eternals), as examples of directors who weren’t happy to develop “an entire antiseptic sexless film universe," adding that such a thing «is a denial of who we are as human beings (and how every single one of us got here).”
Gunn started the discussion by tweeting images from three of his projects, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Suicide
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