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- and Bad Robot back in 2021, recently explained that her version of the comic book sorceress was “probably too far away from the genre.” “I think it was demented because I was probably going through it at the time,” she noted on the Happy Sad Confused podcast.
- “And the thing is, I think what I can’t help but—and then, I’d just finished A Promising Young Woman, and there was this huge thing in this world I’d never operated in.
- And again, it was a kind of superhero movie, and I was like, ‘How do I make the version of a superhero movie that I would connect to emotionally?’ Which is sort of the woman in the middle of a nervous breakdown, so it’s a script reflective of a woman in the middle of a nervous breakdown.
- And in terms of what that means, I suppose it just meant that it was probably too far away from the genre.” Watch on Deadline Related Stories News ‘Promising Young Woman’ Filmmaker Emerald Fennell To Write DC Feature ‘Zatanna’ For Bad Robot & Warner Bros News Everything We Know About Emerald Fennell’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ So Far Fennell added, “It was really dark.
- I haven’t read it for a really long time, because I found it really difficult.
