{"id":9615,"date":"2019-07-31T13:42:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T20:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog-proxy.atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=9615"},"modified":"2019-07-31T13:42:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T20:42:03","slug":"ava-duvernay-confirms-the-villains-of-dcs-new-gods-movie-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/ava-duvernay-confirms-new-gods-villains-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Ava DuVernay Confirms The Villains Of DC&#8217;s &#8216;New Gods&#8217; Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Warner Bros. wisely being relatively quiet about its DC movies in development for the time being, that&#8217;s not stopping the filmmakers themselves from giving us some more information about upcoming projects. One of those anticipated films is Ava DuVernay&#8217;s <em>The<\/em>\u00a0<em>New Gods<\/em>, based on the DC comic book characters created by Jack Kirby. We don&#8217;t know much about the film yet &#8211; it doesn&#8217;t even have an official release date &#8211; but DuVernay herself gave us a big piece of info in a recent Twitter Q&amp;A when she confirmed the villains of the movie: Darkseid and the Female Furies. (Fun fact: Qualifying them with &#8220;Female&#8221; is kind of redundant considering historically, the Furies have always been female. Yay, male-dominated &#8217;70s comics! I digress.)<\/p>\n<p>A few fans asked Ava who we can expect to see as the big bads of the film and she responded:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How could any self-respecting Barda fan not include the The Furies?! I\u2019m looking forward to them so much. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AskAva?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AskAva<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/83zD6PeFBx\">https:\/\/t.co\/83zD6PeFBx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ava DuVernay (@ava) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ava\/status\/1156290754173657093?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>And yes, Darkseid will be there, too:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"de\" dir=\"ltr\">Darkseid is. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AskAva?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AskAva<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ypbVCXZ1je\">https:\/\/t.co\/ypbVCXZ1je<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ava DuVernay (@ava) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ava\/status\/1156293235062583297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 30, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Darkseid is the antagonist of that world that Kirby set up decades ago, and the Female Furies his sycophantic followers. Not having both of them in the film wouldn&#8217;t make sense, so it&#8217;s good that DuVernay is staying true to the source material. To that end, longtime DC writer Tom King revealed recently during a panel at San Diego Comic-Con that DuVernay had him assemble a team of &#8220;Kirby experts&#8221; to help her piece the movie together:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;She invited me out, and she asked what team I wanted to bring. Because she wanted to assemble people who knew Kirby, and she was like, &#8216;Can you put together a team?&#8217; So we put together this team. And she was smart, and a good storyteller, and it was one of the best storytelling experiences I&#8217;ve ever had.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>DuVernay has always been a really conscientious and painstaking filmmaker. Her research and development process is always meticulous, and she surrounds herself with a number of voices to help her craft a story that is true to the source or historical events of whatever she&#8217;s directing. With her being at the helm for <em>The New Gods<\/em>, fans can rest assured that she&#8217;ll honor the comics and Kirby&#8217;s legacy to the best of her ability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Warner Bros. wisely being relatively quiet about its DC movies in development for the time being, that&#8217;s not stopping the filmmakers themselves from giving us some more information about upcoming projects. One of those anticipated films is Ava DuVernay&#8217;s The\u00a0New Gods, based on the DC comic book characters created by Jack Kirby. 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