We are entering a part of culture that is totally revisionist. For example, remember in 2017 when some were claiming “Wonder Woman,” was the first female-led superhero film? They seemed to completely erase the fact that “Catwoman” and “Elektra” existed.
Jennifer Lawrence did the same thing yesterday. She had a one-on-one interview with “The Woman King” actress Viola Davis for Variety. The complete erasure of history was again at the rendez-vous.
Lawrence says female-driven action didn’t exist until she played Katniss Everdeen in 2012’s “The Hunger Games”:
“I remember when I was doing “Hunger Games,” nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldn’t work — because we were told girls and boys can both identify with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with a female lead. And it just makes me so happy every single time I see a movie come out that just blows through every one of those beliefs, and proves that it is just a lie to keep certain people out of the movies. To keep certain people in the same positions that they’ve always been in.”
Of course, that’s false.
“The Terminator,” “Charlies Angels” “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,” “Kill Bill” “Alien,” “V for Vendetta,” “Colombiana,” “Haywire”, “Salt,” “Hanna,” “Wanted,” “Resident Evil.”
Netflix and Skydance Animation have also called it quits. The two sides announced Monday that they're ending the animated film deal struck back in 2023, framing it as a mutual decision.