What makes a hero heroic? How hard is it to fit in as a teenager? How do you live up to the tough standards set by those who came before you? All of these were addressed in the comic and would have been addressed by the film if Disney hadn’t beat Sony to the punch with a similar film entitled SKY HIGH. This student is supposed to be super, but isn’t. Clever! And on the first day, a student worries about when their powers will show up. The story centers around a high school for superheroes. They had assembled a top notch cast including Tim Allen, Courtney Cox, Chevy Chase and Rip Torn.
Studio Sony that was developing the project had great success with the genre and seemed poised to bring the not totally obscure book into the light. The book ZOOM: ACADEMY FOR THE SUPER GIFTED by Jason Lethcoe seemed destined for greatness. Some like SPIDERMAN are perfect Hollywood fodder, other’s like TANK GIRL fail to make the cut. As such, it is hard to find many comic book properties that have not been put on the screen-large or small-or are not already in development. The Superhero is definitely in again, in a big way. As a long time comic book fan, I have seen Hollywood’s love affair with capes ebb and flow, in and out.
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