Stay in your (Louis) Lane
Superman has officially become the highest earning movie in the franchise, surpassing the high tide mark left by Man of Steel in 2013. This is despite a strong opening for Man of Steel overall which pulled in an extra 40 million over this latest film. While Louis Lane didn’t get as much screen time as critics might have liked, Rachel Brosnahan, used the screentime she had with aplomb.
James Gunn put it well when describing their characters. “The thing I love about Superman and Lois is I feel like people know who they are even if they’ve never read a comic or seen a movie. Lois Lane is almost an idiom for a cool female journalist type who’s smart and inquisitive. The characters have sort of transcended any one iteration of them across time.”
Brosnahan felt that Lane has always filled an ideal throughout time. “She represents, in each iteration, what the ideal of a feisty, smart, ball-busting woman was at the time the comic was created. So, she’s a very different character in the `50s than she was in the `70s and again in the `90s. And so we asked the question, “Who is Lois Lane at a time when print journalism is dying?” She is somebody who believes this is the way that she’s going to make a difference.”
Beyond the capes and fetishisation of print journalism Brosnahan is getting ready to spin up the second season of the Apple TV+ legal thriller Presumed Innocence alongside Jack Reynor (Midsommar).