Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy was a smash hit over the weekend. It blasted into Theaters with a total of $94.3 Million. A year ago, no one was projecting this movie to be a huge hit for Marvel Studios.
With such a big blockbuster summer movie, would you be surprised that a lady wrote the script? Some people will have a difficult time believing it but it is true.
When Nicole Perlman was a young girl, she showed a great interest in space and real life rocket scientists. Her father would host science fiction book clubs for employees of aeronautics companies. She grew up loving space and science fiction.
Thirty three year old Perlman has pitched other sci fi movies but always ran into challenges with the movie industry. They would rather offer her romantic comedies to write. There is disbelief that a girl could write science fiction and action heavy movies even thought these are her favorite type of movies.
Nicole joined a writer’s program for Marvel Studios. She wasn’t offered the big names characters like she had hoped. But this didn’t stop her. She decided on Guardians of the Galaxy.
She was offered several lesser-known Marvel properties to focus on, and she chose Guardians, once again defying expectations despite its obvious match with her sci-fi propensities. She wanted a project where the “super”-ness of the heroes came from their personal histories and their planetary origins, not weird circumstances like radioactive spiders or chemicals.
“I can’t tell you what the other titles were that they were offering up on the table, but I can tell you that one of them was a little bit more appropriate for me, just based on gender,” she says. “I think they were a little taken aback when I chose Guardians, because there were ones that would make a lot more sense if you were a romantic-comedy writer or something like that.” (Time)
I bet Marvel and Disney is very glad they allowed Perlman to follow her dream and write this blockbuster movie. Maybe this will usher in a time where we can judge writers, actors, directors, and producers on what they bring and not based on their gender.
(Via Time)
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