Zoë Kravitz to star in super-powered heist movie
The movie is based on a Leyna Krow short story about twin thieves
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After playing Catwoman, a super-criminal with no superpowers, in The Batman, Zoë Kravitz is taking it a step further by starring in a movie about two criminals, one of whom does have superpowers. Titled The Sundance Kid Might Have Some Regrets, the movie is based on a Leyna Krow story of the same name about two twins who rob banks, with one of them having “telekinesis, super-strength, language fluency, invincibility, and more” while the other… is apparently just a normal person. It’s all going well for the twins until a job goes bad and the non-super twin has second thoughts “when the gunfire starts to hail on her and her impenetrable sister.”
That comes from The Hollywood Reporter, which says Krow’s original story “is described as a redefining of the heist genre.” The report doesn’t specifically say who Kravitz is playing, but we assume it’s one (and therefore probably both) of the twins. The report also doesn’t say anything about a director or other cast members, but Kravitz is also producing and Warner Bros. won a bidding war for the project.
Speaking of directors, Kravitz will make her feature debut as one with Pussy Island, starring Simon Rex, Channing Tatum, and Naomi Ackie. That movie is about a woman trying to form a relationship with a rich tech mogul and ends up getting stuck in some kind of terrifying thriller nightmare on his private island. Meanwhile, another Leyna Krow story, “Sinkhole,” is getting an adaptation produced by Jordan Peele and Issa Rae. That one’s about a sinkhole that a family discovers in the backyard of their dream home that has the ability to fix things, leading them to wonder if it can “fix” people. So everything seems to be going well for everybody involved here. That’s nice for them, right?
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Zoe Kazan… Zoe Kravitz…Should we expect a newswire about Zoe Cassavetes later today?
It’s an all-Zoe(y) news day.
No. You get Zooey Deschanel and a random announcement of a New Girl movie or something.
You get Zooey Deschanel Oh…oh god, no. WHAT DID WE DO TO DESERVE THIS?! HOW CAN WE MAKE AMENDS FOR IT?!
I think all shows/movies/books should avoid telekinesis unless they can go with how overpowered the ability actually is. It’s one of the things that I can’t overlook or suspend belief in.If I’m able to move a car with my mind, you know what else I can do with my mind? I can pull your spine from your back or rip your heart out through your anus. You have invulnerable skin, huh? Great. I just disconnected your brain stem and now you’re dead. It’s an ability that makes a person basically untouchable. You’d need to kill a person with telekinesis in their sleep or something to even have a shot.
You make a good point, and yet genre fiction is full of entities that supposedly have the power to destroy whole cities, but somehow always settle for throwing the heroes around or shooting at them with purple energy beams that knock them out for a minute or so. Telekinesis in particular is one of TV’s favorite superpowers, because it can be shown on TV very cheaply, unlike more exotic and interesting abilities that don’t crop up as often.
It’s an ability that makes a person basically untouchable. You’d need to
kill a person with telekinesis in their sleep or something to even have
a shot.Nah. Having telekinesis won’t save you from a rifle bullet that you aren’t even aware is coming before your head explodes into a red mist, much less a bomb planted in your car, or poison in your food, or any number of other methods that telekinesis would have no effect on.
I don’t know. It being a fake power and all, it’s hard to even picture how it works. But being you can move stuff with your mind, I imagine you could project an outward force that repels anything incoming, like bullets and such. Basically a forcefield. And poison you could just pull right out of your bloodsteam.Again, fake power, so I don’t know if it’s like invisible appendages that are touching surrounding things, or is it like a mouse cursor where I need to focus and point and click at things to move them. Guess it’s whatever the writers say, I suppose.I think about these type of things from time to time, not whether such things are possible, but more of a “how’s it made” type deal. Give my brain a good flexin with some thinking, like what does it feel like when Magneto pulls the metal from the Earth? The important questions, ya know.
I like thinking about that stuff too 😉 The approach I tend to take is to hew as closely as possible to what’s otherwise possible in physical reality. So for something like telekinesis, it would in principle be akin to any other thing your brain can decide to do with your body. You don’t think about moving your arm, you just do it. You don’t think about applying force to a ball someone threw at you when you raise your hand to intercept it, you just do it. You don’t think about applying force to a ball someone threw at you when you push on it with telekinesis, you just do it.
But it would then also be constrained by things like focus and informational capacity. In order for you to pull poison out of your blood, you would need to be able to identify, locate, and selectively force sextillions of individual molecules out of your bloodstream, as well as any other tissues they may have passed into by the time you realize you’ve been poisoned. Human brains don’t have that kind of focus; you couldn’t identify and extract sextillions of atoms of arsenic from a pile of sand using your hands, so there’s no reason to think you’d be able to do the same with a different substance in a pile of blood cells (or, more importantly, the countless water molecules that makes up the bulk of blood). And that assumes you’re even aware of the poison! Many toxins can cause a fatal chain of events that cannot be stopped before you’re even aware you’re doomed. You may not even be aware you’ve been exposed.Being able to do things like that goes way beyond telekinesis; it now involves a raft of other powers, like superhuman awareness, focus, speed, and the ability to detect things through solid matter.
I got the idea from a comic called Rising Stars. Great comic if you’ve never heard about or read it. Like really, really good, imo.Anyway.Without spoiling too much, there’s a group of kids that develop superpowers, and in that group there’s one that can move tiny objects with their mind. I think they use marbles or something to demonstrate. No one thinks much of it. “What good is such a thing?” Well, government agencies realize what good it is when they hire the person to be assassin, using their manipulation of small objects to pinch off peoples’ carotid arteries and cut the blood flow to the brain, killing them. This person eventually has enough, says all this killing is useless and they’re fed up with how the government never changes and wars never end, and so they hatch a plan. Their plan is to reach into the molecules of the Wailing wall and Dome of the rock and destroy them both, thinking that this will unite the jews and muslims in loss.It’s a tiny portion of the comic, maybe an issue’s worth, and I don’t want to spoil it in case you or anyone wanna check it out, but this person can actually do this and, in fact, do something even more impressive by manipulating tiny objects. It’s actually pretty neat.
Check out the Gil Hamilton stories by Larry Niven, It’s about an asteroid miner who loses an arm in an accident, and develops a “ghost arm” that he can use, which persists even after he gets his arm replaced. The ghost arm has the reach and strength of his normal arm, but can reach through solid objects. It’s a logically constrained version of telekinesis.
“So everything seems to be going well for everybody involved here. That’s nice for them, right?”the last line in this article is hilarious. Barsanti can’t just blankly write about a news story there must be some kind of snark even if it’s just nothing snark at the very end looool like why is that sentence there? What is he trying to be ironic about?? Jeez this site.