I Want a SUPERNATURAL Movie
June 26th, 2008
If you’re unfamiliar with SUPERNATURAL, the fan adored CW show which “revolves around two brothers, Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki), who are nomadic demon hunters that ride from town to town in order to investigate and vanquish supernatural evil” then I suggest you catch up by either renting Season 1 and 2 right now, or checking out this article I wrote a while back for theTVaddict.com. This article will be here when you get back. I’ll wait.
Those who are familiar with SUPERNATURAL may think it a bit strangely cyclical to want a movie of a TV show that initially advertised itself as a weekly horror movie. Because the show has maintained and perfected that high concept, cycling through many of the urban myths that have been already covered in movies, it might even seem a redundant suggestion to ask for yet another derivative horror/supernatural movie to subject ourselves to on the big screen.
Here’s the thing though. A SUPERNATURAL movie could very easily be able to avoid being just another THE GRUDGE or THE RING rip-off, and instead transcend that sub-genre and become something much more exciting and epic. Yes, SUPERNATURAL does do its horror-movie-a-week thing, but it still manages to move past those gimmicky roots with a knack for thrilling, over-arching mythologies and narratives that would be perfectly suited for feature film treatment. Anyone who has seen the greater Yellow-Eyed-Demon story arc in Season Two knows what I’m talking about. It knows how to handle the “good” stuff and give us the grander scope.
All the other elements for a good movie are in place too. You have two solid, interesting, complicated, damaged, charming and funny main characters in the Winchester Brothers. You have two excellent actors (especially Jensen Ackles) whose chemistry together is so good they can convey their characters complicated relationships and past in a matter of minutes. They have an excellent crew of writers and directors, any of whom would be worthy of getting the feature film promotional bump.
There would be some hurdles of course. Ackles and Padalecki aren’t exactly bankable stars nor are their film track records the best, either because they make questionable choices or are being pigeonholed into the kind of bad horror movies SUPERNATURAL is trying not to be like. As a result, the studio would probably want a relatively low-budget production for minimum risk. They would also have to market the concept heavily to people outside of the 3 to 4 million viewers who tune into the show on a weekly basis. Problem is, they would probably market it exactly like one of those bad horror movies, ensuring those with horror-fatigue don’t check it out. So it is perhaps a Catch 22, but I think worth the risk.
So what do you SUPERNATURAL fans out there think? Would you like to even see a SUPERNATURAL film, or do you think it should stay where it is on the boob tube? If you do want a film, should it be an in-between-seasons kind of deal like the first X-FILES movie, or a after-the-show-is-over situation like… well, the second X-FILES movie? What would you like to see in a film (aside from Ackles and Padalecki’s hunky faces)? Finally, for those of you who are less familiar with SUPERNATURAL, does the basic concept appeal to you as a feature film? Could it work?
then another, after, too “before” could be a way to get new weekly viewers if they see the movie and like it.
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