Friday, February 8, 2008

Zucker says: It's a spoof of the whole superhero genre

Peter Parker's spider sense may be tingling: There's a spoof headed his way.

Producer David Zucker is taking aim at the spandex-action-genre with Superhero Movie, starring Drake Bell (Nickelodeon's Drake & Josh) as Dragonfly, who got his powers when he was bitten by a genetically engineered … guess what?

"It's predominantly Spider-Man, but we satirize Batman Begins, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Superman, everything," Zucker says. "It's a spoof of the whole superhero genre, like we did with the Scary Movies, but this one probably has more of a unified plot, like the Naked Guns had."

Regina Hall and Tracy Morgan spoof Halle Berry's white-haired Storm and Patrick Stewart's psychic Dr. Xavier from X-Men. Meanwhile, Leslie Nielsen plays Bell's uncle, à la Spider-Man's Uncle Ben.

Christopher McDonald co-stars as the villainous Hourglass. "He's dying of some rare disease, and he invents a machine where he can continue to live, as long as he kills a lot of people," Zucker says. "The only one who can stop him is Dragonfly."

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