I've always really loved action films, but I don't see myself as a superhero girl.
I never really read superhero stuff as a kid.
Miles and I had been looking to do a martial arts show for some time. Our first two movies that we wrote were "Lethal Weapon 4" and "Shanghai Noon" with Jackie Chan. Then we sort of got pulled into the superhero world, but then you look around at what's not on television and there wasn't really a martial arts shows. There are shows that do martial arts to a degree, but there's not a martial arts show.
The introduction of Harriet Tubman is going to be very exciting, she's a real life superhero so for us to be able to feature her this season is groundbreaking for a television series.
It's become almost a cliche at this point that movies in the general sense are the place you go for superheroes and explosions and TV is where you go for actual storytelling.
I don't really think that very much is interesting about the superhero as an archetype.
It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America. That seems to be the only country that has produced this phenomenon.
What really, really inspires me is that you don't see many black superheroes on television.
It's important to the world to see superheroes that are spread across our demographic.
You do a couple of superhero things and then, all of a sudden, they want to get you because there may be some name value.
