EXCLUSIVE: Netflix’s Rapman-created Supacell series, about a group of regular people who gain superpowers, is up, up and away with Tosin Cole (61st Street) signed on to play lead character Mi…
Commissioned in 2021, the six-part superhero show sees a certain number of Black people in South London develop superpowers. Rapman is showrunner and lead director and Sebastian ThielCole’s casting comes at a time when he has plenty of heat thanks to roles in created by British screenwriter Peter Moffat.
Although he’s a longtime fan of the Marvel and DC superhero genre, he figured that “if I got powers, my first thing wouldn’t be to go and buy a spandex outfit.”“As much as I love Marvel and DC you know it’s going to work out in the end but in our story you just don’t know what’s going to happen because it’s a grounded superpowers show. They are hero characters but they’re all very flawed.”
He described his characters as “ordinary people who wear their everyday clothes and grow over time,” adding: “Put it this way: we’ve got all the powers you can get in Marvel and they come to South London.” Rapman was born and raised in South London and describes himself as a “proper Nigerian boy who has never not lived south of the river Thames.”crime trilogy in South London but believes that the area gets a bad rep from filmmakers. “I love and respect South London and I’m going to film in as much of it as I can,” he said, as he started to list the many and varied neighbourhoods.
Jessica Magaye, Ricardo McCleary-Campbell, Saraphina Mattis, Melissa Simon-Hartman, Cleo Young and Micheal Ademilua comprise the
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