#lbr there'll be another i'm nothing if not predictable

[firstelevens]

Second cast: Santiago Cabrera, Julie Walters

song: “I Wanna Get Better” by Bleachers

And I miss the days of a life still permanentMourn the years before I got carried away

title: Caped

synopsis:

Max (Cabrera) has spent the better part of the last two decades trying to save the world under the mantle of the superhero The Comet. He’s pretty good at it, actually, good enough that for the past five years or so, he’s been the public face of the British League of Superheroes. His job, which once involved patrolling to keep the streets safe, has now mostly devolved into photo opportunities and public speaking. Listless and irritated at being boxed in, Max becomes a vigilante, hoping to help the people of his city anonymously and without the pressure of The Comet’s costume. 

Unfortunately for him, he is immediately found out by the League and -- because the current head of the League hates his guts -- demoted as far as humanly (or superhumanly) possible. They make him the Retired Superhero Liaison, a job that absolutely nobody wants because it chiefly involves geriatric superheroes telling boring and sometimes lightly racist stories of their glory days. His first assignment as Liaison is to recruit Aggie Mason (Walters), who was once a trailblazing superhero and is now an embittered old woman living in a cottage by the sea. It’s said that superhero brass forced her into retirement, but now the League wants to trot her out for their fiftieth anniversary celebrations as their oldest surviving (and not-evil) ex member, and she’s rejected every envoy who they’ve sent her. 

Max gets to Aggie’s cottage in Cornwall and finds that she’s even more crotchety than advertised, and she’s especially opposed to the entire concept of Max, the “magazine cover superhero who doesn’t do any real good”. Luckily for both of them, Max is equally opposed to that version of himself, and as he starts to win Aggie over by matching her grumpiness with his own, she begins to tell him the story of her time in the League and why she’s so hesitant to go back. As the anniversary celebration gets closer and the head of the League is pestering Max for updates, Max finds himself with a much more complex and upsetting picture of the League than he’s ever had, and a laundry list of wrongs to be righted before they can go any further.

#knocking out our obligatory superhero movie early folks #lbr there'll be another i'm nothing if not predictable #santiago and julie buddy comedy WHEN tbh #zainab creates movies! #philtstone