Ava DuVernay to direct DC Comics superhero film

Los Angeles -Director Ava DuVernay, the first African-American woman to helm a film with a budget over $100m, will now take on superhero film The New Gods, sources said.

The 45-year-old filmmaker, who directed Oscar-nominated civil rights drama Selma, is finalising an agreement with DC Comics and Warner Bros. to shoot the film, an adaptation of the eponymous comic book by Jack Kirby, sources close to the director and the studio told AFP.

“Our dreams make us large.”

Thank you, #JackKirby. pic.twitter.com/gv3SiccV6a

— Ava DuVernay (@ava) March 15, 2018

It would be the second major superhero film directed by a woman after Patty Jenkins directed Wonder Woman, a film also drawn from the DC Comics universe that was released last summer.

DuVernay directed recently-released A Wrinkle In Time, smashing the $100m budget barrier, as well as 13th, an Oscar-winning documentary about mass incarceration of African-Americans.