Screen Junkie's Honest Trailers tackles Hancock in the latest installment of the series, as the series slams the confusing final act of Will Smith's 2008 superhero movie. The Peter Berg-directed superhero black comedy starred Smith as the titular hero alongside Charlize Theron, Jason Bateman, and Eddie Marsan.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Nearly 15 years after it first hit theaters, Screen Junkies' latest installment of their Honest Trailers series looks back at Berg and Smith's subversive superhero comedy. The Honest Trailer focuses on Hancock's convoluted and dissonant third act, poking fun at how the reveal that Ray's wife, Mary is a super-powered being with close ties to Hancock derails the film's tone.
Could A Hancock 2 Ever Happen? While Smith and Theron joined a Hancock sequel penned by Adam Fierro and Glen Mazzara in 2009, no further developments have been made in the following decade, despite Berg and Theron's openness to returning.
While discussions and concerns surrounding superhero fatigue have led to creatives and studios finding new ways to tackle the genre in a fresh and subversive manner, it can be argued that Hancock may have been ahead of its time. Despite its tonally dissonant third act, Hancock explored the more mundane and less shining examples of what superherodom could bring long before series like The Boys offered audiences a brutal, more cynical view of how superhumans could act and affect life on-screen.