Keeping it Real

The multiple layers of colorful gadgets and graphics on display inside the Owl Ship provide one example of the effort involved in retaining the details of the source material. “I think that the balance of translating anything from one medium to another is first to find the equivalence in the medium that you’re working in,” McDowell says. “I really felt like we had to make a complete sideways step, and look at what reality means in cinematic terms in relation to the zeitgeist of superhero movies and comic book movies.”