Margot Robbie Wants To Be Rob Liefeld’s Avengelyne

Imagine being Margot Robbie in this moment, fresh off of Barbie, having the rare kind of freedom to do whatever you want in Hollywood, no questions asked. Then imagine using that freedom to pursue adaptions of board games and forgotten 90s trash comics. I guess that’s where she’s at.

Robbie has her own production company, LuckyChap, which was behind Barbie, She next wants to use LuckyChap to pursue a movie based on the Monopoly board game and, as of today, a movie based on the Rob Liefeld comic book Avengelyne with herself in the title role.

1990s comic books, especially those produced in the first half of the decade, are notorious for a signature look that put style over substance. That look was led by Liefeld, co-founder of Image Comics, who typically ignored basics of human anatomy in favor of dramatic poses, exaggerated musculature and warped body parts (Liefeld is well known for his avoidance of drawing feet if he can help it). This era also had a lot of busty, barely clothed female heroines with their own books (for reasons of “feminism”, allegedly).

Avengelyne pretty much loudly belongs to the latter, if you can’t tell by the above image. Her backstory is that she’s a fallen angel with super strength and magic blood that “performs miracles.” Having been booted from Heaven for fraudulent reasons, her mission is now to prevent Armageddon by slaying demons that pop up in the big city. Avengelyne is so 90s I don’t see how you can possibly adapt it for the screen in the 2020s, nor why you would want to.

We can’t say we really get Robbie’s motives lately, but this actually isn’t the first time someone has tried to get an Avengelyne movie moving. If it’s like the rest, this might be all we hear of it.