Superhuman

Hey everyone,

Ben Enke here, producer and director of the Superhuman web series.

Way back in June of 1938, Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel penned the first superhero comic book which featured some guy in blue spandex wearing red underwear on the outside, with a red and yellow S emblazoned on his chest. They called him Superman, the fictional embodiment of everything the world needed in a time of pending war. The superhero craze grew exponentially, becoming everything we demanded of them in our darkest hours. They beat up bullies, dictators, and drug addicts as they slowly wove their way into the fabric of our lives, eventually finding themselves with enough real-world relevancy for Hollywood to pounce and capitalize on these worlds.

Historical blurb aside, my point is that superheroes and their stories are, at their core, about us and the world we live in. Those who have seen Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy can sense that Gotham city is an exploration of a modern-day post-9/11 United States – a country constantly under fear of people who want nothing but to sow chaos and destruction – from school shootings, to theater shootings, to bombings. The world of the superhero is more real than ever before.

These are the things we’ve taken into consideration as we’ve brought the Superhuman project to life. This is a web series for you, involving characters concerned with real-world threats and challenges that everyone faces. Our characters are the answer to the rarely-asked question that should follow when one asks “what superpower would you have any why?” That question being, “what are its implications?”

Our heroes will face the challenges that come along with bearing a heavy burden and shouldering responsibility in times that demand it of them, something we’ve all faced in our lives.

My parting request is that you share this series with your friends. Share it with your family. Share it with the biggest superhero in your life. As we try to squeeze our way into the crowded superhero universe, we ask you to come along for the ride, because these are heroes cut straight from the cloth of our world, and the remarkable journeys they undergo will tell us more about who we all are along the way.

Thank you,

Ben Enke

Pictured below: Kaija Pellinen as Theresa Tillman and Doug Sidney as Sean Driscoll