Hawkgirl: Golden Age and Modern

Let’s face it: if we’re just gonna be handing out feature films to female
superheroes, Hawkgirl should kind of take precedence. And no, it isn’t really
enough that she’s currently featured in Justice League: The Animated
Series.

What’s best is that there are two Hawkgirls from which to
draw a solid screenplay. There’s 1940s Hawkgirl, wife of Hawkman, mother of
Silver Scarab. And then there’s 1999 Hawkgirl.

’40s Hawkgirl is Shiera
Sanders Hall, the independently wealthy archaeologist who eventually finds her
way to Carter Hall, also a ridiculously affluent archaeologist. They discover
they were also an item in a former life set in ancient Egypt. When Carter joined
the Justice Society, writers left Shiera in the dust at first, content in her
role as a dutiful wife and a committed scholar.

Eventually, though, she’s
intrigued by Carter’s (Hawkman’s) exploits and finds herself thrown into the
center of the action. She turns out to be just as formidable as her hubby and
for decades, she fights alongside him as an indisposable member of the Justice
Society.

Alas, she and her husband wind up dissolving into a sort of
metaphysical state… and no one really knows when they’ll return in human
form.

Enter Hawkgirl 2.0, Carter and Shiera’s niece. As Kendra Saunders,
the new Hawkgirl is a troubled aspiring film student. Having attempted suicide
at 19, she finds that she was actually successful in killing herself and the
“her” that lives on… is the formerly disembodied spirt of her Aunt
Sheira.

It’s all pretty complex, as comic character reincarnations are
wont to be. But tell us this overlap wouldn’t make for a riveting feature film.
Go ahead. Tell us.