10 Awesome Female Directors Who Need A Superhero Movie

2. Jennifer Kent

Australian writer-director Jennifer Kent has only one feature film to her name, but it's a doozy. Kent wrote and directed 2014's hit horror flick The Babadook, which became an instant cult hit, and has endured as one of the genre's most iconic entries of recent years.

Dripping with atmosphere and superbly acted, Kent's direction is basically beyond reproach and all the more impressive considering the mere $2 million budget. With 100 times that, who knows what she could cook up?

How Likely Is It?: This really could go either way. Kent is currently working on crime thriller The Nightingale (yes, a different one to Michelle MacLaren's), but after that, it wouldn't exactly he a shock if she wound up on the superhero payroll. Then again, maybe she'd find the difference in scale too daunting to deal with (and understandably so). 5/10