Zoë Kravitz may have already made their comic book debut in X-Men: First Class, but the actor would nail the part of Black Alice for Birds of Prey.
Introduced in 2005 by Gail Simone, Joe Prado and Ed Benes, Lori Zechlin fills the role of the team's supernatural expert. She suffered a tragic upbringing, with her mother having passed away during her teenage years, but just as her life seemed to crumble around her, Lori survived. She soon began to develop magical powers whereby she could replicate the abilities of other characters, including (in her first appearance) those of Doctor Fate and Zatanna.
Fate would soon come to train Alice in the mystic arts, and while full membership of the Birds of Prey would elude her for some time, Alice's journey is one tailor-made for the cinematic realm. Kravitz too would work wonders with the part, having partaken in the Divergent series of films and - in a particularly lauded role - in Big Little Lies.
The Fantastic Beasts sequel is next on the actor's agenda, and though it might be a special franchise, you'd struggle to find source-material more prestigious than DC's.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
