Exploring the ‘Spider-Man to Tennis Pipeline’

[hewontgo]

With the release of Challengers, Zendaya will be the third Spider-Man love interest to do a tennis movie after her comic book tenure. What’s up with that? https://t.co/AC9kBWWorb
- Vulture (@vulture) April 4, 2024
With Challengers finally coming out, a great prophecy has been fulfilled. Every primary Spider-Man love interest has gone on to do a

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[therearewords]

Has there ever been a film that heavily featured badminton?

[sarahvma]

There appear to be two Indian feature length (and one short) films on the subject - Saina, Love All, 16 Feathers.

No Spider-Man actors.

[fernandocolunga]

I saw the descriptions of how the two main characters are supposed to play tennis and then the clips of them playing and wow not a lot of tennis fans on that cast and crew

[xdecadentx]

I saw someone say that the people making Challengers probably only ever saw Medvedev play and IA.

[fernandocolunga]

Yes thats what i was referring to which fine but then dont write one plays like federer

[xdecadentx]

NGL when I saw the summary I assumed someone was a fan of the Federers.

[ohwutevernvm]

Lol wait… 😅

[genbu_no_miko24]

It’s early but apparently challengers is getting good reviews.

[bodylikemind]

I'd say reactions, not reviews. Because first wave social media reactions are almost always overly positive. I feel like reviews will actually be middling but it will still do well with the general public because it just feels like it's made to be as commercial as possible.

Reviews drop next week though and I am of course hoping for the best for Zendaya.

[genbu_no_miko24]

Good point. 🎾

[asnindie]

Imagine struggling for years to get in to a good school. Study journalism like your life depended on it to then create "articles" that would barely pass as Tumblr entries with maybe 25 reblogs.