EXCLUSIVE : Rapman utilized a superpower of his own — one that didn’t require him to don figure-hugging spandex tights and a cape — to survive the setbacks he encountered making the earthshaking new Netflix drama Supacell that began streaming Thursday. “My superpower is discipline,” he declares. Having an indomitable will comes in handy, too.
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Having persuaded commissioners at Netflix to develop his idea of a drama about a group of regular people in south London who become mysteriously afflicted — because it’s like an illness — with superpowers, Rapman spent six months writing drafts, alone and then in a writers room, for three of its six episodes and the show’s bible. Netflix rejected them, leaving Rapman feeling dejected and demoralized. The Netflix exec.
