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Confessions of a Superhero

“Confessions of a Superhero” is a satirical comedic web series about the private lives of superheroes. We focus on two roommates (and best friends) with secrets to hide. We like to think of it as Batman and the Joker being roommates, and best friends, but without the knowledge of one another’s secret identity. Or for the Marvel fan in some of us …. Spider-Man and the Green Goblin sharing rent and a cable bill while not knowing what the other does when they’re not around.

We like to think of this as a smaller, superhero version of “Mr. And Mrs. Smith” … but with the occasional dick joke.

John (Alex Acosta of Adult Swim’s “Bite Me,” premiering spring 2017) is Captain Liberty, San Francisco’s protector. He’s a former sports star trying to find his way while being gifted with powers that would make Superman blush. A bit of a meatball, John is an inherently decent guy with a love for the indecent.

Blake (Ilya Gaidarov) is Professor Payne, the Bay Area’s number one super-villain. On the surface he’s a good guy, the kind of guy you’d want your daughter to bring home … but below this paragon of the community is someone with an axe to grind against the world and the motivation to build a weapon of mass destruction to do it.

They’ve been best friends since childhood and now, unbeknownst to one another, are also one another’s greatest rival. What follows is a night in their lives, from the nuances of rescuing damsels in distress to henchmen who want better benefits.

This night John and the Legion of Valor, San Francisco’s Justice League equivalent, are having a poker night. Boston transplant Ben (Marcus Drew Steele), who matches his super powers with an over the top vulgarity and libertine tendencies, joins John alongside Matt (Rama Griffith) and Jim (Timothy Fischer). Matt and Jim are older, wiser heroes (and super powered couple) who occasionally enjoy the cheeky shenanigans of their younger compatriots … while also being the Bay Area’s most prolific super powered team, Blizzard and Inferno. What’s the task at hand for this night? Play poker, drink beer and welcome Kurt (Frank Wang) into the fold. Kurt is a new superhero, and longtime friend of John, about to get an education on the real world of super heroes.

Blake is up for a night out of his own. He’s got a date with Rachel (Jordan Carlson), a nice girl he met through an internet dating website. Also he has a death ray being built … the world isn’t going to take itself hostage, you know.

  • Scott Sawitz
    Writer
  • Mike Noyes
    Writer
    The Night Before
  • Scott Sawitz
    Producer
  • Mike Noyes
    Producer
    The Night Before
  • Alex Acosta
    Key Cast
    Bite Me, Recreation
  • Marcus Drew Steele
    Key Cast
    13 Reasons Why, Rain
  • Ilya Gaidarov
    Key Cast
    Relaxed and Simple
  • Frank Wang
    Key Cast
    Rules of Exchange, Frisky, San Andreas, Eternal Harvest
  • Jordan Carlson
    Key Cast
    Stray, The Caretaker, Blood Is Thicker Together
  • Rama Griffith
    Key Cast
    Home and Away
  • Timothy Fischer
    Key Cast
  • Scott Sawitz
    Director
  • Mike Noyes
    Director
    The Night Before
  • Project Type:
    Web / New Media
  • Genres:
    Comedy, Superhero, comic book
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 15 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    June 17, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    10,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Scott Sawitz, Mike Noyes

Scott Sawitz is a freelance writer and financial services professional who lives in the greater Chicagoland area. He has a bachelor's degree in Communications from St. Norbert College in 2001. His work has been featured on such websites as Fox Sports.com, CagePotato.com, Inside Fights.com and more.

Mike Noyes received his Masters Degree in Film from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco in 2013. He also earned a Communication Studies degree at Sonoma State University in 2000. He has been writing and making short films since high school. He graduated from SSU as the first student to write/direct/produce a feature length film in one semester for his graduating thesis project.

Scott and Mike have been colleagues and friends on the staff of InsidePulse.com for over a decade.

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Director Statement

Sometimes all you want to do is make people laugh, especially with everything that has happened in the past couple of years. We've had a lot of unintentional comedy and sometimes you just want to watch something funny and forget about everything.

That's the spirit where "Confessions of a Superhero" comes from; humor as the ultimate medicine.

We take a genre that’s fairly serious, and big, and make it smaller, much more comedic and a bit more diverse than you see on the big screen. This isn’t about saving the world for a superhero; this is about what happens when they’re off the job and just want to be a civilian for a couple of hours. A deliberate satire and raunchy comedy, our end point was simple: take a step back at the ultra-serious genre and poke fun at it some.

We wanted to make something funny about the things you don't see about superheroes in this day and age: their private lives. Marvel and DC have given us big, $200 million productions that really don't tell us much about heroes between handfuls of popcorn. “Confessions of a Superhero” was designed for the comic book fan and comic book movie fan alike to be able poke fun and laugh together at the nature of superheroes, supervillains and what happens when the capes come off and reality sets in.