Bring back the John William's Superman theme!

[Marvelman]

Dear Warner Bros.,

If you are really serious about making Justice League and your other DCEU movies more hopeful, here is a really simple way to do it. Replace the current completely forgettable Man of Steel theme with the classic John Williams theme!

Thank-you.

[manofsteel1979]

Dear Warner Bros.,

If you are really serious about making Justice League and your other DCEU movies more hopeful, here is a really simple way to do it. Replace the current completely forgettable Man of Steel theme with the classic John Williams theme!

Thank-you.

Umm... No.

Now, if you want to argue there should be a new Superman theme post JL, I actually think that's a possibility. However, as much as I like the Williams theme, unless you go full retro and say, bring back the Elfman Batman theme for Batfleck post JL or the 70s Lynda Carter theme for Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman, then a big no for going retro for just Supes.

I don't really get the obsession with trying to take Superman back to an incarnation that hasn't quite worked since 1983 when we aren't asking the same of Batman or the other DCU characters. Shouldn't each generation have a Superman to call their own?

[Outside_85]

Dear Warner Bros.,

If you are really serious about making Justice League and your other DCEU movies more hopeful, here is a really simple way to do it. Replace the current completely forgettable Man of Steel theme with the classic John Williams theme!

Thank-you.

No. That theme had it's time, and that time is over.

[Sacred Knight]

A piece of music won't magically change much anyway. Music supplements the content of a film. That's not to understate what a score does for a film, but, the quality has to already be there. Good music in a crappy movie is just good music in a crappy movie. The Williams theme isn't going to be the difference maker on whether Superman going forward in this movie verse is going to be good.

Its not like I don't understand the tug. Its the best main theme in the history of film. So yeah, temptation is going to be there. But resurrecting it isn't going to do anything. We've already seen what Bryan Singer-ing Superman does already, after all.

[Jekyll]

I just thank the good lord we won't be getting a generic, uninspired, endless percussion loop, Hans Zimmer score for JL!

[Jokerz79]

John Williams Theme isn't only my favorite piece of Superman music I just love it as a piece of music. But damn that would had been tonally out of place in either Man of Steel or BvS.

[Carabas]

I just thank the good lord we won't be getting a generic, uninspired, endless percussion loop, Hans Zimmer score for JL!

Nope, it's Elfman's generic, uninspired pseudo-gothic Edward Scissorhands/Batman score with choir again. Still better than Zimmer though.

[Agent Z]

Nope, it's Elfman's generic, uninspired pseudo-gothic Edward Scissorhands/Batman score with choir again. Still better than Zimmer though.

I strongly disagree

[Lee Stone]

John Williams Theme isn't only my favorite piece of Superman music I just love it as a piece of music. But damn that would had been tonally out of place in either Man of Steel or BvS.

Easy... change the tone.

[The Darknight Detective]

I want The Adventures of Superman theme instead!

[Thor-Ul]

I love the John Williams theme!

But no. I was tried again in Superman Returns. Leave it in there.

[The Darknight Detective]

I love the John Williams theme!

But no. I was tried again in Superman Returns. Leave it in there.

Yeah, I agree. It was great in its day, but that doesn't mean it has to be his theme forever and ever.

[Jim Kelly]

I haven't seen the latest Star Wars movies or the new Spider-Man, but I hear that those movies work the old themes into their respective scores.

Composers use variations on pre-existing themes all the time--John Williams must be paying homage to past composers in his scores, because his work always sounds vaguely familiar. I can't read music, but it sounds to me like the Williams' Superman intones the Fleischer Brothers animated and George Reeves TV Superman theme.

And to my untrained ear, there is some of Williams in the Hans Zimmer MAN OF STEEL theme, but that almost sounds like a funeral march. If Superman is going to come back from the dead, the music should be uplifting in the spirit of the Williams theme--which for me has strains of Aaron Copland (Apalachian Spring) mixed with Prokofiev (Romeo & Juliet).

[The Darknight Detective]

I haven't seen the latest Star Wars movies or the new Spider-Man, but I hear that those movies work the old themes into their respective scores

It's the same universe, though, Jim, unlike the DCEU and Donnerverse.

[Wandering_Wand]

I happen to love the "Man of Steel" theme and personally believe it's very strong and inspiring.