Originally Posted by
Doctor Know
JJ is the king of remakes and he knows it. He vowed to stop riffing pre-exisiting moves for his movies, but that was last year before Rise of Skywalker finished filming. Recent comments suggest ROS will skew close to ROTJ. The same way TFA and TLJ riffed on the A New Hope and Empire Strikes Back.
On the flip side, JJ doesn't do sequels without a lot of prodding and payment. I'm sure, most people are aware of JJ's "mystery boxes" that he likes to create for his properties. See Alias, Lost, Cloverfield, Star Trek, The Force Awakens, Super 8, Mission Impossible 3. But admittedly, JJ has no idea where his mysteries even go most of the time. So, after he does his "greatest hits" remake of someone else's movie. He leaves and the actual resolution if left up to the new directors and producers. See the current Star Wars movies of a prime example of how that could go wrong.
I bring up JJ not doing sequels (Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Wars Rise of Skywalker being his only sequel projects), to demonstrate JJ is only interested in telling "greatest hits"/checklist movies. After which he washes his hands of the project and moves on. Note the 4 year gap between Star Trek 2009 and Star Trek Into Darkness. Paramount waited on JJ to direct the film but he dithered on committing. It should be noted both ST09 and STID riff Wrath of Khan A LOT. With STID skewing closer to a remake than ST09. That's 2 remakes in a row. Now that Trek is on indefinite hiatus for it's movies, but with the prospect of Tarantino directing the next one. Take note of this exchange between JJ and Tarantino recently.
JJ rebooted Trek, made two remakes in a row, abandoned Trek and Paramount for Star Wars, made a remake there and left it up to Kathleen Kennedy and Rian Johnson and Colin Treverrow (Jurassic World's director). The Last Jedi caused a schism in the audience, fanbase and media. Colin Trevorrow was fired from IX by Kennedy. As were Lord and Miller from Solo. Solo bombed and Bob Iger asked for JJ back. Now we await Rise of Skywalker. Which will likely be a ROTJ inspired remake to close out the sequel trilogy.
So, that's what you can expect from JJ. A safe, checklist movie that harkens back to a pre-existing movie (complete with line for line dialogue exchanges and shot for shot scene recreations), mystery boxes and is guaranteed to be a box office and critical success. After that though, expect JJ to wash his hands of the IP and leave future movies and plotting to someone else.
All this without ever talking about whether JJ likes Supes or GL. Recall with Star Trek, he wasn't a fan. And relied on his writers and co-producers Damon Lindeof (Prometheus - the Alien remake, Watchmen HBO), Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman (Transformers 1+2, The Amazing Spider-Man 1-2) for details. Anyone familiar with the above names, is likely aware of the issues surrounding their projects. Roberto Orci famously told fans to "f*ck off" after the online criticism of STID being another Wrath of Khan remake.
So, it's going to be a big pass for me on JJ and Superman.