Jesus, I'm really dreading these coming out of the wood work.
Worse if the movie isn't about a black but otherwise faithful adaptation of Clark but instead someone else, essentially meaning "the idea of Superman finally works, and it took getting rid of the character to do it! GIVE ME YOUR LIKES!!"
Meanwhile on the other side of the aisle, we'll have the toxic fringe groups who'd make a stink about the mere presence of any black character, never mind a black Superman himself. And making complete asses of themselves, ironically behaving in a way actual Superman would never approve of.
Meanwhile, in an alternate reality, the shared cinematic DCU actually took off and we'd have a traditional Clark getting films but also teaming up with Calvin Ellis across universes, Calvin leads an ensemble cast in a Multiversity movie, John Stewart co-leads a GL film with Hal and both alternate leading solo GL sequels and being on the League, the likes of Vixen, Black Lightning and Dr. Light get their own movies, Nubia gets a spin off film from Wonder Woman, Ryan Choi is at least a lab partner of Ray Palmer if not the actual lead, etc.
Trust me: You don’t get the guy who wrote “The Case for Reparations” for a non-political Superman film. That’s what fascinates me about all this. MoS didn’t meet their expectations so what are they expecting for this? A billion like BP? Can’t see a Coates flick bringing that in, he’s absolutely going to turn people off.
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Man Of Steel did fine in the box office. WB were absolutely delusional if they thought it would make a billion after Superman Returns. But what really messed it up was Batman V Superman instead of giving Superman a proper sequel. Batman ultimately cause the death of the DCEU.
"So you've come to the end now alive but dead inside."
As long as it’s not Clark Kent I don’t really care too much honestly. I’d be game to see Tangent Superman, Calvin or most preferably Val-Zod with tangent supes abilities
Let's take a tangent route. Let's say that they cast the traditional Superman...what exactly will it be about? Clark checking his white privilege or something? We literally have the perfect political origin story for Superman. Grant Morrison's first Action Arc is enough.
I imagine the second a script writer in 2021 decides to work on a political Superman film, it will be somewhat inspired by Morrison's Action Comics no matter what. Even if we get a black actor as Superman, I would be surprised if no inspiration for the film comes from there.
This. I haven't read Coates' run but the Black Panther film ironically had an anti-essentialist message. This film could potentially have the opposite and that would be a problem.
Last edited by Kaitou D. Kid; 02-27-2021 at 03:06 PM.