There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
To be honest, I don't see this team delivering something much different from Cavill's Superman.
Is a black Superman any more different than a nebishy Jewish Barry Allen who isn't a tall blonde Police Scientist?
There came a time when the Old Gods died! The Brave died with the Cunning! The Noble perished locked in battle with unleashed Evil! It was the last day for them! An ancient era was passing in fiery holocaust!
President Superman was cool in the comics. But people are getting over knee-jerk gender bending, gender neutral and/or swapping out a characters race etc. It's become heavy handed and stopped being novel years ago.
Now, if this is indeed for Calvin Ellis? Count me in. But if it is just Clark Kent being played by a POC? That would stink. So I expect the former rather than the latter on this.
Oh, Abrams is involved is he? Expect a beat for beat rip off of Superman 1978. Dude hasnt got a original idea in his head.
The first one was decent. All he did was shift Star Trek so that it mirrored Star Wars as a space fantasy rather than the thoughtful thinking man's sci-fi it was (the charisma and chemistry of the cast helped sell it though).
But Into Darkness? Absolute shit. Just a rip off of a film that was a masterpiece the first time around. It was also incredibly lazy. Then Abrams pulled the same stunt with his Star Wars films that were just rip offs.
Dude hasnt got a original idea in his head. Is he a good director? Yes, he is. But he can't write to save himself and just copies other people's work.
In elseworlds, yes. But some characters you just can't swap out. Would Black Panther work if they swapped the Africa stuff out for generic white guys? Absolutely not. Unless there is wriggle room, characters need to be respected and portrayed as intended. Ben Grimm always needs to have a Jewish background. Likewise Marc Spector. Luke Cage always needs to be african-american.
And a gay Batman and Robin film would just be a gimmick.
Let me quote this gentlemen here:
I would agree with you if J.J was directing this movie but he’s not, and likely will find another filmmaker to bring this vision of Superman to life and something tells me if he’s getting this writer who isn’t even a Superman fan, that you would never, ever guess in a million years he would be writing this film - that alone tells me this will be as far from a Donner homage as possible. J.J. comments on the news is rather telling. Here’s what he said about the project.From the sound of it this seems like this will be a radically different take on The Last Son Of Krypton. The likes of which we’ve never seen before. I’m more curious about it than excited for now. I will only psyched for this movie when they get a director that excites me.
“There is a new, powerful and moving Superman story yet to be told. . “We couldn’t be more thrilled to be working with the brilliant Mr. Coates to help bring that story to the big screen, and we’re beyond thankful to the team at Warner Bros. for the opportunity.”
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