‘Superman’ Reboot Being Produced By JJ Abrams With Ta-Nehisi Coates Writing

[Amadeus Arkham]

Superman’ Reboot In The Works At Warner Bros With Ta-Nehisi Coates Writing, J.J. Abrams Producing

It’s said to feature a black Superman.





Could be Calvin Ellis or Val-Zod. It’s unclear if the original Clark Kent character will be black.

[Bruce Wayne]

So President Superman?

[Alan2099]

I saw Superman reboot and thought to myself. "Maybe. It certainly couldn't do any worse than the last few movies."

Then I saw Black Superman, and that killed any interest I had.

Why can't they let Superman just be Superman?

[Anarchist]

Oh great, DC fucking things up again.

[Shimbo]

If the thing that makes you skip this new Superman is that it might, potentially, POSSIBLY, theoretically star a black man playing the role of a fucking alien from outer space, there's the door lol. Such vitriol when we know nothing and there isn't any confirmation. But all y'all crying know you're going to watch it anyway, even if just to criticize. So...enjoy your negativity and don't forget, we have plenty of movies with the alabaster faced "alien" and many shows and the new Superman and Lois AND the Snydercut which will undoubtedly still have lily white faced resurrected Supes completely trounce the other League members. Y'all want that white man power fantasy, you're still getting it. Just because this one particular project THAT MAY NOT EVEN ACTUALLY HAVE A BLACK SUPERMAN exists doesn't mean it's erasing your beloved white Superman.

[SiegePerilous02]

If the thing that makes you skip this new Superman is that it might, potentially, POSSIBLY, theoretically star a black man playing the role of a fucking alien from outer space, there's the door lol. Such vitriol when we know nothing and there isn't any confirmation. But all y'all crying know you're going to watch it anyway, even if just to criticize. So...enjoy your negativity and don't forget, we have plenty of movies with the alabaster faced "alien" and many shows and the new Superman and Lois AND the Snydercut which will undoubtedly still have lily white faced resurrected Supes completely trounce the other League members. Y'all want that white man power fantasy, you're still getting it. Just because this one particular project THAT MAY NOT EVEN ACTUALLY HAVE A BLACK SUPERMAN exists doesn't mean it's erasing your beloved white Superman.

I think the issue for some is less that it may be a black Clark Kent, and more that it may not be Clark at all but another character.

Some can deal with the former. If we had a black actor playing Clark but he embodied the character well and the writing was good, I would be open to give it a shot before saying anything was ruined. The possibility of the latter option as a replacement after WB has barely hid their ambivalence for the character after all these years but still want to make money off his brand is more concerning.

[skyvolt2000]

If the thing that makes you skip this new Superman is that it might, potentially, POSSIBLY, theoretically star a black man playing the role of a fucking alien from outer space, there's the door lol. Such vitriol when we know nothing and there isn't any confirmation. But all y'all crying know you're going to watch it anyway, even if just to criticize. So...enjoy your negativity and don't forget, we have plenty of movies with the alabaster faced "alien" and many shows and the new Superman and Lois AND the Snydercut which will undoubtedly still have lily white faced resurrected Supes completely trounce the other League members. Y'all want that white man power fantasy, you're still getting it. Just because this one particular project THAT MAY NOT EVEN ACTUALLY HAVE A BLACK SUPERMAN exists doesn't mean it's erasing your beloved white Superman.

We already have 3 (maybe 4) black Superman out there.

I think most would like those guys to get a shot more than a racebent Clark Kent.

Because you open the door for more options as we saw with Into the Spiderverse.

It also (or should) FORCE DC to start using Val or Calvin or Sunshine Superman more.

Since we are seeing Jace Fox, John Stewart and Nubia being used more. Not at the expense of white heroes.

[Mark Trail]

If the thing that makes you skip this new Superman is that it might, potentially, POSSIBLY, theoretically star a black man playing the role of a fucking alien from outer space, there's the door lol. Such vitriol when we know nothing and there isn't any confirmation. But all y'all crying know you're going to watch it anyway, even if just to criticize. So...enjoy your negativity and don't forget, we have plenty of movies with the alabaster faced "alien" and many shows and the new Superman and Lois AND the Snydercut which will undoubtedly still have lily white faced resurrected Supes completely trounce the other League members. Y'all want that white man power fantasy, you're still getting it. Just because this one particular project THAT MAY NOT EVEN ACTUALLY HAVE A BLACK SUPERMAN exists doesn't mean it's erasing your beloved white Superman.

Because comics is a visual medium, people tend to want movies about their favorite comic characters to star people who look somewhat like their favorite comic book characters. If DC did a spinoff with a black Superman (ex: Calvin Ellis) I think people would be happier than with WB calling it "reboot."

[Somecrazyaussie]

If the thing that makes you skip this new Superman is that it might, potentially, POSSIBLY, theoretically star a black man playing the role of a fucking alien from outer space, there's the door lol. Such vitriol when we know nothing and there isn't any confirmation. But all y'all crying know you're going to watch it anyway, even if just to criticize. So...enjoy your negativity and don't forget, we have plenty of movies with the alabaster faced "alien" and many shows and the new Superman and Lois AND the Snydercut which will undoubtedly still have lily white faced resurrected Supes completely trounce the other League members. Y'all want that white man power fantasy, you're still getting it. Just because this one particular project THAT MAY NOT EVEN ACTUALLY HAVE A BLACK SUPERMAN exists doesn't mean it's erasing your beloved white Superman.

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.

[obatalla]

I saw Superman reboot and thought to myself. "Maybe. It certainly couldn't do any worse than the last few movies."

Then I saw Black Superman, and that killed any interest I had.

Why can't they let Superman just be Superman?

I imagine this will be Val-zod not clark kent and because they want to get a black panther box office...

[Javaxcore]

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