Zack Snyder will direct SUPERMAN

[scnj]

Mr. Laser Beam wrote:

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I threw up a little in my mouth when I heard Snyder use that dreaded word..."modern."

MODERN? Why should Superman be MODERN? Great, that's all we need, turning him into a whiny existentialist emo prick. Superman is Superman; he does not, and should not, change. He should always be the idealist Boy Scout we grew up with. He should always be a true hero.

How does modern = emo? To make a Superman movie seriously now, they have to update some things. For example, the idea of him working at a newspaper office to keep up to date on crimes is ludicrous now, because web based services have supplanted newspapers.

[Shazam!]

scnj wrote:

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For example, the idea of him working at a newspaper office to keep up to date on crimes is ludicrous now, because web based services have supplanted newspapers.

Clark not working for a newspaper called The Daily Planet = NO BUYS

[Anwar]

Maybe the Planet can be some run-down "Dying Breed" paper or something.

[Timelord_Victorious]

Why has his sole motivation to work for the planet to be up to date on crimes. Can't he do it because he likes to be a reporter?

[scnj]

Shazam! wrote:

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Clark not working for a newspaper called The Daily Planet = NO BUYS

I'm not suggesting they get rid of the Planet, I'm just suggesting they update it to modern media.

Or do a Watchmen and make the movie a period piece.

[Agenda]

Instead of Daily Planet, he could work for Daily Kos.

[Hyperspace05]

lol!

[Lapis Exilis]

Admiral_Young wrote:

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In fact it was two weeks ago that he commented on the short list. He obviously reconsidered and probably did so after reading the script or was pitched the story by Nolan.

He obviously reconsidered and probably did so after seeing the massively fat check Warner Bros. was offering to the director.

[Samurai8472]

Anwar wrote:

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Maybe the Planet can be some run-down "Dying Breed" paper or something.

I think that was one of the story points.

The Daily Planet is suffering from people getting news off the web instead of print until Superman arrives.

[Aragorn]

^ Clark is about to get laid off until Superman grants him an interview.

[JacksonArcher]

Aragorn wrote:

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Snyder can direct a movie straight forward (see Dawn of the Dead), so there's no reason to worry about it being overstylized or hyperrealistic.

That was one movie, though, at the start of his career. It was also his lowest budgeted, and if you look at every other project he has done since then, including the upcoming Sucker Punch, the more projects he does that are higher profile, the more of his hyper-stylized, slow-motion type of filmmaking creeps into every film that he does.

Superman will probably be his highest budgeted film yet, which doesn't make me believe that he'll restrain himself; if anything, it makes me believe he'll go all out stylistically.

[Anwar]

Samurai8472 wrote:

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I think that was one of the story points.

The Daily Planet is suffering from people getting news off the web instead of print until Superman arrives.

In the most recent "Origin" story the Planet was run-down and a dying Paper due to a combination of this and that Luthor had been bleeding them dry as part of his ongoing plot to have a total monopoly on all Metropolis businesses (he even had the people gather at his building every morning so he could pick one to get a "reward". Like people praying to their God).

When Superman showed up, it broke Luthor's control of the public, and he became so obsessed with finding ways of killing Superman that he neglected his business plan and the businesses regained control of themselves.

[Bad Bishop]

Admiral_Young wrote:

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It amuses me that knee jerk fan reaction to stories (I include myself big time in this) we have no idea how Zod will be used and yet there are already some who dislike the idea of him being used. No one had this reaction when Nolan announced that Joker and Two-Face would be used as villains in "Dark Knight" that I remember and that movie turned out okay and Batman has a plethora of rogues that can be used. Nolan happened to find those two characters interesting. I suspect that the Nolan brothers and Goyer find Zod an interesting character.

I'm sure Zod is interesting. Still, been there, done that.

[Garak]

Mr. Laser Beam wrote:

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I threw up a little in my mouth when I heard Snyder use that dreaded word..."modern."

MODERN? Why should Superman be MODERN? Great, that's all we need, turning him into a whiny existentialist emo prick. Superman is Superman; he does not, and should not, change. He should always be the idealist Boy Scout we grew up with. He should always be a true hero.

Go back to Russia.

[Captaindemotion]

Colour me lukewarm. I liked his Dawn of the Dead a lot, enjoyed the ridiculous campness of 300 and thought Watchmen was a reasonably good adaptation of the classic graphic novel.

But - I think each of those movies has gotten successively poorer; DOTD is still my fave of them. 300 and Watchmen were way to reliant on slo-mo and too slavishly faithful to the source material. The style over substance accusation has some weight, IMHO. So I suppose we'll get a lovely looking Superman movie but we could have got that from Michael Bay.

I'm also underwhelmed at the use of General Zod. Singer got criticised for re-hashing Superman TM and its villain and plot, now this movie seems to be re-treading Superman 2. No Braniac, no Bizarro, no original villain?

And finally, to complete my disappointment, no Routh. That he might come back was always a long shot but one can hope. Or could have. Oh well.