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DC Movies - To Infinity and Beyond

In a new video at GQ, James Gunn ranks his top five comic book movies -- and his number two choice, and his comments thereon, bode very well (IMO) for Superman: Legacy.
Number two, I'm gonna have to go with a movie that changed my life, and that's Richard Donner's Superman. This one is important to me historically, it's a great movie, but it was also a movie I saw as a kid that affected my life a lot. And I remember seeing it at the Peres Cinema in Manchester, Missouri, when it was first released. Strangely, the same exact theater that Jim Lee, who went on to create so many great comics characters, saw it in St. Louis 'cause we're both from there.

But it was taken up in this movie, and I remember when I was a child, I had seen Star Wars, and that was like such a big magical moment for me, and this was the next big magical movie.

You know, at the time, they did exactly what we're doing now. They're going through tons and tons of actors to see who captures that spirit. The thing they don't talk about much when they talk about Christopher Reeve, they talk about his pureness, his hope, his goodness. They talk about, you know, the way that he plays Clark as being so different from the way he plays Superman, and how he can turn that on in an instant.

But there's this playfulness about Superman, when he's saving a cat, he's got that wry smile. And that is one of the best parts of the movie is the playfulness of Superman. He enjoys what he's doing. He likes helping human beings and he likes saving them.

They just did the costume from the comics and they did it very simply, and it works really well. The colors work well. I just got a bunch of pictures from Warner Brothers' vaults of the actual original costumes. I think the costume works really good and it's just without frills, which was easier back then than today, because today people have seen a lot of different superhero costumes. So it's how do you make it look believable? How do you take this outrageous concept of a guy who flies around and turn him into something real?

I think that, you know, what we're doing is different. It's its own thing. But I'm definitely influenced by what Donner did with Superman, and what Christopher Reeve did with Superman, and Margot Kidder, who's fantastic in the movie. She's really the heart of it in a lot of ways.

The Fortress of Solitude is an amazing set. It's really like the look of it was created through those Donner Superman movies. And I think it was a magical location that wasn't something that we're familiar with, but that was so well-done and actually built big sets, and that's influenced me a lot. We have some of the biggest sets of all time in the Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3. It's great to actually have real practical sets for these strange locations. So the, you know, actors and the crew kind of feel what's going on when we're there, and it just looks better than having everything be a total CGI-fest.
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https://www.gq.com/video/watch/gq-top-5-comic-book-movies-james-gunn
 
We all have our preferences and favorites, but this character will outlive all of them and all of us. Henry Cavill's portrayal will always be there for his fans to enjoy, as will those of Christopher Reeve, George Reeves, and all the other actors who've worn the "S." IMO, there's no reason you can't enjoy multiple versions, and certainly no reason to dismiss Gunn's take sight unseen. Who knows? Maybe it will be the new "best ever."
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That's nice. But I just don't have any plans to see any of Gunn's DC productions. Maybe I will sometime in the future. But certainly not in the next several years.


In a new video at GQ, James Gunn ranks his top five comic book movies -- and his number two choice, and his comments thereon, bode very well (IMO) for Superman: Legacy.
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Yeah, I saw that list. The only one I really liked was "Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse". And I really dislike "Deadpool".
 
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Here's the video if you don't want to leave the forum to watch it.
 
Nope. Seems the usual thing hereabouts is to create a spoiler thread a few days before a film's release, with a grading poll, for when forum members actually start to see the movie.
 
JD said:
Is this the Karl Urban Dredd or a different one? I've heard of Dredd, but never Dredd 3D.
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It's the same one. It was shot and screened in 3D and, as is common with a lot of these movies released in 3D, it got sometimes slapped 3D at the end of the title. Tbf, it was one of the few of these early 2010s 3D movies where the 3D actually make bits of the movie better, namely the Slo-Mo scenes.
 
JD said:
I've never even heard of David Corenswet, but other than the bigger names who voiced him in the animated movies, and Tyler Hoechlin, I'd never heard of any of the Superman actors before they got the part.
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My only experience with Corenswet was seeing him in a Ryan Murphy Netflix show called "Hollywood" a few years back. However, when I watched the first episode I actually looked at Mrs. G and said "wow. that guy should be playing Superman." Not only did look the part, he was playing (well) an outwardly "naive" character with a secret life that he kept from his significant other.
 
I've never seen anything he's in, but the more I hear about him, the better he sounds.

I did watch an interview clip with him on YouTube, just to check his voice out. I am a bit picky about Superman's voice. Back when SV was on the air and a lot of people wanted Welling to play Superman proper, I had to disagree, and his voice was a huge part of that. Welling's voice was perfect for a teenage Clark, but not strong enough for a grown Superman.

Now, in that interview, Corenswet sounded fine, while not perfectly Superman, certainly a good foundation, so he will probably sound really good once in-character.
 
Kai "the spy" said:
I did watch an interview clip with him on YouTube, just to check his voice out. I am a bit picky about Superman's voice. Back when SV was on the air and a lot of people wanted Welling to play Superman proper, I had to disagree, and his voice was a huge part of that. Welling's voice was perfect for a teenage Clark, but not strong enough for a grown Superman.
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I never thought Welling was all that strong in the role, but when it comes to voices specifically, the one I had the most problem with was Dean Cain, because his voice has such a distinctive timbre and rhythm that it was always obvious that Clark Kent and Superman sounded exactly alike. Although I think he did vary his performance between the two roles, in that Clark spoke in a more casual way and Superman was more controlled and formal, kind of like Adam West's Bruce and Batman.

Vocally, nobody has ever surpassed Bud Collyer from the '40s radio series at making Clark and Superman sound like different people. Surprisingly few actors have even tried. Christopher Reeve did visually what Collyer did vocally, completely changing his body language, but Reeve's Clark and Superman still sound pretty similar.
 
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