Not by the cover price on those. Also, one is from September and the other from May in what appears to be 2027.Woah. Newspapers in newspaper stands? Maybe it really is set in a 'retro-past'
DC Cinematic Universe ( The James Gunn era)
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Where did you get 2027 from? I noted that the papers didn't show the year.
I believe they mean that the world of this Superman has retro elements to it, as opposed to actually being set in the past. You have a mix of old and new, just as we do today...but a different mix.
An aside: It occurs to me that we have a real legit place for A.I. created work in film. Using it to write the fake articles for newspaper props. No more filler text or tedious actual writing for a prop barely glimpsed.
I noticed that the text for the Metropolis Eagle article appeared to be just random copypasta. There's also a pretty glaring typo in the Daily Planet text (as well as the photo's caption appearing to misspell Jimmy's last name as "Olson" -- though the resolution of the image makes it hard to tell for sure).An aside: It occurs to me that we have a real legit place for A.I. created work in film. Using it to write the fake articles for newspaper props. No more filler text or tedious actual writing for a prop barely glimpsed.
Can't vouch for the source, but this is being posted around and I hope that it's true:
This casting call would suggest a close adaptation of the stunningly brilliant graphic novel, which is just what I hope to see.
This casting call would suggest a close adaptation of the stunningly brilliant graphic novel, which is just what I hope to see.
It is the next possible year when the dates match the day of the week mentioned.
Tosk, I was just making a joke.
That fits the first criterion and maybe the third but I have doubts about the second (located in a place it makes sense for a big city to actually exist). Unpopulated regions are unpopulated for a reason.
Gunn's a big fan of Tom King, who's been doing a bunch of stuff with the movie people (he even has a minder who accompanies him to interviews to make sure he doesn't accidentally spill anything), so it wouldn't surprise me. Though the call for a Krypto voice actor, um, suggests at least one significant departure.
I rather doubt the idea is to have Krypto speak like a human, or even to have voiceover dialogue. This would be someone to do emotive dog vocalizations. Pretty sure it's been done before.
Except the DC atlas's locations for Metropolis and Gotham are not unpopulated in real life. Metropolis overlaps the real-life location of Delaware's capital city Dover and its adjoining communities -- which, fittingly, are located in Kent County -- and Gotham overlaps Bridgeton and Millville in New Jersey, as well as a few smaller towns. Okay, granted, the map shows the cities extending to the coastlines of Delaware Bay, which are wildlife preserves in real life, but that's no different from Star Trek putting Starfleet HQ and the Academy on parkland in the Presidio and the Marin headlands.
Back in the '80s and '90s, most of the animal vocalizations you heard on TV and movies, even in live action, were done by Frank Welker. These days, Dee Bradley Baker is the go-to guy for animal noises.
It could work. Alan Moore had a lot of fun with it in Supreme, where the Krypto counterpart had a translator collar. Like the dogs in Pixar’s Up.
Oh, yeah, I’m not saying the locations in the DC atlas work, either. There’s a reason most of the comics avoid reproducing those maps in favor of keeping it all vagueity vague.
Not saying it absolutely couldn't, though as you note, it would be a hard break from the graphic novel, which I would consider undesirable. Still think it's highly doubtful in any case.
As an aside, I remember reading some old Bronze Age Krypto solo stories where he had running thought balloons like a human character. I think the idea was that his Kryptonian abilities also gave him enhanced intelligence.
My point is that there's no reason they couldn't work, because there actually are cities there in real life, just smaller ones. And if historic and economic circumstances had been different and encouraged greater population growth on the shores of Delaware Bay, there's no reason the shores of the estuary couldn't have been landfilled in so that larger cities could be built there, exactly like what was done with San Francisco Bay.
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Rut roh
Incidentally, Gunn says on Threads, "There is no casting for the voice of Krypto."
If there are smaller cities there, the space is already occupied -- by those smaller cities. The way I see it, places like Metropolis exist in addition to real world locations, not in place of. And I think that was probably the thinking of the JLA/Avengers folks.
Now I don't know if I'm disappointed or relieved.
Which is exactly the point. I'm responding to your statement "Unpopulated regions are unpopulated for a reason." That was an invalid argument from the start, because those regions are not unpopulated. If you're now claiming that the fact that they are populated is the reason it couldn't work, then you're making exactly the opposite of the argument you made before.
When I said that, I assumed you did mean the unpopulated regions of the Northeast corridor because I was taking it as a given that we were excluding places already populated. Your response told me you weren't, so I explained that I was and why.
But the conversation isn't about real vs. fictional cities -- it's about the size of the planet. Remember, the thing that started this was the mention of the DC/Marvel crossover comic which claimed Earth needed to be physically bigger to accommodate DC's fictional cities alongside the real ones. My point is simply that that's an idiotic notion, not only because urbanization covers only 3% of Earth's land surface currently, but because we keep adding more urban area at a rate of nearly 10,000 square kilometers per year. Going by the graph in the linked article, we probably have more than twice as much urbanized land on Earth now as we had 40 years ago, and the planet is still the same size it was then. The point is simply that DC's Earth doesn't need to be larger than Marvel's Earth to have more cities on it.
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