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DC Cinematic Universe ( The James Gunn era)

Wonder Woman probably.
Phantom Stranger?
Dr. Fate?
Shining Knight?
Do those that get reincarnated count? If so, there's Hawkman & Hawkgirl.
Swamp Thing has gone through multiple iterations.
Since we have Guy Gardner, a Green Lantern; that means the Guardians and the Green Lantern Corps have been around for a while, as well as the Green Lantern Corps predecessors the Manhunters.
If the people of Earth know about Green Lantern, they might also know about the New Gods and Darkseid.​
Trying to keep it to the 300 years mark. So the 18th Century. I can see there being A Swamp Thing back then. Fate/Nabu was in hibernation. Same for the Shining Knight. GL's weren't based on Earth. The Stranger was pretty low key. The Hawks probably had an incarnation or two. But they traditionally weren't metahumans.
 
And the tradition continues that Superman has the worst protected hideout

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Must contract his security from Starfleet.
 
And the tradition continues that Superman has the worst protected hideout

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I wouldn't be me if I didn't point out that the shot of Lex and Eve comes from Superman II, not Superman (The Movie). Also the shot from Superman Returns does not feature the fortress. That is a shot from later on, where they are on the island that Lex created. My apologies for being me!! :)

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I can't help but imagine a jacket on Rachel so that she's dressed almost like Lois from the '90s animated series.

Found on Reddit. Comic writers set visit: (Apologies if this is a repeat, I can't remember.)
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Wonder Woman probably.
Phantom Stranger?
Dr. Fate?
Shining Knight?
Do those that get reincarnated count? If so, there's Hawkman & Hawkgirl.
Swamp Thing has gone through multiple iterations.
Since we have Guy Gardner, a Green Lantern; that means the Guardians and the Green Lantern Corps have been around for a while, as well as the Green Lantern Corps predecessors the Manhunters.
If the people of Earth know about Green Lantern, they might also know about the New Gods and Darkseid.
Edit to add.
Since the Engineer is part of the Authority and a part of the Wildstorm universe, I'm sure there are some characters there that I'm not aware of who are over 300 years old.​
I ran across online references to Stormmwatch/Demon Knights, about whom I know nothing.
 
TV shows are very budget constrained, they don't have the $$$ like a movie would. And they only pulled in 3x SuperMen I believe.

Anyone even vaguely familiar with the COIE maxi-series knows any adaptation could not be half-assed, or handled in the more-often-than-not creatively bankrupt Berlanti manner. That COIE adaptation was a disaster from its inception, no matter which former Superman actors participated in it.

Given the recent financial success of "Spider-Man: No Way Home" in the box office, I'm sure some top execs are thinking, if Sony & Spider-Man can pull it off, why can't a more famous Comic Book character like SuperMan pull it off?

For clarity's sake, you mentioned using TV and movie Superman actors, but the MCU did not regarding the TV Spider-Man--Nicholas Hammond, which was disappointing.

You won't know until you ask them and make a financial offer to be part of the movie.

I'm talking about a personal, creative interest. Why would Cavill return to a role that was restored in []Black Adam[/i], only to be cut from The Flash? Not the best environment for one to ever consider returning to.

Not enough to justify the costs of such an undertaking.

This.

But "The Suicide Squad" really sealed my negative opinion of him as a filmmaker . . . at least as a screenwriter.

Again, this.
 
For clarity's sake, you mentioned using TV and movie Superman actors, but the MCU did not regarding the TV Spider-Man--Nicholas Hammond, which was disappointing.
There was a TV Spider-Man?
That's news to me.

I'm talking about a personal, creative interest. Why would Cavill return to a role that was restored in []Black Adam[/i], only to be cut from The Flash? Not the best environment for one to ever consider returning to.
James Gunn could be a different type of leader, he might have a very different on set atmosphere compared to previous leadership.
 
https://variety.com/2025/tv/global/mister-miracle-warner-bros-animation-dc-studios-1236429149/

“Mister Miracle” marks the second adult animated series from Warner Bros. Animation and DC Studios since the latter was launched by bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran in 2022. It comes following the success of “Creature Commandos,” which is currently in production for a second season on HBO Max. Other recent animated projects in the pipeline include “Starfire!,” “My Adventures with Green Lantern” and “DC Super Powers.”
 
If you ask me the fact that the MCU, the Arrowverse, and the DCEU did the whole multiversal crossover with past actors thing a big reason for the new DCU to not do it. If they're smart they'll try to find a way to do different things and establish their own identity, rather than just repeat what other superhero productions already did. If you really want to see past DC actors come back, just go watch the Arrowverse Crisis on Infinite Earths, or The Flash movie.

Once upon a time I was excited by the notion that we'd work to Crisis On Infinite Earths. But that was before everybody and their brother started doing "multiverse". It's DC's biggest story and aside from The Great Darkness Saga from the Legion of Super-Heroes, I can't think of any really "big" stories from DC that have really stood the test of time like those two. At least for me. Sure, there have been any number of "big" events, but most of them have been forgettable. Probably why I can't remember them lol.


I was excited until I saw Tom King's name. I don't hate the guy, but I'm also not interested in some deep, "adult" examination of Mr. Miracle. I want Kirby's Techno-mythology and comic book goodness. The type which we seem to be getting in this new Superman movie.


Saw the new trailer, I think Corenswett (sp) will be my favorite Superman after Cavil. While I've been loving everything I've been seeing so far, one thing that I really love is that Superman finally talks and acts like a real person, not the goody two shoes of the Reeve movie. He's more "Superman 1938" than "Superman 1978" and that's a welcome change to me.

One thing that'll be a riot to see is how well people respond to the Guy Gardner's Green Lantern. I'm curious to see if he'll be the breakout character and be the definitive...uh...guy...when it comes to "Green Lantern" for today's audiences. People might be wondering why they didn't have Reynolds play this character instead of Hal. Assuming they don't kill Guy in this flick.


The news that this universe has a history of superheroes is also welcome. This truly seems to be shaping up to be the most "comic booky" of comic book films and I'm loving it. I don't think movie makers were embarrassed to do this in the past so much as audiences weren't ready for it, but after a decade of abundant superhero films, they finally are. It's funny that a decade ago the MCU was lauded for being so "comic book" like and they look almost as grounded as The Dark Knight by comparison. I'm liking the "yeah, we're comics accurate and fuck all trying to make it workable in the real world". There's a time for that and we've had that. I think this is the way DC Studios can set itself apart from the MCU and have it's time in the sun as the MCU seems to be slowly imploding under the weight of....how many films now?


Anyway, July 11 can't get here fast enough.
 
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According Wikipedia it ran for two seasons on CBS for a total 13 episodes from 1977 to 1979.

To be specific, that's the gloriously funky season 2 title theme by Dana Kaproff, which I've loved since I was a kid. It's the best of the show's three main title themes, after the pilot movie's theme by Johnnie Spence and the season 1 theme by Battlestar Galactica's Stu Phillips.

Like Galactica, this was one of those short-lived shows whose episodes got edited together into TV movies, since they were too short to syndicate as series but could be syndicated in movie form, which was the only way people were able to see the show again in the decades between its cancellation and its eventual home video release. The movies included the pilot and the two 2-parters, but the rest were just unrelated 1-hour episodes spliced together into "movies," with the lead actors brought back to do cheaply filmed bridging scenes to lead out from one episode and into the next, even though sometimes they did a season 2 episode in the first half and a season 1 episode in the second.

Robert F. Simon played J. Jonah Jameson, but he was a more avuncular, toned-down version of the character, really more of a Perry White or Lou Grant type. He was the only comics character in the series besides Peter, although Aunt May appeared in the pilot (but Uncle Ben didn't).

There was also Japanese Spider-Man.

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Which was a contemporary of the US series, airing from 1978-9. They both did decent interpretations of the costume, differing from the comics mainly in having a single large web-throwing wrist device outside the costume, with the Japanese one being more elaborate. The US show did better with the wall-climbing scenes (although they were only straight up and down, and you could often see the winch supporting the stuntman from above), but the Toei show did better with the hero's spider-like movement, agility, and fighting style.
 
Trying to keep it to the 300 years mark. So the 18th Century. I can see there being A Swamp Thing back then. Fate/Nabu was in hibernation. Same for the Shining Knight. GL's weren't based on Earth. The Stranger was pretty low key. The Hawks probably had an incarnation or two. But they traditionally weren't metahumans.
Gunn's definition of "metahuman" is broader.
 
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One thing that'll be a riot to see is how well people respond to the Guy Gardner's Green Lantern. I'm curious to see if he'll be the breakout character and be the definitive...uh...guy...when it comes to "Green Lantern" for today's audiences. People might be wondering why they didn't have Reynolds play this character instead of Hal. Assuming they don't kill Guy in this flick.
We already know Nathan Fillion's Guy will be in both Peacemaker Season 2 and Green Lanterns, so he's probably going to ssurvive. I guess they could both take place before Superman, but that seems unlikely.
 
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