DC Cinematic Universe ( The James Gunn era)

[The Realist]

Per Gunn on Threads, John Murphy is scoring Superman: Legacy. I have no opinion, scores in most modern films being eminently forgettable to me (I've seen The Suicide Squad a couple of times, and retain absolutely zero impression of Murphy's score for that). Sadly, the heydays of the likes of Williams, Goldsmith, and Barry are long behind us.* But if Murphy wants to wake up the slumbering titan that is great film music and write an indelible new Superman theme for the ages, I'm here for it.

* And please, Zim me no Zimmers (though I'm sure someone will anyway).

 

[Christopher]

Sadly, the heydays of the likes of Williams, Goldsmith, and Barry are long behind us.

I'd say Michael Giacchino, Bear McCreary, and others are still doing excellent work. Anyway, if film scores today have a sameness to them, that's not on the composers, it's on the directors who decide what they want the scores to sound like. Excuse me for bringing up Hans Zimmer, but what strikes me about his work is how chameleonic it is, changing style depending on the director, so that sometimes (particularly with Nolan) I find his scores bland and wallpapery, while at other times (e.g. with Guy Ritchie, or his Spidey film) I find them quite creative and fresh.

 

[The Realist]

Actually, Giacchino's scores for Abrams's Star Trek films did impress me. His Enterprise theme, deployed at key moments, had the same kind of lyrical beauty and soaring emotion I associate with the classic film scores of my youth.

 

[Christopher]

Actually, Giacchino's scores for Abrams's Star Trek films did impress me. His Enterprise theme, deployed at key moments, had the same kind of lyrical beauty and soaring emotion I associate with the classic film scores of my youth.

Oddly, I don't like his Trek scores as much as I usually like his work. His theme just doesn't quite do it for me somehow. There's just something about the melody and rhythm of it that feels awkward and cumbersome to my ears. It's weird, since I'm usually so fond of his work and would certainly want to enjoy his Trek work more if I could.

 

[The Realist]

Man, I try to meet you halfway ....

 

[Hugo Rune]

We live in an age when "research" has been reduced to "look it up on IMDb and call it a day."

I dunno, some of us have Wikipedia on auto-launch when we open the web browser

 

[Set Harth]

I feel like maybe I liked the Giacchino score more when the movie first came out but then I got tired of it.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

I’d settle for Brainiac at this point (you’d think he’d have shown up in at least one movie by now).

Donner wanted to use Brainiac assuming he (Donner) would have been involved in a third Superman film. Considering the overall tone of the Salkind Superman films, i'm not certain Brainiac would have been handled well, or he'd end up like so many of his Silver Age stories where he was shrinking people and acting like the kind of goofy villain / irritant one would see in 10th rate sci-fi movie from the 50s. If the character is shaped more along the lines of his DCAU version, then he would be quite formidable, uncompromising and a bit eerie.

 

[Nerys Myk]

If they do braniac, hope they do the true comic version

The alien from Bryak?

 

[JD]

Well, within a single continuity, as with your examples, it makes sense to keep the same actor where feasible, though of course the MCU has a number of exceptions already and will add one more in Born Again with Sandrine Holt replacing Ayelet Zurer as Vanessa Fisk.

But when it's a new version of the character in a new continuity, which is the case with Supergirl here, it's more common to recast. A previous actor is generally only kept if they're popular and have a long association with the role, like Adam West and Kevin Conroy reprising Batman in later productions, Judi Dench's M surviving the James Bond reboot, and J.K. Simmons playing J. Jonah Jameson in two live-action and multiple animated universes.

He might not be quite as great of a physical match for Jameson as Simmons, but Darin De Paul is absolutely fantastic in the first Insomniac game, and I would be curious to see how he'd do in the role in live action.

 

[The Realist]

Pretty nice piece of fan art here (click to embiggen):

Source: https://twitter.com/PapurrCat/status/1753395836434915670

Not sure why the artist left out the yellow behind the "S," since it's otherwise a near-perfect rendition of Supergirl's costume as it appears in the graphic novel:

(BTW, the book is currently the "#1 Best Seller in DC Comics & Graphic Novels" on Amazon.)

 

[Samurai8472]

John.........Murphy will score "Superman: Legacy"


https://twitter.com/screentime/status/1753452397597237520

 

[The Realist]

(Think this is the first we knew that Otis is in the film?)

 

[DarrenTR1970]

I see that Hoult has already shaved his head for the role.

 

[Morpheus 02]

OK...so i guess i missed this... but they have Eve and Otis from the original motion picture??? Even though Christopher Reeve's portrayal is a paragon of how it should be done, Luthor (especially) ad his crew , even to my 5 year old self, were just not great.

I hope Hoult will be more like Michael ROsenbaum than Gene Hackman.

And i must be getting old -- Hawkgirl definitely looks like a girl!

 

[The Realist]

BTW, the actor playing Otis is Terence Rosemore.

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[Mr. Adventure]

Wait, Nathan Filion is in this? Of course he is...

I see that Hoult has already shaved his head for the role.

shiny and chrome

 

[JD]

Nathan Fillion is playing Guy Gardner, the Green Lantern, not the TrekBBS poster.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

Nathan Fillion is playing Guy Gardner, the Green Lantern, not the TrekBBS poster.

Some roles would be too challenging even for Hollywood's finest.

 

[Captaindemotion]

Nathan Fillion is playing Guy Gardner, the Green Lantern, not the TrekBBS poster.

Some roles would be too challenging even for Hollywood's finest.

And he’s not handsome enough.