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DC Movies - To Infinity and Beyond

Kai "the spy" said:
True, but such a revisionist Superman movie would have to win audiences over all over again. It'd be a far safer investment to do a traditional Superman movie that can be marketed as such.
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But that doesn't mean a revisionist take can't work or is intrinsically wrong; it just means it has to be good enough to win audiences over. And isn't it a given that we hope movies will be as good as possible?


And to be quite honest, I doubt the internet would care. Nothing like controversy and riling people up against each other to get those clicks,
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There will always be bigoted idiots on the Internet, but we mustn't let their hate control what the rest of us create and what we do with our lives. They've become more emboldened and aggressive in recent years, and that's a dangerous trend. We have to push them back into the irrelevancy they deserve, not keep letting them control the narrative with their bullying.
 
It would be a pretty big change to the character, but I wouldn't have a problem with a black Superman.
 
Does this sort of thing upset anyone other than white people?

I mean, I get the race-bending thing as a legitimate concern about appropriation and erasure, so I'm not talking about that.

Of all the things that sucked about Trank's FF movie, the casting of the Storms was not one of them.
 
Serveaux said:
Does this sort of thing upset anyone other than white people?

I mean, I get the race-bending thing as a legitimate concern about appropriation and erasure, so I'm not talking about that.

Of all the things that sucked about Trank's FF movie, the casting of the Storms was not one of them.
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Well, the wig issue ticked me off just a little but that had nothing to do with Kate Mara.
 
LJones41 said:
Hardly anyone was bitching and moaning about how Superman should be portrayed as some one-note hero before Henry Cavill took over the role.
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Agreed. Aside from the Routh version--which was nothing more than a "sequel" in performance to the Reeve version (which was/is great)--there was no widespread outcry about how the character should be adapted, since Reeve was the last big screen marker--and few expected his interpretation to be the influence going forward, no more than anyone expected Bale or Affleck to base their Batman on Keaton, Kilmer or Clooney..

DigificWriter said:
I've made my thoughts clear - with supporting facts - on this whole issue of whether or not the DCEU's Superman is an accurate representation of the character from the comics and therefore will not beat that horse into the ground, but I'm not entirely convinced, at this point, that there's actually anything to The Hollywood Reporter's story regarding Cavill's departure in spite of their usually impeccable reputation and stringent guidelines regarding the posting of information.
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Heh.
 
Serveaux said:
If everything that might upset racists is "race-baiting," well...
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I'd agree if racist meant a person who values different races differently and not "you don't agree with me"

I've never been to Krypton, so the people there can have skin of any color. Any actor should be able to play Superman.

I'd like to see more Asian actors and or characters in movies, but that's probably racist, too.
 
Marsden said:
I've never been to Krypton, so the people there can have skin of any color. Any actor should be able to play Superman.
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Various shows have given us Kryptonians with dark skin, including the House of Zod members in Syfy's Krypton and Tim Russ's Jul-Us in Supergirl.
 
Serveaux said:
The former is more or less what it means, so...
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Yet the latter is how it's very often used.

I was outside cutting the grass and I think if they should do the next Superman movie with a black actor, just have him show up in the first scene wearing his Superman costume and just go. No one mentions hey you look different or anything. How confusing is it if the guy is flying, has a cape, and a big red S on his chest? Maybe later in the movie if they Have to he can say he just cleaned up a dangerous nuclear reactor and the radiation altered his appearance slightly but he's fine.

Maybe Kryptonian darken as they age and the radiation quickened it somewhat but he's ok. It's not hard to do.
 
Marsden said:
Yet the latter is how it's very often used.

I was outside cutting the grass and I think if they should do the next Superman movie with a black actor, just have him show up in the first scene wearing his Superman costume and just go. No one mentions hey you look different or anything. How confusing is it if the guy is flying, has a cape, and a big red S on his chest? Maybe later in the movie if they Have to he can say he just cleaned up a dangerous nuclear reactor and the radiation altered his appearance slightly but he's fine.

Maybe Kryptonian darken as they age and the radiation quickened it somewhat but he's ok. It's not hard to do.
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It's simpler than that: just do it and don't remark upon it at all.
 
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I'd be glad to see either Boutella or Mbatha-Raw in the movie. Mbatha-Raw was quite impressive as a spy in J.J. Abrams's Undercovers, so she'd be an effective superhero.
 
Yay, it's been speculated for a while that this is the next movie to enter production, glad to see some of the rumors are at least true ;)
 
That's good news about "Bird of Prey". Also . . . does anyone know when "Aquaman" will be released?
 
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