DC Movies - To Infinity and Beyond
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House of Cards? So she’s already gone up against Lex.
House of Cards? So she’s already gone up against Lex.
Nope, just his henchmen.
Now's a good time for people to watch Manhattan if they missed it, what with this casting news and Oppenheimer coming out.
Yeah he really looks like Christopher Reeve and Brandon Routh too...oh, wait...
I'm not familiar with either actor's work, but from what I've been reading since I first heard their names in connection to the role they seem like good choices. I'm kind of excited about Superman being played by an actor of Jewish descent, given the character's history and origins.
Reevs had it too, Routh not so much.
Could go with Brian Cranston, unless that's too obvious
I've had Superman 1938 bouncing around in my head for years. Would love to see a period piece.
Bryan Cranston himself just opined that would be lazy casting
I would rather see Cranston as Perry White.
I would rather see Cranston as Perry White.
No idea about Corenswet but super-excited for Brosnahan as Lois!
James Gunn sinks DC headquarters into Hell, Warner Brothers goes into bankruptcy and is bought by Disney, and we all become slaves of the Mouse in their war against Teslamazon drones from Mars.
Obviously.
James Gunn sinks DC headquarters into Hell, Warner Brothers goes into bankruptcy and is bought by Disney, and we all become slaves of the Mouse in their war against Teslamazon drones from Mars.
Obviously.
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Yeah, I don't see this going the period piece route. It wouldn't make any sense to lock their whole brand new universe into a period piece setting and Lois Lane is too important a character to too many Superman fans to let her get stuck in the past. And dicking around with Steve Trevor style shenanigans to keep her around would definitely not be a popular idea after WW84.
Modern but with its own fantastical style (that could in some ways be suggestive of a period piece a la Batman TAS) seems the best bet.
Hoult has now been a runner up for both Batman (for The Batman) and Superman. Apparently he was initially in the mix for Lex in this film, so I wonder if he’ll throw his bald cap in the ring for that, or indeed for this universe’s version of Batman.
Could be a good choice. But I just started reading Maureen Ryan's Burn it Down, and it occurred to me that the classic portrayal of Perry White as a bullying, abusive boss with a heart of gold is a trope that needs to be revised. Ryan talks about how generations of fiction have created the myth that abusive behavior is acceptable or even necessary from a gifted boss, and have thus helped perpetuate a toxic culture of abuse in the industry. She even specifically cites "soft firing" -- telling people they're fired but expecting them to return to work anyway -- as a common abusive tactic, and that's been one of Perry White's trademarks since the 1940s, played as an endearing quirk that his employees chuckle at. It's probably high time that was revisited and we got a new approach to Perry.
(J. Jonah Jameson is much the same character, but he's traditionally been portrayed more negatively, as an antagonist or at best a deeply flawed antihero.)
Agreed. The only hurdle--a major one--is the story, because casting alone won't sell a film, as seen with Annette O'Toole cast as Lana in Superman III; she was perfect in that role, but the film was a 90-car pile-up spilling over into a sewage processing plant.
Well, that does not mean much at all.
Move past it to what, exactly? Superman and a rotating crop of casual dalliances? He's not James Bond, you know.
The story of Superman is the story of his love for Lois Lane. All else is secondary. If you want that gone, you want some other character entirely.
Always nice to see someone who appreciates Lois's importance.
Well, I cite the positive Internet response to Brosnahan's casting mainly because I'm not familiar with her work, and I gather a lot of these commentators are. So they're at least coming at it from a more knowledgeable place than I.
Besides, the Internet lives mainly to destroy, not to celebrate. I'd be a lot more inclined to dismiss a negative online reaction.