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The "8 hour saga" bit is hilarious. It's so outlandish
Mark Millar and his proposed Superman movie
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The "8 hour saga" bit is hilarious. It's so outlandish
This would actually please me quite a bit. I want a contained Superman epic set of movies.
Having an epic Superman story is one thing. Having one that, for some reason, starts thousands of years ago on Krypton and ends, presumably, thousands of years from now on Earth is another. It seems like such a depressing end for a character that is suppose to represent optimism and hope.
With DC wanting to make their movies go "Teh Dark!" thanks to The Dark Knights success, I guess making Superman even more depressed at being the only one left of his race(excluding Kara) is one option
Norrin Radd
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I too have a proposed Superman script and I have someone who could direct.
I'm not naming who...
I'm not naming who...
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doubleohfive
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Return of the Jedi did not come out "28 years later" (after Empire Strikes Back). Funny that they'd leave that in there...
Well, he already spoilered the end, so no need to bother...
You misunderstand. He is saying that if Jedi had come out 28 years later it would not have been as relevant.
He's comparing it to the newest Superman movie being a sort of continuation of the old Donner Superman movie and explaining it just didn't feel relevant because of that large gap between their releases.
I guess MM is going to basically will this project into existance. If he repeats it long enough it will eventually be true, right?
Agreed. Plus it's a rather odd premise given how the DC universe works. You're going to tell me that thousands (if not millions) of years after Supes gets to Earth, he sees the race dying out or something and just sits by and lets it all happen? And if humanity did insist on dying off, I'd be shocked if Supes didn't try to build a ship or something and go explore the galaxy instead of moping around on Earth.
I like some of Millar's work, but I think he's off on this one. As you said, Superman is not a depressing character. He's not meant to be "dark".
Even if he decided to just wait on a dead earth for a few billion years until the sun turns red, he will never live see it go supernova. It's not like a star makes *poof*, turns red and explodes ten minutes later.
I hate the idea of Superman being immortal due to the yellow sun anyway, it's absolutely retarded, why should we care if he gets Lois, if she has the life expectency of a fruit fly compared to him. I don't believe this "He still loves her, although she died 10 million years ago" crap, it makes no sense. He already has a bunch of superpowers, making him immortal removes him too much from humanity, he should be able to age and die with his loved ones, everything else is just cruel, he already lost Krypton and some writers want him to live an immortal life of constantly losing everything until the whole planet is dead? That's awful, most depressing story ever written!
I hate the idea of Superman being immortal due to the yellow sun anyway, it's absolutely retarded, why should we care if he gets Lois, if she has the life expectency of a fruit fly compared to him. I don't believe this "He still loves her, although she died 10 million years ago" crap, it makes no sense. He already has a bunch of superpowers, making him immortal removes him too much from humanity, he should be able to age and die with his loved ones, everything else is just cruel, he already lost Krypton and some writers want him to live an immortal life of constantly losing everything until the whole planet is dead? That's awful, most depressing story ever written!
Erm . . . IF everyone else on Earth was dead, why would Superman linger around on a burned out planet, waiting for the sun to turn red so he can die a "natural" death? He could just as easily migrate to another star system--perhaps an inhabited one, one even with a yellow sun and carry on.
IF he were intent on suicide, he wouldn't NEED to wait the hundreds of thousands or millions of years it would take for the sun to go red--he could, again, just migrate to a RED sun system.
The proposed concept is one of those unfortunate kinds of ideas wherein the attempt at "poetry" with the story is so absorbing to the writer that he doesn't see the actions of his characters make no reasonable sense.
IF he were intent on suicide, he wouldn't NEED to wait the hundreds of thousands or millions of years it would take for the sun to go red--he could, again, just migrate to a RED sun system.
The proposed concept is one of those unfortunate kinds of ideas wherein the attempt at "poetry" with the story is so absorbing to the writer that he doesn't see the actions of his characters make no reasonable sense.
MeanJoePhaser
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As long as Superman fights a giant spider, I'm down for whatever. 
it reminds me of those crack pot ideas(mostly involving crack and pot) in the development hell before superman returns.
Some might remember Krypton still surviving but with TyZor as ruler and 50ft tall robots with lara and turtle friend.
Then a massive battle with Krypton FBI agent Lex across the world and giant 50ft tall robots invading Washington DC
I remember reading this summary. When it got to this part I just did a
It surprises me, but I guess that it shouldn't, that many people read "superman is the last being on earth and the sun goes red and starts to supernova" and conclude that the ending must be dark and depressing like "The Dark Knight" was dark.
Does no one think that it could be an appropriate ending? Superman works for millennia to help and protect humanity, eventually seeing us overcome our adversity and migrating away from earth (presumably we evolve technologically and biologically, even if artificially), and hopefully avoiding the pitfalls of the Kryptonian civilization. Superman might then visit other planets, but would always consider Earth his home; living there on a farm or Fortress of Solitude-like-place except when needed elsewhere. Eventually he lives long enough to see the sun go red and nova (who cares if it isn't in-real-life massive enough to go nova? Maybe it was hit with a technobable-ray in 2443 during the second coming of Jesus - it doesn't matter.). So he is alone for a while on Earth? He is "alone" on Earth with 6 billion humans. It fits.
I am not willing to blast a one sentence synopsis of an 8 hour movie trilogy. I would rather hear people's thoughts on how this idea could be played to good effect.
Does no one think that it could be an appropriate ending? Superman works for millennia to help and protect humanity, eventually seeing us overcome our adversity and migrating away from earth (presumably we evolve technologically and biologically, even if artificially), and hopefully avoiding the pitfalls of the Kryptonian civilization. Superman might then visit other planets, but would always consider Earth his home; living there on a farm or Fortress of Solitude-like-place except when needed elsewhere. Eventually he lives long enough to see the sun go red and nova (who cares if it isn't in-real-life massive enough to go nova? Maybe it was hit with a technobable-ray in 2443 during the second coming of Jesus - it doesn't matter.). So he is alone for a while on Earth? He is "alone" on Earth with 6 billion humans. It fits.
I am not willing to blast a one sentence synopsis of an 8 hour movie trilogy. I would rather hear people's thoughts on how this idea could be played to good effect.