Superman

[Guy Gardener]

I've only maybe seen a couple episodes of Lois and Clark, but I had no idea their Lex Luthor looked like a discount Warren Beatty.

There were several episodes where "Warren" was dating Lois and he was the perfect boyfriend. No zany evil side plots.... Until the Lex actor wanted to leave, so they bought out the Zany in spades where Lex sends an innocent orphan to jail for burning down the Daily Planet, so that she has to work at the Lex'O'Clock News, under his thumb, while her clone was...

I've said too much.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

It's a damn shame that no one just did the obvious thing and had Clancy Brown shave his head for at least one live action Superman.

As in "Highlander"?

 

[Tosk]

As in "Highlander"?

As in the voice of Lex Luthor on the animated Superman.

 

[DarrenTR1970]

As in the voice of Lex Luthor on the animated Superman.

He wore a bald cap for some scenes in "Highlander", that is what I was referring to.
So, we've already seen what he would look like bald if he were to have played a live action Luthor.

 

[Anwar]

It IS a little strange that we keep hearing how hard it is to modernize Superman for today's audience...

...I mean, he IS just the foreign-born but adopted child of nice country folk who works a day job of spreading the truth while battling an evil Billionaire who wants to spread hateful views across all of Humanity...

 

[the G-man]

It IS a little strange that we keep hearing how hard it is to modernize Superman for today's audience...

...I mean, he IS just the foreign-born but adopted child of nice country folk who works a day job of spreading the truth while battling an evil Billionaire who wants to spread hateful views across all of Humanity...

So, what you're saying is that Superman should piss off half the country with a heavy handed one sided political message. Yeah, that's been working out great for Hollywood the past few years.

 

[Set Harth]

"works a day job of spreading the truth"

 

[Guy Gardener]

So, what you're saying is that Superman should piss off half the country with a heavy handed one sided political message. Yeah, that's been working out great for Hollywood the past few years.

Johnathan Kent seems like libertarian, so his son would probably have similar views.

 

[Nerys Myk]

"works a day job of spreading the truth"

The Daily Planet has a sterling reputation as a fictional newspaper, unlike the Daily Bugle with its fear-monger headlines.

 

[the G-man]

The Daily Planet has a sterling reputation as a fictional newspaper, unlike the Daily Bugle with its fear-monger headlines.

The typical DP headline involves things like giant gorillas, aliens and/or half-human/half-turtle hybrids. I remember someone once commenting that in the real world it's reputation would fall somewhere between a British tabloid and the Weekly World News.

 

[Tosk]

The typical DP headline involves things like giant gorillas, aliens and/or half-human/half-turtle hybrids. I remember someone once commenting that in the real world it's reputation would fall somewhere between a British tabloid and the Weekly World News.

Except they live in a world where giant gorillas, aliens, and/or half-human/half-turtle hybrids exist.

 

[JD]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure most people are going to realize the Daily Planet's stories are true since most of that stuff is happening out in the open in the middle of the city.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Except they live in a world where giant gorillas, aliens, and/or half-human/half-turtle hybrids exist.

And that's just Jimmy Olsen!

 

[The Realist]

I'd love it if modern live-action adaptations would lean into Jimmy Olsen Silver Age crazy a little more. I always thought it would have been great on Supergirl to have even just a dialogue reference to Olsen having once transformed into a human porcupine or something. Maybe Gunn will go someplace like that.

(The recent comic book maxiseries Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen: Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? by Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber, was a fantastically funny and inventive dose of Jimmy zaniness.)

 

[Anwar]

So, what you're saying is that Superman should piss off half the country with a heavy handed one sided political message. Yeah, that's been working out great for Hollywood the past few years.

You mean...what the comics always did?

Seriously, we're getting into the territory of "You can't make a movie about how paranoid Senator McCarthy was, it might insult people!"

 

[Tosk]

I still can't believe they had Superman manhandle Hitler and Tojo. Stay out of politics, boy scout!

 

[the G-man]

I still can't believe they had Superman manhandle Hitler and Tojo. Stay out of politics, boy scout!

Only two direct responses before we compared someone to Hitler. That might be a new record.

 

[Set Harth]

It was actually Hitler though

 

[Tosk]

Only two direct responses before we compared someone to Hitler.

I didn't compare anyone to Hitler.

 

[Nerys Myk]