[dktorode]

So the job has been given to Snyder.
With Nolan to produce and nolans brother and David Goyan to write the script.

Are we going to be seeing a "darker" superman?
What do you think about Snyder....he has done a pretty decent job of adapting comics/Graphic novels.
But....slow mo superman fight scenes?....hmmm

The Villian is going to be General Zod

[Aptorian]

I would absolutely love a Nolan interpretation of Superman.

This is what I would like to see:

Superman powered down. I want him to be more like the old school cartoon hero from the 40s, that could jump as high as a skyscraper, run faster than a locomotive, had iron skin and could battle evil nazi robots and yet was visibly shown as having very clear limits to his strength, invulnerability and intellect. Drop all those stupid powers like x-ray vision, freeze breath and super hypnotism. A guy who is super human but not practically a god.

Lose the stupid fucking cape. Fuck everything about that thing. Just give him a black jumpsuit with a snazy S on it.

Change Supermans secret identity or at least give him some kind of kryptonian technology so that his disguise no longer consists of a pair of glasses and a jerry curl. Please do not continue the bumbling country hick reporter come to the big city act. It is embarrassing.

Do something different with the Kryptonite vulnerability, it is fucking silly that superman has never been killed with the amount of kryptonite rock on the black market.

I would also love it if there was something more to the guy than the overconfident morally superior patriotism that he usually conveys.

Awhh, hell, who am I kidding, what I really want is a Black Adam movie centered in Iraq consisting of Black Adam blowing everything up and tearing American soldiers in half.

This post has been edited by Aptorian: 05 October 2010 - 01:29 PM

[Abyss]

Aptorian, on 05 October 2010 - 01:27 PM, said:

...Superman powered down. I want him to be more like the old school cartoon hero from the 40s, that could jump as high as a skyscraper, run faster than a locomotive, had iron skin and could battle evil nazi robots and yet was visibly shown as having very clear limits to his strength, invulnerability and intellect. Drop all those stupid powers like x-ray vision, freeze breath and super hypnotism. A guy who is super human but not practically a god.

Lose the stupid fucking cape. Fuck everything about that thing. Just give him a black jumpsuit with a snazy S on it.

very funny - you want the 40s power level with the 90s 'back from the dead' costume. You want him to have the gun and the jet boots too?

Anyhow, Superman flies. End of debate. The 'leap tall buildings' thing was fine for the 40s and SMALLVILLE but you don't do modern Superman by powering him down in any real sense. You do it by upping the threat.
If movie Spiderman can stop a fucking train, movie Superman better be stopping a motherfucking aircraft carrier drop shot from orbit by a spaceship that has a cannon that fires aircraft carriers.

If you haven't yet, you really need to read "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?" - Action Comics #775, March 2001. Then come back and tell us how a flying Supes in red and blue can't be badass.

[Aptorian]

Abyss, on 05 October 2010 - 01:53 PM, said:

very funny - you want the 40s power level with the 90s 'back from the dead' costume. You want him to have the gun and the jet boots too?

Well, I certainly don't want him to look like this.



I just want his look to be simple. That whole red cape, red boots, yellow belt, jerry curl stuff drives me insane. Just give him a black suit made out of impossibilium and let that be it. Or hell make it blue if you find black too depressing.

Abyss, on 05 October 2010 - 01:53 PM, said:

Anyhow, Superman flies. End of debate. The 'leap tall buildings' thing was fine for the 40s and SMALLVILLE but you don't do modern Superman by powering him down in any real sense. You do it by upping the threat.
If movie Spiderman can stop a fucking train, movie Superman better be stopping a motherfucking aircraft carrier dropped shot orbit by a spaceship that has a cannon that fires aircraft carriers.

If you haven't yet, you really need to read "What's So Funny About Truth, Justice & the American Way?" - Action Comics #775, March 2001. Then come back and tell us how a flying Supes in red and blue can't be badass.

Spiderman stopping that train in Spiderman 2 was annoying, especially considering a thousand people saw his face and they had camera phones.

It just becomes so stupid that Superman can do anything. You might as well just name him Jehova and have him fly around raising the dead and healing the sick,

But that whole orbital spaceship bombardment idea isn't so bad. It would be cool to see Zod arriving with a fleet of brainiac giant space ships and giant robots and just have a 2 hour montage of superman punching things.

This post has been edited by Aptorian: 05 October 2010 - 02:05 PM

[Kanubis]

Nolan should make him a ninja. It worked wonders for Batman.

[dktorode]

Well at least it should LOOK good with snyder at the helm.
Eye candy is sorted, now we need a good script.
Nolan and Goyan can do the job i recon.

Its just the acting and casting that im worried about.

Kanubis, on 05 October 2010 - 02:05 PM, said:

Nolan should make him a ninja. It worked wonders for Batman.

only, batman was always a ninja

This post has been edited by dktorode: 05 October 2010 - 02:19 PM

[Aptorian]

Always a Ninja you say?



Never really followed Batman but I'm assuming that his transformation into a the darker shadow ninja character happened around the time they did the year one stuff? Was it Frank Miller who started it? Kind of like how he revamped Daredevil.

[Abyss]

If they go the ninja route with Superman i will watch this movie 100 times.


There's a certain logic to Zod being the bad guy, because he only exists as an extension of the Superman story

A real problem is with Superman as a movie concept is that the film basically has to ignore the entirety of the DC universe and do this alternate universe thing where Superman is the only superhuman on the planet, except for whatever he happens to fight that week.

It works for the non-comic-fan audience because they don't need to spend limitted thinkymeatz time on the JLA or batman or wonderwoman or whatever, but it really limits the scope of what a movie can do.

Batman got around this by taking an urban one city approach, but that doesn't work as well with Supes because he's a global level dude. If it isn't an alien invasion complete with aircraft carrier missiles or at least Lex Luthor trying to Take Over The World, it's just not Big Hollywood BIG enough.

But screw all that i wanna see the ninja thing!

- Abyss, notes heat vision brain fry from orbit is cheating!

[Aptorian]

I wish they'd do an adaption of Red Sun. Such a good miniseries.

[Grimjust Bearegular]

If it's going to be a darker Superman, I vote Kevin Durand for the lead role!

[RodeoRanch]

I'm cautiously optimistic. Big Blue is my favorite superhero. Nolan and Synder have both demonstrated great comfort in translating comic book to screen.

[McLovin]

I wouldn't mind if they brought back Brandon Routh. He was actually not bad in Superman Returns, the story was what sucked...

[Primateus]

Yes, Brandon Routh did a very good Superman and Clark Kent. It's just that stupid "son" of his came around and ruined everything. Oh yeah, that and the fact that Singer decided to continue the cheezy Donner movies.

[Abyss]

And another thing. Superman should be hitting things. A lot.

Not lifting things. Not stopping falling things. Hitting things. Pissed off and being hit and finally just fucking shit up with the super-fists. Robots, aliens, bad guys, dinosaurs, i don't care exactly wtf, but he should in the first five minutes of any movie and then at least three more times, make a fist, wind up and throw a motherfucking punch that they feel on the other side of the planet. Flying at the speed of sound two fists forward destroying things.

And then fry brains with heat vision, just for good measure. I don't care whose. Every so often i glance at the comics these days and Supes is lighting things on fire with his face and dammit that's what he should be doing.

[Aptorian]

We shall name the sequel to Superman Lifts Stuff, Superman Hits stuff.

[McLovin]

Maybe it should be Samuel L. Jackson as Superman.

I have HAD it with these motherfncking villians, on this motherfncking planet!!!!

EDIT - or better yet: ...and you will know I am The Lord Superman when I lay my vengeance upon you.

This post has been edited by McLovin: 06 October 2010 - 06:28 PM

[foolio]

Aptorian, on 05 October 2010 - 02:52 PM, said:

Always a Ninja you say?



Never really followed Batman but I'm assuming that his transformation into a the darker shadow ninja character happened around the time they did the year one stuff? Was it Frank Miller who started it? Kind of like how he revamped Daredevil.

the chick who played catwoman was the best thing about that show....yummy. And Ceaser Romero was a great Joker....

[Coco with marshmallows]

foolio, on 06 October 2010 - 06:46 PM, said:

the chick who played catwoman was the best thing about that show....yummy.

Which one?

Lee Merriweather or Eartha Kitt?

[foolio]

Lee




I honestly dont remember eartha kitt.

This post has been edited by foolio: 07 October 2010 - 01:55 PM

[foolio]

come to think about it , batgirl was a hottie too.