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I just hope it’s not J.J. Abrams’ Flyby script, and the villains aren’t Lex Luthor, General Zod, Doomsday or made up villains! Brainiac, Metallo or someone else please!
Yeah I'd be all up for that. At least it's something a bit different.
As I've said when the false, tabloid driven rumor of Idris Elba being considered for Bond was circulating, I am a huge fan of his ; he is a very talented actor, has loads of charisma and given the right material could absolutely carry a spy franchise, but, for me not as Bond. I would love to see him as a suave super spy in an original production.
The same holds true for the super hero genre; come up with a fantastic Idea featuring a black superhero. I would plop down my money to see both.
Some see changing an established character's gender or race as being "Brave", "Daring" or "Bold"; I see it as lazy and pandering to trendy social issues.
If it captures the imagination and feels fresh and takes it somewhere it hasn't been before: that's not really lazy. He's not supposed to be of the same race as the other people in Kansas, why not.
In terms of 'traditional', Superman always wore his knickers over his trousers until he didn't.
I don't know if they'll do both.
Just personal preference. It's like when someone records a new song and they add a sample from a previous hit, much of the good reaction is often based on the popularity of the older song. Often the tune could not stand up on it's own. Occasionally it's done with an artistic authenticity, but it seems more often than not it's manipulative and , yes, lazy.
I totally get how it’s a personal preference to see it like all of the previous versions, but I think it is strong enough to take some fresh approaches. This new TV show has him as a father to teenage sons living in Smallville rather than Metropolis for example: I haven’t seen a negative reaction to that not being a traditional approach for some reason. I don’t get why how he looks is somehow more terrible a change than where he lives and having a whole different family dynamic.
Lots of people have kids so that must be a manipulative and lazy capitulation to them.
Fair enough, I can respect that.
Mike Colter is 6'3 and was excellent in Luke Cage often understated and sublte in his performance and projects integrity, he would be perfect as Superman IMO. He is 44 though I suspect they will look for a younger actor.
Or is he more Bond. He is Britisch!, but atleast i think he intresting for another option for Felix or Licence to Kill type of villian. He is from 1986, wil be first who younger then me, but looks older.
If not him, Eli Goree should play Superman.
It’s an idea that rich with opportunity. I don’t know why they didn’t think of it before.
It did.
Overall, I prefer The Donner Cut, because of well balancing of everything (as well as it can with its footage). It was a injustice to fire Donner and Superman's film career still hasn't recovered. But we got two great films out of it.
(Also, the way they used Clifton James as the Sheriff is the way Bond should have used him as Sheriff Pepper in about that much screentime)! Looks like Tom Mankiewicz learned his lesson, and that was with Richard Lester!
Amazing scene that is mirroring what I am currently feeling.
One of the greatest Superman scenes of all times...
The real shame is that Donner never finished shooting the remaining scenes. Because of that, his cut of the film will always feel incomplete in a sense. It feels even more so when reading the original shooting script for Superman II where you get a lot more of how the criminals were originally written, compared to what Lester did. What makes it even odder is that the Donner Cut is actually a sequel to a version of the first film that doesn't even exist. In order for the Donner Cut to actually work as a companion piece to the first film, they would have had to change the climax of the first film to end on a cliffhanger that leads to the second film. No going back in time and saving Lois from dying, and all of that.
When it comes to how Superman II would have ended up if Donner finished it in 1980, I would have been more interested in what exactly he and Mankiewicz would have done with the ending. By all accounts, their plan was to write an entirely new ending, but I don't think they ever got far into discussing it would be because Donner was too busy trying to finish the first film.
https://www.supermanhomepage.com/wilfredo-torres-shares-superman-78-sketches/
Where was that stated?
The scene where Lois and Superman are standing in the ice at the end is a good one though.
I think apparently the idea wasn't actually to use the spinning-the-world-back finale; they were thinking that they'd just come up with a new ending once they'd used that in the first movie, but they didn't get the chance.