Anyone else fear 'Man of Steel' is the final chance for success in the film industry?

Depends if you feel that Superman is on thin ice when it comes to popularity, or whether he'll always have some sort of ticket-to-ride because of his veteran status and distribution.

 

Superman has been on the screen for 64 years now. Even if the upcoming movie is terrible and the worst thing ever made....there will be another Superman movie.

 

I think Superman will be fine if they just get the right creative team together. That is all any movie needs to be good, no matter how many bad movies come before it.

 

I share the same fear.

But as someone else said, even if it did fail, there'd no doubt be another attempt anyway. But to get his popularity up again I feel like this has to work.

 

This.

I think there will always be an audience for Superman, regardless of his popularity. The size of the audience and popularity is another story.

Superman is, and always will be about awe and wonder. Those two things do not get old and are not generational.

 

Lemme ask you this....what if there WERE no more Superman movies, but everything else was still there.....would that make him any less of a superhero, or somehow not worthy of being someone's favorite?

Does it need justification? The question is are movies the true measure of a superhero character?

 

I didn't say you would see one right away. I said there would be another one in the future. I just don't think it will take 20 years like you do.

You sound pessimistic about his future....I'm not. But then I am most likely quite a bit older than you...I have seen more ups and downs in his history. I don't get worried about things like this.

 

GL, on the other hand.....

 

Oh no....only TWO quality films.....in the last 30 years!!!!!!

My number one favorite character is Doc Savage (one of the fathers of Superman)......and since his creation in 1933.......there has been 1 movie made of the character (that's 79 years)....and it is a piece of crap. I would love to be able to complain that there are only two quality Doc Savage movies (and several other dubious quality movies, not to mentioned multiple live action and animated Tv series).

 

That may have more to do with WB than anything else. Superheroes are an expensive and risky proposition for a studio with myriads of safer IPs--fantasy or not--to mine for films/profit.

Takes off red knee high boots....

Also, combined with the above...I don't think WB quite new what to do with Supes. The Donner films are a huge legacy to overcome or tamper with. Factor in the fact that like all studios WB tends to follow current trends and you could see why another Supes film just wasn't a compelling argument for WB at the time.

 

That depends though...

If Man of Steel is a success, and if WB pulls off Justice League, then Green Lantern could be on screen again 3-4 years later. From the present however, a Green Lantern relaunch/reboot could be nearly a decade away.

 

I guess I have it a bit easier because I'm not really a comic reader nor do I favor any character over another in particular. I just want a good film to watch whichever comes out and it really wouldn't bother me if there never was another movie of any one character again. I guess I'd feel bad for some fans of the character feeling 'left out of the party' to some extent, but I don't see them reaching movies as the pinnacle of their capabilities of entertainment...and not reaching it a failure of some sort. Not everything has to be in movies.

 

Agreed. But let's do it this decade.

 

This.

Superman will live on.

 

I think even if this film fails - which I doubt it will, if they promote it properly - they'll still be Superman on the big screen via Justice League films, which WB has wanted to begin doing for years.

 

I hope this movie is what Iron Man was to Marvel. Since Nolan's trilogy decided to not get involved with the Justice League, this is a chance to start fresh with it. Make MOS the jumpstart, come in with a Flash movie in a few years. Then give us a real Green Lanturn, then bring on Bats!

 

unlikely, Superman 3 was one of the worst of the bunch, yet not long after we got Superman 4 which was better but not by a hell of alot (we atleast got a few fights in that one lol).

Ppl tend to forget that even though its pretty well agreed on that Superman Returns was a really bad movie, it still generated more than enough at the box office to warrant a sequel, the studio just choose not to.

So yea, Man Of Steel will do just fine, even if it turns out to not be all that great....but personally I dont think thats going to be a problem lol