Superman Reboot Writers Workshop

[afan]

It's been proposed before......Something along the lines of "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow", which is sort of a live action/animation hybrid, might work.

 

[Alien Anal]

I had the idea that we would get 3 superman films that all feature the same actors in the same rolls but each movie is set in a different superman era.

The first would be like sky captain (something like that but quality)

the second would be like the watchmen

and the third would be the movie we are pretty much all waiting on now

 

[Dude101]

hell no

 

[what_19]

i think this would be kind of cool...but i'd rather get a new modern day trilogy out of the way...then maybe make this kind of a movie 5-10 years after this trilogy..then make a kingdom come with the same superman as the new trilogy....

 

[TheWatcher]

The Man of Steel(2011)-2 and a half hours long
-clark is dating lois and she knows he is superman
-lex and the intergang are using metallo
-brainiac is coming to drain earth of its knowledge and destroy it
-superman must stop this
-brainiac places his virus into all of the lexcorp machinery and metallo making them into weapons and drones
-brainiac is not seen till 3/4 into the movie
-supes battles a giant metallo
-superman destroys most of brainiac,putting the rest in a chip hid away in the fortress(a memorial to kypton,not just a bunch of crystals)
-after words clark proposes to lois on on top of the daily planet
Superman: Doomsday(2013)-2 hours long
-opening credits show doomsday's origin on krypton
-cut to the wedding
-lex is using parasite
-the eradicator is warnes superman and he does not listen
-doomsday is rampaging,superman has a HUGE fight w/him
-the final shot is lois is hugging superman as he utters his last words "i love you lois"
Superman:Last Son(2014)-over 3 hours long
-its the reign of the supermen story and the return of SM story together
-featuring steel,superboy,the cyborg superman,and the eradicator
-superman returns
-lex,the eradicator,and the cyborg bring doomsday back to life
-SM,SB,and steel battle the three
The Man of Tomorrow(2015)-2 and a half hours long
-orion comes to earth to warn superman of the coming darkseid
-darkseid has been giving weapons to the intergang
-the new gods help SM
-darkseid is defeated
Cast
Superman/Clark Kent-Micheal Trucco
Lois Lane-Evangiline Lilly
Lex Luthor-Paul Bettany
Brainiac-Hugo Weaving
Darkseid-CGI w/micheal ironsides voice
Metallo-BAG
Parasite-Doug Jones(justice version)
Steel-Idris Elba
The Eradicator-cgi
more later

thanks for your input

 

[TheWatcher]

input?

 

[Dude101]

sucks badly

 

[GreenKToo]

It seems a bit much.

 

[Gamma Goliath]

Yeah that's a lot of stuff.

 

[Superman-Prime]

Cast
Superman/Clark Kent-Micheal Trucco

No.

NEXT?

 

[\S/JcDc\S/]

NO

Sorry just some silly choices on execution. Everyone and their Mom wants Brainiac, Metallo, and Lex. That is fine, pretty normal for most fans to say the same old idea. However storing as a chip? Sloppy plot device. Oh and for a reboot, first film, Lois should not start out knowing his identity.

 

[TheWatcher]

im sick of that lois being a idiot and not noticing that he's superman
and it is a bit much,but it is my dream reboot
i will do a realistic one later

 

[TheWatcher]

the man of steel
-origin(kinda like john byrnes)
-lex luthor is working w/brainiac
-brainiac is coming
-superman finds kara
-the rest is similar to geoff johns brainiac story mixed with last son
superman:doomsday
-supes dies
-superboy and steel come
-etc
the man of tomorrow
-darkseid helps the intergang
-orion etc

 

[Dude101]

Naw still bad. And the disguise works if acted right.

 

[Ursa]

I think that in a reboot they should show the origin story again but in a different way, it's a new version, a new universe, they must show that.

 

[Dude101]

Discuss some things that think would make a perfect Superman movie.

 

[Webhead2006]

Ya i been saying that myself ursa, if its a darn reboot they are going to do to show to the masses it is different like how bb/tdk showed this batman is different from the late 80s/mid 90s takes. We need to see everything different, new cast, new story, new orgin, new looks, etc..... Doing this is just one more factor is showing its different. Then trying to half do it with saying oh its different by we are keeping the same cast from last take.

 

[Webhead2006]

Corp/political lex
clark is who he is, superman is what he can do
would like to see both kents still alive while he is supes
include more modern mythos into films

 

[Dude101]

First film should have Brainiac and Luthor as villians but Luthor really not a villian. Origin and small romance feelings between Clark and Lois. Braniac robot drones kill Pa Kent during the film. Superman beats Brainiac. And asks Lois on a date at the end of the movie.

Cat Grant and Clark have a one night stand. He didn't really want to do it.

Pa and Clark fatherly bond needs to be shown.

Brainiac tied to the destruction of krypton. My choice is for him to destroy krypton.

Jor-El should be shown trying to warn of his depending destruction since Brainiac is known as destroyer of worlds. he shown fighting his army or Robots. Taking out many before getting wounded. And Brainiac tells him he will find The Last Son of Krypton and kill him. He bottles the city or Kandor and then destroys Krypton.

Also Brainiac should know multiple alien Martial Arts.

Luthor should be the reason for Superman's first appearance.

 

[Dude101]

Also Brainiac is Green skin huge humaniod man. And has built a huge robot army.

 

[Showtime]

Bump

 

[Webhead2006]

man a bunch of threads got merged while i was out for the evening.

 

[Jochimus]

I thought of a couple other things I'd throw into my reboot idea...

* "Superman" is essentially the name the public gives him based on the initial Planet headline touting his exploits, but Lois refers to him as "Kal-El" - later "Kal" when she finally warms to him and realizes he's the real deal.

* With few exceptions (like the more sensible Henderson, who isn't quite sure what to make of him at first), the police and a lot of authority figures in Metropolis don't like Superman. He's bulletproof and stronger than steel, which throws arresting him out the window. He has X-ray vision and super-hearing and is always flying around the city at night, which would make more than one politician extremely nervous. And there are those in the city who would say that his presence takes away from the honest efforts of the city's finest - firefighters endanger themselves trying to pull kids out of a burning tenement in Suicide Slum; Superman could do it in seconds without anyone suffering so much as a singe...it's no wonder that Luthor would begin to gain some figurative weight in the political arena as time goes on. I think this is something that for me would come from the honesty of what would probably really happen if an extraterrestrial being with super-powers DID show up in our world - I know we'd all like to think that such a being using their powers for good and saving children from trees and stuff would elicit cheers from the get-go, but human nature is what it is, and I think in reality a fair portion of society would be terrified without being informed...the little boy whom Superman catches from falling out a fourth-story window is likely to get ripped out of Superman's arms by a hysterical mother screaming for the alien freak in tights and manties to take his hands off her son. Hence the Daily Planet's role in the story, to avoid going into the typical slant that modern mainstream media has in our world today; Perry realizes that such a great metropolitan newspaper has an obligation to keep the citizens from going into a panic, so by tempering public opinion with what facts can be gleaned about the last son of Krypton instead of anything that remotely smacks of bias - weighted by both Hamilton's findings as a scientist and astronomer with no government backing whatsoever, and the fact that Lois would be not so quick to throw herself into Superman's arms as she's been in past versions - Metropolis begins to see a slow but steady split in public mentality analogous to "The Adventures Of Robin Hood", between the working class (the Saxons) whom Superman (Robin) rescues from mortal peril on a day-to-day basis, and the bureaucracy (the Normans) who make Luthor (Prince John) their poster boy. It isn't an immediate embrace, but by the end of the first film you can see it at work.

 

[SuperDaniel]

First film should have Brainiac and Luthor as villians but Luthor really not a villian. Origin and small romance feelings between Clark and Lois. Braniac robot drones kill Pa Kent during the film. Superman beats Brainiac. And asks Lois on a date at the end of the movie.

Cat Grant and Clark have a one night stand. He didn't really want to do it.

Pa and Clark fatherly bond needs to be shown.

Brainiac tied to the destruction of krypton. My choice is for him to destroy krypton.

Jor-El should be shown trying to warn of his depending destruction since Brainiac is known as destroyer of worlds. he shown fighting his army or Robots. Taking out many before getting wounded. And Brainiac tells him he will find The Last Son of Krypton and kill him. He bottles the city or Kandor and then destroys Krypton.

Also Brainiac should know multiple alien Martial Arts.

Luthor should be the reason for Superman's first appearance.

Those ideas suck.

 

[Webhead2006]

I thought of a couple other things I'd throw into my reboot idea...

* "Superman" is essentially the name the public gives him based on the initial Planet headline touting his exploits, but Lois refers to him as "Kal-El" - later "Kal" when she finally warms to him and realizes he's the real deal.

* With few exceptions (like the more sensible Henderson, who isn't quite sure what to make of him at first), the police and a lot of authority figures in Metropolis don't like Superman. He's bulletproof and stronger than steel, which throws arresting him out the window. He has X-ray vision and super-hearing and is always flying around the city at night, which would make more than one politician extremely nervous. And there are those in the city who would say that his presence takes away from the honest efforts of the city's finest - firefighters endanger themselves trying to pull kids out of a burning tenement in Suicide Slum; Superman could do it in seconds without anyone suffering so much as a singe...it's no wonder that Luthor would begin to gain some figurative weight in the political arena as time goes on. I think this is something that for me would come from the honesty of what would probably really happen if an extraterrestrial being with super-powers DID show up in our world - I know we'd all like to think that such a being using their powers for good and saving children from trees and stuff would elicit cheers from the get-go, but human nature is what it is, and I think in reality a fair portion of society would be terrified without being informed...the little boy whom Superman catches from falling out a fourth-story window is likely to get ripped out of Superman's arms by a hysterical mother screaming for the alien freak in tights and manties to take his hands off her son. Hence the Daily Planet's role in the story, to avoid going into the typical slant that modern mainstream media has in our world today; Perry realizes that such a great metropolitan newspaper has an obligation to keep the citizens from going into a panic, so by tempering public opinion with what facts can be gleaned about the last son of Krypton instead of anything that remotely smacks of bias - weighted by both Hamilton's findings as a scientist and astronomer with no government backing whatsoever, and the fact that Lois would be not so quick to throw herself into Superman's arms as she's been in past versions - Metropolis begins to see a slow but steady split in public mentality analogous to "The Adventures Of Robin Hood", between the working class (the Saxons) whom Superman (Robin) rescues from mortal peril on a day-to-day basis, and the bureaucracy (the Normans) who make Luthor (Prince John) their poster boy. It isn't an immediate embrace, but by the end of the first film you can see it at work.

I could see some of this working. I do think next time around the public shouldnt be just wow a superhero/alien and love him off the bat. It should be taken a bit more realistically on what most people believe about aliens and that they want to kill humans and all that. Then over the course of the film the general public sees that superman is a force of good, hope, and then he is loved by the majority.