The Daily Planet - Superman News and Speculation Thread (🚨TAG SPOILERS🚨)

[hopefuldreamer]

Cain's Clark was anything but dorky.

He was a different flavour of dorky... but he was still dorky.

 

[flickchick85]

I don't think Cain's Clark was dorky at all

He was a huuuge dork, whose excuses for Super-activity were silly things like “I have to go…return a library book!” Or “that was my barber…I’m late for a haircut!” and who amused himself by playing baseball with himself while doing all the announcer voices, and was always boring Lois or Perry with obscure facts about niche cultures he picked up while traveling the world. He just wasn’t a cartoonish dork. Like, he seemed like a real guy, but still, a very wholesomely dorky one. Just like Tyler Hoechlin’s Clark. They are spiritually VERY similar takes.

 

[Still Wynning]

So, somebody filmed a few seconds of that scene of him as Clark Kent:


He’s perfect. Absolutely perfect.

 

[Captain Tired]

From a distance, his hair looks like a trilby.

 

[Tra-El]

In the very short time we had with Henry Cavill‘s Clark Kent at the daily planet, he always looked like a supermodel in office setting photoshoot

Turns out being way too ridiculously good looking can be a problem after all

Henry looked a Curt Swan Clark Kent drawing come to life. They captured that look of that era quite flawlessly. He looked perfect for what they were going for. Clark going toe to toe and pushing back against Perry was strong.

Routh looked more like the super model IMO.

 

[LifesEnd]

I like Clark actually being a little dorky at least. Dont like all of it being a an act but him being kind of a bumbling goofball at times to begin it is my fav take on him. With him trying to blend in compounding the ridiculousness a bit.

 

[flickchick85]

So, somebody filmed a few seconds of that scene of him as Clark Kent:


He’s perfect. Absolutely perfect.

Oh God, David’s gonna be so f***ing charming, I can’t wait.

 

[Deck Rickard]

I love this. But it’s funny. I was thinking the other day about how dangerous it would be if there were actually people as powerful as Superman walking around. Clark would be, at best, dislocating the shoulders of every person he bumped into, no matter how hard he tried to avoid it. At worst, he might rip some of their arms off.

Obviously I never want to see something like that in a Superman movie but it’s just funny (and horrifying) to think about.

 

[Herolee10]

Nah, give me Lois falling for genuinely dorky Clark Kent any day of the week.

It's going to be hard to top this.

 

[B]

Richard Ayoade is on the phone to his lawyers as I type this preparing to submit a lawsuit to DC/WB about Clark Kent stealing his whole f-ing flow, word for word, bar for bar.

Spoiler

Seriously though, the hairstyle looks ridiculous on Corenswet at first glance.

 

[Tra-El]

It's going to be hard to top this.

Let them try. Gunn will have a handle on this relationship (and all other relationships).

 

[flickchick85]

I love this. But it’s funny. I was thinking the other day about how dangerous it would be if there were actually people as powerful as Superman walking around. Clark would be, at best, dislocating the shoulders of every person he bumped into, no matter how hard he tried to avoid it. At worst, he might rip some of their arms off.

Obviously I never want to see something like that in a Superman movie but it’s just funny (and horrifying) to think about.

Not if he’s bumping into them at normal speed, with normal force. I’ve always loved the idea that a bit of natural clumsiness come from him being like a bull in a china shop in crowded areas (like that street, or the Planet newsroom) - because there’s always a little extra tension/nervousness for him being surrounded by that many people he could all-too-easily hurt.

 

[Lily Adler]

It's going to be hard to top this.

Still the best episode for me.

 

[Tra-El]

So, somebody filmed a few seconds of that scene of him as Clark Kent:


He’s perfect. Absolutely perfect.

I am picturing this normal speed and every time he dodges a bystander, it crosses over into focused slow motion, and then normal speed with sound, and then slow motion while he's dodging, etc while saying " 'scuse me, sorry..'scuse me"..

For me, "dorkiness" and "clumsiness" are two different things with Clark. I always tend to enjoy his dorkiest moments. Hoechlin was perfection with that.

 

[Captain Tired]

I hear there's a running gag of Clark going through about six or seven mice.

 

[flickchick85]

Dan Mora liked the pic of David as Clark and it made me realize he’s not that far off from his own take on Clark either -

 

[DCDAVE]

So Gunn’s going with a true disguise. A wimpy and clumsy looking Clark. So I am guessing Lois and Jimmy don’t know. Looks like he is Christopher Reeves/Superman Returns Clark. It works because that image looks nothing like Superman. Let alone Corenswet.

 

[emielaen]

He looks naturally hilarious as well. I can laugh at this without knowing I'm doing so..in a good and complimentary way without forced humor. I can see what JG is going for.

I immediately laughed when I saw the photo.

Clark being the disguise and played a little for laughs also doesn’t inherently equal him acting like a total bumbling moron.

So weird that people think the character will now just act one way for 120+min based off of one photo and their preconceived notions. There's gonna be an entire performance here.

 

[DCDAVE]

He looks so ****ing stupid. I love it immeasurably. It's a stretch but I'm hoping the blatant silliness means we're getting some fun, performative Clark Kent perona stuff - I find it a little boring when there isn't a certain element of performance going on in universe there.

Yeah plus the last two Clark’s have been Superman’s real personality. Especially Superman and Lois even though I love Tyler as Clark.

 

[Tra-El]

Dan Mora liked the pic of David as Clark and it made me realize he’s not that far off from his own take on Clark either -

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That's definitely the look. Alex Ross has been retweeting images of the suit as well. Gunn had Superman artists on the set not too long ago and he is legit including them in every aspect of their creations. I respect that.

 

[Tra-El]

So Gunn’s going with a true disguise. A wimpy and clumsy looking Clark. So I am guessing Lois and Jimmy don’t know. Looks like he is Christopher Reeves/Superman Returns Clark. It works because that image looks nothing like Superman. Let alone Corenswet.

For me, it's David Corenswet's version because we've never seen that look in live action for Clark before. In just one image, Clark is simply his own. That is big for me when separating past iterations.

 

[Still Wynning]

tongue-in-cheek cynical self-parody

Respectfully, speaking as someone who isn’t completely and deeply entrenched in but greatly appreciates the work of his that I’ve seen, if that’s all you got from watching his films, especially since the first GOTG, then you completely missed the point.

 

[flickchick85]

That's definitely the look. Alex Ross has been retweeting images of the suit as well. Gunn had Superman artists on the set not too long ago and he is legit including them in every aspect of their creations. I respect that.

One nice thing I have said and will continue to say about James Gunn is that I love how much credit and attention he’s given to the comics and their creators. Every book he’s mentioned thus far has gotten an immediate huge sales boost. It’s been great to see.

 

[hopefuldreamer]

Still the best episode for me.

Amen

 

[hopefuldreamer]

Respectfully, speaking as someone who isn’t completely and deeply entrenched in but greatly appreciates the work of his that I’ve seen, if that’s all you got from watching his films, especially since the first GOTG, then you completely missed the point.

Completely agree. GOTG had more sincere heart & softness than most MCU movies. He got me to really care & feel alongside characters I'd never met extremely quickly.