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

[hopefuldreamer]

More time between wrapping and release date doesn't guarantee the VFX will be great. The Flash was finished more than a year and half before the release date and look what happened. There are a lot of factors that hurt the final product and it isn't just a rushed schedule.

And all due respect Gunn, even your films have spotty effects.

Which parts did you find spotty?

 

[Herolee10]

Which parts did you find spotty?

Way too many spots if you ask me...

 

[Enriquespy]

Now imagine if the spots were black....

Dastmalchian looking like a Dalmatian.

 

[Babillygunn]

Way too many spots if you ask me...

Have you ever seen a metahuman launch magic death polka dots from his body?

Well I’ve seen some $&@) in my day, and let me tell you…this is pretty accurate.

 

[Alien Anal]

Have you ever seen a metahuman launch magic death polka dots from his body?

Well I’ve seen some $&@) in my day, and let me tell you…this is pretty accurate.

One of the things that excite me the most about Superman 25 is seeing how well Gunn made weird characters with weird powers seem normal and not as goofy as they could be. I easily accepted Shark dude and polka dot dude and limbs fly off guy. If he can create that sort of atmosphere where they seem believable then he will have no problems with anything weird in Supes

 

[Captain Tired]

you thought those characters seemed believable

 

[Kane52630]

Hell yeah bro.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Perry White at the DNC tonight!

 

[Lily Adler]

Perry White at the DNC tonight!

Or as Trump would say Willie Brown.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Or as Trump would say Willie Brown.

“I was in a helicopter once with Perry White and we were flying to a certain location. And it was a very dangerous flight and we thought maybe we weren’t going to make it. And you know, he didn’t have any nice things to say about Lois Lane. He said she’s a very low IQ individual. He also told me I was much better looking than her.”

 

[Alien Anal]

you thought those characters seemed believable

I'm not sure what exactly you are asking, but within the world they were set in I didn't struggle to believe their existence.

 

[Captain Tired]

I'm not sure what exactly you are asking, but within the world they were set in I didn't struggle to believe their existence.

I'm just saying, I don't think Gunn set out to make thos characters beliveable. I think it's more likely the case that he chose them specificaly for how outlandish, goofy and unbelievable they are. That's kind of his thing.

 

[Babillygunn]

I’m wondering if the confusion is equating “believable” with “grounded” as opposed to defining “believable” as “humanizing” the character and giving him or her pathos.

King Shark and Polka Dot Man were definitely not grounded, but they did have pathos.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Yeah I trust James Gunn. He made me care about characters that I not only didn’t care about before, but ones that I once thought of as so stupid I didn’t even WANT to care about them (like Polka Dot Man). If you told me 10 years ago that WB was going to put Polka Dot Man in a movie, I would have been like, “Are they out of their ****ing minds? WHY?!” But then James Gunn came along and somehow made that silly character so sympathetic that you genuinely care when he meets his demise. Similarly, he did the same with Rick Flag, who was a waste of space in Ayer’s movie but feels like a fully formed hero in Gunn’e film.

We’re going to be okay with his very of Superman. I can almost guarantee it.

 

[Sawyer]

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A Superboy collection highlighting the first appearance by Krypto in the months leading up to the film? Hmm…

Wonder if there’s even the slightest possibility that could mean that Corenswet’s Clark was doing costumed shenanigans as a teenager in Smallville.

 

[dhandler01]

Superboy is something I would love to see!

 

[Sawyer]

Superboy is something I would love to see!

Just seems like a sure-fire way to set it apart from so many other recent adaptations, considering that even a show with a core premise of “Superman as a teenager” didn’t have Clark actually suit up until he’d already been operating out of Metropolis for three years.

 

[Babillygunn]

I hate that we have gotten so many iterations of “evil version of Superman” as villains in recent films and on Superman & Lois lately, because what I’ve truly wanted to see on film is Superboy Prime, who is DC’s greatest villain.

He broods in space, watching our planet and saying “stupid earth.”


He desecrated Bart Allen’s tombstone, using his heat vision to change “Fastest Man Alive” to “Stupidest Boy Dead.”


He called Golden Age Superman “Grandpa” and threatened to knock out his dentures.


He arrives into battle against the JLA and the JSA while addressing them as “jerks.”


I love the guy. He’s basically a petulant teenager. He’s hilarious. He’s Chris Jericho if he was a superpowered villain of Superman.

 

[dhandler01]

Just seems like a sure-fire way to set it apart from so many other recent adaptations, considering that even a show with a core premise of “Superman as a teenager” didn’t have Clark actually suit up until he’d already been operating out of Metropolis for three years.

Exactly! Plus it's a great way to show off a different version of the suit. I think stuff like that is what will play into Gunn's strengths.

 

[dhandler01]

I hate that we have gotten so many iterations of “evil version of Superman” as villains in recent films and on Superman & Lois lately, because what I’ve truly wanted to see on film is Superboy Prime, who is DC’s greatest villain.
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He broods in space, watching our planet and saying “stupid earth.”

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He desecrated Bart Allen’s tombstone, using his heat vision to change “Fastest Man Alive” to “Stupidest Boy Dead.”

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He called Golden Age Superman “Grandpa” and threatened to knock out his dentures.

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He arrives into battle against the JLA and the JSA while addressing them as “jerks.”


I love the guy. He’s basically a petulant teenager. He’s hilarious. He’s Chris Jericho if he was a superpowered villain of Superman.

Superboy Prime is 100% supposed to represent the whiny fanboy culture. "I'm supposed to be Superman!" was the perfect line for him as the Flashes took him into the speed force not because it makes you pity him...but because his self entitlement is off the charts! I read that while at work at the shop and saw at least half my regulars in those panels!

Plus, when you get to the end of Sinestro Corp Issue 1 and see this:



You realize the GLC, Earth and our whole universe is ummm...$%$#÷%!!!!

Off topic, but how cool is it that for about 3 years or so the DC Universe was basically spined by Green Lantern? Not Superman, not Batman...all roads went through the Corp! Every tease not only expanded the Corp universe but the whole of the DCU! When Mera has to kill the undead version of her baby in Darkest Knight and Atrocitus says basically "Damn...welcome to the Red Lantern Corp!" that was a **chefs kiss**

 

[B]

I hate that we have gotten so many iterations of “evil version of Superman” as villains in recent films and on Superman & Lois lately, because what I’ve truly wanted to see on film is Superboy Prime, who is DC’s greatest villain.

I literally cannot stand the recent trending rise in making Superman 'evil' as if that's the norm for the character. Even if it's a clone, brainwashed, magic or whatever. It's just something I'm sick of seeing recently between TV, film & of course, video games in which since the last normal Superman game, we've had 2 Injustice & a Suicide Squad title, all of which had an evil Superman at it's core.

It's something I'm a little worried about potentially seeing in Gunn's Superman if the, whole clone angle ends up being accurate.

 

[Sawyer]

Hnnngh… he’s out there somewhere.

 

[Lily Adler]

Hnnngh… he’s out there somewhere.

Someone couldn't get the rights to Oreos.

 

[Gamma Goliath]

Martian Manhunters brand of choice...

 

[Sawyer]

Someone couldn't get the rights to Oreos.

Unironically what some of the Snyderbots have been saying. Do you have something to tell us?