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

[Cap2024]

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No offense intended. I’m just pointing out that the actor certainly doesn’t look like any comic book incarnation of Bane or Solomon Grundy that I’ve ever seen. And yes, admittedly I never saw the Gotham versions of those characters, but if someone is basing their understanding of any comic book character on Gotham, well that explains the disconnect.

I’m not sure that I agree that Jonathan Kent is typically portrayed as tall and lanky and ex jock. At least not in the comic stories that I have read. I think he is typically malleable to what the writer wants to do with him, which is why I’m fine with Gunn using Pruitt as he’s a good actor. But if anything, Jonathan is usually an older, somewhat feeble farmer whose best days are behind him and is a reminder of humanity’s mortality.

You’re the one upset that I didn’t and still don’t agree that he’s classic Pa Kent.

As you said - feeble - and to me he doesn’t look that way at all. Someone in here even recently said they wanted him for Kingpin; that’s the direct opposite of feeble. Guy resembles an enforcer type albeit older.

There’s big fat and then there’s big muscular, like Ben Grimm. He’s more the second than the first.

 

[Babillygunn]

You’re the one upset that I didn’t and still don’t agree that he’s classic Pa Kent.

As you said - feeble - and to me he doesn’t look that way at all. Someone in here even recently said they wanted him for Kingpin; that’s the direct opposite of feeble.

Yeah. I’m not arguing with you. You miss the part where I said the character is malleable. Or you ignore it.

But I will agree that he’s different than Kevin Costner or Bo Duke.

 

[Cap2024]

Yeah. I’m not arguing with you. You miss the part where I said the character is malleable. Or you ignore it.

But I will agree that he’s different than Kevin Costner or Bo Duke.

To me, he isn’t that malleable - where I can buy someone who was probably enforcer in his day as Pa Kent (mobster, cop, etc). That’s just me though.

It’s akin to how Andy Serkis is very far from the classic Alfred, but in a different way.

Adding: also the recent hot Aunt May. These can work, but they’re also far from the norm.

 

[DKDetective]

Hot Take: Padding a Superman suit is the dumbest thing in the world.

To be fair, the materials they use for modern superhero costumes tend to actually compress and flatten out the musculature of the wearer (see Routh). A little bit of padding and sculpting makes sense to restore what is lost. Obviously that is very different from the crap we saw in the Snyder films.

 

[Babillygunn]

To me, he isn’t that malleable - where I can buy someone who was probably enforcer in his day as Pa Kent (mobster, cop, etc). That’s just me though.

It’s akin to how Andy Serkis is very far from the classic Alfred, but in a different way.

Adding: also the recent hot Aunt May. These can work, but they’re also far from the norm.

I can see that. I thought that your primary objection to him was physical only. But it seems that it’s more than that.

I guess the disconnect for me is that I don’t only see Pruitt Taylor Vince as a mobster. Mostly I would have thought of him as a serial killer but after seeing him in TWD as a country farm boy type, I have a more diverse view of him.

 

[Sawyer]

To be fair, the materials they use for modern superhero costumes tend to actually compress and flatten out the musculature of the wearer (see Routh). A little bit of padding and sculpting makes sense to restore what is lost. Obviously that is very different from the crap we saw in the Snyder films.

I can still recall how shapeless that Cap suit was in The Avengers, which is insane considering how big Evans got.

You don’t want to go overboard with the padding, but you do need something.

 

[DKDetective]

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No offense intended. I’m just pointing out that the actor certainly doesn’t look like any comic book incarnation of Bane or Solomon Grundy that I’ve ever seen. And yes, admittedly I never saw the Gotham versions of those characters, but if someone is basing their understanding of any comic book character on Gotham, well that explains the disconnect.

I’m not sure that I agree that Jonathan Kent is typically portrayed as tall and lanky and ex jock. At least not in the comic stories that I have read. I think he is typically malleable to what the writer wants to do with him, which is why I’m fine with Gunn using Pruitt as he’s a good actor. But if anything, Jonathan is usually an older, somewhat feeble farmer whose best days are behind him and is a reminder of humanity’s mortality.

To be fair, I feel like tall and lanky has become the typical portrayal of Pa Kent in recent decades. It is consistent with my personal experience with older farmers growing up in a rural area.

Nevertheless, it is not the depiction I grew up. The Post-Crisis versions I grew up with seemed to be shorter and even a little heavyset and definitely not feeble (Personally, I have always preferred the versions where both Kents are alive):

Now I have to admit a bald Pa Kent is a bit hard to get used to from a visual standpoint. I hope at least they get Taylor-Vince to grow out his "Power Donut". White dudes with shaved heads just does not have a positive connotation for me.

 

[Harleen SB]

April 18 costume reveal?

 

[DorkyFresh]

For whatever it's worth!

 

[flickchick85]

Eddie Jones remains “my” Jonathan Kent so I’ll have no problem accepting one that’s physically different from the more recent incarnations.

 

[Lily Adler]

Superman Smashes the Klan.

 

[Bren]

Eddie Jones remains “my” Jonathan Kent so I’ll have no problem accepting one that’s physically different from the more recent incarnations.

Eddie Jones former coach of Australia rugby is not the Pa Kent I'd want

Neither is this Pruitt chap my head cannon Pa Kent, but it is what it is and, as long as he doesn't suggest Clark should have allowed let a bunch of schoolkids die, I think I'll be good with him

 

[Alien Anal]

Wasn't it said in a "leak" a while back that the Kent's would be basically "unknowns" and not major stars. I understand this guy has been around but I don't recognise him from anything but I am excited and I'm Super excited he doesn't look like Superman.

 

[Glassjaw]

I can see Pruitt as a down to earth, extremely hard working humble guy that raised someone like Clark.

And someone like Kurt Russel could be more a fit for Jor El

 

[Alien Anal]

He seems lovely and charming and has a great voice for Pa Kent

 

[7heBoss]

Does it worry anyone at all that there is no names with serious star power? I myself prefer picking the best actors that suit the role, but the other day I was talking about this movie with my sister and she asked who was going to be in it, and I was like, "Probably not a single person you would know."

It worries me that there is probably a large number of people that would look at the cast and lose interest because it has no actors that they know other than probably Nicholas Hoult.

 

[Superchan]

Eddie Jones remains “my” Jonathan Kent so I’ll have no problem accepting one that’s physically different from the more recent incarnations.

Mine too but I still have a big soft spot for Glenn Ford.

Does it worry anyone at all that there is no names with serious star power? I myself prefer picking the best actors that suit the role.....

Yeah a little, I'm with you on picking the best actors for the role and I get that WB and Zaslev are strapping their belts a little bit but a bit of star power wouldn't hurt the marketing of a movie that really, REALLY needs to succeed.

Although I think there are still some roles to be filled like maybe Jor-el, Lara and maybe the big baddie (there has to be one). I'm guessing Ma Kent (if she's in it at all) will be a unknown like pa Kent.

 

[Nemeres]

Does it worry anyone at all that there is no names with serious star power? I myself prefer picking the best actors that suit the role, but the other day I was talking about this movie with my sister and she asked who was going to be in it, and I was like, "Probably not a single person you would know."

It worries me that there is probably a large number of people that would look at the cast and lose interest because it has no actors that they know other than probably Nicholas Hoult.

I think "James Gunn of GOTG fame" and "DC Studios' inaugural movie/Superman" would be doing a lot of the selling here. Possibly the trailers do the rest of the work.

 

[Alien Anal]

I think "James Gunn of GOTG fame" and "DC Studios' inaugural movie/Superman" would be doing a lot of the selling here. Possibly the trailers do the rest of the work.

It will certainly come down to the trailer as most movies do but yeah if the trailer is like Bam! This is the Superman movie you have been waiting for! Then yeah it will be fine.

It's needs to have that Fury Road type of energy that makes you go "oh shiz" I have to see that.

 

[Babillygunn]

Does it worry anyone at all that there is no names with serious star power? I myself prefer picking the best actors that suit the role, but the other day I was talking about this movie with my sister and she asked who was going to be in it, and I was like, "Probably not a single person you would know."

It worries me that there is probably a large number of people that would look at the cast and lose interest because it has no actors that they know other than probably Nicholas Hoult.

I’m naive, but I think Clark Kent/Superman should be the star of the film and the actor playing him should disappear into the role.

If you look at the Donner films, you had Gene Hackman, who is one of the greatest actors to ever live. Hackman is a tour de force actor who draws all eyes to him. And he had every scene he was in stolen by a young Juliard grad who no one had ever heard of.

I prefer that I watch Superman, as opposed to Hollywood A-lister as Superman.

 

[Filmfreak]

It will certainly come down to the trailer as most movies do but yeah if the trailer is like Bam! This is the Superman movie you have been waiting for! Then yeah it will be fine.

It's needs to have that Fury Road type of energy that makes you go "oh shiz" I have to see that.

And then people should actually go and see it because Fury Road was a box office bomb.

 

[hopefuldreamer]

I have had a flicker of worry about the star power thing from a general audience perspective. If MOS taught me anything, it's that it makes very little difference to the films quality of the writing & directing is bad - but with superhero fatigue so prevalent, I guess it's a bit scary to have no 'big name' draw to prop it up a bit.

Just have to hope the marketing and build up of hype is enough that the name 'Superman' will be enough.

 

[Gothamsknight]

Does anyone remember that ep of STAS where Lana Lang was all about that Superman S?

This show is still the defenitive adaption of Superman, imo.

 

[Kane52630]

Posting gifs of Batman & Robin even though this is a Superman thread until we get an official look at David as Superman (day 3)

 

[Boom]

Does it worry anyone at all that there is no names with serious star power? I myself prefer picking the best actors that suit the role, but the other day I was talking about this movie with my sister and she asked who was going to be in it, and I was like, "Probably not a single person you would know."

It worries me that there is probably a large number of people that would look at the cast and lose interest because it has no actors that they know other than probably Nicholas Hoult.

Not really, no. It gives lesser-known actors more exposure, and it allows money to be used elsewhere.