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

[Sawyer]

As far as a reveal, though, I feel like the day is still young…

I mean, Gunn can’t keep it hidden until SDCC, can he…?

*braces self for Gunn to do just that*

 

[Arachnerd]

Didn't he say a while back that the DCU wouldn't be coming to this year's SDCC or am I misremembering?

 

[Invader Joker]

As far as a reveal, though, I feel like the day is still young…

I mean, Gunn can’t keep it hidden until SDCC, can he…?

*braces self for Gunn to do just that*

He already said he and the Superman cast aren't going to SDCC.

 

[Invader Joker]

Anyway big reveals like this never happen at the top of the morning so idk why people are freaking out lol Usually they come at like 14:00-18:00 Central. Give it time. He said he was "almost ready to show it" and I can't think of a better date than this.

 

[Elayis]

Does it seem likely though that he would make two posts in one day about the movie?

 

[Invader Joker]

Does it seem likely though that he would make two posts in one day about the movie?

I mean, there are days where he's made more than two lol

 

[Invader Joker]

I mean it's not an origin story...the Kent's role is going to be small no matter what. That is why I never understood why everyone thought some A lister would get it the part is likely a few lines and out.

Even in that case you'd still expect them to at least have as much screentime as Alfred in the Batman films. But neither of the actors cast are on the wavelength of any Alfred cast prior or any Aunt May, like I said their filmographies are very much akin to the actors cast as the Waynes in The Batman.

 

[Sawyer]

Didn't he say a while back that the DCU wouldn't be coming to this year's SDCC or am I misremembering?

He said he wouldn’t be there, but that doesn’t mean the movie won’t have a presence.

 

[Invader Joker]

He said he wouldn’t be there, but that doesn’t mean the movie won’t have a presence.

If he isn't gonna be there, and none of the cast is gonna be there, I don't see how the movie would have a presence.

 

[Babillygunn]

With all due respect, but what you're saying is absolute nonsense.
When it comes to popularity Superman is still No.1 to the wider general public, don't believe me? check out those links below:

Superman Topping Spider-Man And Batman In Greatest Superhero Poll

This has to be good news for Warner Bros., which plans to release the Superman reboot Man of Steel next summer. Yahoo is conducting a poll on their home page asking the question, “Who’s the greatest superhero?” Respondents can select between three superheroes: Batman, Spider-Man, and...

comicbook.com

The one above is a yahoo front page poll in 2013 with over 138 thousand votes and our boy Kal b**ch slapped both Spidey and comicbooks's most overrated superhero who doesn't have superpowers aka Batman.

Americans reveal their favorite superhero

It’s a bird, it’s a plane — it’s Superman, earning the title of “America’s favorite superhero,” according to new research. A survey of 2,000 Americans pinpointed respondents’ favorite heroes and Su…

nypost.com

This poll was done at Disney land in an avergers ride opening event and yet Superman still came first!!

The thing about both of these polls is that they were completed by the general public (not some niche pop culture site like superhero hype or many others) and at the end of the day it's the general public that fills those movie seats not just Gen Z-ers.

Now compare the boxoffice openings of MOS, Spidey homecoming and the Batman for further proof

MOS: 116.5 Homecoming 117 The Batman 132

It seems that Superman made the least right? Nope. MOS came out in 2013, Spidey in 2017 and The Batman 2022
and if you adjust them for inflation you'd get:

MOS 156 Homecoming 149 The Batman 140

Superman is clearly the winner and btw I didn't include the 12 mill MOS made from wallmart advance sales otherwise the number would be considerably higher.
Now why did I choose opening weekend numbers instead of movie totals? Well it's because it's a movie's opening numbers that determines the baseline strength of an IP while the total depends largely on quality and competition.

I constantly see people underestimating Superman's popularity (something I used to be guilty of) but the character continues to endure despite of the garbage that Singer, Snyder and CW threw at the character. Heck under David Zaslev's own admission Superman was left to languish yet it's Superman who was chosen to lead Gunn's DCU and not Batman and it's because Zaslev sees Superman as the character with the greatest potential.

Dude, you had me going

At your post, until you dissed “the CW” Superman (presumably Hoechlin) as being “garbage”. Then it was like

 

[The Batman]

With all due respect, but what you're saying is absolute nonsense.
When it comes to popularity Superman is still No.1 to the wider general public, don't believe me? check out those links below:

Superman Topping Spider-Man And Batman In Greatest Superhero Poll

This has to be good news for Warner Bros., which plans to release the Superman reboot Man of Steel next summer. Yahoo is conducting a poll on their home page asking the question, “Who’s the greatest superhero?” Respondents can select between three superheroes: Batman, Spider-Man, and...

comicbook.com

The one above is a yahoo front page poll in 2013 with over 138 thousand votes and our boy Kal b**ch slapped both Spidey and comicbooks's most overrated superhero who doesn't have superpowers aka Batman.

If you're going to claim someone is spouting nonsense, your first rebuttal shouldn't be trying to pass a Yahoo poll off as the opinions of the wider general public.

I think this data paints a different picture:

Which Superhero Earns $1.3 Billion a Year?​

Now, that was 10 years ago. Before Spidey enters the MCU, the Insomniac games and the Spider-Verse movies. As for Batman, I were to venture a guess, I'd say Batman was probably still second place, as Superman hasn't really had anything that could raise his stock.

But, sure, Superman won a yahoo poll, so he must be more popular.

Americans reveal their favorite superhero

It’s a bird, it’s a plane — it’s Superman, earning the title of “America’s favorite superhero,” according to new research. A survey of 2,000 Americans pinpointed respondents’ favorite heroes and Su…

nypost.com

This poll was done at Disney land in an avergers ride opening event and yet Superman still came first!!

All this tells me is that Superman is most popular among Americans who went to Disneyland.

Now compare the boxoffice openings of MOS, Spidey homecoming and the Batman for further proof

MOS: 116.5 Homecoming 117 The Batman 132

It seems that Superman made the least right? Nope. MOS came out in 2013, Spidey in 2017 and The Batman 2022
and if you adjust them for inflation you'd get:

MOS 156 Homecoming 149 The Batman 140

Superman is clearly the winner and btw I didn't include the 12 mill MOS made from wallmart advance sales otherwise the number would be considerably higher.

Now why did I choose opening weekend numbers instead of movie totals?

Because it's the framework that happens to best support your bias?

If MOS had the biggest total BO gross, and not just adjusted opening domestic numbers, you likely would've just cited that.

The movies opening numbers are not just a determination of the IPs baseline strength. You're talking as if people only went to see MOS opening weekend because it's Superman. If that were the case, maybe those films shouldn't have marketing or PR teams anymore. According to you, apparently, IP like Superman don't need trailers, Press interviews, posters, Panel appearances, merchandise, etc designed to sell people on a particular version of a character.

I'll give you this, you definitely tried to stack the deck in Supes' favor.

I constantly see people underestimating Superman's popularity (something I used to be guilty of) but the character continues to endure despite of the garbage that Singer, Snyder and CW threw at the character. Heck under David Zaslev's own admission Superman was left to languish yet it's Superman who was chosen to lead Gunn's DCU and not Batman and it's because Zaslev sees Superman as the character with the greatest potential.

While some do underestimate Superman's popularity, all I see here are people saying he's currently not as popular as Batman or Spider-Man. To me, while Batman is my personal favorite, Superman is the Greatest superhero of all time. He still ain't as popular as Spidey or Bats at the moment. That's what happens when you get the Singers, Snyders and CW. You go from being number one to being number three.

I've yet to see any actual proof of Zaslav thinking Superman has greater potential than Batman. Regardless, Superman is obviously a better fit to lead the DCU because Batman is a dark, brooding character with no superpowers. Not that that has any real bearing on who's more popular.

 

[SupermansPal]

Thank heavens David is chronically offline, because I’d probably go crazy having people microscopically analyzing my face and body whenever a new picture of me came out.

 

[Arachnerd]

He does have Twitter and Instagram, but barely uses them so you're right on that lol

 

[dhandler01]

Even in that case you'd still expect them to at least have as much screentime as Alfred in the Batman films. But neither of the actors cast are on the wavelength of any Alfred cast prior or any Aunt May, like I said their filmographies are very much akin to the actors cast as the Waynes in The Batman.

True...but that doesn't mean they are dead either. Personally I think they are but it's at best a hunch.

As for the suit...I hope he adds a day to the reveal everytime someone bugs him about it! He will reveal when he is ready not when randos online beg him to!

 

[Boy Scout]

New obscure topic to obsess over: Corenswet's eyebrows! There's definitely something "off" about them in this pic. They weren't like that at his appearance for that Ad he shot in Mexico a few days ago. Even his natural eyebrows are darker. This will definitely fuel the clone rumors.
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I doubt they took the picture today and it’s quite possible that he’s in front of a light source we can’t see, making his eyebrows lighter

 

[DorkyFresh]

Yeah I thought about the light source and it being taken on a previous day, but his eyebrows are darker in all of his photos prior to being cast regardless of the lighting. The only way dark eyebrows can look that way is if it's under HEAVY lighting that ends up washing out lighter colored skin, but his skin looks fine. Especially when you consider his hair is SOOO much darker than his eyebrows despite only a little bit of difference in lighting.

To me his eyebrows look deliberately lightened. Why? We can only speculate.

Edit: New Call for Extras - Punk Rock edition!

 

[Deck Rickard]

Well, at least they are asking for all ethnicities and not just people who “can play Caucasian” or whatever.

 

[Lily Adler]

Yeah I thought about the light source and it being taken on a previous day, but his eyebrows are darker in all of his photos prior to being cast regardless of the lighting. The only way dark eyebrows can look that way is if it's under HEAVY lighting that ends up washing out lighter colored skin, but his skin looks fine. Especially when you consider his hair is SOOO much darker than his eyebrows despite only a little bit of difference in lighting.
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To me his eyebrows look deliberately lightened. Why? We can only speculate.

Edit: New Call for Extras - Punk Rock edition!

 

[Boom]

New obscure topic to obsess over: Corenswet's eyebrows! There's definitely something "off" about them in this pic. They weren't like that at his appearance for that Ad he shot in Mexico a few days ago. Even his natural eyebrows are darker. This will definitely fuel the clone rumors.
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Something is definitely off.

 

[DorkyFresh]

Henry had mustache-gate, David has EYEBROW-GATE!!!

 

[flickchick85]

Corenswet looks damn near unrecognizable. Wow.

A bit of a nitpick but it doesn't look like they dyed his eyebrows. The mismatch is gonna bug me.

I noticed that in the video Rachel posted at the start of filming and hoped it was just the lighting (because I’d kinda already assumed they dyed his hair at that point lol). I haaaaate that!

 

[STARMAN]

I'm okay with not getting The Superman suit revealed today. Part of the fun is the growing agony of waiting for photos and trailers and getting caught up in the color of David's eyebrows.

 

[flickchick85]

New obscure topic to obsess over: Corenswet's eyebrows! There's definitely something "off" about them in this pic. They weren't like that at his appearance for that Ad he shot in Mexico a few days ago. Even his natural eyebrows are darker. This will definitely fuel the clone rumors.
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Oh. I hadn’t zoomed in. Ok this is the best evidence for the clone thing yet actually. Those definitely aren’t his natural brows.

 

[ArmsHeldOut]

Oh. I hadn’t zoomed in. Ok this is the best evidence for the clone thing yet actually. Those definitely aren’t his natural brows.

What do you mean?

 

[flickchick85]

What do you mean?

Because those brows were deliberately made to look like that. Those aren’t what his brows currently look like out of make up. And there’s no reason to give Clark/Superman freakishly light brows, so…