Here are John Peter's ideas:
1. Krypton was going to explode in the sequel. Abrams idea involved Superman getting to KNOW his planet, and trying to save it, and then it would have exploded, making it a lot more tragic an element of his mythos.
So...Naboo is the only place that can experience Civil War? I guess I'd question why you have a problem with walking war machines. Strikes me as a pretty cool concept.
You totally missunderstood me. I never said these were bad ideas. They worked perfectly fine in Star Wars Episode 1. My gripe is this doesn't sound like good ideas for a Superman movie because it completely deviates from the original source material and it was a star wars rip off.
Uh..."The One" prophecies like this were around long before the Matrix movies.
I don't recall there being any sci-fi movies in the 70s, 80s, or early to mid 90s with a "One prophecy" as unique as the Matrix. I saw this as another one of Peter's many ripped off ideas.
It's not quite that simple. Not even remotely that simple.
That's pretty subjective.
In the first draft, yes. In later drafts, this was changed.
Changed to what?
It's actually not as bad as it sounds like it would be.
Well, it sounded pretty bad to all the superman fans who signed an internet petition for the WB to cancel this project as a result of these ideas. Stan Lee admitted he was one of the petitioners.
Luthor being Kryptonian was a bit hard to swallow, but his characterization was spot on. Later drafts had Luthor as...you guessed it, a corrupt businessman with only vague Kryptonian ties (his technology).
Agreed. However, this still does not negate all the horrible ideas writers conjured up for Luthor's role in the ill-fated Superman Lives project.
Definitely similar. But consider this. There were many rumors that WB utilized certain parts of the Matrix sequels to feel out people's reactions to a Superman like character, and to test the special effects.
It's only "straight out of The Matrix because SUPERMAN stalled as a project and the scenes were basically put INTO THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS.
Okay.
Ty-Zor and his cronies brought the Kryptonite with them. It's a mineral from Krypton, and its radiation is deadly to Kryptonians, period. Just like in the comics
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Kryptonite is a radioactive substance that resulted from Krypton exploding. Since Krypton doesn't explode in Peters script where does the kryptonite come from?
So? Let me tell you, JJ Abrams wrote the best Jimmy Olsen I've ever read. He was smart, capable, and he actually functioned as more than comic relief.
I thought the reason people were complaining was because they thought the change in Jimmy Olsen's sexual orientation was another unnecessary change from the source material. Besides Singer's Olsen in Returns was just fine for me.
And yet he played an incredibly reserved character in BATMAN.
I really didn't know what to make of Keaton's performance when I first saw Batman. I'll admit that he was a little mysterious but, I was unable to make an emotional connection with the character. Unfortunately, I found Bruce Wayne to be even less interesting in the sequel when he was overshadowed by two villians.
