The Official Writer & Storyline Thread

[Spirited Away]

Well, here's the Good Samaritan costume, as worn by Oliver:

Spoiler

By Episode 12, the Good Samaritan is very public, and giving Metropolis PD bad press (and Dan Turpin's son role plays as him too), so I presume Clark gets into costume before then.

Taking into account everything that's happened this season, the dropping of the "no flights" rule, and the last few seconds of Bride being monumental, I say Bride or Legion is when Clark officially becomes a superhero (but not Superman).

The question was, should they adapt this into the new movie, or stick with Clark becoming Superman immediately and not another superhero identity?

 

[Showtime]

I think he should perform heroic acts as Clark, then go right to being Superman.

 

[NeoRanger]

I'm just going to throw the question out there... feel free to ignore it... Why should they ever consider adapting "the Samaritan"? What 'more' will that give them?

 

[I Am The Knight]

Another action figure.

 

[Dark Jaguar]

Another action figure.

So we'll get to see Clark running around in one of Oliver's "Justice League" outfits... all leather'd and hooded in Red & Blue, and they'll make a figure of it...
and the sole purpose of it is to burn up episodes. fine, i like SV, it's an amusing adaptation of the Superboy myths.

However: I say it again, and I'm beating a dead horse... hell, i might as well kick it few times for good measure:
NO!!!
Clark's exploration is in what kind of mortal he should be. And where he should draw the line between his duty to help mankind, and be himself.
This kind of story would be far better, for making Superman a relatable character. The idea of Clark being a hero before he's given the name "Superman" is viable as an aspect. Only because I can't see Clark spending -ALL- day looking through the want ads. But he would do it in ways he's not noticed at all, and it looks like freak coincidence. Until he gets the job at the Planet, and just so happens to get photographed doing something SUPER, like catching an airplane, and setting it down in the middle of Times Square...

"Well, crap. I can't wear a mask now. Do you have any ideas, Ma'??"
Ma' Kent: "Glasses. And wear your hair differently. And you know, honey, I've always thought you looked soo nice and gentle in a suit!"

 

[04nbod]

The Samaritan? What bollocks.

did you watch the episode?
Jimmy in typical Jimmy style calls clark 'the good samaritan' as a heroic name. Lame, true but its coined by Jimmy Olsen. The question is whether the origin movie should be superman acting covertly with whispers at the planet that there is a superhero in their midst. In the end he comes out and says 'I am Superman!'

 

[04nbod]

Well, here's the Good Samaritan costume, as worn by Oliver:

Spoiler

By Episode 12, the Good Samaritan is very public, and giving Metropolis PD bad press (and Dan Turpin's son role plays as him too), so I presume Clark gets into costume before then.

Taking into account everything that's happened this season, the dropping of the "no flights" rule, and the last few seconds of Bride being monumental, I say Bride or Legion is when Clark officially becomes a superhero (but not Superman).

The question was, should they adapt this into the new movie, or stick with Clark becoming Superman immediately and not another superhero identity?

That costume looks so good in the dark. In the promos it looks crap. Its jeans and a hoodie!

 

[I Am The Knight]

did you watch the episode?

Ugh, no.

 

[SatEL]

That costume looks so good in the dark. In the promos it looks crap. Its jeans and a hoodie!

That cape is awesome, much better than the piece of **** rubber crap we got in SR.

 

[badboy00z]

did you watch the episode?
Jimmy in typical Jimmy style calls clark 'the good samaritan' as a heroic name. Lame, true but its coined by Jimmy Olsen. The question is whether the origin movie should be superman acting covertly with whispers at the planet that there is a superhero in their midst. In the end he comes out and says 'I am Superman!'

Which episode is this?

 

[I Am The Knight]

That cape is awesome, much better than the piece of **** rubber crap we got in SR.

Hey, watch your mouth. The cape looked great. This you know.

 

[SatEL]

Hey, watch your mouth. The cape looked great. This you know.

Oh I am sorry I guess rubber sheets can be useful at times.

 

[BMM]

Hey, watch your mouth. The cape looked great. This you know.

I agree. The cape in Returns looks much better on screen than the cape in the picture on the previous page--that looks like something a wizard would wear, not Superman.

 

[I Am The Knight]

Oh I am sorry I guess rubber sheets can be useful at times.

Better than blankets

 

[The Red Hood]

My dream writers: Geoff Johns with Richard Donner.

Directors: Bob Zemeckis, Brad Bird, Joe Johnston.

Re-cast with unknowns for all the leads, including Superman. Get someone who's older looking to play Superman.

'Hood

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

It's your choice but why Donner?

 

[TheBatman1979]

It's your choice but why Donner?

Obviously you don't hate all Batnatics. t:

I'd go with a callborative story by Geoff Johns and Bruce Timm.

Screenplay by Mark Guggenheim and Paul Dini

 

[I SEE SPIDEY]

Obviously you don't hate all Batnatics. t:

I'd go with a callborative story by Geoff Johns and Bruce Timm.

Screenplay by Mark Guggenheim and Paul Dini

Just most.

 

[Superark]

I actually wouldnt mind seeing Ben Afflect write a screenplay and possibly direct the next Superman flick.

Of course I'd have Geoff Johns as a story consultant

 

[Nightwing1977]

So does this new Routh interview where he talks about "the sequel" incline us further to believe that they're not scrapping SR?

Didn't SR just came out in June 2006?


Just kidding! But honestly, no one know for sure. With every news on Superman, there always that "it will happend" or "it won't happend". It's pretty frustrating & make me want to pull my hair with losing my patience on WB barely saying anything about what they want to do.

 

[Nightwing1977]

I think people wanna see a movie about Superman saving the world the way he always does.

Yep. That is always Superman's job.

That cape is awesome, much better than the piece of **** rubber crap we got in SR.

Really? It look almost the same as in SR: rubber cape. But I guess you prefer a little wimpy towel Reeve wore, huh? And it real short too. t: t:

 

[BestGirl]

Didn't SR just came out in June 2006?


Just kidding! But honestly, no one know for sure. With every news on Superman, there always that "it will happend" or "it won't happend". It's pretty frustrating & make me want to pull my hair with losing my patience on WB barely saying anything about what they want to do.

Hopefully we'll hear something once Nolan's been signed for BB3. That shouldn't be too far off.

 

[DavidTyler]

..........I said this in another thread, but i'll say it again:
The "S" costume, and Clark's Glasses come into play after Clark, in a total heat of the moment, saves a plane from crashing, and his picture is taken by Jimmy Olsen.. (this event was rehashed, somewhat, in SR)...

It is that article, written by Lois Lane that gives him his name "Superman". Until then Clark had been trying to fit in as a normal person. After the release of this front page picture and article, Martha Kent stitches together the Superman costume from the blankets they found Clark in.

..............

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I think this would be a good idea for an origin story. It goes in line with the comic where Clark saves the plane and people see him do it. He then wears the costume when he does his business and Lois gives him the name of Superman.

What you're both basically stating is extremely close to what Byrne and Wolfman did in 'Man Of Steel'.

Clark, who had secretly been doing super rescues while traveling the world, rescues an experimental space shuttle (it was called a 'space plane' in the comic but that was because the shuttle disaster had just happened and they were trying to be sensitive to that) and he does the rescue in full view of everyone. He was not in any special costume - just jeans and a black t-shirt. Having his face already revealed meant that he had to come up with a way to keep his normal life still private while becoming a public figure... hence the two identities and the low keyed personna in glasses. He couldn't disguise the face of the hero because it had been seen and photographed.

I think it goes without saying, if it's an origin story, redoing the overnightness of the older films won't do it. But Smallville is too much, I don't know if it makes sense to have a whole lot of "Clark" heroics. I think Batman Begins would be a clearer example, than Smallville, where they build up and show where each of the elements that make up the hero come in.

I've always said that Clark's journey to the costume would make a great film. I don't want him to rush that in an origin story. Frankly, I like the journey in 'Begins' better than the costume part that follows. The only part of 'Birthright' that I think is worth a damn is Clark's exploration of the world and his place in it before donning the cape.

That's why I think the movie should take place in the DCU, a world where there have been heroes but none in a long time. All you have to do is have Johnathan Kent pull out an old Alan Scott Green Lantern comic and give Clark the idea.

Maybe not an Alan Scott Green Lantern comic but, instead, how about reference to the mysterious figure in Gotham? It could be a great way to tie the two into the same universe and would explain where the Kents (Clark included) got the idea to create the Superman identity. Bruce is wearing a costume to be both a symbol and to hide his real identity. Not a whole lot of difference in the reasoning.

 

[The Watchman]

Writers: Paul Haggis with Andrew Kevin Walker and Brian Fuller

Braintrust consultants: Geoff Johns, Mark Millar, Mark Waid, Kurt Busiek and Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman.

Storyboards by Frank Quitely, Gary Frank, Ash Wood

Directors: Alfonso Cuaron, David Fincher, Steven Spielberg, Matthew Vaugh

There's infinite scenarios really...

 

[kal-elrebooted]

Geoff Johns and Grant Morrison