BvS This movie needs to be a cop drama at heart.

[markaudette]

The dynamic between Batman and Superman has ALWAYS been about two cops on opposite sides of the same coin. Writers often go far astray of this simple pivotal writing aspect. Making this Superman/Batman movie could be simplified for any writer if they would just write this movie as a buddy cop drama. One is a demigod, born the son of an esteemed scientist on a doomed planet. The other, a brilliant detective, born the privileged son of a utopian philanthropist. Both sharing immense tragedy. Both growing up protectors of the innocent. Keepers of the peace. Except one does so through hope and change. And the other through fear and force.

No matter WHO they are, Cops are what they really are first. Not orphans. Bruce is always the detective - the hawk, keeping his eye on the prey from afar. Keeping his talons sunk in every crevice of his city. Clark is the fresh-out-of-the-academy beat cop trying his best to be everywhere at once.

Superman, especially, has never been approached from this angle outside of the Richard Donner films. And the character has not been the same sense. And taking that Richard Donner has given us the greatest Buddy Cop films ever produced, is it so hard to see the Superman/Batman film from a Donner Buddy Cop perspective?

 

[D.P.]

It depends on the tone I suppose.

We got a crime drama feel with the Nolan films.

 

[smallville fan]

or they could be on the run from the law, you know be on the opposite side of things like in the much beloved Public Enemies story line? Now that's a live action version I'd watch.

 

[Airwings]

Making it a buddy cop flic?
Call Donner then... or Walter Hill :P

 

[Masone]

This is why I suggested they use the Riddler. Batman and Superman together trying to solve the Riddler's riddles to save someone? I would love that. It gives you the opportunity to show off Batman/Superman's intellect and Batman's detective skills, and also show the dynamic of the Superman and Batman relationship, and the different methods each use to get what they need.

Lex/Ridder as the villains.

 

[markaudette]

No, not a buddy cop film. Just told from the perspective of the movie's two stars - cops. The beat cop and the detective.

As far as the villains go - there does need to be two. With The Joker being the glue between them, somehow. The movie needs to start with another Joker-esque "push." He needs to be at the beginning of the movie, sending both Kal and Batman the same recorded message. It's tickle my fancy if the Joker mockingly admits to finding some him some "New Gods" to play with. The camera then jostles around a bit showing the Joker himself has been heavily tied up. Lex Luthor comes into focus asking Kal and Batman what f-ing jibberish the Joker is talking about. Clark knows. Lex asks the camera what Joker's mumblings about a coming "apocalypse" Because somehow, the Joker arranged, of all creatures, to have Lobo - imprisoned on Apokolips, broke out of prison and set loose on Earth. The Joker sets Batman with the task of finding, what ultimately ends up being being a cloning ship Zod used to get him to Earth. Meanwhile, while Lobo and the clone ship divides Superman and Batman, Lex capitalizes on that division somehow. Until Darkseid, Orion and Big Barda themselves come for Lobo.

After it's all said and done, Lex has his hands on some broken New God technology. Among the tech is a transponder Braniac is using to hone in on the Codex, not aware it's actually Clark. And somewhere on Earth, having telepathically controlled a Kryptonian clone during MoS, the real Zod awakens from his slumber literally somewhere in hell inside the Earth.

That's my take.