Tom Welling as Superman

[Docker2.0]

Are you guys saying we need a reboot for Smallville?

 

[LL2K2]

what's going on there are so many names in this forum I don't see on this poll for a reboot, 114 against 84 for, this forum alone could put a reboot over the top =)
http://forums.superherohype.com/poll.php?do=showresults&pollid=21154

Take a closer look...there are more names than you think.

 

[Syncos]

I gets no love?

Don't sweat it. I wasn't mentioned either...

 

[RakuMon]

Sorry, Raku... Of course I'd love to hear from you more.

*affectionately ruffles raku's hair*

But, you've never been a big poster. I figure you're just shy by nature, or too busy to post much.

Me?

I've not posted as much because of my new spoiler-phobia....

Quality over quantity, I says.

The reasoning for my infreqent posting, though, is more of the latter. It's not definitely out of shyness. I'm pretty sure Pat can attest to, if she remembers, the fact that I joined the Hype solely to take on Superboy (what happened to him?) and his misguided views of Smallville's role in Superman lore. I think Pat came on for the same reason around that time.

 

[Docker2.0]

I gets no love?

Triplet only loves herself!! ................and the WB!

 

[Tbone]

That's a good manip... except it's not the most flattering shot of Welling. It looks like the face of a guy who just took a dump and is saying "yeah, I did it... so what?"

 

[Bruce_Wayne29]

I just found this comment that was posted in the Tom Welling for Superman petition so funny that I had to post it. It's funny because it's so over the top and desperate but at the same time it's seriously sad because Warner Bros. are such morons that fans have no choice but to talk to them like this:
"IF YOU DON'T PUT T. W. IN THE J.L. MOVIE I HATE YOUR FRICKING GUTS!! DONT BE SO FRICKIN STUPID!!! WHY CANT YOU JUST LISTEN TO THE FANS SOMETIMES! WITHOUT US YOU WOULD BE NOTHING BUT A FRICKIN PIECE OF CRAP. WE WONT GET TO SEE HIM IN HIS SUIT IN SMALLVILLE SO LET US SEE HIM IN THE FRICKIN MOVIE! YOU HAVE TO PUT TOM WELLING IN THE MOVIE OR ELSE EVERY SMALLEVILLE VIEWER WONT SEE THIS MOVIE! IF YOU DONT PUT T. WELLING IN THE MOVIE IT WILL SHOW HOW STUPID WARNER BROS IS. JUST BE SMART AND DO IT. WHO DO YOU THINK WATCHES SMALLVILLE ANYWAY, SUPERMAN FANS!! WHAT KIND OF ROCKET SCIENCE DOES IT TAKE TO FIGURE THIS OUT! JUST PUT TOM WELLING IN THIS MOVIE. YOU WILL REGRET IT IF YOU DONT BECAUSE THE MOVIE WILL SUCK AND NO ONE WILL COME TO SEE IT AND YOU WONT GET YOUR STUPID MONEY AND OSCAR NOMINATION OR AWARD AND IT WILL BE THE WORST SUPER HERO MOVIE EVER MADE. THEN YOU WILL REALIZE HOW STUPID YOU ARE AND YOU WILL HAVE TO REDO THE MOVIE BUT OH NO, I FORGOT, YOU WONT HAVE ANY MONEY!!PUT T.W. IN THE JUSTICE LEAGE MOVIE! "

 

[Cmill216]

"IF YOU DON'T PUT T. W. IN THE J.L. MOVIE I HATE YOUR FRICKING GUTS!! DONT BE SO FRICKIN STUPID!!! WHY CANT YOU JUST LISTEN TO THE FANS SOMETIMES! WITHOUT US YOU WOULD BE NOTHING BUT A FRICKIN PIECE OF CRAP. WE WONT GET TO SEE HIM IN HIS SUIT IN SMALLVILLE SO LET US SEE HIM IN THE FRICKIN MOVIE! YOU HAVE TO PUT TOM WELLING IN THE MOVIE OR ELSE EVERY SMALLEVILLE VIEWER WONT SEE THIS MOVIE! IF YOU DONT PUT T. WELLING IN THE MOVIE IT WILL SHOW HOW STUPID WARNER BROS IS. JUST BE SMART AND DO IT. WHO DO YOU THINK WATCHES SMALLVILLE ANYWAY, SUPERMAN FANS!! WHAT KIND OF ROCKET SCIENCE DOES IT TAKE TO FIGURE THIS OUT! JUST PUT TOM WELLING IN THIS MOVIE. YOU WILL REGRET IT IF YOU DONT BECAUSE THE MOVIE WILL SUCK AND NO ONE WILL COME TO SEE IT AND YOU WONT GET YOUR STUPID MONEY AND OSCAR NOMINATION OR AWARD AND IT WILL BE THE WORST SUPER HERO MOVIE EVER MADE. THEN YOU WILL REALIZE HOW STUPID YOU ARE AND YOU WILL HAVE TO REDO THE MOVIE BUT OH NO, I FORGOT, YOU WONT HAVE ANY MONEY!!PUT T.W. IN THE JUSTICE LEAGE MOVIE! "

I wonder who this guy wants to play Superman.

 

[triplet]

Quality over quantity, I says.

The reasoning for my infreqent posting, though, is more of the latter. It's not definitely out of shyness. I'm pretty sure Pat can attest to, if she remembers, the fact that I joined the Hype solely to take on Superboy (what happened to him?) and his misguided views of Smallville's role in Superman lore. I think Pat came on for the same reason around that time.

It's sorta fuzzy, but the main reason I joined up (I was happily lurking at the time) was because I got pissed off by something someone had posted...

It might have been Superboy, I don't remember, but that sounds about right.

Triplet only loves herself!! ................and the WB!

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to make of this comment...

I just found this comment that was posted in the Tom Welling for Superman petition so funny that I had to post it. It's funny because it's so over the top and desperate but at the same time it's seriously sad because Warner Bros. are such morons that fans have no choice but to talk to them like this:
"IF YOU DON'T PUT T. W. IN THE J.L. MOVIE I HATE YOUR FRICKING GUTS!! DONT BE SO FRICKIN STUPID!!! WHY CANT YOU JUST LISTEN TO THE FANS SOMETIMES! WITHOUT US YOU WOULD BE NOTHING BUT A FRICKIN PIECE OF CRAP. WE WONT GET TO SEE HIM IN HIS SUIT IN SMALLVILLE SO LET US SEE HIM IN THE FRICKIN MOVIE! YOU HAVE TO PUT TOM WELLING IN THE MOVIE OR ELSE EVERY SMALLEVILLE VIEWER WONT SEE THIS MOVIE! IF YOU DONT PUT T. WELLING IN THE MOVIE IT WILL SHOW HOW STUPID WARNER BROS IS. JUST BE SMART AND DO IT. WHO DO YOU THINK WATCHES SMALLVILLE ANYWAY, SUPERMAN FANS!! WHAT KIND OF ROCKET SCIENCE DOES IT TAKE TO FIGURE THIS OUT! JUST PUT TOM WELLING IN THIS MOVIE. YOU WILL REGRET IT IF YOU DONT BECAUSE THE MOVIE WILL SUCK AND NO ONE WILL COME TO SEE IT AND YOU WONT GET YOUR STUPID MONEY AND OSCAR NOMINATION OR AWARD AND IT WILL BE THE WORST SUPER HERO MOVIE EVER MADE. THEN YOU WILL REALIZE HOW STUPID YOU ARE AND YOU WILL HAVE TO REDO THE MOVIE BUT OH NO, I FORGOT, YOU WONT HAVE ANY MONEY!!PUT T.W. IN THE JUSTICE LEAGE MOVIE! "

That's a riot...

Could it be muscles?

I wonder who this guy wants to play Superman.

LOL!



Too funny....

 

[Whiteflag]

I wonder who this guy wants to play Superman.

lol t:

 

[triplet]

This is an interesting article on the problems DC Comics runs into when it comes to having movies that Marvel doesn't have...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/200...7f44be6bfe2;_ylt=AselzLSEAm4yHguvb4jmslgwFxkF

To Jim Littler, webmaster of **************.com, the long-planned Wonder Woman movie is a prime example of the superhuman challenges a DC superhero can face.

"Warner Bros. was able to get Joss Whedon at the helm—AND THEN THEY REJECTED HIS SCRIPT! Joss Whedon of Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and more!" Littler wrote in an email. "I'll bet the DC people were crying when that fell apart."

More than a decade ago, it was Marvel heroes who were having all the rotten luck in Hollywood. Spider-Man wasn't much more than a 1970s TV washout. The Fantastic Four were fit for an unreleased Roger Corman B-movie. Captain America was singed in a direct-to-video bomb.

Now, it's DC's turn. While the comic giant's characters continue to be huge small-screen players, on Smallville and in various animated series, they're getting swamped by Marvel's gang at the multiplex. Superman vs. Batman was scrapped. Justice League of America fell apart. And all sorts of cape- and tight-wearers are cooling their boots—even Superman, who's doesn't yet have a definitive start date for his next movie, two years after Superman Returns grossed $200 million.

I think this proves how true my sig line really is:

Warner Brothers is run by idiots.

 

[Docker2.0]

You mean MY sig line!

Seriously DC's "Avi Arad" hasn't done squat. They don't have a clue what to do with the heroes.

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

Warner Brothers is run by idiots.

Maybe it's not Warner Bros that's run by idiots (and the numbers the Harry Potter movies make, someway prove they're not so idiot).
Joss Whedon never completed his script for the Wonder Woman movie, in two years.

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

Oh, and using the same philosophy:
Marvel is run by idiots! They rejected an Iron Man script by the couple behind the successful Smallville show.

 

[Docker2.0]

Well............someone must not have seen the BO returns from Iron Man to make a statement like that.

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

Well............someone must not have seen the BO returns from Iron Man to make a statement like that.

Really? So you're saying that rejecting a script by the writers of a successful Tv series can be an intelligent decision?

 

[RickO'Connell]

I don't get it. Warner Brothers has a one up over Marvel with the fact that they own all of their Superheroes & that they can have cross overs & the like without any legal trouble. You would think as long as Warner Brothers has been around everyone would have had their own franchise by now

 

[triplet]

Maybe it's not Warner Bros that's run by idiots (and the numbers the Harry Potter movies make, someway prove they're not so idiot).

They were able to get together coherent HP scripts because JK Rowling had script approval.

If she hadn't, I shudder to think what would have happened in those movies...

The problem, which this article points out, is there is no one at DC with the power to say, "you can't do that" when they do something stupid like making all the cast in the JLA movie be like 19...

Joss Whedon never completed his script for the Wonder Woman movie, in two years.

That's the first I heard of this...

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

I don't get it. Warner Brothers has a one up over Marvel with the fact that they own all of their Superheroes & that they can have cross overs & the like without any legal trouble. You would think as long as Warner Brothers has been around everyone would have had their own franchise by now

How many movies does Warner Bros make every year?
Now consider that they have rights to a lot of stuff to choose from:
the DC Universe, Vertigo, the classic Warner Bros toons, the Hanna&Barbera,
the highly successful book series like Harry Potter...
Eventually some of the DC universe characters will end up on screen.
Come on, the Iron Man movie has been in development in some form for 16 years.

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

The problem, which this article points out, is there is no one at DC with the power to say, "you can't do that" when they do something stupid like making all the cast in the JLA movie be like 19...

Please, let's cut this crap of the Teen Justice league.
The average age of the actors rumored to be in Miller's Justice League was over 26.

That's the first I heard of this...

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=11030

Whedon says his lack of focus was particularly cataclysmic while he was writing his draft of the "Wonder Woman" screenplay, and that when writer's block hits, it's best to jump to another project where the words are flowing more readily.

http://www.avclub.com/content/interview/joss_whedon

AVC: Is your Wonder Woman film adaptation irrevocably dead, or is there any possibility of going back?
JW: I loved what I was doing. I mean, it was really hard. It took me a long time to break the story structurally to my satisfaction. When I did that, it was in an outline, and not in a draft, and they didn't like it. So I never got to write a draft where I got to work out exactly what I wanted to do.

 

[triplet]

Please, let's cut this crap of the Teen Justice league.

The average age of the actors rumored to be in Miller's Justice League was over 26.

Yeah, because of that one rapper is was like 35... The other characters were going to be portrayed by 20 year olds.

I don't what you think about it, but I just don't see Batman as a 20 year old.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=11030


http://www.avclub.com/content/interview/joss_whedon

Interesting...

Thanks for those.

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

Yeah, because of that one rapper is was like 35... The other characters were going to be portrayed by 20 year olds.

Yawn.

Adam Brody ... The Flash / Barry Allen (rumored) (28 years old)

Common ... Green Lantern / John Stewart (rumored) (36 year old)

D.J. Cotrona ... Superman / Clark Kent (rumored) (28)
Armie Hammer ... Batman / Bruce Wayne (rumored) (21)
Santiago Cabrera ... Aquaman / Arthur Curry (rumored) (30)
Megan Gale ... Wonder Woman / Princess Diana (rumored) (32)
Hugh Keays-Byrne ... J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter (rumored) (60)

I was wrong: the average age is 33.5

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

Double post

 

[triplet]

Yawn.

Adam Brody ... The Flash / Barry Allen (rumored) (28 years old)

Common ... Green Lantern / John Stewart (rumored) (36 year old)

D.J. Cotrona ... Superman / Clark Kent (rumored) (28)
Armie Hammer ... Batman / Bruce Wayne (rumored) (21)
Santiago Cabrera ... Aquaman / Arthur Curry (rumored) (30)
Megan Gale ... Wonder Woman / Princess Diana (rumored) (32)

Hugh Keays-Byrne ... J'onn J'onzz / Martian Manhunter (rumored) (60)

I was wrong: the average age is 33.5

Okay, yeah, whatever.

The guy playing Batman is mostly who I was thinking of.

I hadn't done my own analysis of the average age of rumored cast memebers, so I'm glad you took care of that for me.



The fact remains that the film ran into problems mostly because there was no clear plan when it comes to DC comic films.

That was the point of that article.

Marvel has script approval of the films from its properties, DC doesn't.

It's caused problems...

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

Okay, yeah, whatever.

The guy playing Batman is mostly who I was thinking of.

I hadn't done my own analysis of the average age of rumored cast memebers, so I'm glad you took care of that for me.

That's a problem with a lot of fan-people.
They like to repeat the easy things ("it's the Teen league!") without analyzing the facts.

The fact remains that the film ran into problems mostly because there was no clear plan when it comes to DC comic films.

That was the point of that article.

Marvel has script approval of the films from its properties, DC doesn't.

It's caused problems...

DC is owned by Warner Bros. They are consulted but in most cases they don't have the final word on the script (they can however stop the development if let's say Superman kills innocent people). It's the same for Marvel, that has little control on the movies they sold the rights for, like the Fantastic Four or Ghost Rider.