Visualizing A Superman Reboot: Pictures Welcome

[The Sage]

Kingdom Come's my favorite Superman story, with Action Comics 775 coming in next.

 

[The Punisher]

Great! Just call Singer and let him know!

Fortunatley, I have no way to.

 

[DavidTyler]

Again... this is a thread for people who DID NOT like SR. It is not a debate thread about Singer or the merits of the film.

... And this isn't a wish list... it's about what you absolutely need to get you interested in seeing Singer's second Superman film.

For example ... I would LIKE the the costume fixed but I NEED the kid dealt with. Either get rid of him or make it more palatable for me. I think disconnected Superdad would be Superboring as well as the third wheel status with Lois and Richard.

What are you're absolute needs with the sequel?

 

[dar-El]

Call returns the end of the donner saga and start again. With a brighter costume not covered in s symbols, no kid, a metroplolis that isnt out of the 50's, a new Lois, a Lex that is more in line with todays interpretation i.e a billionaire industrialist not mad on real estate and a major villain worthy of kickin the man of steel's ass. Like mongul, Darkseid or even doomsday.

 

[Bad Superman]

I would prefer a re-start, but since there'll be a sequel this is what I need to watch the sequel:

*A brighter look/photography
*Brighter red tone for the suit
*No freaking kid (unnecesary characters twists)
*New and original story/villian(s) without copying what Donner has done.
*A better Lois Lane
*Lex Luthor is less funnier and more in tone with the comics
*More action for Superman
*Real, well shot shirt rip

 

[mego joe]

I need either there to be a complete twist where SR is a mind control, dream or Mr. Mxyzptlk alteration of reality that negates what happened in SR.

Or, a complete restart that has original story ideas based on concepts from the comics and isn't trying to homage the Donner films at every turn.

It doesn't have to be a complete retelling of the origin in the first 45 minutes, but just recap. Maybe like a retrospective on SUpreman's career ala part one of "up, up and away."

Go from there, have Lois and Clark already be married and just get into it.

Something like that, it just has to distance itself from SR enough that it's obviously not the same timeline, of it's a cool explanation that SR was a complete mind control, dream or mr. Mxyzptlk trip.

 

[TripXyDE]

this would sound somewhat funny....

but just like SR should have retconned or "ignored" Superman 3 & 4,
the new Superman movie should just ignore 3, 4 and Superman Returns

 

[X Knight]

i've got it! The reality we saw in SR was not really reality....it was indeed The Matrix!!!!

 

[y2jversion1]

I would prefer a re-start, but since there'll be a sequel this is what I need to watch the sequel:

*A brighter look/photography
*Brighter red tone for the suit
*No freaking kid (unnecesary characters twists)
*New and original story/villian(s) without copying what Donner has done.
*A better Lois Lane
*Lex Luthor is less funnier and more in tone with the comics
*More action for Superman
*Real, well shot shirt rip

All of the above wrapped in a tight storyline and compact & efficient pacing would be perfect. SR was dragging on way too much to the point where I could wait to get outta the theatre..

Since Singer introduced Cyclops and Superbrat - I think one of the best ways to approach this film would be as a prequel to SR, before Supes leaves for Krypton.

 

[Adam West]

Something along the lines that, when Superman arrived back on Krypton, Brainiac captured him and put him into dream-like state where he had to face his fears. Brainiac was the one who sent out the distress call and is using the computer in Superman's ship to get the co-ordinates for earth.

The new movie would open with Superman waking up, battling Brainiac, Brainiac escaping and going to Earth and Superman going after him. Superman is only gone for like 6 months. No kid or love triangle. Knock down drag out action as Superman and Brianiac tear Metropolis apart battling each other.

 

[Kid_Kaos]

What would it take for me to like a Superman movie made by Singer?

A reboot with a short origin story told with drawings by Alex Ross (like the opening for S-M 2).

The world has to be set in the TAS world, maybe not that utopic from the start. Have Zod fight Supes and led to the destruction of most of Metropolis. It's rebuild by Luthor, who will bond with Supes in the end of the first movie and later become President.

From there on introduce more of the Krypton heritage and let Clark even find Kara. She's maybe trapped on Warworld and Supes has to fight Mongul!? Luthor turns on Spues in one of the movies and keeps working against him by hiding behind his status.

Have Clark and Lois start out like on "Lois & Clark", leading into a releationship and finally the marriage. Once that whole love story thing is done there's enough screentime to build up the JLA.

Start it by introducing B-List heroes like Shazam, Aquaman and Green Arrow during the first movies. Flash, GL, Wonder Woman and Batman should finally appear in the last 2 Superman movies, helping him to fight Darkseid an his army and to set up the JLA movie(s).
Luthor will be brought down by Superman and Batman during or before that.

Just a short list of things I expect from a Superman movie in 2006. A Superman movie is pretty much a no-brainer. You have ~80 years of history to draw from. So sad many people still live in the 70s with that boring old movies.

 

[matthooper]

An amazing super villian
Fighting between Superman and an actual super-villian.
Limit the melodramatic crap.
No Luthor, since he was ruined in SR.
An imaginative story and not another retread.
A lot of action.
Clark in scenes that work
Some flashbacks to Krypton.

 

[Bruce_Wayne29]

New cast, new suit, new villain that it's not Zod, keep the Donner and Christ connections to minimum oh and ditch the kid.

 

[The Overlord]

I thought Superman was too stand offish in SR, he acted more like the Silver Surfer than Superman. I want Superman to have emotions this time. Its time that Superman got pissed off. He has family now, so if a powerful villain like Brainiac threatened them, I would want to Superman go medieval on him.

 

[COMPO]

i want superman to have some conflict. Like have some people don't like him and some of them have learnt to move on without him and don't wnat his help. And he's thinking: why should i help people who don't want my help. But, if i refuse to help them what makes me any different from the people that try to hurt them. You know make him more human. He's been grown up as a human. He's always to me seemed too alien. In the films anyway.

 

[ETHAR-N]

I think they should do some brainiac thing with all that mass of crystal/kryptonite thats on space. It shoul become intelligent or something like that, an be able to change shape and aspect, and at the end of the movie, it becomes a great amount of S*** like in returns, bur with a more brainiacish look destroying metropolis anda having a superbrawl with superman all along the city.

Just an idea

 

[ROBOCOP CPU001]

You want to see him angry?

kill the kid..and have him not being able to save him..have brainiac or even lex do it.

 

[Maze]

I thought Superman was too stand offish in SR, he acted more like the Silver Surfer than Superman. I want Superman to have emotions this time. Its time that Superman got pissed off. He has family now, so if a powerful villain like Brainiac threatened them, I would want to Superman go medieval on him.

It could be interesting imo to see Superman trying to get over that sort of emotion.

He is a also a hero imo ,because he is a man who never have those sort of demons control him.. that's not who he is imo.Ultimately , he is stronger than that.

 

[Retroman]

Sounds interesting. I'd like to get a copy of this issue.

If anyone wants to make a direct suggestion to Singer and co. you could try by sending it to the writers.
Dougherty: http://mikedougherty.com/
Harris: http://fortressofattitude.com/

 

[super-t]

sounds cool but i think its a bit out of the realism circle singer is going with

 

[mathhater]

I'd say Peace On Earth combined with Action Comics # 775. Both tackle ideas and concepts that I feel need to be seen on the big screen.

But those stories capture Superman as he's meant to be portrayed...

so why would Singer care??

 

[WhatsHisFace]

We could have a moral to the story. It's been a while since we've had one of those.

 

[DrMylesOBoogie]

Singerman is more likely to mope around the fortress listening to Boyz 2 Men's "End Of The Road" then get angry or show authority in these movies.

 

[Super Kal]

I want to see some more emotion too...

 

[Superman Pwnage]

I want to see him get so angry that the colors on his suit go darker!