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Congratulations to whichever executive at Warner Bros. was smart enough to get everyone talking about Superman off the strength of an offhand comment. Top-tier media manipulation, my guy. https://twitter.com/GeekTyrant/status/1271966846678372353
Of course a Superman movie would be successful! Very successful--if you make the kind of Superman movie that provides audiences with what they so desperately need right now. Hope, unity, empathy, pride, and justice.
I know everyone loves Cavill. And he IS great. But I want to see a movie about Superman figuring out how to BE Superman. I want something akin to what Reeves' Batman will be. No origin. Give me the second year.
Give me a Clark Kent who is working 4 different jobs--including one completely garbage media job--trying to cover an insane Metropolis rent. While stopping to help people the entire time.
Give me a Clark Kent who realizes that it's unfair. That it's deeply unfair as his coworkers (in service and hard labor) break down around him--physically, financially, emotionally. And that's when he decides to really do something big.
Clark Kent has ALWAYS helped people. But he becomes Superman and a damn good reporter when he starts following the problems he sees to their origin points and starts fixing things higher up the food chain.
And what's higher up the food chain in the DC universe? Lex Luthor. Maxwell Lord. Institutional corruption that funnels money into their pockets while seeding hatred amongst the populace.
I'm not done. While I said I want a year-two Superman, I want WB to understand that Superman is NOT Batman and Metropolis is NOT Gotham. Corruption physically manifests in entirely different ways between the two cities. A Superman movie should NOT be visually dark!
Metropolis is bright and colorful--even the seedier areas. It's a city where it is GREAT to be rich and you do not live in fear one iota unless you live in the worst regions. It does not operate under a film of grime and despair like Gotham does.
That doesn't mean it's perfect, but that does mean it's pretty. And a director should be able to show that while also making the beauty of Metropolis unsettling and artificial. It's not a city that is truly healthy or just. Not yet.
NOW I'm done. And I want to write a Superman story.
