itt: consternation and wailing about Zach Snyder's upcoming SUPERMAN/BATMAN film/sequel to MAN OF STEEL -- official title: BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE

ed asner will always be the definitive granny goodness

"jesse eisenberg as lex luthor" is trending, alot of ppl thinking it's a random choice apparently. yeah, jesse eisenberg as some smart, arrogant asshole - what is that gonna be like?

lol Phil

i haven't watched smallville but jesse eisenberg feels like a very smallville choice - wish they'd picked someone like joaquin phoenix, who actually scans older than superman.

supes vs big business rather than some fuckin' internet start-up kid

also I REALLY wanted to see Joaquin with a shaved head

supes vs big business rather than some fuckin' internet start-up kid

um

What happened to the "Justice League" movie?

supposedly being shot back-to-back with batsvssupes, esp now that that's been pushed back to 2016

And we all know Lex will be some super-genius nihilist hacker in this, right?

shakey not sure if you're "um" is in regards to facebook being big business, i just mean lex should be like an oil tycoon imo

superman flying into this window to slam the CEO against the wall

http://cdn.home-designing.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/tumblr-newyork-office.jpg

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shakey not sure if you're "um" is in regards to facebook being big business

yeah mostly. I would be cool with Superman smashing some Google shit

A friend just suggested Shia LeBeouf as the Joker, and why not.

GL would have been great if they'd actually harnessed the visual possibilities of the ring

Yeah I don't think the problem was picking a relatively low profile hero (how many members of the general public seriously gave a shit about Iron Man in 2007?) it was making a crap movie.

"STOP DATAMINING NOW!!!"

"heheheheh....they CLICKED the terms of service, Superman! It was ALLL legal!"

A friend just suggested Shia LeBeouf as the Joker, and why not.

― Ned Raggett

No one would dare put the Joker in another movie for like ten more years surely.

ben affleck would have to fucking OWN the role to get a chance to staredown joker

but if america is 100% on board with ben after Justice League then I'd guess he'd face Joker pretty quick - it would be more than ten years after TDK before he'd get his own movie anyway!

Google is obviously part of Brainiac anyway

curious if they're going to "introduce" the concept of batman to the supes-world or act like he's already a known public figure - who just didn't die in TDKR.

like, "lois, the trail leads to gotham city" "but clark...that's BATMAN country!" *cut to Ben Affleck staring at a bay of computers in a cave*

they should just go full camp and cast Matt Damon as Robin at this point

michael douglas as alfred, in that case

Sandra Bernhard as Catwoman

I admit I'm just free associating now

I don't care what happens with this movie but anything that pisses off comix nerds is a good thing IMO

I hope they make the next Batman after this a literal mutant half man/half bat who plays smooth jazz saxophone

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/photos/2009/davidsanborn_1_jk.jpg

david sanborn is ready!

I was going to say I hope they make the next Avengers movie a 3 hour orgy but that would satisfy way too many people on tumblr

I hope they make the next Batman after this a literal mutant half man/half bat who plays smooth jazz saxophone

You're thinking of this guy:

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090209150905/marvel_dc/images/6/69/Man-Bat_Vol_1_1.jpg

Ha I knew someone would bring up manbat

Seriously though, the whole orphan billionaire origin for Batman had been done to death. Let's reimagine the whole thing. Bruce Wayne is a struggling jazz saxophonist in debt to the mob. To pay them back he's forced to rob some valuable chemicals from a science lab. Of course, everything goes wrong and there's an explosion and he's assumed dead. What no one knows is that the lab was doing experiments on bats and during the explosion he was exposed to a mutagenic bat DNA serum which transformed him into a bat human hybrid. Now he seeks vengeance by night, flying over the skies of Gotham and fighting crime. By day he rests in a dilapidated old jazz club called The Cave, where his former manager Alfred (the only one who knows his identity) meets with him and helps him out with various tasks. This shit writes itself!

oh wait there is joseph gordon levitt's sandman

This sounds like yet another terrible idea. Keep in mind that I tried to write a script for a Sandman movie at age 15... did not get far.

morpheus is just such a passive character aside from his initial "back from the grave, gotta find my swag" journey in the first few issues that I don't know how you make him work in a film. you can't just show him winking at shakespeare for a 15 minute interlude. as insane as jon peters' "make him fight a giant spider" thing was in the late '90s, he is gonna have to fight something.

sandman was a horror/fantasy anthology at heart with an aloof on-page author stand-in who'd talk about how stories are great and occasionally have to decide who gets the magic macguffin. Not really gonna set the screen ablaze.

they should just give Death her own CW pilot already

Perhaps even moreso than Watchmen, the whole series is tied to a specifically comics-based style of storytelling, and one really of its era at that. It just doesn't work unless the film is going to be rambling, abstract in places, tangential and willing to bore its audience for 7 straight issues.

In a way it would be better if it was some kind of TV thing where they did some of the standalone stories like Dream of a Thousand Cats, where you didn't have to make Morpheus the protagonist.

Although if it caught on it could pay comedic dividends should it trigger a full on goth revival.

jon peters' "make him fight a giant spider" thing

man this still makes me laugh. funniest kevin-smith-related thing to me is when he's talking about receiving this directive from peters for his cancelled superman script and later sitting bored watching wild wild west "and then all of a sudden..."

Come to think of it, superman does fight a spidery thingamajig toward the end if Man of Steel didn't he?

they should just give Death her own CW pilot already

― da croupier, 31. januar 2014 22:03 (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Man, Bryan Fuller should get on that!

which is worse Superman Returns or Man Of Steel? genuine question. i've seen neither and LOVED the first 2 Reeve Superman movies as a kid.

Man of Steel is a smidgen worse.

both are contemptibly off-key in ways but the relationship with lois in superman returns is infinitely skeevier and i thought the man of steel had more decent moments for the supporting cast and more action.

like, in man of steel he's a huffy idiot who doesn't actually seem to care who's on the other side of a wall he smashes, but in superman returns he's a deadbeat dad creeping on his ex.

man of steel is cold grim humorless nolandustrial competence, superman returns is kind of baffling in its execution and tone and casting but its heart is in the right place i guess.

krypton looked more like ethereal sandman domain, maybe a sandman/superman teamup is in the works

Come to think of it, superman does fight a spidery thingamajig toward the end if Man of Steel didn't he?

have not seen but i hope so. i read for the first time yesterday abt the legendary lost spider scene in king kong

Cooper personally cut a scene in King Kong in which four sailors are shaken off a rope bridge by Kong, fall into a ravine, and are eaten alive by giant spiders. According to Hollywood folklore, the decision was made after previews in January 1933, during which audience members either fled the theater in terror or talked about the ghastly scene throughout the remainder of the movie. However, more objective sources maintain that the scene merely slowed the film's pace.

and i wondered if this was the inspiration for peters' faith in the spectacle of the giant spider.

amazing to think a scene with spiders eating people alive could *slow* a film's pace??