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The first trailer has been released for the Superman re-boot, Man of Steel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jKWJZsjm5U
UK release date is 14 June 2013.
UK release date is 14 June 2013.
IMDB said:
A child sent to Earth from a dying planet is adopted by a couple in rural Kansas. Posing as a journalist, he uses his extraordinary powers to protect his new home from an insidious evil.
It does look good.
But it's an origin film. It's going up against the benchmark, the de facto king of superhero origin films, one that perhaps hasn't been bettered in over 30 years? BB is probably the only real contender to give it a real run for it's money? I hope they don't spend too long on the 'becoming Superman'. I do not think that can be bettered.
Also, will anyone miss his red pants?
But it's an origin film. It's going up against the benchmark, the de facto king of superhero origin films, one that perhaps hasn't been bettered in over 30 years? BB is probably the only real contender to give it a real run for it's money? I hope they don't spend too long on the 'becoming Superman'. I do not think that can be bettered.
Also, will anyone miss his red pants?
VinceFox said:
Shame we'll never see this superman on screen with nolan's batman.
You never know - the Avengers film seemed to work well bringing together individual Marvel superheros into a unified franchise. I'm sure I read something recently to the effect that DC was looking at a way of trying to emulate that box office success with a comparable Justice League version of their own. Introducing Superman to the Lego Batman 2: DC Superheros video game worked wonders and he stole the show!
The Nolan-verse has been fantastic. It proves that treating the mythos seriously is the way to go.
The Man of Steel will be the first in a joined up Universe into which the rebooted Batman will be introduced.
Superman the Movie is great. But it's a film of two halves; the first manages to be both reverential and inventive. It gave us Superman S is a Kryptonian Symbol thanks to Brano's vanity, the death of Glenn Ford's Pa Kent, the Helicopter catch.
The second half is crap. Really very very poor. From the moment Otis bumbles on camera.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yavK0mnE3wI
The Man of Steel will be the first in a joined up Universe into which the rebooted Batman will be introduced.
Superman the Movie is great. But it's a film of two halves; the first manages to be both reverential and inventive. It gave us Superman S is a Kryptonian Symbol thanks to Brano's vanity, the death of Glenn Ford's Pa Kent, the Helicopter catch.
The second half is crap. Really very very poor. From the moment Otis bumbles on camera.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yavK0mnE3wI
I'm starting to get confused about all these Super Hero films.
I understand you're meant to accept the idea of multi-universes (all very Big Bang Theory) to my mind they've already re-made the Superman films of my childhood about 3 years ago, Kevin Spacey was in it as Gene Hackman and it was pretty good, but it seems not, that was actually a sequal to Superman 1 and 2 with Christopher Reeve, but not 3 or 4 (because they were crap).
I hope, they re-write the whole story, I don't care if he's the son of a giro cashing junkie from Merthyr Tydfil who gains super powers by getting job, or how many comic fanboys it upsets, I don't need to see the same thing with better special effects.
I understand you're meant to accept the idea of multi-universes (all very Big Bang Theory) to my mind they've already re-made the Superman films of my childhood about 3 years ago, Kevin Spacey was in it as Gene Hackman and it was pretty good, but it seems not, that was actually a sequal to Superman 1 and 2 with Christopher Reeve, but not 3 or 4 (because they were crap).
I hope, they re-write the whole story, I don't care if he's the son of a giro cashing junkie from Merthyr Tydfil who gains super powers by getting job, or how many comic fanboys it upsets, I don't need to see the same thing with better special effects.
P-Jay said:
I'm starting to get confused about all these Super Hero films.
I understand you're meant to accept the idea of multi-universes (all very Big Bang Theory) to my mind they've already re-made the Superman films of my childhood about 3 years ago, Kevin Spacey was in it as Gene Hackman and it was pretty good, but it seems not, that was actually a sequal to Superman 1 and 2 with Christopher Reeve, but not 3 or 4 (because they were crap).
I hope, they re-write the whole story, I don't care if he's the son of a giro cashing junkie from Merthyr Tydfil who gains super powers by getting job, or how many comic fanboys it upsets, I don't need to see the same thing with better special effects.
You must have a very hard time with Sherlock Holmes, and the Three Musketeers I understand you're meant to accept the idea of multi-universes (all very Big Bang Theory) to my mind they've already re-made the Superman films of my childhood about 3 years ago, Kevin Spacey was in it as Gene Hackman and it was pretty good, but it seems not, that was actually a sequal to Superman 1 and 2 with Christopher Reeve, but not 3 or 4 (because they were crap).
I hope, they re-write the whole story, I don't care if he's the son of a giro cashing junkie from Merthyr Tydfil who gains super powers by getting job, or how many comic fanboys it upsets, I don't need to see the same thing with better special effects.
rudecherub said:
You must have a very hard time with Sherlock Holmes, and the Three Musketeers
Nope, they've only made 2 Sherlock Holmes films I've seen and they were the same character played by the same person and he didn't die/reincarnate between the two (although he does look a bit like Iron Man) the last time I saw anything remotely linked to the Three Musketeers the main characters were dogs.Although like most 'Musketeers' on TV or silver screen they were all swordsmen(dogs) and never actually used a Musket.
P-Jay said:
Nope, they've only made 2 Sherlock Holmes films I've seen and they were the same character played by the same person and he didn't die/reincarnate between the two (although he does look a bit like Iron Man).
The BBC also made a far superior TV adaptation that blew Downey Jnr into the weeds. The Richie films are forgetable popcorn pap compared to Cumberpatch's take on the character.Not forgetting all the other versions in days gone by...
Civpilot said:
The BBC also made a far superior TV adaptation that blew Downey Jnr into the weeds. The Richie films are forgetable popcorn pap compared to Cumberpatch's take on the character.
Not forgetting all the other versions in days gone by...
I haven't forgotten about them, in so much as never seen them; I think I saw a Hound of the Baskervilles once, but many years ago. I've heard the BBC series is good, but I've never really got into it, watched part of the first one, and couldn’t dispel my disbelief that a private detective would be given access to Police investigations or even a modern day Holmes, so I left it.Not forgetting all the other versions in days gone by...
If you look past my tongue-in-cheek posts, my point is the new Superman film might be great, but having a re-boot so soon after another one (ok at 6 years it's longer than I thought) smacks of just a cynical money making vehicle rather than any desire to make a great film with existing characters, same goes for the new Spiderman films.
At least when they re-booted Batman it followed some pretty terrible sequels that no body liked or cared to remember and it was pretty much a new story (in film terms anyway) that had some familiar themes.
I await news that X-Men is to be re-booted, followed shortly by a Star Trek re-boot that will be released 2 weeks after the sequel to the last one.
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