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[…] So yes, we “nobodies” can tell Zack Snyder how to adapt a comic book into a movie because we are fans of those comics books. We know why we love them and why some of these characters were popular enough to be made into the “approved” storytelling formats to become the cultural icons that Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman have become before Snyder directed or produced versions that failed to properly adapt those characters. We know the characters better than he does, saw adaptations that not only captured what we loved about those stories but found a mainstream audience (which is how they became cultural icons in the first place) who loved them for the same reason. If the TRUE depictions of these characters are not for you, then fine. Let Snyder build his own superhero universe and leave these character alone. He may even get some cross pollination of fans who would accept them as a different take. It’s what I was talking about in today’s Art Soundoff. […]
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