Before anyone starts: no, I cannot judge the quality of the movie based on a teaser image. I am not going to do so. I am judging the teaser image itself and whether or not it succeeds at its job–getting me interested in the movie and giving me some hope that James Gunn understands what he’s doing when it comes to Superman.
However, the recent reveal of the Superman costume, with a teaser image of David Corensweat in presumably the final outfit, is just the trappings. You can get the outfit right and still get the character wrong. That said, the Superman outfit is rather important. It reflects the character’s personality and presentation. For example, the outfit Richard Donner gave Christopher Reeve for his role as the Man Of Steel is bright and hopeful, while the outfit Zack Snyder gave Henry Cavill for his role in Man Of Steel…kept him from being naked. The cape was too long, the colors too dark, the material itself was that same basketball covering used in The Amazing Spider-Man movies for Peter, and the S symbol was wrong. It’s not like there weren’t tons of other outfits in live-action, animation, and the original comics to point the costumer to and say “make this to fit Henry”, and the same is still true for David.
The outfit, as I pad out the intro for the homepage, can best be described as an improvement over Snyder’s outfit. It’s not terrible, but as you’ll see a few…adjustments had to be made. So I popped the image being circulated on X-Twitter by Discussing Film into the ol’ image editor, make some tweaks, and while I’m sure by the time this goes live better image editors have already improved on it, what I did wasn’t too bad for my skill level. I’m satisfied with it, but first we should go over the good and bad of the teaser image. It almost works. Almost.
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