I’m not really ready to follow the James Gunn DC movieverse until I see evidence that he’s going to do a better take on the characters than Zack Snyder did (or that the comics are doing now). At this point I’m growing more and more jaded with these modern takes, made for…okay, stop lying. You aren’t doing them for “modern audiences” because there are still plenty of people today who still want the traditional superheroes. You’re doing it for the “cool kids”, the audience you want to be making movies for and satisfying the everything for meeeeeeeeeeeeeee crowd by making popular things for them instead of not them, aka the actual fans of the work.
Adding to the list of live-action Men Of Steel is David Corenswet, a name I don’t think I’ve gotten right once today while looking into this. After the announcement Variety found an interview with Entertainment Weekly when Corenswet was promoting his role in the movie Hollywood, which he was also a producer for according to IMDB, and mentioned in passing that he would love to play Superman. It’s something they happened to catch but despite being a short statement I don’t think he understood what the problem with the DC Snyderverse was…because he blamed Henry Cavill.
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These aren’t the only issues of course. Maybe hire people who want to make comics instead of authors needing a paycheck or artists who don’t care about accuracy. They don’t need to be fans of a product to be able to understand it, appreciate it, and make something the fans want to see. If you have a shared universe stop looking at continuity as a block to telling your stories and more like a challenge to make stories with and build off of what came before with your voice. Mr. July basically said the rest of it.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on June 29, 2023 in Comic Spotlight and tagged comics, commentary, Eric July, Youngrippa59.
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