Suoerman has always been more of an embodiment of ideals than as a fully formed character. That tends to happen when you're a virtually invulnerable God.
I don't mind Routh, but I thought he was essentially chosen because he could do the best Christopher Reeve impression of the character. I don't think Cavill is a bad actor. He's not going to win any Oscar's, but I think it's more about the Superman Snyder envisions than Cavill's performance.
It's crazy that a main chracter in two movies has no lines of substance. It's really impressive they've managed to pull that off.
Willem Dafoe cast as a "good guy" in Justice League which could mean anything in a Snyder DC movie. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/justice-league-adds-willem-dafoe-880889
The 2011 Green Lantern movie did very little to set the box office alight, nor did it give many fans much to cheer about. Look, there’s issues with the movie and only a few of them have to do with the needlessly CGI costume. But, as with any property that doesn’t do well the first time, there’s always the opportunity to try again. When the slate of Snyderverse DC Comics movies were announced, the one furthest to the end–in 2020 no less–was a new Green Lantern, this time being touted as Green Lantern Corps, which would allude to the fact that there will be multiple Lanterns on display. The folks over at Latino Review are claiming a source has told them that not only will there be multiple Lanterns from Sector 2814, they’ll be three of the most popular: Hal Jordan, John Stewart, AND Kyle Rayner. Jordan seemed like a no-brainer, as did Stewart, but Rayner was a bit of a wildcard. LR also claims their source says the Hal Jordan in the movie will be older–about Matt Damon‘s age–but that John and Kyle will be younger.
Of course they'd have Eobard Thawn in this movie as someone who lives in that century Just can't trust these people. Unless they're just blatantly stealing ideas from their own TV department....... Which I'd be ok with.
The Flash movie director has left the project over "creative differences" Rumors that James Wan could be leaving Aquaman next.
Finally saw BvS. Outside of some pacing, I don't see what everyone was complaining about. I loved the overall tone of it. It clearly separates itself from the Marvel Universe in a welcome way. Loved Batfleck and Wonder Woman.
DC Comics Just Announced that the Next Superman is Chinese A bold new change is coming to the Superman character when DC Comics hits the reset button on its comic book universe this July. As part of its upcoming Rebirth event, major changes are about to shape the DC comicdom, including a super-powered Lois Lane, a Latina Green Lantern and a 17-year-old Superman who hails from Shanghai. Penned by Gene Luen Yang, the new series “New Super-Man” will feature the new Man of Steel as a Chinese teenager named Kenan Kong. “I would definitely be more comfortable writing a Chinese-American character, as I myself am Chinese-American,” Yang told NBC last month. “Writing a Chinese character is, for me, a lot like writing ‘The Other,’ another culture. So it requires a lot more homework and talking to people who actually live that experience.” Yang wrote a post on the DC blog about his initial struggle to find a name for the new Asian hero. “I wanted to find a name that works in Chinese and is immediately pronounceable to an American reader,” Yang explained. “With Kenji Kong, we stuck with the hard-K sound like Clark Kent.” However, the name “Kenji” posed the problem of sounding more Japanese than Chinese. “Maybe New Super-Man starts off with a bias against Japanese people and the Pinyin version of his name bugs him to no end,” Yang wrote. “Maybe he eventually has to team up with a Japanese superhero, someone like Katana or a member of that crazy Japanese super-team that Grant Morrison made up. Maybe they fall in love.” The name Kenji was eventually scrapped and Yang sought to find a new one by brainstorming with his parents, comic artist Philip Tan, and a Mandarin teacher, They all finally settled on the name Kenan (“Ke” translates to “overcoming something” and “Nan” means “south,” a nod to Kenan’s roots in Shanghai). Kenan’s story will not be a retelling of the original Kal-El’s origin but instead will be a continuation of Superman’s death in the New 52 revamp as his powers are spread out across the globe. Artist Viktor Bogdanovic will join Yang in bringing Kenan Kong’s character to life every month for DC’s line-wide relaunch of its titles.
It really depends on the current reception of their comics, but usually at least once a decade they have some 'Crisis' event that reboots their universe. The New 52 reboot occurred in 2011. For the record, they are claiming 'Rebirth' is not a total reboot of their current continuity. They didn't reboot him. They killed Peter Parker in an alternate universe and a mixed heritage kid named Miles Morales took over as Spider-Man. He wasn't handicapped.
He was a Mexican-American in the animated movie God's and Monsters. Batman was a vampire, Wonder Woman was a slutty redhead.
Read a story on this earlier today. I'll try to find the link but I'll paraphrase: He was pissed over how poorly BvS was reviewed so he negotiated to direct the Batman standalone. WB spills the beans while they were still in negotiations which pisses Affleck off even more. As an olive branch WB gives him an EP role for JL1 and say that he'll be working with Terrio on rounding out the script as well as oversight on editing post production.