So I hear they are going to reboot Superman and make it darker. I say go for it. This is contrary to most of the buzz on the Internet which seems to think this is a bad idea. Their primary concern is that Superman isn’t a dark character. I think the overwhelming success of The Dark Knight” is making the studio execs think that darker is better. I think they are in right in a sense. A darker film will work, a darker superman won’t. Superman should never be as brooding or as pessimistic as Batman. Superman is the beacon of hope; he is the light in the darkness. The darkness should come from the Antagonist.
The flaw in Superman Returns was Luthor he never came across as the menace to society that he should have been. He was to cartoonish and pedestrian (and yes I had the same problem with Gene Hackman). You basically have a protagonist who seems like he stepped out of an episode of Law & Order. If you want to make Superman shine put him up against some one that’s truly dark like Brainiac, Doomsday, Bizzaro or Darkseid.
Let Superman cut lose on (insert antagonist from above) comic book style in the third act to save the world. The big finally in Superman Returns was him lifting a damn island out of the ocean, so he basically saved the world from …………….. real estate. It looked good visually but that’s all it was.
A darker film doesn’t mean Superman will turn into Wolverine. It just gives you more of an opportunity to show why Superman is different, why he will make the right choice as opposed to the easy one.
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This post was written by Lobo on September 16, 2008
