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Superman Set To Fly
arock99 writes "After many years of battling various script rewrites, Superman is set to soar again.
Various sources (superman-v.com,
darkhorizons.com,
aintitcool.com)
report that Brandon Routh (of Gilmore Girls)
has been cast as Superman.
With production only a month away, Brian Singer is set to tackle yet another super-hero film after
previously having directed both X-Men and X2.
Had it not been for his recent passing, Christopher Reeve
would surely have been part of the production team in some capacity.
Superman should hit theaters around summer 2006."
Well for one, I like the Smallville story. They present us a vulnerable, guy with problems like everybody else, who wants to hear about caped princes on their stallions to "fight for justice"? Way outdated. (Not that we don't need an idealist hero in this screwed up time, but we need a REAL one)
:)
But if they make a batman based on "Batman of the Future", yeah cool.
I remember reading the history of comics on a TV documentary.
(related history of comics link).
Comics are always made by people based on the time's moral standards and public expectations.
Like for example, the wonder woman was so popular in the time where women were seen as inferior. One day the guy decided to take away her powers, and the story sucked. Lotsa women protested against that.
And Flash Gordon. Always rescuing the girl. Because in that time, i don't know about you, but IMHO women just acted stupid and submissive.
Another example? Captain America. It was made in WW2. Everybody wanted to see Hitler smashed by capn's shield. Good ol' times when America was the REAL Iron fist of democracy. Is it a coincidence that the "Golden Age" of comics was from 1938 to 1945, just as the WWII?
So, in those days, superheroes were seen as Role models. "What I want my child to be". But now they're the escape of teenagers who can't find their own place. Look at the latest comic movies. Do they focus on the superpowers, or more on the personal problems and conflicts of the heroes (Spiderman, Daredevil)? And they're a hit.
So yeah, the script guys BETTER give us a good movie adapted to our current times, or we'll smash the reels on their faces.
Why did the original poster list him as "of Gilmore Girls"? If he had bothered to read the profile at IMDB that he linked (instead of just looking for a picture?), he would have seen that he was only on one episode of "Gilmore Girls", yet he was on the soap opera "One Life to Live" for two years and MTV's "Undressed" for another year. Unforunately, it seems most of you fell for this and are were immediately biased based on his one appearance on a WB show.