Brightburn

[PNGwynne]

Looks like it's not making much of a dent in the box office. I personally hope this quickly goes away. Poor Superman has suffered enough in the last 30 years without this besmirching his good name any further.

Chris

Exactly. I'm somehow peeved at this film.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Looks like it's not making much of a dent in the box office. I personally hope this quickly goes away. Poor Superman has suffered enough in the last 30 years without this besmirching his good name any further.

Chris

[hedrap]

I cannot believe WB let that slide without a challenge.

Maybe Suicide Squad 2 was a trade-off with Gunn.

[thunderbolt]

That was not even realistic.

If a Superman existed and hit a human being like that...it would not project like that...it would explode like a tomato or watermelon, lol.

My point is Superman would not do that at all. He'd find a way around killing the guy.

[LonnieFisher]

Anybody see this yet?

[Hector]

New extended diner scene...

The waitress happens to be the mom of one of the school bullies...

[Hector]

Anyone noticed what state the airplane “crash” happened?

Yup, Kansas...

[Hector]

That guy lost me when Superman blasted the terrorist guy thru a wall

That was not even realistic.

If a Superman existed and hit a human being like that...it would not project like that...it would explode like a tomato or watermelon, lol.

[Hector]

I’m so in!

I see this as a What If story, albeit a very dark one.

Looks great!

[hedrap]

Exactly. He would have beaten Brightburn to the punch of totally defamating Superman. Why would WB ever even entertain this?

Chris

It's a book that would've been written twenty years ago, but not today.

Basically, Tull/Legendary and Robinov/WB had a tug o'war over who was responsible for Nolan/Batman. Tull wanted to acquire DC from WB, or at least the media rights, which would effectively reduce WB to a distributor. Snyder was coveted by WB due to 300, but Watchmen was such a legal mess, he felt he got undercut so he focused on his own projects which went nowhere. Goyer/Nolan/Tull approached him about Superman and he agreed because Legendary was the producer. WB wanted him in-house so they were on board. As MoS implodes, Tull and Robinov both get swept out leaving Snyder with creative direction. The guy who took over TW, Tsujihara, and the two who he put in charge of WB knew the company was on thin ice and alot rested on Justice League. Snyder went full ego, made a giant mess, and it pretty much cost everyone their jobs.

If Tull and Robinov could have worked together, Snyder would have been a director only with no major script control. Once Goyer got sidelined in the writing process it was well doomed.

[Earth 2 Chris]

IOW, he wanted to make Injustice: The Movie but market it as Justice League.

Exactly. He would have beaten Brightburn to the punch of totally defamating Superman. Why would WB ever even entertain this?

Chris

[hedrap]

Snyder

“The original Justice League that Chris [Terrio] and I wrote, we didn’t even shoot. The actual idea, the hard, hard idea, the scary idea, we never filmed because the studio was like ‘That’s crazy.’ When this movie came out, understand that Chris Terrio and I had finished the script to Justice League before Batman v Superman came out. Some people didn’t like the movie. A vocal minority. So they said ‘There’s a lot of stuff we don’t want you to do,’ so we did a rewrite from that script. We were really nervous after the response.

The truth is that, the Knightmare sequence in this movie was always my idea that all of that would eventually be explained and we end up in a distant future, where Darkseid has taken over Earth…[and] a few members of the Justice League that had survived in that world…were fighting.”

IOW, he wanted to make Injustice: The Movie but market it as Justice League.

[thunderbolt]

you know Snyder's siting around somewhere kicking himself for not thinking of this. That guy lost me when Superman blasted the terrorist guy thru a wall, topped off by all the Batman murders.

[hedrap]

^Speaking of...has anyone read Snyder's BvS/JL quotes. Good Lord, he really was just as fundamentally wrong for DC as Shumacher was just in the opposite direction.

[palitoy]

I'm not really interested in "Dark Superhero" stuff anymore.