James Gunn's Superman - 7/11/2025

[Wallcrawler]

Originally Posted by 4th and Long

Grown men fighting over a fictional comic book character. This should be good.

More of a discussion on the like, dislike, or indifference about liberties taken with source material, but close.

In this forum, the majority appears to find in favor of do whatever you like with established characters and stories, no matter how far off the mark you land.

Example: The mother of Bruce Wayne's child in the books is turned into a suicidal fanatic bent on killing him and destroying Gotham in TDKR.

That makes about as much sense as if you saw Lois Lane to betray Superman, shoving a chunk of kryptonite up his ass during naughty time, shooting him multiple times leaving him for dead and riding off into the sunset with Lex Luthor.

Being a "purist" somehow makes you a dipshit, and knowledge of the source material makes you a "nerd".

Being critical of frankly, idiotic changes made to characters is frowned upon, and will naturally draw the ire of anyone you're disagreeing with, because, how dare you not enjoy being sold a false bill of goods?

As they say, ignorance is bliss.


Rumors are already swirling that in a test screening of the Superman film the resulting buzz was not great. Gunn claims there are no reshoots taking place. The tone of the film was described as comparable to Captain America: The First Avenger.