is being rebooted, Harley Quinn is starring in her own supervillain spin-off, a new Batman is on the horizon and the Joker is more popular than ever; the studio is even giving Green Lantern another shot.
It’s interesting that Superman, a character instinctively associated with the word “superhero,” is proving difficult to adapt to film in the age of superhero saturation. Is the character’s godlike powers and righteous attitude really too alienating for modern audiences? Snyder genuinely tried to redesign Superman’s costume into something more sleek and intimidating, but there’s not much you can do with an outfit that looks like pajamas, especially when it’s as iconic as Superman’s suit. You can’t make too many changes, and you certainly can’t make it look “cool.”
But Superman occupies a very specific niche, a serious symbol of hope dwelling inside a bizarre universe. He doesn’t seem to share Batman’s malleability; the Dark Knight can switch between deadly serious and absurd to suit the times, while Superman remains stubbornly consistent.
Source: Entertainment Trends (entertainmenttrends.net)
Of they exclusively target the MAGA crowd you already have a winner
Dear DC Films Watch this. You’ll thank me later
* Struggle with balancing CK/SM a la spiderman * explore his limits and frustrations (alone, alien, does he make a difference) * question whether he should intervene, how to do so without going too far, keep himself in check * explore CK being as much of a positive influence
How can the article claim that Superman is inherently more silly than Wonder Woman, and thor
2022 SUPERMAN Marketing Department: “Looks like we’ll have to give Superman a mullet.”
Make him do cool shit like a superhero
They need to clean house with everyone they got right now!!!! Let Zach Snyder have complete control! DC giving up a shitty Harley Quinn movie, or 2 Shazam and a black Adams movie before a man of steel sequel is the dumbest sh*t ever
The old movies are showing how to make a good Superman.
Maybe write a less dramatic story?
Superman should be a skinny guy, detached from society, invulnerable, until he experiences pain for the first time and cries and begs on national television. Then he has to recover from that, with the help of Lois Lane.
Tbh the studio seems to feel the same about every other dc properties on their disposal
Their idea of how to make him relevant to modern audiences: turn him black
We want dark superman!
There are alot of superman stories that would be perfect for a modern audience It just means that they would actually have to adapt them decently
those idiots from DC FILMS don't even know what to do with their characters, everyone loves super cavill but dc refuses to give the public what the public wants
“We don’t know how to make him appealing to the followers of the now-failing-around-the-world-PC-agenda” is what they mean
HeroesReforged get the boys
Considering modern dc only thinks he's interesting when hes either evil or dead, it doesn't surprise me. Just get someone who's actually a fan of the character to do the writing. It isn't hard, you have years of stories just sitting there. Stop trying to deconstruct him.
Step one: hire people who KNOW and more importantly RESPECT the canon and are willing to make movies faithful to that canon. Step two: sit back and enjoy your millions.
What makes superman relevant is that acts and thinks like an average nice guy but has the powers of a god that hes a hero that every man, woman, race, and gender can relate to cause we all want to help people.
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Waaa look king_2kay u see ya people aah🤣🤣🤣🤣💙
Damn it’s almost like it’s been done before and it’s really not that hard
Seriously, just hire Dan Jurgens or anyone who has written good comic books
Of course, they can't make him relevant. We killed the concept behind Superman a long time ago. Superman was our focus to be a better person, a better people. We got rid of that concept in need of making money.
RIGHT HERE THIS IS WHAT WE need just less of the shity filters
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hmm how indeed?
How about just stop with 'relevant to modern audiences' nonsense?
This isn't hard. Just make a film about an optimistic, brightly-colored hero. Have him smile. Crack some jokes. Fly around. Fight a powerful foe. Save a kitten from a tree.
They can make a film about superman's dog but I can't make a superman film
Hey DC films, lean into Superman refusing to allow the mistreatment of people for any reason (to include, but not limited to country of origin, religion, income, sexual orientation…). I mean, he’s a good-doing refugee and his alter ego’s a reporter FFS. In 2022+? THAT’s super.
Henry Cavill is right here just use a good director.
The character Is relevant (always will be), is DC Studios what is mostly dead.
This is unbelievable.
Bring Zack Snyder and David S. Goyer back for Man of Steel 2. There, problem solved.
They should stop production on all DC films until they get some cohesiveness under their cinematic universe. At this point they’re dividing fans and pushing them away. Maybe they start production on wild storm titles.
This is sad considering he's the strongest hero on planet earth 🌏
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Give to someone who actually writes comic books, easy 🤦🏽♂️
He already was relevant. He just showed America a bit too realistically. HenryCavillSuperman RestoreTheSnyderVerse
guillermohasbun AndyP123098 yeah. You can tell
Man this article is trash...
Stop trying to make him similar to Batman and instead make him the opposite of Batman as he's supposed to be. Make his movies bright, colorful and full of hope. Superman is a character you are supposed to look up to, not relate to.
Superman…you mean the undocumented immigrant child whose home was destroyed and was sent to Earth for a chance at a life and grew up poor, whose nemesis is an extremely influential billionaire who regularly makes life difficult for the regular people…? …not relevant today…?
How do you not know ? There's source material... In fucking V O L U M E S
What about a « he/she/it » atheist and vegan gay black super hero…at least Netflix won’t steal this progressive idea.
The people at wbpictures don't know there ass from a hole in the ground.
Superman has been defeated. Gets frozen.Years later he wakes up. People have become dumb. He has become the smartest man. Let MikeJudge direct it.
I'm still confused from where did the fuss start in the first place. Henry Cavill is perfect as Supe, so what he's British
I think part of the solution could be making something like Smallville. but maybe that's only me...
AYO WARNER BROS! watch Bruce Timm's Superman the Animated series, then watch Bruce Timm's 'Bwaaa Bwa Bwa BWAAAA' Justice League, take notes, and boom Superman trilogy, simple as that
Seems like the audience wants more of the current Superman. Maybe listen to your audience?
Such a shame
Easiest movie to make. But that attitude of theirs is also spilling to the rest of their films.
Use the Smallville series as the basis, or go back to dean Cain's Lois and Clark
DC: We don't know what to do with Superman Literally everyone: Injustice!!!!
Oh no.. this is a Snyder-cult comment section...
It’s easy; just make it bright and fun. Give him one slightly cheesy villain (not Lex) and make him save the world. That’s it. People will want to see it.
We just want Superman fuck twitter
DC Films is dumb.
Prequel Movie: Superboy and the Legion of Superheros Superman I: Secret Origins World's Finest: introduce Supergirl and Metallo Superman II: Brainiac Supergirl: introduce Zod and Faora Superman III: Doomsday Superman IV: Reign of the Supermen Superman V: New Krypton
For love of all that is holy, i hope they don't make him gay
Do research aka read the comics
Step 1: Give the fans what they want
It’s done. Just continue it.
you have the blue print RIGHT THERE i mean DAMN
Just give us this in live action
Just use the Superman and Lois superman that one is actually so good
Cavills superman was pretty modern
The guy that made the last Superman film in 2013 did a great job making the character “relevant to modern audiences”.
I got an idea how about read any superman comic or even better ask someone who wrote him how to go about his character.
TELL GOOD STORIES! G*dD**mn, it's like they're intentionally effing this up.
Lol do they not have writers or access to writers? The f?
Make him gay
Make one good movie about being a benevolent god using power in the best way. It’s the whole point of the character. Oh fuck just make him evil Superman or some shit.
They could literally watch SupermanAndLois a show that they produce. And see how it's done. I don't get it.
I think we deen a HARD reboot... not even the snyderverse could save DC from all those controversies both executive and actors. Sadly they had good stuff but some things just happened 😕 Build something from the batman and use the multiverse as an excuse
You got your audience, A Man of Steel 2 would make atleast 800 million with Snyder and CavilI
Bring Zack Snyder back for ZSJL Sequel, imo RestoreTheSnyderVerse
Are you serious? Dude has been relevant for 80+ years with every audience in every decade. Don’t need to change the character, just come up with relevant story challenges for him in our modern world, both personally and with a fresh, unused movie antagonist (Brainiac anyone)?
I bet money I could walk into DC films after I make one film and walk out with any DC character I wanted. They have absolutely no idea what to do with these characters or how to do it. I cannot think of easier stories to pitch. You just need a basic understanding of DC. It's easy
Goddamn I love DC but the DCEU is falling flat on its face with how it can’t keep to its own shit. I can’t see how they’re gonna recast so many characters set up new origin movies and then continue on to the point that we see a new justice league… shits gonna take 20 years.
Superman's goodness, idealism, and devotion to the common good are eternal values. There is no need to make him 'relevant to modern audiences' because he already is.
READ A FREAKING COMIC BOOK DC FILMS!
Snyder should direct the action sequences while someone else who understands Superman should write the story!
But I thought capitalism led to innovation and the best stuff?
How. Fucking how. Pay me $500. I don’t even care. Give me a goddamn McDonald’s gift certificate. Here’s my pitch: I actually know about Superman and realize he’s not just bulletproof Batman. He’s not dark. He’s literally tied to sunlight. Give me that damn thing.
Marvel made Captain America, their own “big blue Boy Scout” one of if not the most beloved character in the MCU. DC/WB has no imagination when it comes to any character outside of Batman.
DC's too afraid to make him the corny cheeseball he is, just let him do his dad jokes and his soft insults and stop making him dark and gritty, we already have batman for that
I blame the superman creators who overpowered him to the point where there are few interesting things about him to explore.
maybe they should hire some writers that arent writing school dropouts that were only hired for virtue points.
Just let him be Superman. It’s not hard. People embraced Cap despite being goody goody. They’ll do the same with Supes. Just let him be, no need to change
Really? Because they've nailed it on the television box thingie with SupermanAndLois. I'm confident that if they just stay true to who he is, it'll be fine. See: Richard Donner's 1978 all time classic
Superman doesn't need to be relevant. He's timeless. The values he represents and what they stand for as well as his character are what make him great. Just write a good story and audiences will flock to it.
He is relevant to all audiences as he is, changing him would ruin him
Here's an idea, shelf him. If they have no idea what to do with Superman then put him off to the side. Give some other character the spotlight, hell if having a black Superman is so important do an Icon movie.
Lol.
Make him unerringly kind-hearted and make him beat bad guys up. Also, eye lasers. It's not fucking Hamlet.
don’t make him black. so lame and lazy. make him unable to combat the countless irregular threats coming at our country. he’s just one man
I got an idea. Just make him Superman.
If they are asking how to make Superman 'relevant to modern audiences' they are asking the wrong question. They seriously are incapable of understanding the character, so they should really just leave him alone.
Take everything that Hollywood is doing currently and do the opposite. And stop being a-holes. Put me in coach I’m ready.
Stop being so woke WB and make the character classic again. Audiences do not need the neck breaking dark character that Hack Snyder 💩 out over the course three bad films.
He’s a nice guy who fights bad guys and he doesn’t have an ounce of irony. The biggest mistake movies have made with Superman is that they think he’s invincible aside from Kryptonite. He’s not. Put him in a brawl, show him hurt, show him fight, show him help, show him inspire.
dc-'hm how do we make supes relevant? I KNOW, let's just make him black that's modern right?' superman got to where he is cause his values are timeless they really shouldn't try to adjust the character to modern audiences its as simple as that
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An immigrant who just wants to do the right thing but is rejected and resented by many Americans ... yeah, how do you make that relevant to modern audiences?
Let a good writer and director make a Superman movie.
A good person who tries to help other people is always relevant. The story of an immigrant who grows up in a small town feeling alone, who then becomes the most powerful person in the world and chooses to help other people is always relevant. This is the heart of Superman.
*laughs in Captain America*
Cavil is our Superman. He was perfect for the Man of steel. His Superman fits the climate of today’s world. Zach got it right.
I don’t know. Maybe read a comic or two or watch Superman TAS at least? Superman is basically Captain America and people like Captain America just fine in MCU. The studio just needs to actually try to portray Superman instead of trying to unnecessarily reimagine him.
Maybe a muscular and charismatic actor and above all a good director
It is because Superwoman took over.
People still love Superman, just hate Leftist shit / drama in superhero shows / movies. Look at Marvel movies, not entirely BS free, but they know audience wants massive fights, skyscrapers destroyed, and trains ripped in half - not SJW crap. Same reason I read comics in the 70’s
Remember this? And we wonder why Superman 'feels more like an archetype than a fleshed-out character,' according to Dani_Di_Placido . wbpictures trashes Black-Suit Superman storyline for CGI-Mouth Superman 'hope is like your car keys.' ReleaseTheSnyderCut
Ummm... Darkseid
Take notes from MOS, WW and Aquaman mix it up into a new Superman film staring Henry cavill
Set up a suggestion poll the fans know 👊🏾
Screw it, go full ‘meta’ - have him give up his powers, become a rancher and then he falls off his horse which paralyses him and the rest of the film takes place in his imagination in a ‘Diving Bell and the Butterfly’/‘Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ type of fantasy dreamland
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He is a god who knows the streets reality, has a job and gets paid for it. And humble. The opposite of batman!! Haters, hi!
Wut? He is a god! He cares 0 for modern audience! Modern audience have never even bother to read a bloody comic book! Henry Cavill needs more scenes. He is perfect!! Just deal with it.
Do an Injustice movie. Make ole Supes the bad guy of the movie. 🤑 wbpictures DCComics
put him in Fortnite
Sell him to Marvel 🤷🏻♀️🤣🤣
I don't know where to start with this.
I don’t know, but maybe try to remember he is a god damn superhero. Let him do super hero things, free of SJW bullshit. That would be a nice start ...
Change the S to a Z and make the character a vegan, gender neutral hero who only fights cyber criminals remotely & Lose the glasses (Lasik’s) TAGLINE: Hey Super Ze, I heard you paint houses?
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If only there were Superman comics from which to draw inspiration.
He was fine until Warner Bros unleashed their opinions and created Josstice Leauge
You mean because power comes from being a victim by modern audience standards?
READ THE COMICS! Any of superman comic that isn't the death of superman, or the weird golden age ones. Even Superman the animated series holds up. If you're trying to reinvent supes when you haven't even gotten him right then you're doing something wrong WB
1 of 2: The issues of a crypto transhuman illegal alien making autonomous ethical decisions about fighting for the social good outside of conventional mechanisms of justice, who can see through clothes without permission, and is resistant to the powers of law enforcement,
Studio Execs Can’t find relevant: Immigrant child whose adopted parents live on a farm on the brink of bankruptcy. Find super-relevant: Billionaire plays dress-up to punch crime rather than address the systemic problems that create it. Isn’t that rich?
Someone already said the key. Reflection on the Donner films and inspire. In these times it is needed more than ever. It's not hard, let the perfect boy scout be that becon of good the world so sorely needs. It is inherently instilled in everyone to want to do right
An illegal alien who has to hide his identity, watching his own country throwing immigrants in concentration camps and waging wars in other countries where they murder children on the daily. Yeah, call me DCComics I'll write the hell out of it.
cpreksta pitch your stuff ASAP
Make him work a job that has nothing to do with his journalism degree and then give him student loan debt and depression
They’ve been focusing on Superman and not Clark Kent, which is who he really is. That simple. It’s not about being relevant, it’s about connecting with your audience.
What a weird statement... If a couple of guys, there, on TV, made the character so 'relevant to modern audiences'- with only a handful of appearances- to make it worthy of a show of his own, maybe DC Films lost sight of the character's core. Superman GBerlanti
Since when is hope irrelevant?
Make xim a wheelchair bound half filipino half botswanan woman who identifies as a pansexual dumpling. This progessive stuff has worked well for the print comic industry thus far ( decimated it ).
so they should stop making movies....
I see Superman's appeal to be as difficult to sell as Captain America's for Marvel (way different powers, sure), yet they had little issue in making Captain America's dated ass appealing. DC always riding that struggle bus.
Easy. Turn him over to Marvel.
Translation They want a black transgender woman to play an immigrant alien who fights to protect everyone on this planet. Liberal media wants the most powerfull man in the world to stop being a straight white guy.
Two words. Henry Cavill
When I hear that kind of thing where you question how to make a character 'relevant to modern audiences' it usually equates to adding a gay character, or a minority.
Comics Superman takes off the trunks. So it's modern enough for me and a representative hero.
Just don't give it to Zack Snyder, the man can't direct shit and it's been proven with almost his whole film career
A privileged white man realising how fortunate he is and using his position for good, being kind to all people, without discrimination, and not coming from a place of Ego? About as relevant as it can get DCComics!
Well, I've been thinking recently. Superman is powerful, sure. But I think what makes him truly super is his upbringing and what it means to be human. Snyder, flawed as his attempt was, tried to convey that I think. Explore the values the Kents instilled in him
Tell them to bring back Henry Cavill!!
Hey DCComics, bring back BrandonJRouth and a good story. The legacy of Superman deserves better.
well let me see -Inmigrant -Working Class -A citizen of the world who fights for the downtrodden from everywhere -Positive Masculinity -Fights a bald megalomaniac billionare who owns pretty much everything I beg to disagree, he is very relevant to modern audiences.
Wait wait. There are plenty of aspects to Superman. Lots of room for high moral characters like him and Batman. That may be the issue. Superman is restraint. Let him out.
Ironically, what he needs is a mustache
I guess you could have a trans superman.
Wasn’t there a super hero who was “relevant” to normal people ...his name was Hancock by will smith...
Superman 701. That is all.
Why they didn't just take the 'Death of Superman' and spread it over 2-3 movies is beyond me. Nope, just toss Cave Troll Doomsday in as a 3rd act afterthought on BvS.
And that’s why Marvel DC
What if by day he was a sesame farmer, taking care of his crops, watering his plants, caring for his family, and practicing animal husbandry, making sure there was food on the table for the coming winter, not only for himself but his community? That would be heroic.
Do they know they have a TV show with THREE DIFFERENT SUPERMANS in it?
superman origin movie where he sells nudes instead of reporting. supe-boy.
I don't know, at least I never got to attract myself at all. For some reason I always felt more trapped by Batman, I feel more human.
superman é relevante por si só, o problema é a dc/warner
another director !!! One who loves the character. Casting from Man of Steel was right. Do that.
Or you could just make a movie set in the late 30's about a corn fed hotshot reporter who falls in love with the best investigative report in the country. Oh and the OSS knows who he really is and sends him to the 1937 Paris World Fair to investigate the Nazis Ubersoldier program
Perhaps make the villains more like real world villains; terrorists, polluters, destroyers of the environment, dictators, supposed democrats that side with dictators, gangsters...
Can we pitch to them? Because they will ruin a very naive superbeing whose humanity and power matters. Modernism doesn't mean complexity. We still like simple things!
He's not
Moustache. Defo.
'78 Superman used his 50's upbringing and alien nature as fodder for conflict and emotional pathos when he appeared in 70's Metropolis. A 'relevant' Superman is sub-optimal, because 'relevant' wipes out a whole side of his character that's good for the screen.
Superman should be a late 30s layabout who is reluctant to go outside, and spends most of his time perusing reddit on his iPhone. Until one day, when he runs the vac around the house to surprise the Mrs.
Let’s begin with giving him his normal suit back
DCComics DCSuperman ZackSnyder MakeSupermanADad That would make him more relevant. Give your audience a superson & use supergirl. Let some of your hero’s have children, adapt through tragedy or twists of events. Allowing characters to take on some parental responsibilities
How about anything but a straight, white, cisgendered man?
Just make it close to the comics and it’ll be fine
I think they should take it to the audience and FIND OUT what they want! Focus more on Clark. Give him more depth. I like HC asthma man of steel.. no need to recast the role just yet. But get some proper writers in. Convince WB to keep their noses out.
DCComics shelved it for a decade and wait for some one talented to re invented it !
Use danjlevy !!!!
Make Red Son.
SuperTran its well obvious
Dont make it 'relevant.' Make it impactful.
He should go back to his roots, and punch lots of Nazis. That's a pretty relevant fantasy that's for some reason still needs to be a thing.
Adapt 'Red Son,' in which he's a commie.
I dunno. Maybe make him a well adjusted decent guy with principles. That would be so novel. So edgy.
That's really silly. Just SO dumb. Look at our goddamn world right now. Look at what's happening with the American president. Yeah we don't need a hero or anything. This era is PERFECT for a new Superman movie. 🙄🙄🙄
They should just take a page from TheCWSupergirl playbook. Supergirl is one of the most culturally relevant shows on TV today
I thought Henry did a great job as Superman
Wish we had some material, previously written to work with 🧐 Wait a minute... 😵
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Listen if Marvel can take an antiquated character like Captain America & turn him into a contemporary icon, so can DC. They need to pull their finger out
It's simple, stick to the original source material and it'll be great. Even non comicbook fans would be able to relate to him. Some superhero films need to change for the sake of the wider audience but superman doesn't. That's why the donner films were so popular.
superman can retain these values but be confronted with a modern world is that the warrior does not tell how to understand and give that gives aberrations like Man of Steel or he just applied the code of the Batman of nolan sure superman thinking that will be a success
Maybe nothing needs to be done. Perhaps he deserves some time out of the spotlight.
Just keep Henry Cavill in the role, that oughta do it
.warnerbros They need to make it about Clark. Still with the Superman costume - but focus on the Clark.l character. That’s why we love Christopher Reeve and Tom Welling so much - we got to know and love their Clark.
How about a film about an outsider trying to fit in and be kind in a world that embraces him both as a savior and a menace while he wrestles with where he belongs...and dont like zacsnider direct it.
DC films couldn’t find a decent plot or theme with a flashlight & a map.
It's not that difficult.
The Main WB-DC problem is: Themselves!! They Doesn't have a Clear Idea about 'What we should do?' DCComics wbpictures
Easy. Just put Brian Singer in charge...
Sell it to either Disney or netflix...tried and tested beats old and decrepit 🤷♂️
Dispense with the suit and back story and make a 2 hour version of this...
Stop over thinking it and just make a great movie
Just make him a fucking boy scout surely it can't be that difficult
They also need to stop trying to go down the injustice route and come up with something new.
AngryJoeShow should be the director of the next Superman film.
That’s easy, give the rights to MarvelStudios and let them do the rest! Instant box office smash🤜🏻
All I am hearing from this headline is that DCFilms doesn't understand the concept of Superman that well. I have an idea, and a potential cast if they want to pay me.
It’s hard to write because DC is lazy. It’s easy to write lazy tortured, it’s easy to write lazy comedy, it’s not easy it write lazy goodness. People who want to do the right thing are real, people who have a lot of talent are real. If it’s real, people can relate. Just Lazy
It's because hes fucking boring
Have him play fortnite
DC. Have superman save us from a villainous president.
Maybe try writing something original ffs
Why not don't make a superman movie and instead make a 'Superman & Supergirl' movie. Superman meeting Supergirl andhaving to mentor her on how to use her powers and stuff would make him a whole more empathetic with the audience and more liked too. That's how I'd do it anyways.
They only have to make the story interesting and touching. Modern audiences will still love that. You don't really need to give Superman an assault rifle
Kill him. So Earth-2 from DCNU and show us a world of superheroes that come about in the shadow of the trinity.
You aren't supposed to relate to Superman. He's there to do what we can't. He can put out the fires in the Amazon & sub-Saharan Africa. He can rescue earthquake survivors buried under tons of rubble. Put him up against a villain who threatens his adopted planet & watch him go.
Superman was invented as an opposition to the racism and deprivation of the 1930s His genesis is in opposition to uncaring government austerity and fascism Superman in his original form has never been more relevant since his inception than he is today warnerbros are just idiots
Superman was invented as an opposition to the racism and deprivation of the 1930s His genesis is in opposition to uncaring government austerity and fascism Superma in his original form has never been more relevant since his inception than he is today. warnerbros are just idiots
see: GODS AND MONSTERS
Easy, make something more along the lines of all star superman
Just make the film entertaining.
Has DC even seen the comic where he talks someone out of suicide? Dude will always be relevant.
Just forget about superman and bring on some other characters DC is so much more than Batman and Superman, USE IT!!!
Obviously, Superman should now be a woman.
Two words: Idris Elba
The fact that wbpictures knows that Red Son exists as a story and still doesn’t know what to do to make Superman relevant shows how poorly managed that studio is.
Easy. He gathers up all the socialist/communist and flings them into the sun.
What ever they do. Don’t change him into a woman! Leave him as he is!
Are you kidding DCComics? His archnemesis is like a trillionaire and you don't know how to make him relevant to modern audiences?
I'm gonna say something that's gonna hurt a little. The problem is the fans. Superman Returns was a great movie. The biggest complaint about it was 'He didn't punch anyone.' And exactly who did you want the demigod capable of lifting an island to kill with his punch?
I mean, why hasn't the realDonaldTrump put his head on this yet?
Do it like this
Remember, Snyder isn't the only one trying to deconstruct the mythology rather than build it up. David Goyer hates superheroes, yet continually gets jobs writing them and trying to jam them in the real world.
I wouldn’t be unsure. Sign the rights to me. I’ll make him our God.
The problem is that there's a very heavy reliance on CGI and there's always some big, ridiculous world threat. Make it about the people, not the spectacle, and get people emotionally involved.
Super Person should be a p.o.c. currently transitioning
Batman is the most unique character in the DC universe. For others, they need to think differently. Show their human and as well as the godly side. Cavill wasn't a good choice for Superman since he is not personally invested in the character. You can even use black or brown supe.
Make a Superman movie about his gender transition. 🙃
I want to get this hashtag trending: IfIMadeASupermanMovie please feel free to comment or RT with that hashtag because I want to know how you make your Superman movie of WB gave you a shot.
Give him a crippling opioid addiction and a shitty 2200 dollar a month apartment that he shares with two other drug addicts so us millennials can relate.
Man of steel was the correct path, just needed polishing. Fucked it up with everything that came after though.
Superman is supposed to be a role model, not fit the predilections of society. He's so noble that when he brings criminals to justice, law enforcers uphold their sworn duty just to honor him. Boys, girls, men, & women follow his actions to aid society & give each other support.
How about a series where he wallops trump in front of putin and says, Stay out of our democracy, loser!”
How about re-casting this guy? ☝🏼
Oh just give Superman crippling student loan debt, minimum wage that hasn’t kept up with inflation, and make him send out resumes to entry level jobs that require 10+ years of experience and an internship.
Maybe stop making movies that cater to 'woke' culture. Just a thought
You don’t make it relevant. You make it inspiring.
Go read Peter Tomasi's run, problem solved.
Can we cast elonmusk as Lex Luther though?
Because a constant stream of Superman movies is something we need, apparently. Massively overpowered characters are boring and hard as hell to write convincingly.
Clark is neglected is a huge problem. The answer is in the comic books of the past & the classic Superman movies. You don’t need 2 re-create the wheel. 4 me, Christopher Reeve was the perfect Supermam & Clark,Routh wasn’t bad, just bad story. Hoechlin is pretty good as well.
Easy. When he goes into the phone box he can change gender instead of just clothes!
Red Son
Ask Zach Snyder, then you know what not to do.
Explore the ramifications of Larry Niven’s essay on Superman’s love life: “Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex”.
He's an illegal immigrant journalist. Seems reallllly easy.
Hot Take, and — stay with me on this — make him a good guy?
Let ThatKevinSmith and Nicolas Cage have their turn? It’s a very simple concept.
Is it a bird Is it a plane. No, its Supertran.🙉🙈🙊
How can we possibly make Superman relevant today...? How...? DCComics wbpictures p
Because he's not lgbt transgender or something else superwoke. That's it. Change his name to superwoke! Then it can bomb at the box office like the rest of the awful agenda movies.
DCComics just make him Evil , that will surely change the tides 🤷🏾♂️. When he was brought back to life something changed and now he’s a villain.
Ask Tom Welling and michaelrosenbum, they made it relevant for a decade.
A world that doesn’t see the importance of Superman and all he represents as relevant is a world that needs Superman
DC films doesn't know what to do with any of their super hero movies
LordOfTheWine this is tragic
Have Lex Luther be his doctor and get him addicted to oxycontin after it’s prescribed to him?
DCComics Just set it in the 1930's or 40's. That's when Superman was born and he fits in there perfectly. Keep it seperate from the rest of the DCU
They made Captain motherfucking America relevant! The dude who is literally dressed in a flag belonging to a country most of the audience doesn't come from!
Money people trying to be creative... lol.
Soyer-person
Make him evil, change the S to a T, give him a flag, a cross, an orange wig and a red hat. And then get out of the way...
Have him do battle with the GOP ... THAT will make him relevant.
Ask NewRockstars. They had some AMAZING ideas in their latest RogueTheory 💚💜
What do you mean 'relavent to modern audiences' theybare fucking Superheroes not some over popular youtuber
An immigrant who helps people regardless if they like him or he likes them & who values ideals over government & who has an evil billionaire enemy who became president. Yeah. Gotta be rough to make that relevant to “modern audiences”.
Easy. Dont write him as miserable and out of character.
Fuck DC and the chinese government.
Maybe actually make a Superman who is inspiring rather than trying to chase a trend.
Pathetic
Already done here:
Just dab on ‘em
Gotta mix it up. Make him gay, black, and adopted by Asian parents
Only jerks consider things 'irrelevant'...
Am I the only one who thinks Man of Steel was heading down the right path until they derailed it with that Dawn of Justice shit?
He's literally a refugee and 'illegal' immigrant, forced to leave his homeland, a world where the ruling elite (other than his father and mother) ignored and denied the scientific fact of a clear coming catastrophe that would end their world. But hey, 'not relevant' today, rite?
Make him a millennial and the villain’s name is Boomer and then all through the move he can say OK Boomer.
And that’s exactly the problem. Tinkering with it. Let Superman be Superman. That’s what people want. You will see .............
It is simple history is already written ... Superman belongs to everyone, children, young people, adults and the elderly ... what more can you ask for, the universe of comics is incredible
I would say make a Red Son movie, but the current socio-political climate won’t let us have nice things.
easy fucking don't it'll ruin everything it always does
🤦🏻♂️ dccomics an actual wholesome, happy, good superman doing the right thing to protect everyone from evil. Think captainamerica and you are on the right path. And set it in the 1930s. toofar ?
Focus more on Clark Kent and his 9 to 5 job.
I mean for god's sake, this story serves as a criticism of the modern audience demand for darker anti-heroes and the demand to turn the hopeful, truly good heroes into them. It's fucking perfect for movie. They already did an animated version, so doing it in live action should...
If he can’t be the hero, make him the villain. Oh wait, we tried that lol
Red Son. ‘Nuff Said.
Va tío, es un garrulo de la América profunda de Trump con poder absoluto y se supone que tenemos que confiar en sus inquebrantable valores y supremacía moral... No lo veo no...
Good. He's boring.
Someone shot me I can't take anymore
In a more modern film; Clarke would be a keyboard warrior for DailyPlanet throwing out tweets to sway elections to get the baddies out of power. Superman would be flying around foiling general misdemeanors. Oh wait there is actually a Daily Planet Newspaper - who knew?!
Set it during the depression when he was created and lean into the wide-eyed revolutionary Supe was before DC neutered him. Superman kidnapped mine owners and made them work in their own unsafe mines and forced arms dealers to fight on the front lines of the wars they promoted.
This shows a startling lack of imagination, in my opinion
Something is missing from his character development. He's too perfect for a human perspective. A good character should have a weakness.
'Relevant to modern audiences'? What about an immigrant raised in the US, trying to find his place in the world, helping others while being the target of fear and hate by a portion of the population and being the focus of constant public debate. Oh wait, we already have that...
Make a good one. That's what they should do.
Exec 101: Step 1: When you don’t know what to do, find someone who does. Then, even more important: Step 2: Stay out of their way. Marvel makes people care about raccoons and tree people by embracing what made us love the characters. DC wants everything dark.
An alien immigrant in the US that shows better understanding of American values than the government, corporations, and tech billionaires? Can't possibly make that work....... dccomics Superman
It’s almost like they don’t have 80 years of material to adapt from.
Pretty easy, just make the damned movie the writers want to make and when the crying starts tell all the SJWs to fuck off and create their own superhero if they want one.
How bout this? Fuck “modern audiences” Superman has entertained people since the 40s and now all of a sudden he’s not “relevant.”
That's due to no originality in Hollywood, no one has new ideas just bite off of older movies.
'Make it a woman' -stupid feminists
He’s part of a universe, where almost anything is possible—good or bad—and when that bad stuff stumbles across Earth, he’s there to protect it...because Earth is his home, and he’s just a guy from Kansas...
A big part of the problem with most modern interpretations is they try to make Superman ‘an island’...they want to loose the dog, and the girlfriends, and his bunch of costumed teenage pals...it’s weird as hell, and ‘just part of the gig’, for him... 3/
Can y'all just give me a vanilla Superman story that isn't the shit show man of steel was? That's all I ask
Or get someone to write a a better script, that might help 🤷🏻♀️
Superman is analogous to THE DOCTOR...’a force for good in an unfeeling universe’...a figure of legend...his name spoken in hushed whispers amongst evil-doers...and yet, his power come as much from the strength he draws from his family and friends, as it does from the sun... 2/
In a world that seems to celebrate a good insult, arrogance and violence, we need Superman to show that the most powerful person on the planet can also be kind and respectful, defeating the bad guy without being cruel. We need that example for our children and maybe some adults.
Superman multiverse movie?
You mean, now that truth, justice, and the American way are all solved?
Make him a transgender black woman with one leg and a stutter.
Sell it to Disney. They will figure it out.
Create a new character, and stop trying to constantly drape some kind of new image over something that, as the article points out, is so iconic that even slight deviations turn it into something it isn't, and feels forced. one can only stomach so many reboots and 'reimaginings'
I know what u can do! TheDCUniverse sell yourself to Disney so we can have good movies besides Wonder woman and Joker. Periodot.
Make him fight Goku so he can destroy him!
Stop writing cheesy scripts and get a decent actor to play the role.
Show him robbing from rich banks because his reporter job isn't paying him enough to get by with his student loans. Then he gets hit with kryptonite but it isn't covered by his insurance so he has to rob a bank as a regular guy just to survive. MedicareForAll MillennialSuperman
Well we've already got superwoman!
Stop trying..no one cares.
Not another origin story or tv series!
This is not not how you make Superman relevant.
Sounds like these Pity Hires should be replaced with people who know what they're doing.
Cast TheRock as an evil arch enemy of Krypton from the past who has been hunting down every last Keyptonian until all reminance are extinguished DCSuperman breathes his last!
....fix what have you started
Make him gay, duh
make him an anarchist revolutionary. make him fight for the oppressed against fascism.
I give up. I FECKIN give up.
Ask MarvelStudios to let him in the MCU.
I have such an excellent idea for Superman. If the studio wishes to contact me, please do. It strays from the comic book version and makes it more dramatic. Lower cost. Less special effects. Less cgi.
Ooh, I know: Lets do a 'reboot' where Superman is beginning a journey to become trans and feature an all diverse female cast fighting against the patriarchy. That will get funded, right?
Just make a good movie lol. Modern audiences want good movies
Also maybe stay away from cgi on the actors face...that might help.
Change superman’s name to Alan Snackbar and make him wear a tutu . He could fight for the rights of the 100 gender penguins.
make him a black trans woman. problem solved.
Have a comic book writer involved in penning the script and a young director to direct; OR go the opposite direction and have the film set in 1938!
ffs get a grip dcfilmroom
Why does everything have to conform to all the political correctness nutters? Why is it we have to accept their values yet they cannot accept reality and the majority of societys values. It's Superman, it's not offensive, there's a Supergirl. What next SuperGenderfluid?
Um... Dean Cane and Teri Hatcher! Hello? There is all this talk of Infinite universes soooo let’s catch up with one of our favorite Lois and Clark’s! The actors said they’d do it and ‘Lois and Clark : The adventures of Superman has a following. Let’s go DCComics
I think if you can apply an element to him that’s a little bit, light overcoming dark within himself, it could be interesting. Cast someone like Evan Peters, maybe Penn Badgley to play it.
We’ve had a lot of Superman. Put him away for a WHILE then bring him back out, people will get excited again. (Same would go for Batman. I’m sick of that guy.)
Cast this man and I’ll buy tix:
How do u not know what to do with one of the most iconic superhero
They can have him fight domestic terrorism.
Let idriselba play a black superman then Simple
Remake the original movie instead of another cgi nightmare.
For me the problem with all recent supermen is that they aren't Christopher reeve , he owned the role and made it his own , all the recent incarnations don't even seem like superman to me .
Make it more realistic. Clark Kent is a journalist? Why not a Doctor? He has X-Ray vision and is super intelligent. Make him not only fight bad guys with superpowers, let him fight against cancer with knowledge. Also he is godlike but not a god. Focus on the things he can't do.
Make him a woman and incorporate her as a super woman only for her to want to b a man and thus both become relevant with today
Keep HenryCavill for a start
I say, give michaelb4jordan a shot at it. Best/worse case scenario: Black America catapults it as huge moneymaker alongside Black Panther & we learn valuable lessons about true racism. Plus, it's time. Utilize Puerto Rican co-star because Puerto Ricans can be superheroes too.
Give it to MarvelStudios
It’s because they make him feel like an alien. He’s not actually human but he’s been surrounded by humans his whole life so he’ll be exactly like humans. Except he has superpowers.
Well, Superman is a refugee. We can really just start there.
Superman needs to die. Again. Except he needs to choose to, in order to have his energy digitized and uploaded so he becomes an electronic force, fighting viruses, nano-tech, Monsanto, Book-of-Visage..blah blah blah. He needs a new dimension, humanoid in tights and cape is old
It's time to call Nic Cage
WB don't deserve Superman. He's beyond their intellectual grasp.
Yeah; that ‘truth, justice, and the American Way’ stuff is a big turnoff to many people nowadays.
Make him more like Hancock.
Imagine the clownery of DC saying they can't make the single most renown superhero relevant to modern audiences! Just say y'all writers is lazy DC, say shit like it is: You lot lack creativity, cuz I don't see a scenario where Clark Kent ain't relevant or relatable.
Super person is only allowed to have the same powers as everyone else. Their mom pays the cell phone bill and they borrow Lois’ Netflix password because they don’t like the traditional terms for relationships
This thread just proves why DC is having such a hard time. Audiences want both the old interpretation and a new one. Plus, we were already given a nuanced immigration analogy in both Man of Steel and Batman v. Superman and people hated it. So.
Don't let morons like Zack Snyder make your superman movie. That's the first hurdle cleared.
Just dont turn him into Batman or Dr. Manhattan
Didn’t they just make Wonder Woman
It's not that fucking hard. Do a sequel to Man Of Steel, in the style of Man Of Steel. All the fucking Marvel cloned Freddy Vs Jason bullshit after it ruined the initial goodwill towards Superman. Also, let Cavill ACT and SPEAK and have an ARC in the next one.
He can communicate globally with Siri and use X-ray Vision to fight cyberattacks. Faster than high speed Wifi, more more powerful than thermonuclear fusion, able to ping from cell towers. Don't look up in the sky. The guy on the Macbook, your co-worker, is SUPERMAN.
Superman: Red Son seems like a sure bet.
All Might
I never liked the concept of Superman, or of any omnipotent superhero, the element of jeopardy is always wrapped in one weakness, an Achille’s Heel, in this case Kryptonite, or the jeopardy is the threat posed to ordinary mortals. It gets repetitive and boring after awhile.
Yeah, I can see how hard it would be to find a contemporary hook for Superman. If only there were something in the archives.
I never liked the concept, Superman, or of any omnipotent superhero, the element of jeopardy is always wrapped in one weakness, an Achille’s Heel, in this case Kryptonite, or the jeopardy is the threat posed to ordinary mortals. It gets repetitive and boring after awhile.
They could just make a damn Superman movie. We really don’t need it to be relevant to anything.
Goooooood
I don’t know, maybe not make it like a god damn Batman movie where it’s all dark and depressing That’s a start.
Not hard stop casting people who are not a superesc rewatch Christopher Reeves and cast the correct person
It was clear DC Films didn't know what to do with anything when they gave control to Zach Snyder. Superman could work almost as well as Batman does, and then their Justice League team ups would be massive. DC needs character focus, especially behind the masks.
Why we over analyze everything now. The simplicity of the original Chris Reeve film, good vs evil, struggle of human vs his alter ego. The formula was excellent. Henry Cavill played an amazing Superman after Christopher Reeve.Go back to the original formula but use the talent now
He’s son to ethnic laborers from an agrarian community. He records for YouTuber Lois lane. They’re in college interning for vice news. Their senior thesis covering Toyman’s old factories. Toyman just expanded his corporate footprint into the executive branch of the United States
They don't know what to do with any of their characters. That's why we get so many shitty movies...
Give us the Batman v Superman remake that we deserve
Superman saves the world after all failed. If it wasn’t for Superman there would be no DC universe. That’s all.
Can it. Before they ruin it further!
Have him sun his perineum
It's really hard to bring make a superman movie work, mostly IMO because he has every power under the sun, cant die, can literally hold a black hole, destroyed a sun, built a sun, sneezed and destroyed a galaxy... How do you create a villain for that?
1/I mean...this is easy. Lex Luther runs for President on a platform that plays on citizens deepest fears. Including fears of this “all-powerful interplanetary immigrant loose cannon”. He twists Superman’s good deeds to seem like unnecessary reckless destruction.
I’ve bought into this for ages, but seeing this, as a writer, I reject it: A moral character in an immoral world having to choose what he will save when he can’t save everyone — this is explored in THE DARK KNIGHT with the Joker with panache. Put me in DC coach!
ItsBeauTime Lemme know when I lie. See the success of Smallville...make him relatable as Clark Kent. Instead of making him 'Christlike' savior figure. No one cares for an overpowered superbeing if they can't relate to him. And dont do 15 different comic storylines in 1 movie.
This caracter is boring because is overpowerfull. He's like a god ! He is too bland, too patriotic, too much ... DCComics warnerbros Superman
They just need to add something spicy to the character 👀
.neilhimself has it right. Superman will be successful not when it’s made relevant, but when it’s made inspiring.
Maybe rip off capt America and go after the dictators running countries into the ground. 🤷♂️
Try doing one about Clark Kent and see how Superman fits into that narritive
toluogunlesi Lol rubbish
Just do Shazam but Superman
TheCWSupergirl seems to be doing ok. But you can’t do that with one of the greatest superheroes ever created? Superman Supergirl
Bizarro
they gotta learn how to make movies first
Turns out the real Superman was the lack of ideas we had along the way.
Perhaps they’re overthinking it a little.
Good old days
I'd say they're going to struggle considering they also allowed Ben Affleck to play batman
Lizard man.
Lex Luthor as President with a Trump wig that blows off in Supe's wind breath.
If only DC could make Superman more relatable. Show his vulnerability and I don't mean kryptonite. Show Clark Kent struggling in his every day life having to make toast or having relationship issues with Lois. The best heroes aren't the most powerful, they're the most vulnerable.
This is why DC fails. It ain't hard to make a movie about a beacon of hope to an audience in dark times. You just don't have faith in your character. Marvel doesn't worry about Cap interesting. They just trust that a character that has been beloved for decades will be successful
Who over there thinks Superman is irrelevant?
They could give it a rest instead of another reboot.
how about a sequel to the best superman movie ever?
I think the translation of this is ,, plz we dun kno how to make supes edgy, haelp' Just literally look at the comics or at cap, and do that - just with superman Man of steel worked , for a reason
Also lex luther? Seriously wtf? Whats the point gene Hackman was great as him . But ahain the comics, and recent movies, just a complete and utter bs person/villan. Never goes to jail, always gets away with it. What kinds of msg is that
Christopher reeves movies were good, as there was comedy in those films. Superman in comics amd recent movies is boring and overpowered. Just look at there brilliant 'the boys' tv show of Amazon, or the scary Brighburn movie. Totally different takes on superman.
Just bring back the John Williams score and everything will work out
He could expose lyrics in music as a weapon & destroy the Collider at CERN & take down the United Members of CERN, (EU) & take down Crypto because it has no might to back it up & take down the SEC_Enforcement, cboe & US_FDA because they’re corrupt. Oh, tie down Pelosi’s hands.
D.C. Films - “Superman?”🤷🏼♂️ Marvel Films - “Cap...”
right, cuz no one loses their father to a heart attack anymore. No one cares about Truth, Justice, and the American way anymore. No one ever wants to see a super hero save people, be kind, and likable. We fuckin hate likable.
Superman is relatable when we see the side of him that's trying to fit in on Earth, trying to be human. Sure, the super-powered fights are what get us to the cinema, but it's the story underneath that keeps us watching.
Louis lane, please and thankyou!
They need to employ better writers/directors first! Try the ones that are doing the animated films.
Don't, set it in the 1940s and do a retro period piece, all rocket ships and ray guns.
I just want a god damn stand alone death of superman live action movie
Why not let mrmarkmillar write up a story, and have Matthew Vaughn direct a movie? Mark = Biggest Superman fan ever, and Matthew = best action director ever? It would be a instant hit.
Make him the villain, like injustice
Just like Robert Downey Jr is perfect person as 'Iron Man', Christopher Reeve is the perfect person as 'Superman' Superman is an iconic superhero. There have been movies & tv shows (Lois & Clark, Smallville) based on him and somehow his legacy must continue.
Make him hang dong
marcbernardin ThatKevinSmith
They just have to let ZackSnyder do it ! ReleaseTheSnyderCut MoS
Clark Kent goes undercover at Lexcorp shipping and handling center. (Lex Luther is Bezos). Superman confronts Lex and realizes by manpower and super strength he can’t win. But by empowering the people to unionize and his expose in the Daily Planet, they win. It’s gritty and dark
Get doomsday to wreck his shit again
Henry Cavil looked like he was born to be Super Man. Smh.
Give marvel the rights.
He could testify at the impeachment hearings
They’ll screw him up like all their other properties
Lose the angst. Lighten the suit. Let him smile. Give him jeopardy. Face off to big & small wrongs. Rescue everyone.
They could stop trying to make him like Batman for a start. Isn't Superman, most often, best known for the effect he has on other people? As Clark Kent, he displays the same kindness, empathy, and humanity that Superman does, but on a comparatively less notable scale.
Paragons are hard to write. Just look at Marvels unsuccessfull attempts at Cap. America... oh wait.
Give it to TaikaWaititi
Do the Injustice story line. An evil regime leading Superman who protects the world by becoming his own one world government would speak to modern audiences.
Christopher Reeve hologram
Sure Superman should inspire & be relevant that's why he has to be a person 1st. A person who also needs to be inspired, to doubt, love, fail, learn & grow. That's how he becomes inspiring & relevant. That's the difference between a concept & a character. That's the DCEU.
Give it to ThatKevinSmith god knows he cares.
Maybe make him the villain..
Superman is supposed to be a goal for everyone. Be better than you think you are. Help others. Do the best thing, not just the right thing. Inspire humans to work together for a better universe. It's NOT HARD.
Uhhh.. make him black
I think I know the fix. Don’t have a fight scene inside of an iHOP next time.
Look no further wbpictures ...it’s not rocket science
Seriously? DC is a bunch of idiots. He doesn't conform to the modern world. He is a becon...he stands above it. He lights the way.
In today's world, it seems exceedingly easy to figure out how to make a cleancut superhero relevant to modern audiences. We are tired of having to save ourselves from corrupted powerful me. We welcome an uncorruptible 'saviour', if only in our fantasy.
He’s the joe Biden of comics- only related to by 10 year olds back in 1963
They’re acting like suddenly America stopped liking an underdog story? Jesus DC, this isn’t rocket science.
Maybe they need to stop “trying” to make him relevant and just write a good story. Hundreds of storylines to use as inspiration. Stop trying to make Superman something he isn’t.
WHY do they need to make these superheroes from the past RELEVANT to modern audiences? Just appreciate them for what they are/were and create NEW ones.
Pitch: Lex Luthor invests in the Daily Planet, starts pressuring the staff to write clickbait and smear Superman as a 'fascist.'
Superman has only been around since the 1920s, try telling us a Superman story about a boy on a farm again. Prolly to hard to find a lesser known tale of good vs. evil. They only published a new story once a month for nearly 100 years.
They don't know what to do with anything
This is exactly why Marvel is better. The exact reason. Just saying... I'd give him some human qualities, like, maybe the powers he got from Krypton are temporary, and since he's lost connection with his source of power, he realizes how fragile and finite his powers have become.
Superman has always been bit too powerful to be interesting. Nevertheless, has tons of good stories
Did everyone forget Smallville? That show when on for years! All about Clark Kent! That’s your pitch. Go!
Well if they hadn’t screwed up with Ben Affleck as Batman they could’ve had a great franchise with HenryCavill
Old Drunk Nihilistic Superman played by Nick Cage
Just adapt any of the AnimatedJL Superman storylines, you’ll be fine.
skip the origin story make him humble. bit of a dork avoid any moral quandary for now none of that jesus comparison bs just keep it simple and focus on writing
Everyone has an opinion. I don’t agree with the author’s. The redesigned suit for Cavill looked gorgeous. Personally, I don’t want to see saturated comic book colors. I want it to feel more real. Cavill, was perfect in my eyes. I don’t blame him for the script or treatment. 👏🚀
I've given up on the DC UNIVERSE IN THEATERS. ITS all marvel from here on out
Kingdom come!
Just let superman be Superman.
Just move to the injustice series like the comic.
Stay true to the comics? Make him believable? If you can make green arrow and the flash on the CW decent, you can do the same with Superman
He’s an immigrant. FIND RELEVANCE
let superman fight jeff bezos already
How do we make Superman relevant?...
Step one: Don’t try to tell all superman stories in a single film. Superman versus Batman and Lex Luther and Doomsday is more than a single movie needs.
Okay here's my pitch: SUPERMAN, but he's a child going and growing through life, dealing with childhood and adolescence. DM me for more of my intellectual property. 😉
DC Execs - Superman needs to be cool, all the kids are hashtagging things and into this Hip Hop. Is Superman a hip hop? Clearly not. Maybe he could bumble rap, I think my nanny said bumble rap, bubble? I dont know, look into it!
Have the Daily Planet run a story where Wonder Woman accuses Sups of inappropriate contact 35 years ago when she had that TV show.
Focus on Clark Kent for Superman to work as a character you have to fall in love with the kid from Kansas underneath the cape
They can't figure it out because they don't understand truth, justice, and the American way.
Do it as a period piece. Set it in 30’s and go full retro.
Superman is a character who could easily take over the world and chooses not to. This apparently confuses DC Films. A powerful person who helps those less powerful rather than exploiting them. Baffling.
It isn't about relevance. It's about the idiots at warnerbros greenlighting shitty movies that fail to bring a cogent story to the screen. Ypu don't need to do a fucking origin story on characters that have been established for nearly a century.
DC should hire people with better imaginations.
Superman hasn't been relevant since that time DC killed him which was great by the way and then brought him back which never needed to happen.
It’s not about doing Superman right. It’s about doing the villains right. Lex Luther for example
They could literally just make a movie about Bernie Sanders because Superman more or so is like Senator BernieSanders A son of an immigrant refugee who fled hitler to find a new home in America. Became a mayor and transformed Burlington Vermont and has always fought for social
I think a journalist who fights evil rich dude and respects his women co workers is gonna do it for us u guys
Don't go woke.
Maybe focusing on Other characters and stop forcing superman on us .. where is the Green Lantern movie maybe a static shock entrance just get anyone but Superman
let kevin smith fix superman save the day
Have writers watch Superman The Movie; get rid of the ones that don't like, or don't get it. Capture the essence of that movie for the audiences of the 2020s. The most difficult part... finding another Christopher Reeve.
here's a novel idea enough with the grim dark stuff tell stories about superman being a HERO that he is, the world needs stories about HOPE the world is too dark these days don't make our make believe heroes go down the same dark road its depressing
If they’ve tried so hard that this article had to get written they need to fire all the white men. I can picture them now all lounged around a writers room complaining about me too and getting paid. Time for them to find real work they’re qualified for, not cut out for this.
Dear DCComics and warnerbros , I will happily show you how to make A Superman movie that is relevant. I’m repped by unitedtalent and I’m always up for lunch
honestly, I kinda get where they're coming from here
omg!! the best hero of all time!! think!! think!! omg!!
Superman kills Lois lane goes into depression gets addicted to super opiates.
You mean they didn’t want Julia Roberts to?
If DC Films has no idea what stories to tell with Superman, maybe they need a change of staff that understand their characters.
They already have. Superman vs The Elite Do a live action version of that. Shows that the world has moved on with Superman's nice guy tactics. By the end of that comic/movie, Supes is a straight up monster. But that is only what he could do, not what he stands for DCComics
No secret identity. Use laser eyes at the beginning of each fight FROM SPACE. Fuck lots and lots of honeys.
Doesn't has to be relevant, it's fantasy, he could be fighting a horde of evil, genocidal unicorns and it still work.
They’re really going to blow Henry Cavill, the GOAT Superman 😞
What was wrong with Man of Steel exactly?
You don't focus on the costume... you focus on the man wearing the costume. The action writes itself, but the story is within Clark Kent. It is really that damn simple.
I totally agree with the comments about how the focus needs to be on Clark himself, especially his vulnerability, his struggles trying to fit in... heck, make him a dorky nerd just trying to do the right thing, not some god with no flaws.
The latest Ghostbusters, Men in Black and Charlie’s Angels iterations tried to be relevant and we all know how things went.
Marvel managed it with Captain America.
Superman is timeless. Bending him into relevance will ruin him further.
With the current political administration, Truth and Justice are no longer the American way.
One Punch Man is relevant. Allmight is relevant.
If Marvel can make Captain America relevant (and produce a movie like The Winter Soldier to boot), DC should have NO problem with Superman.
Welp, he’s been dead before
TheCWSupergirl seems to know.
How about Super Gender Fluidity Being! Gonna need a bigger badge on the chest. Our hero battles their true identity, which ironically remains hidden, not only from the public, but seemingly from our hero as well.
Leave it to DC/WB to screw up the greatest superhero of all time. 🙄 Kick Zack Snyder to the curb, poach some Marvel writers or better still, let the DC comic book writers write the screen play and make billions! This is easy money with the right writing.💵
RED. SON. DO IT!
He doesn’t even want to be Superman but he has no choice because he doesn’t want to sit silently by with an increase in disinformation campaigns at the daily planet. Aren’t there a ton of themes relevant to today’s current events?
Superman has no sense of humor, so he's inherently boring. Change that and you solve all kinds of problems.
Well he’s supposedly an honest, trustworthy warrior for truth, justice and the American way....whose alter ego is a journalist. The Krypton/superhero part is more believable than the honest journalist.
Make it rated R. Have it take place in the 50s.
He needs to be louder, angrier, and have access to a time machine.
Make him Black. Kal El is not a white dude name. Put idriselba in that suit. He’d be a great Clark Kent too.
How the fuck is Thor Ragnorok relevant to modern audiences? But the movie is excellent. Make a Superman Ragnorok. Christ.
Make sure he doesn’t know who Van Halen is
Oh I don’t know maybe make him fight for truth, justice, and the American way Still seems relevant to me...
NyleDiMarco should be Superman
David Carradine had it right...
superman faces his most daunting challenge yet; find a way to make it ok for white people to use the n word
To borrow a powerful quote. 'You don't make him (Superman) relevant. You make him inspiring.'
Superman should be in the public domain anyway.
All star Superman
Make him unable to afford institution
Keep Henry to start off warnerbros
Have him dress in an oversized beanie and skinny jeans with a handlebar mustache, call him Millennial Man, have him go around correcting people's grammar, you'll make a boatload. yourewelcome yourenotyour
Grow a beard, become a vegan and identify as a “person of steel”
Everyone's solution is either: A) Make it a polarizing politcal shitpiece or B) Make him a communist. Both are fucking terrible. But here's something: Superman is OP, that's why he's boring. How about a movie focused on Clark Kent and his issues/struggles with being Superman?
Stop trying to make Superman dark and edgy for starters. Superman and Cap are a lot alike. They have old school values and their challenges are based around the consequences surrounding moral dilemmas that arise when they have to stand up for those values.
Maybe they just need to write and direct a movie that’s not terrible.
Half these comments want him to turn into some illegal alien analogy fighting evil president drumpf and becoming an antifa hero. I'd rather superman stay dead than have that. Give us a movie about Luthor and go into why he hates supes with such a passion.
Con tanto que pueden hacer y NO SABEN!! son el colmo,no han sabido que hacer desde hace años por eso MARVEL les ha ganado terreno,el superhéroe más famoso del mundo y lo mejor siguen siendo los comic,regresen a los cómics, ahí están las reales historias
We’re still fighting the Nazis.
Maybe the entertainment industry should stop worrying the hell so much about making characters 'relevant to modern audiences.' Maybe *real* modern audiences would prefer the examples held up to imitate not be cynical, unenlightened, and generally crappy.
Still don't understand this. If the writers of the current Superman comics can make him relevant, why can't the screenwriters?
JUST MAKE HIM NICE AND FRIENDLY AND HOPEFUL. HE DOESN’T HAVE TO DESTROY A WHOLE CITY IN A FIGHT. Make him fight Toyman, a desperate man trying to cling to the past, and when Toyman’s pretty much defeated and ready for Superman to knock him out, have them talk it out.
The problem is they want their movies to be dark and gritty but not every movie should be that way... especially Superman
Stupidest super hero. He’s all powerful which makes him boring. And don’t kryptonite me
Make him. He has been trying to hook up with Jimmy Olson the whole time but Lois Lane kept cock blocking him.
DCComics Give neilhimself the script!
Let Geoff John's our Bendis write a screenplay. Let Peter Berg direct.
If Superman became irrelevant, does that mean hope is gone?
Can we just get a Superman movie where Clark... is just Superman? Not Jesus. Not God. Just Superman.
Literally knowing nothing about actual audiences because the critics are all insane.
Superman: Learn To Code
Make a story focused around young Clark Kent with depression
Superman is f'g boring. He's too powerful and too good. That = dull
Loved Henry Cavill Loved the action sequences Can't blame the character of Superman OR the actor for bad writing The justice league movie, batman v superman.... Poorly written
Mestinya dateng pas seminarnya edykhemod minggu lalu nih.
Make him drive a Tesla and say stuff like “yeet”
Just make a good movie with a good actor, people will see it.
Have him discover 4 Chan and slowly realize that there are differences in IQ between the races. Would be sweet
Cast RonanFarrow as Superman?
maybe make a single movie where he has any kind of character development at all
How about making the characters not suck, & making his enemies the billionaires of the world who don't want him to protect humanity from their greed?
I have an idea... Truth, Justice, and the American way!
They need to focus more on Clark Kent since, in my mind, he’s the man. Superman is who he can be. That’s why I have always loved the shows Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and Smallville. They focused more on Clark.
Make him a President who lies about everything
CGI Christopher Reeves into the suit...
Superman is too perfect: Powered by the sun. Man of Steel. Only weakness is a green rock and his compassion for humans. Make him black and fed up with the bullshit. His arch enemy? Some weird Krypton KKK Grand Wizard hybrid. Make a stand alone film like Joaquin Phoenix's Joker.
If you've never heard of it, I strongly recommend y'all look into Justice League: Gods and Monsters! It's an AU where the main 3 are slightly different from their most accepted origin stories. In this, Superman is raised by a migrant family. It's real underrated
Forget Superman... Give me Plastic Man - He's creepier.
Zack Snyder already did that.
They are having a hard time figuring out how to make a hero like Superman woke. See he is full of toxic masculinity and he lies to the woman he loves but it isn’t woke enough. Now if only the bigots out there would accept a black trans Superman!!
I think doctorow already wrote it in radicalized
You mean the story of an immigrant? Or the story of an orphan child looked after by foster parents?
Well for one thing give ole Sup back his original tights! Start there.
Hire the Russo Brothers and craft the character like Marvel's Captain America. Evans' portrayal is the best Superman we never got.
It’s a shitty character!
Looking at almost 80 years of source material Superman Comics READ ffs
Start with rebranding Superman as Superperson Superman
Let's ask the 75+ years of source material to choose from DCCOMICS
Bring in pink Kryptonite and make him gay. I dare you.
You had the perfect Superman at the end of Justice League. A beacon of hope and light and not a grimdark moody asshole like you had through two films. Justice League was terrible but the finale depiction of Superman was what we needed in a solo film. Nice way to fuck it up DC.
CW DC Superman got it hell know what to do
Maybe there’s something about a guy who has all these powers and thought the best thing he could do beyond saving the world was to be a journalist. And that the one woman he loved just happened to be a better journalist than him. Someone who could “beat” him at something. IJS.
Glasses. That make him unrecognizable to his peers.
And yet, Marvel did Captain America perfectly
Bizzaro Superman
Step one: use the John Williams theme.
Make him the beacon of hope and justice he's supposed to be, not this darker, broody bullshit. DCComics dcfilms
He got his start fighting Nazis, and lo! What do we have today? Shitloads of Nazis in our government. You're welcome, DCComics. DM me for the address to send the check.
Write a good script. There. You're welcome.
They messed up when they tried to make him dark and edgy.
Have his hog hang out for two hours like Dr. Manhattan. The zoomers love that shit.
Man Of Steel and B vs S were both great. Justice not so much. Let’s go back to simpler stories of Supes chasing the girl and saving the world from some normal shit.
Here is a crazy idea, make Superboy and the legion of superheroes. Then as he gets older you have a superman we grew with and relate to.
Does this mean that right now Bizarro Superman IS relavant to modern audiences?
Man of steel... that was the movie
One thing is for sure..if they make him into a SJW..the movie will flop.. GetWokeGoBroke
DCComics can somebody please hire me I am a young director that has many ideas to help find the perfect role and lines for super man
ReleaseTheSnyderCut
Present Day. Superman helps the middle class. Superman takes on student debt. He helps take down evil corporations like SallieMae and Navient Stops human trafficking. Creates world peace. Ends world hunger. He takes down politics who are corrupt. And smooches Lois Lane. End.
Give it to GBerlanti or back to BrianSinger
Jesus Christ, DC. I’ll do it. You don’t even have to pay me that much because nobody knows who I am.
They haven't known what to do with Superman for at least the last 5 movies in which he has been a primary character.
The president of the United States is a billionaire who hates illegal aliens. What could be more relatable? 🤣
Make Superman gay & his drag name is Lois Lane.
Give him a smartphone and have him be too distracted and apathetic to actually save someone from harm.
Give it to TaikaWaititi to sort out!
Like, have they thought about trying to, I don’t know...make a movie that’s not shitty (the only exception so far being Wonder Woman)?
YOU PUT michaelb4jordan IN THE SUIT.
Instead of kryptonite make smart phones his weakness
Have politicians demonize him because he is an immigrant refuge.
I know what DCComics can do with superman ... Give him and batman a break and focus on other chracters. Like Hawkman and Hawkwoman, Blue Beetle, and John Stewart as Green Lantern.
DCComics call me baby I know what to do
A road trip buddy movie with Superman and Bizarro. If they can avoid making it dark and sullen, it's a sure win.
All we need is a scene where superman is struggling to get his suit on. Remember, like Homer in that scene in the simpsons
just do Red Son already, jesus christ
“Relevant”?...just make it fun and inspiring. Make it too damn cool not to go see it 12 times. Not everything has to be a pulpit...also Superman doesn’t kill...
Do that alternate reality version where Superman crash lands in the Soviet Union instead of the US. That was a great story
Have Clark Kent run for President in the DCEU.
Allstar superman. Do that
Relevant? Geez louise, it's not like the character's been forever set in the '30s. The very first people to see Superman in the original '78 version was a pimp with his hookers, and he COMPLIMENTED Supes' outfit. They should try telling a good story before anything else.
Fuck super man
Oh god, not again. We all know what comes next..
Superman is one of the most famous heroes of all time. How can you make him more relevant. He’s not supposed to be a character you can relate to. He’s someone you look up to and strive to be.
Batman and Superman battle each other for Instagram followers until they realize that they both have a Corgi named Martha.
Tell DC Films it could be about bringing dignity back to America, the government, the presidency, to all people, and making America safe for everyone, no school shootings, no children in cages because right now that’s a dream. .
Ashamed of his male priveledge & superpowers. Walks instead of flying to avoid being labeled 'able-ist'
No one likes perfect people. Really play up how no one likes Clark Kent. Make it about fake news and how the paper is dying while his parents are losing their farm. Make it about how he’s not sure if humanity is worth saving. 🤷♂️
you can't make him relevant to modern audiences bc his very essence is rooted in antiquated ideals. forget Superman and move on to better characters.
Superman is a gay, libertarian, atheist who brings the world together through Twitter and Facebook.
Make a decent Superman movie? Maybe?
krypton storyline about the great wars and the planet destruction, the only way to humanize him is to keep him away from earth ironically speaking.
Uh, hey everyone with agendaitis: Krypton’s climate failed because their red sun exploded. Jor-El could’ve just left earlier and they’d all be on Earth fighting for The American Way!
Let a refugee write the script. Better yet let refugees and women and POC andpeople living in poverty write the script . Most Americans can relate to that.
Try the New 52 storyline for starters or maybe Re-birth storyline
Just make him nice. Stop over thinking it.
Duh.
Have him rescue the world from realDonaldTrump
I feel like there’s a lot of uncertainty with many of its projects unfortunately
Ok boomer
BKB29
Just sell the character to Marvel and get Russo_Brothers to direct and watch success unfold before your very eyes.
Just want to point out that BRIANMBENDIS is making Superman relevant to modern audiences right now — and some of his material is already being mined for TheCWSupergirl. 🙌
Ever since death of Superman they're been trying to make Superman more Gloomy instead of the boy scout he is Curiously, since Death of Superman he isn't nearly as popular as he was Leave the cool edginess ness to Batman, just make him a beacon of hope as Supes supposed to be
Muscle requires resistance to build. There is no reason for him to be muscular. The key is he is Carl Kent first. Not Superman. Cavill is fine as Superman but wanting as Clark.
They cant feed him with soy, thats their problem.
Just make movie about him trying to get a social security card so he can work at the newspaper!
He is a refugee and an illegal alien. How much more relevant can he get?
Trump for Luthor?
give him a nose piercing
Why does everyone ignore that they kept Captain America nice and wholesome and lovable and that alone made him appealing to people, but if dark edgy superman doesn't work they throw their hands up?
Give him an iPhone 11 and he’ll fit in fine with today’s audience.
Make Superman play Fortnite 🤣
Make Superman a non binary hero named SuperThey
Stop being cowards and do Kingdom Come?
If DC uses the multi verse theory Superman can enter the marvel universe
Superman is actually super gay
Just make him like All Might
just one more proof that warner doesn't understand what they have
Then they shouldn’t have creative control over him. Simple as.
I mean, perhaps do the exact same thing that has worked for 6 other decades because it's always relevant and admirable and will always be?
Hmm. I can’t think of a supervillain from NY with a corrupt mayor sidekick that audiences would love to see taken to the woodshed.
By relevant you mean woke?
he’s an illegal alien. Slam that baby’s rocket crib straight into a Mexico/US border conflict, Pa Kent as a border agent with President Luthor calling the shots from his Twitter account.
I think my friend antoluke616 would agree to first BRING BACK HenryCavill !!!!! Smh...
Brightburn, the movie, kinda nailed it. Kinda killed any normal Superman storyline for me.
Have Neil Gaiman or Garth Ennis write the script. He struggles with PTSD and becomes a gangster. He moves the earth out of the path of a destructive space object only to demand money with menaces.
Make a good Clark Kent movie, and focus on him as a whole. Just please please keep Henry as him. He plays him so well, even when the writing does him dirty.
Everyone loves Ka-lel
Don’t make it relevant to modern audiences. Make it like James Bond in Goldeneye. An outdated, laughable remnant of a by-gone era.
Someone of colour should be SUPERMAN
Is DC saying the 'man' in the title is a problem? Supernonbinaryperson may be more relevant.
Bring back the oldschool 'dragging war profiteers into warzones to show them their work firsthand' version of Superman.
Then those who'don't know what to do with Superman' shouldn't be running the DC film studios. Man of Steel and BvS were great first steps into delving to the character. Keep Henry Cavill and hire a great director and a DCComics writer to helm the new movies. truth
Just make teen wolf but with Superman instead of a wolf. Instead of basketball have him wrestle. You're welcome DC.
It's a shame there's no source materials to use for ideas.
Make him easily offended
So many flaming garbage takes in reply to this tweet.
Truth and justice is no longer relevant in modern terms? That’s kinda sad
It's because Superman is shite. He's a relic; a product that expired in the mid-twentieth century. He's the grandpa at the college orgy, who shits himself and ends up in hospital yelling about winged pandas. Superman. Is. Dead.
Gender reassignment
Superman is the American hero. He is a refugee from a lost civilisation. He was raised in America's rural heartland and works in its urban sophistication. He has integrated but remembers his roots. He sees the American way as international in reach. Mighty but mild mannered.
Just make him a food blogger instead of mild mannered reporter
Make the film that Man of Steel should have been. Tell it from Lois’s perspective; whilst investigating an industrial accident, the reporter starts hearing stories of a mysterious man who saved hundreds, and should have died, but escaped unharmed.
Have him fight fascists. Go back to Supermans roots.
Make him a gay transgender man who has periods, aborts his first pregnancy because of super hero work and the climate, hates Trump and Republicans destroys all fossil fuel engines, and flies his fossil fuel engine private jet to climate change summits etc etc.
They could have given him a proper send off and finished the legacy of Superman a long time ago, but they already ran his reputation to the ground that no one cares anymore, just end it and make something new
A little piece of advice, If you go woke, you'll end up broke.
Lex Luthor, criminal billionaire, elected prez by anti-alien rhetoric/media savvy. Superman/Clark & Lois take him down by exposés, followed by brute force when he dons the power suit. “Superman/Batman: Public Enemies” meets “All the President’s Men”. This writes itself, people.
Dummiest clickbait bullshit ever who is this writer? He dont known Shiiiit! RT : DC Films still doesn’t know what to do with Superman, the studio reportedly is unsure how to make the character “relevant to modern audiences”
All might Can help you for Superman
Giving him a horrible-looking warbly CGI lip barely hiding a mustache was not the best way to appeal to modern audiences. Maybe they should start there and work backwards.
Just don't make him a bitch
“DC films befuddled by prior failures in tired formulaic movies.”
How about simply decent, caring, and generous. You know, like Superman. Why is this so difficult?
BECAUSE SUPERMAN IS FUCKING BORING
Let Arrowverse do the movie. The only thing DC done right (bynot touching) since Dark Knight. Also Marvel was smart enough to not replace tv heroes in movies. DC use Arrowverse in the movies to give JL credibility.
No one can beat the God/Superman in a fist fight. But DCComics some fights can't be won by a brute force. How about a story in which Superman has to deal with lies coming from POTUS ? He's the most powerful being, but he can't beat a liar. That's why he becomes a journalist..
A writer could figure it out pretty quickly, guys.
Gotta have a good villain, lots of adversity. Goku does the same shit, batman etc. Its the villains that make the movie
Superman is boring as fuck. Why the hell would I want to watch someone that can only fir in one way. He so overpowered that its boring. Honestly the only way to make him interesting is to just rewrite his backstory into a villain
Lol back in the day he fought kkk. Why not have him fighting Nazis today and saving kids from camps
Superman is always relevant, you just need to stop trying to make something out of him that he isn’t. He’s an outsider, with a good heart, that has the ability to help others when no one else can. He’s a light in the darkness. That’s enough and it’s okay to be enough
Zack did that. And you don't have to make it relevant you need to make it inspiring.
This screams 'we don't know how to even signal virtue'
Give him to Marvel Studios... I’m sure they’ve got some ideas...🤦🏾♂️
They need to just do a soft reboot. Keep Henry, Gal and Robert then recast the others. Put the trinity and recast league in the Jokerverse and start again. For the next Superman film don’t make it an origin story like marvel did with Spider-Man homecoming, we all know the story.
make superman have a smartphone and do a funny fortnite meme dance, problem solved
Well for one don't make Lex an annoying jackass. I would like to see a superman movie that is as much a Lex Luthor movie. I want to see the idea of an exceptional man suddenly faced with a god like figure. Filling him with the need to prove himself against this figure.
You DONT. HES TIMELESS
Fuck relevant. Make it fun.
easily. DC is just a buncha bitches who think “facbook and edm” are at the heart of the youth and not a burning desire to overturn the bald billionaires taking down our society! Or they do know and refuse because the producers are those very people‼️ I’M MAD. I LIKE SUPERMAN. WTF
How are these idiots in charge of the character? How about you ask some comic book writers who've written acclaimed Superman stories? Why are they acting like this is hard to figure out?
You make him relevance by making him more human not more perfect. Smallville got it right and Supergirl got it right already.
I don’t get this. Man of Steel was great. Henry is perfect. What’s the issue?
how about they just do what they did in man of steel? is that movie somehow dated to them now? the films great in my opinion more of that to the next level cmon
Seriously!! Ka-El will always be relevant!!
I bet Marvel could do it
Well he certainly can't be a straight white male, can he?
gender fluid superthem
How about nothing? We don’t need anymore Superman movies.
Superman doesn't need to be tweaked. Stick to the story but dealve deeper in staring with the origin. In stead of snippets tell the freaking story.
Make Superman a serial sexual predator who loathes immigrants. That really speaks to our contemporary experience. Sadly.
I got a few ideas, don’t kill him and his third movie, start putting him in movies again? Show his face when he is in the movie?
What if he just goes around lying to everybody and tries to convince them it is in their best interests? At least 25% of America will line up to see it.
Don't make Superman the focus. Make it about someone else who is looking at him from the outside - a fireman or policeman. Make it not about him but what he represents. You can make it gritty then, while still being true to Superman.
Then they should have made a sequel to Man of Steel rather than making the two chaotic, half arsed Avengers lites we got.
Tell DCComics to make the film about Clark Kent and his journalism. Focus less on the super 👍
Filmmakers managed to make a fucking solo Joker film work. They’re smoking crack if they think it’s impossible to pull off another decent Superman movie especially since there’s tons and tons of material to work with.
Make it about a guy who doesn't know he had powers.....basically the plot of Unbreakable.
Black or brown, listen to hip hop, speak another language, and have him rid the world of bad politicians.
following the All Star Superman arc by grantmorrison and Frank_Quitely would be the place to start!
Not rocket science. If he is a hero then you show him doing heroic things. Make it fun with a hint of danger but we all know Superman will win in the end.
WarnerBros TheDCUniverse Man of Steel was an amazing film and really resonated for me. It's my favorite Superman film of all time. BvsS had great moments up till Act3. Lighten the tone & color a bit; challenge the audience w/complex script. Be bold and different!
Have him dance on Ellen’s show.
Superman fled a world that died from climate change. Neither politicians or the public believed the scientists until it was too late. What world does that sound like?
Show his human side. He struggles with seeing violence, killing. He struggles to be alone, never having a family life. He wants to be normal, have fun, party, make friends. But he has to keep to himself and keep people at a distance.
Honestly, I like the treating him as an outsider slant that BvS took on. Been hearing other sentiments & the whole anti-immigrant thing sorta works, but he's a white dude. So maybe change the ethnicity, but if it's gonna be played by another white guy, take BvS and go further
Just do the injustice storyline
Here’s how you do it: 1. Make Superman...Superman. 😱 2. No emo dark nonesense. 3. Don’t kill the father in a fucking tornado. 4. Don’t cram in other superhero’s. 5. No ridiculous CGI boss!! It’s old. 6. Hire the writers for The Mandalorian That’ll be $2 mill and ur welcome.
DC gonna screw it up again.
Then they have never read Superman, apparently.
They have Bruce Timm, Kevin Smith and Greg Berlanti to talk with, and DCComics still have no clue? NO WONDER Marvel has all the money.
.....not like Superman was created by Jewish men and coded as Jewish and is literally an alien who fights for his right and other refugee aliens rights to have a safe home on Earth.
Just go with the realistic take that they have been doing with the first Henry Cavill superman movie. For me that was the best superman movie since christopher Reeve's Superman. But obviously to each their own!
Make the movies better? Just a thought
No one can relate to a perfect Christ like fugue. Put Nic Cage in as an aging Superman that earth has corrupted and is a reluctant super hero.
Mf it's the easiest thing in the world, but that would require not catering to edgelord douchebags which DC for some reason always has to do.
“What can we do with this character who has unlimited power and ability? We only have 82 years of pre-written storylines to choose from!”
I'll tell you what they need to do, they need to focus on smaller character interactions with him and show the side of him that people who don't read comics don't know about. You can make a wholesome, feel-good movie while it still be entertaining. Also Man of Steel is kino
Superman could become a physicist and research on questions like 'why do planes and rockets not break apart when I grab them by the nose cone?' I would find that highly relevant
Well for one, WB took one of the greatest Superman story arch’s ever (doomsday) That could’ve been a stand alone movie. Combined it with another great story arc where superman meets Batman. Gave the doomsday fight a pathetic run time and made him look like a ninja turtle
We loved the fight against evil in the 50s, and we love it now. Job done. '... relevant...' my backside 🙄.
re-cast
Superman red son. Best elseworld ever.
make him Vegan
...the studio reportedly is unsure how to make the character “relevant to modern audiences without getting called ‘too political’ or ‘the snowflakes who ruined Superman’ when all they want to do is reap obscene profits off the movie and associated merchandising.” Fixed it for you
Make him out to be the 'illegal alien' he is, struggling to get work, a visa, ID and a passport because he needs it for his earth identity Show him working hard af on his families farm, gruelling hours just to move to metropolis Show us Lex Luthor, fuckin all that up w his $
They’ll probably have a women playing him next
The could go the Injustice route and have Superman snap and become world dictator
1. He's vulnerable to magic. There's a challenge. 2. An X-planet enters the Milky Way and it was a moon of Krypton. Thinkaboutit. 3. Someone infuses the Earth's sun w/ red matter. Which kind of sucks because we want him super! 4. Attack his morals, not his invulnerability.
So dumb....a good story is a good story. Not everything has to be “relevant”.
Maybe ask a Republican. No one had any problems figuring out what to do with him while fighting for “truth, Justice and the American Way”
Come on folks, we ALL know they will make him a trans-gendered super hero, who came to earth as Kal-Ellen.............
How about an adaptation of “Red Son”?
Brightburn was the best Superman movie
Stay clear from the Disney/Marvel universe formula.
First, have Superman fight someone that ISN'T KRYPTON-BASED OR LUTHOR. No Zod or Doomsday. Second, pick Brainiac, Lobo, Bizarro, Despero, or any other big bruiser. Third, make him Superman. Superman has an instantly recognizable personality across all media.
Superman is literally the most human comic book hero. How hard is it to make another great supes film?
Do Superman vs The Elite. Make the focus of the film his ideological differences with Manchester Black. Follow the story from the comic about hope vs cynicism.
I'm sure all DC needs to do is find one of the better Superman comic book serieses or graphic novels and then just make a movie franchise based on it.
They should just make the entire film about brave journalist, Clark Kent
Make him Black in the next film. problemsolving
An actual plot line
If they can't figure out this pedestrian ish. I mean, the possibilities to connect with 'modern audiences' are countless. DC doesn't deserve Superman.
Let Todd Phillips direct it...
Lex Luthor teams up with Greta Thunberg to expose Superman as an existential threat to the climate. How Dare You, Superman!
try making him a good guy like in the OLD comics again.
Just give us classic Superman... I don't understand what the problem is
This is why we should just stick with TheCW characters.
Make him fat and play fortnite right that works right PlayAvengers
Put him into the man in the high castle and make it red son superman.
Fuck it man, there's plenty of ideas; Take Kal-El to the future, the edge of space, reality, make him look for the impossible, come on, read the comics from the 50's, 60's.
his new love interest: charli damelio
It’s fucking Superman. You don’t need him to make witty references to Billy Eilish and have iPod buds in his ears. He’a supposed to embody the best elements of human nature. If we’re really struggling to make that ‘relevant,’ we’re more screwed than I thought.
Stay true to the comics! Duh.
Trans the cuck
Ill just take more Brightburn
Ok, superboomer
Just do a movie adaptation of Red Son and make it good. There, solved your problem.
In order to appeal to a modern audience they need to reduce his testosterone levels so millennial males do not feel inadequate
DC films obviously need to hire new people. The character is loved abroad, just adapt any of his good stories instead of doing like 5 stories at once. Or idk finish the darkside stuff you started 🤷♂️
Sportsguymario
Then they're stupid or cowards
The Red Son
You misspelled 'Market Saturation'
DC put Clark and Jon Kent fighting against Brainiac, you cowards! Make him Super-dad, and it will be relevant again.
By making it irrelevant to non-modern audiences. Problem solved.
Do the death and Retrun story
A refugee that adopts America as his home, becomes a journalist, and fights an insane billionaire, who, at one point, became President. If the powers at DC can’t figure out how to make this relevant they should be fired
No need to make it relevant to 'modern audiences'. A good story is timeless.
Get the people behind Marvel films to make DC films!!!
Make the whole film about Superman as a teenager who feels like an outcast trying to fit into society. He uses ideals taught by his parents to connect with people, and with people from this planet. No super villains, just a story of development and growth. Basically Smallwood.
Bloody hell... there are over 75 years' worth of stories to look to for inspiration. Numerous creators whose works are praised. And DC Films doesn't know what to do? How about HIRE ONE OF THOSE WRITERS?
You could stop making them and think of something original.
Shazam is the silliest superhero ever, and DC turned that into one of my favorite movies of 2019. They seriously can't come up with a take on one of America's most enduring icons?
The portions of Man of Steel with Kevin Costner, and the internal fight of not being a freak nailed it...the space stuff was brutal.
Give him to a director who knows what they're doing and actually wants the job, would be a good start.
That would be due to the not approaching the right people for story ideas. Maybe wbpictures DCComics should chat with Massawyrm or gholson. Fans that have brilliant ways of approaching this type of material.
Place the film 200 years in the future... Dealing with all of the political, planetary, and social injustices Earth has been fighting - caused by our generation.
If you don't know what to do with Superman...then maybe retire from making movies...there couldn't be an easier character to write for.
Yea cause at no point did I experience a sense of hope or happiness watching the last few movies. I did like Cavill’s look. To me the best Superman since Christopher Reeve was Captain America.
They should hire people who work for Marvel
Adapt All Star Superman by grantmorrison. This is my favorite take on the character.
The studio is too busy trying to please everyone rather than tell a story. This is the problem with all of Hollywood any more.
Make him Latino and BAM!!!!!! You have a whole new thing going on
Yeah, an adopted character who feels torn between his inherent difference and his love and loyalty towards his adopted family and country, and who struggles with the line between productive resistance and eye-for-an-eye violence... Not relevant at all 😒
Sell to DisneyStudios and GTFO
Apparently, this was not enough relevant to all the bloggers and the Reeves nostalgics ! 🙄
Superman is dumb,but Captain America is even dumber and they manage to make money out of him. I'm sure they will find a way.
Relevant to modern audiences? What a cop out just write a good story!
I enjoy all superman shows and movies.
Have him arrest Trump, and throw him in the Phantom Zone.
DC Film still doesn't know what to do with everything 😂
To not just focus on the characters love lives! Someone can be independent and powerful without a partner just saying
There's a reason why, even decades later, Chris Reeve's take endures. It was bright, funny, hopeful and optimistic - really enjoyable to watch. Modern filmmakers, for whatever reason, either can't or refuse acknowledge these essential qualities.
Just make him fucking superman
DC should just stick with animation.
This is pathetic. Superman isn’t a hard story to tell and make relatable. Just stop trying to make Superman dark and grim
Make him an investment banker. He'll be able to get away with anything.
Was this just posted so you could fish for ideas? Or just reinforce peoples want for a superman movie?
I'll do it, I don't work in the movie industry but this could be my opening
There doesn’t have to be just one live action Superman. There’s a very big potential in a Justice League Kingdom Come movie and GroovyBruce is more than capable of handling that role.
Make him do justice worldwide 24/7 and not waste 40hrs a week working an office job.
They should just go with the Injustice plot line: what would happen if the most powerful man on the planet became a totalitarian dictator. Everyone loves a good story about a man who shouldn’t be in a leadership position!
My grandsons believe Shaq is Superman
Marvel was able to figure it out with Captain America, give him a moral compass that always points north
Make him inspirational! Make him do good things despite being tempted by his power
“Someone” there at DC Films HAS to be shooting down amazing ideas left and right. It’s Superman. You can take him anywhere.
Because DC films doesn't hire directors who are actual fans of Superman comics?
why not make a movie where he struggles with this exact proble... oh wait, someone smart already created the Incredibles. 🤷🏻♂️
Let it Go
ie: DC Films are trying to find what else they can find that's been lying around for 70 or years that they can re-sell us.
Don't make a SuperCUCK don't change his sex/skin or don't compare the movie with US politics(the rest of the world don't give a f and are tired of that)don't sht on the fan We want him to show us the path We want an example to follow We want our beacon of hope We want a SUPERMAN
Truth, Justice and the American Way is no longer relevant? Maybe on the coasts. Very relevant in the Heartland. You know, real America.
There must be millions of ideas that die-hard Kal-El fans have dreamt up out there? DCComics
Maybe they should give the character to someone who *does* know what to do with it. Or, you know, keep clinging onto the character so you can mooch off its copyright. Whatever works.
There is nothing irrelevant about superman. He's already relevant. Duh. You don't think Evil exists still come on!
I got an idea. Just stop with the remakes, prequels/sequels and come up with something original.
If DC “goes woke” with Superman, they will “go broke”.
To anyone younger than 70, a low key honest journalist seems absurd.
Looks like DC Films has the wrong people in creative and decision-making positions. This should only be difficult if you’re trying to please the “very fine people on both sides.”
Turn him into a female genderqueer and have Lex Luthor as a thinly veiled Trump analogue. That'll work.
Start by canning Zack Snyder and rewatching the original Donner film. Drop the pathos. Superman is supposed to be inspiring, not dark and moody.
Make it a muslim chick.
I’ve never been a huge Superman fan, but I’ve been think for a while about some great stories That could be told. For one, I’d love to see Superman in a story about the myth of American exceptionalism.
maybe... move on?
Just introduce Superboy he’s hotter and more interesting
Step 1: Get Sandra Bullock.
This superman thing? Ask HenryCavill. Simple. The man is simply awesome and has been digesting the core of the character for a decade. He gets the character and has some great ideas - just pair him up with a new screenwriter that isn’t Goyer or Goldsmith.
Don’t make him the best at everything. It’s boring.
He isn’t and never was. Absurd super powers are not required to defeat evil. Regular mortals defeat evil every day through uncompromising principle, dedication and hard work. Tell their stories. Like “The Report”.
Superman needs Richard Pryor. But we got Kevin Hart. Then again might just work. ;)
I'd take advice from this guy
Supergran?
That means the decision makers at DC Films need to be replaced with non-dopes
Stop making him Batman for one
Tell them to call krummbum
'Relevant to modern audiences' aka 'Non Binary, Black, Disabled, Muslim, Vegan, Trans Superwoman who identifies as Superman'
Two things made the Christopher Reeve movies so great: 1.) spending time on Clark Kent as much as Superman; 2.) the relationship with Lois Lane. Those two things are at the center of the first 2 Superman films starring Reeve.
But there's so many comics about him, this shouldn't be challenging
Make the story of 'undocumented immigrant who believes in the American Dream even as it's proven to not be true' more on-the-nose. Make Kryptonians brown, have him land in Mexico, call him Carlos Cabrera, and make the parents immigrants who came to the US 20 years ago.
DCComics why not let who’s ever in control the animated movie sector of DC take control of the live action movies, DC animated movies have been great for a while now.
If only there were years and years of source material to look at.
Instead of crashing into 50's America, he crashes into the 50's Soviet Union...
Henry✌
destroy even more buildings and break even more necks
Superman has a lot of cool villains he can fight. He also has many great stories related to these villains. I think Superman could go a long way if DC would create a live action Death of Superman or Superman vs. Darkseid.
Have Clark Kent go about his day without wearing glasses, but when he assumes his Superman identity he puts on a pair of glasses. There, that should fix it. Where do I send the bill?
Tell those cowards to let me write the script
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Bruce Timm and co already did this like, 20 years ago. Just...copy that
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Every time I hear the original John Williams score, I smile from ear to ear... I still imagine myself in the suit taking off into the sky... and I’m in my 30’s.
There are actual stories where Lex Luthor is president.
How about turning Superman back into the big blue boy scout he's always been. Duh.
give him a good story, no partisan politics,but inspiration from comics. Follow the Joker success maybe?
Keep the Batman movies dark, but bring Superman back into the light.
Save the next Superman-film by having him steadfastly ignore the concept of doors, and bust through every wall, like the olden times
Bring back the idea that being Superman can be fun!!! We all fell in love with the original movie because Superman made us believe we could fly. The idea of being Superman was fun. The film made us laugh and filled us with hope, it also taught us that being different was okay.
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Superman is a powerful being raised by good people. Because of that, he uses his power for the good of others instead of indulging himself. I can't think of anything more fucking relevant than that.
Stop giving him to Zack Snyder
Take a page from the MCU, 'With everything that's happening, the things that are about to come to light, people might just need a little old fashioned.' Also focus on what makes him human, not what makes him an all powerful alien. Seems pretty easy to me.
Man of Steel was a really good movie. Continue that approach with a few tweaks. Henry Cavill is a great Superman.
I'm sure they'll make a movie anyway.
Just hire henry cavill
Make him kind for fucks sake. It's not that hard to figure out
Hmmm, a 1930s comic book character with unshakable moral fortitude and committed to the true American dream is no longer 'relevant'? Interesting. Very Interesting.
Need superman movie ideas, make Superman vs Brainiac saving the world with more light and less darkness. Superman have more villians, only need make a good script. Superman is Light not funny. Is not the same.
'Modern Audiences' Don't lie to us. It's 'Chinese Audiences'. And Superman is a very Pro-American character by design.
Let someone who actually likes the character make the film?
It’s simple really. All you gotta do is keep Henry Cavill
Perhaps they should talk to BRIANMBENDIS who’s been writing the best Superman stories we’ve seen in ages
Do it like Disney... kill em
We all need a Suoerhero of any kind in these times!
Turn him heel.
Not like there's any source mater-
Have they tried just making a good movie?
Just do Red Son and people will be clamoring for Man of Steel. (No actually do Red Son but without the Lex Luthor is a good guy part at the end)
The character just kinda sucks tbh
They could invent an evil Alien to battle him, The Man of Jet Fuel
It's called 'Injustice: God's Among Us'
Just make a Superman film the way DC fans want it. Don't listen to SJWs
Give him a sex addiction, but every earthling he screws dies from the force of his orgasm. Also, explain how he shaves and cuts his hair.
I mean.... man vs self is really the only conflict that makes sense with him. Just make him a nice millennial. Have him have our struggles... What does nice even mean? Is he empowering people, or enabling them? what is moral right? where do morals come from?
DCComics what to do is the easy part. Superman hasn't changed...you have
They need to go to the Injustice storyline. Make that a live action story and do a heel turn for Superman
Superman died in the last movie right. But he has a son.. make a super boy movie. But that would kinda just be smallville all over again.
Have him fail to stop Climate Change
give the suit nipples
Some crazy sjw are not 'modern audiences'
Truth, Justice, and the American Way all facepalm simultaneously...
Maybe read his 80 years worth of stories that made him popular to get an idea. There's a reason the MCU nailed it.
Ignore everything else and follow straight on from man of steel. The film was near on perfect.
¿Y lo de los gallumbos de fin de año por fuera?..¿era necesario?
You don't. There are shitloads of other characters. Highlight some new ones.
Better idea: Shelve him. Find another character to put into the spotlight. Here is an idea:
The answer is Superman has always been boring and besides the Fleischer cartoons nothing good has come out of him. Just focus on Batman instead plz
Political Relevance aside. It’s hard to make a Superman movie for the same reason why it’s difficult to make a Hulk movie. The character is too overrated and overpowered and let’s not forget boring. Remember Justice League? Superman flew in and saved everyone. Done...
He has the powers of a god, but all he wants, with all his heart, is to be a good man. HOW IS THAT NOT RELEVANT?
The key is making Clark Kent relevant. He’s supposed to be a reporter right? Have him cover a story that’s torn from the headlines. Like the farmland dealing with climate change. A bad guy like Lex Luther abetting it etc. And for God’s sake, keep Lois Lane unaware of his identity
What does it say about us if we think a truly kind, gentle, caring man is less believable than the fact that he can fly?
shitty sentence structure is the rule at Forbes
Make him confused about his gender I kid I kid
Kn1ghtLightning how would you proceed? Maybe make him black? Lol
Why can’t people identify with a hero who is just good in every way. Someone to stand for the people and defeat terrible villains? Do people really want villains to win?
Please. Let it not be the Trump head on that torso.
Never was a fan of a hero universe, and as a kid I did watch justice league but prefered to imagine each hero in a unique way. In my opinion, they dumbed down the idea of Superman and forced the character to be irrelevant. I am a Reeves Superman kind of fan tho.
I’m pretty sure if you stop trying to make him the Jesus Christ of the D.C universe that might help. Just a thought.
Don't. He's too overpowered.
Do nothing because he’s a lame hero. Nothing entertaining about hero’s without flaws
Hey, DCComics -- you could do a film based on another property you own: Equinox. She's a Cree teenager who was inspired by the real-life hero and activist, Shannen Koostachin. Her origin story would be fantastic and relevant to many people.
Zack made me a Superman fan
Hey why don’t you get a director who only cares about their shitty signature visual style, insert some imperialist propaganda, throw Johnny depp in for some reason... boom. Another WB classic.
DC Films can't figure it out. But the CW with a lower budget can? Tyler Hoechlin, Brandon Routh, and Tom Welling will all be donning the cape next week and they will be doing a fantastic job. Honestly one thing they could do is cast a non white actor in the role. 🤷🏼♂️
wbpictures Another powerful point mentioned is that comfortable wealthy rich man Lex is feeling threatened by the fact that greatness can and does exist in someone completely unrelated to himself and what he is. That's a universal theme right there
Explain them that Twitter isn't the life
Ben tu laisses Henry cavill et c'est tout
Its hard to sell cultural values to a society that only views Male Superheros as mindless victory conditions and not living breathing beings that have emotions. How else can they sell the idea that men must be strong infallible sources of hope ?
The world needs hope and this character has always symbolized that. Hope should always be relevant.
Start by not trying to make him Batman. That's the big one. Next, write a GOOD story (or adapt one of the 10,000 published over the last 80 years) and stop worrying about making it 'relevant to modern audiences.' Quality defies time.
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How hard is any of that to figure any of that out.
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He’s too overpowered. Hard to relate to a man with no flaws. We like some dirt with our super hero’s aka character arks.
Clark is an illegal alien who chooses to be an investigative reporter who takes on the social ills of militarism, corportism & racsim & uses his powers to fight things humans can't. He knows imposing his will on the world would make him a tyrant & would eventually end in terror.
There is only one way to make Superman 'relevant to modern audiences'. You ask this guy to come back and play the role he was born to play... RealDeanCain
DCComics The 50’s and 60’s seemed good decades for an exploration of, “Truth, justice and the American way.” Particularly for everyone on US soil that wasn’t white.
Hmmm. I guess Truth and Justice really are no longer the American Way. Just fucking tragic.
Maybe have him reporting directly to a corrupt POTUS. Now let me see who that could be....
That's because Superman is a garbage character and always has been.
BLACK SUPERMAN... duh. After the success of the Oscar-winning ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse’, ...why not do a trip into the ‘multiverse’ w/ Calvin Ellis, Black Superman from Earth-23 to battle Monster Superman?
Not hard to imagine it is some poor intern's job to be combing through these responses to take back the intel to the execs in charge. Where is Geoff Johns in this conversation? Jim Lee? Anyone?
So, try to copy One Punch Man approach... no wonder why anime is overtaking American Super Heroes...
That’s why DC sucks.
Well. that's just stupid.
Focus on his humanity, bring back the 'big blue boy scout' from the Timmverse shows for example Superman's greatest appeal is trying to fit in with regular people and make them happy instead of 'BWOAGH BIG EXPLOSION'
The dumbassery is off the charts with this one 🤡
Call ThatKevinSmith
'modern' audiences? did humans evolve or something? they didn't. all you ppl care about is money, because money is the only thing that really matters, work from there.
Make more Wonder Woman movies.
Just make him fucking bi it's not that hard.
Maybe they should get the people in charge of the tv shows to be in charge of the movies lol
How about bringing back Henry Cavill. See, this is why marvel is superior
Just make him a democrat, and the baddies a consortium w/ the NRA and GOP and Russia. There ya go.
BrandonJRouth please!!!!!
I mean, take a look around. Pretty sure it’s not too hard to figure it out
Only Henry Cavil
I cannot fucking believe the number of Snyder fans on this website. Zac Snyder is BAD at Superman. Snyder fucked it up. Let it die already. What's wrong with you.
How about marking him less depressing and more likeable? Just a thought...
The take their golden goose (Batman) and try to make a fool out of him and they ask how to make money with superman instead. I don't know who is in charge of DC but they should be fired.
Don’t think nice fly’s these days..the people want controversy
Make him gay.
Omg please hire me i can handle this DCComics TheDCUniverse
That's because you can't. Been saying this for years and its why Batman is a better movie charcter - he has flaws and is fallible. Supes is literally the deus ex machina of comics - he can preety much do anything and is near perfect. He's dull.
Clark Kent is sent to the border to for some investigative journalism. He tries to speak out against inhumane conditions there at the border and elsewhere, but Trump turns America against Superman. Superman turns to drinking and that's the movie.
There is an idea: Read comics. The last run by Peter Tomasi is great at portraying how is Superman.
Personally I'm ok with Superman going away for a while
Superman's fine. Modern audiences aren't relevant.
Superman fought against the Nazis, then make Superman fight against realDonaldTrump ...that should be more than relevant
He’s an intergalactic immigrant. Play with that idea. There’s so much source material to draw from!
Casting Ben Affleck in the role didn’t help.
Why are people taking this “immigrant supermán” approach. He’s a literal white knight trope. We’re good. Give us new heroes.
We had a good Superman, with a real problem. Y’all just want a corny superhero movie with jokes and tacos.
Superman helps people. For fuck's sake this isn't fucking complicated.
The important thing about Superman is that Clark Kent isn’t “special” he’s nice and caring to other people because being good is normal. Superman is the same on a much bigger scale. Superman is also clever and smart. He finds good solutions.
Unbelievable:/
They'll opt to go 'woke' and lose millions.
I'm sorry but wbpictures but theres no excuse for not know what to do with Superman who still has so much potential for growth. Not being able to be your true self and show that to anyone, c'mon man do you not get how relevant that is esp today with all the fakes around.
One word: Hope.
DCUO read this-
Could have him get stopped by ice, caged for an excessive amount of time then deported to a world he never knew?
Give it a dark knight vibe!!!
I'm surprised Trump hasn't already stuck his head on this and retweeted it!
Make Superman a comedy with Danny DeVito as the main character.
make him kill all the nazis? 🤷🏻♂️
Give Henry Cavill a script by Geoff Johns and call JJ Abrams to direct the movie
All y’all are amazing scenario writers. Somehow DC cannot find none of y’all. Weird.
Poor Superman... He is getting a bad rap because hes a journalistic nerd. He will always be relevant to me...
Can’t even tell you the number of times a studio solicited free story advice from myself and writing partner and now they’re just doing it on Twitter.
Then DC Films should be placed on the auction block. If you can’t make superman work for the 21st-century, then you need to hang up your “writing” spurs. They need to do themselves and everyone else a favor and give it to somebody who can do the creative work needed!!
How about make him do actual things for the planet? Like instead of punching commies, nazis, aliens and a bald billionar to prove he has the biggest, make him use his freaking powers to help with natural catastrophes & save a bunch of people... And not just Lois Lane.
make him a working class hero fighting for liberation of the oppressed and toppling imperialism
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ALL MIGHT in My Hero Academia is a Superman bis and yet it is part of the GOAT of current manga characters. The problem is not Superman, it’s people writing behind. There are 20,000 things to do that have not been dealed with. Warner is pathetic.
You know, comic book writers exist that can solve this problem right?
He should use his super breath to blow all of the pollution out of the sky, and into space! Wait. Then he should blow all of the space junk out of orbit, to the sun! Wait...
What's more modern than fighting fascism?
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Pretty sure we have enough superhero movies why don’t we give it a fuckin rest
Well, for one thing, they could use comic material
Superman is and always will be relevant!
They know exactly how to make Superman relevant, they just don't want to. It would require Superman taking on the types of billionaires making the kinds of decisions like greenlighting a movie about a superhero taking on the types of billionaires...
just make a live action allstar superman for the love of fucking god this isnt a depressing epic its fucking superman
Can he be Hawkeye's sidekick? I think that'd be pretty cool.
I could knock out a Superman screenplay worth producing in 6 weeks if I thought for a moment DC would care.
If Cap can be made relevant to contemporary audiences, so can Superman. He's got the crushing loneliness of immortality angle: Everyone he known is dead. He is tired of saving humans only to have them forget history. He's also an Endling, the last of his kind. V. angsty.
He's an immigrant whose main villain is an evil billionaire that becomes President. You can't make THAT relevant to modern audiences. . .or are they afraid that anything beyond a two-dimensional 'blue boy scout' version of Superman would be TOO relevant?
This is so silly. We all still love Superman because he is an immigrant who misses his home, an orphan, conflicted, and yet chooses to care and do good. Just spend more time on the conflict and on Clark then the perfect, untouchable unknowable Superman persona.
He needs to be hope. Hope in a better tomorrow. Hope that we as a species can be better. He needs to do good because it is right not because it is easy.
Seems like if they just give Henry Cavill a halfway decent script they’d be just fine! He’s a great Superman but there’s only so much he can do with a crap script
That's Superman. warnerbros it's easy.
Bullshit. You just don't know how to fix your own mess, bring back HenryCavill for a MoS sequel ReleaseTheSndyerCut
Bring back krypton
Apparently make him leave all his responsibilities and family to “find himself” by inserting himself smack in the center of newfound indigenous spirituality then defining colonialism as a past problem that he magically fixes in ten seconds yet everyone is somehow ok with this.
Get him a twitter account?
Henry Cavill was great (and nice) DC films and WB need to stop listening to the internet. Or just copy/paste Tom Welling's version. 🤷🏻♂️
Fiege giving dollars is what I see from ur post ManOfSteel is the best superman movie of all time
the story is to predictable why look forward to watching something that really isnt going to surprise anybody is like batman same uninteresting story😴think outside the box folks and people pay attention
Sell him to Marvel.
Please no more reboots. Drop me hot into the middle of the story and if it takes.... do a prequal, but for the love of life if I have to see the Birth of Superman, Reboot of Batman or the Spiderman origin story again I'm just drawing a line under these movies and moving on.
This is a lazy, room-temperature take.
I think DC came a long way to modern relevancy just by moving his bright red underwear underneath his costume.
easy fix make a story where he loses all memory and loses all powers except strength and reinvent him with weapons or different fighting skills give him a clean sleight to create something else other than a man in a cape
Mullet. Pack of darts. Sixer of tall boy PBRs.
How about maybe don’t try. Jesus the story has been told a billionty times. A better idea would be a graphic animated series not aimed at children.
DC Films:
Translation- None of the great stories possible guarantee us billions in ticket sales so we won't take the risk Imagine looking at so many amazing stories about Superman and coming out with this trash excuse
I don’t even no much about Superman in the comics, however how hard would it be just to make a movie where he does good? Like tbh that’s really relevant it’s a message that’s still needed. Do good for the sake of being good! Very important message
I have an idea. How about pulling ideas from the vast catalogue of stories DC has been producing since the 30's. Then call Kathleen Kennedy and tell her to do the same with the old Star Wars EU.
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Omnipotent superheroes lack any depth. Trying to soften him by having kryptonite in everyone's pocket is just bad writing. Flaws make the character and this guy was created to be practically flawless. He needs a re-roll out.
also fuck you make a Bombshells movie
Ummm maybe DCComics needs more diversity on their team because it seems to me there is ALOT going on in this country that can be useful. Start off with a non white actor, maybe a black Superman ? Or a Latino or Asian. I don’t know just something different.
Kent, a 19 yr old kid, is an instagram influencer, but leads a hollow, lonely life. He runs a secret superhero service on dark web to give his life purpose. It was all going good until he becomes target of the capitalist state when he discovers govt secrets about climate change.
Watch the cartoon show dumdums
if dc made superman more powerful, (much more), perhaps he would regain beliefs and also dc could make superman no longer vulnerable to kryptonite.
This shouldn’t be hard.
This is so dumb. Marvel could do it. You have 80 years of material & can't forge one decent movie out of it? Maybe the trouble isn't the character but the hacks hired to execute the plan.
They could try hiring anyone, literally anyone, who’s not an “Objectivist,” and see how that works out.
Just give him a single line, that he repeats monotonously throughout the film: 'Okay Boomer'.
Just make Superman act like Superman.
Bring back Tom Welling. Everyone will watch. 🙃🙃
They don’t need to do a damn thing, just put a decent story together and let Superman be Superman. Why the hell are they over thinking things?
Should have stuck with the BrandonJRouth continuation of Christopher Reeves' take on the character, but unfortunately the Superman Returns script ended that possibility. Superman doesn't need to be reinvented, he needs to be embraced. Just a small town kid from Krypton.
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Just make a movie about him that isn’t terrible.
If they hadn’t had him murder and apprehended perp in Man of Steel, maybe it would be an easier sell.
How ever will we interest (young white male) fans in a character devoted to doing the right thing?
While the Joker, a period piece set some 30+ years in the past, is climbing the all-time records ladder. DC, don't change a damn thing. If people don't want to relate to a character who couldn't be MORE relevant today, they don't deserve him. DCSuperman
There is this guy on TikTok, iamjonathanbelle who would be a great Superman
Make a movie about him being the whistleblower... Duh...
Or ya know explore one of the many other DC characters rather than the same one over and over again...
Let's see, don't make him like a god, don't make him seem alien to those around him? Make him human, make him natural to be around, make him be a good person, make him be both Clark Kent and Superman, Superman is nothing without the human side of Clark Kent keeping him grounded.
Make him a Nazi
Ask Kevin Feige!
What r u talking about
Picture it - Batman and Superman buddy cop movie. The greatest detective is called by Super Man to try and solve complicated crimes in Metropolis. Superman is the carefree goofy one while Batman is the serious one
Just make him kick Donald trumps head in, box office gold 👍
Two words: dad bod.
Stop the Superman God thing and it might work
If you’re a writer and are incapable of writing a Superman story you should quit
Marvel just made several successful movies about the least cynical character in comics history. If you can't figure it out, that's on you.
Leave it to the CW network!
Is that the line they are using? How about that it is too relevant to modern times and brainwashed right wingers will trash Superman as opposed to trashing our modern day millionaire villain?
So the studio who decided to cut Superman's content from BvS and Justice League doesn't know how to make him relevant? How about let the directors do their job for once just to see how it goes?
Make the character actually interesting. Hire a decent actor to play him. Maybe stop pretending he is Jesus and portray Superman as a thinking, feeling creature seeking humanity instead of blowing up stuff with his eye rays. Superman II was the last one that worked--do that more.
Just gonna put this out there: Another studio basically created an outline on how to take an idiolized symbol of hope, put him in a cruel setting and ultimately show how complicated morality gets once their ideals are challenged.
It isn't actually difficult to work out what to do with him. He is a person trying to do the right thing in a world gone to hell. Isn't that all of us? You need to put this comic book character in a psychologically real world, full of vagueness, duplicity, madness, politics etc.
Two words: Black Superman
Make him kind and asexual. Save the world from trash and nazis. thedream
How about morality superman? Protector of life from conception to natural death, suppoter of family values.
Well how do you put an invincible man in mortal danger... the answer for me would be psychologically.. you try to break him mentally...
Too bad they don't have any good source material to draw from.
Just have Lex Luther yell “Fake News” when Lois interviews him about how one of his businesses is dumping chemicals into Metropolis’s water supply
Just adapt Public Enemies. People can get a good Batman/Superman movie with other DC heroes while watching the villain become president and lose his marbles. Seems relevant enough.
He's the original superhero. If you can't understand what people like about him and why he's always relevant, it might be time to get right the fuck out of media
wbpictures and DCComics start by getting chrismcquarrie and Henry Cavill and go from there.
Maybe strip him of his power and watch him solve problems without the implicit threat of devastating violence. Have him organize people to live up to his example. Show how this organization is more powerful than any of his superpowers.
Idk maybe get a writer and a director who like the character as a first step. There’s zero need to “reinvent” Supes. We could use some damn positive stories for a change
Give him a sense of humor please.
Someone needs to be fired .
Bring Nicholas Cage back
Dear DCComics: Man Of Steel 2 - 5 justice League 2 - 5 Cameos on all Shazam and Black Adam movies Cameo on all Wonder Woman movies Cameos on all Batman movies Cameos on EVERY DC movie from now on AND MORE IMPORTANTLY: LEAVE HenryCavill as Superman.
LOL DC keeps switching actors
Give him a wig and breast implants
Re-cast Henry Cavill - if you can. That was such a dumb thing to do.
Clark Kent is the human side of Superman, so give him all the human limitations like love, family, and job keeping!! Superman is his all star appearance!! Keep both in movies equally, you'll be alright
Make him become evil superman go on a killing spree. I would watch the fuck out of that.
Bro we don't want Homelander we want Superman
There is only one solution:
Isn't he a Captain America with superpowers?
heres an idea, take everything that Zach Snyder did....and don't do that ever again
Make him vulnerable! And the trick to that lies in Clark Kent. Young Clark is has intriguing troubles going on with him. Behind the invincible Superman is a man that can be hurt. Adult Clark has been treated like a bore who's only just waiting to rip open the 'S'.
Baby Superman. It worked for Star Wars.
Ok, so this is what I was thinking of. This could be a part of the Superman story to explore. And, again, please watch TheCWSupergirl
Superman is a dorky cool dude who likes smiling and giving Batman a hard time to get him to loosen up and who likes saving people how is this hard
How about stop making the same damn films a billion times and try something else? Just a thought.
Red Son
Typical of companies nowadays. When they mess up, they cover it and pretend that it’s all about being “relevant” which basically means change their race, gender etc... Do people not know movies aren’t real? You can make a damn good film with ANYTHING
Its a fictional character in tights and a cape. Superman is not relevant.
What if someone just came up with brand new characters and brand new plots instead?
Some one on here tweeted once that the amazing thing about Superman isn't that he has powers but that he uses those powers to help others. That's certainly relevant to now. Also, watch TheCWSupergirl
Make him Mr. Rogers with super powers
Seriously? Guys, just make a fun Superman movie. Who doesn’t need a beacon of hope and kindness like Superman in times like these? JUST MAKE A FUN MOVIE
Give him a beard and a job at a coffee shop...
Supergirl doing fine over here, just sayin'🤗
This is fucking ridiculous. It’s easy to make a Superman story. Keep true to the character. If we’re retconning everything after Man of Steel, here’s what you do... continue with Supes trying to find himself. That struggle is relevant to everyone on planet earth! 1)
Superman is a symbol of what we should be to each other you know doing the right thing because he has all that power. That’s relevant to modern times just. People are unkind to each other.
It’s because DC is waistline it’s time trying to replicate Marvel’s success without creating its own. It’s grand universe sucks. BvS destroyed everything good about Superman, as well as just about everything else on that planet.
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An immigrant whose arch nemesis is a corrupt billionaire that somehow has public support and ran for president? God you're right that is just so unrealistic! Also just adapt Superman for All Seasons, or the Animated Series
Here’s what you do wbpictures . Get your shit together, Call Henry Cavill and make Man of Steel 2.
Ironically you could use inspiration from his old comics where he punched Nazis in the face and it'd be very relevant
Simple. Just make a new Superman film that takes itself less seriously.
Let ThatKevinSmith have a go at it!
Relevant to modern audiences? An illegal immigrant baselessly and fearfully attacked by a business tycoon gasbag who ends up being president one day? Yeah. Don’t see how it’s relevant. Sarcasm
Convert from a white male savior into a working class Everyman who collaborates with and empowers folks to work together for the common goal.
Doesn’t have to be relevant. It’s Superman. Follow the comic books like every other film.
Here's an idea for WarnerBros: Look at what people loved about the character in Superman TAS, Smallville, and in Supergirl and DO THAT! Superman is a very interesting character if you focus on his humanity. The WHY he fights, not who/what he fights.
Proof DC Films are idiots and have no idea what they're doing
Make it about Clark Kent and his journalism, and have Superman to be a side gig.
Thats code for they are deciding if they want to make him black/brown/gay/trans/attack helicopter/echidna to pander to sjw's but they are afraid of the the reality of 'get woke go broke'
Hit up the Smallville writers
There were 10 seasons of Smallville what does this even mean you clowns
make him depressed and you’ve won
Fake news
Hand it over to Chris Nolan would be a start.
Superman represents a benevolent god Yet modern audiences can't find him relevant. Interesting...
They should check out what the CW is doing with TheCWSupergirl , that shit is amazing
This idea might be a little outlandish, but they could always hire some good writers who gets the character =P
grantmorrison
A refugee fighting a xenophobic villain is not relevant to modern audiences?
....just hire the people who write his comics to write the script. Done.
My boyfriend had thoughts on this like 4 years ago when I asked why every Superman movie is so underwhelming:
They should give him a backwards baseball cap and a skateboard and have him rap.
Instead of focusing on him being this godly messiah, they need to focus on how clark kent is possibly the most wholesome human on planet earth but has to make these HUGE decisions every day..show us how he struggles carrying the trust of the world on his shoulders.
Lex Luther knows that to destroy superman he has to first of all destroy Clark Kent. And he’s doing this be decimating the journalism profession. And he’s doing a fine job of it.
Make him beat up Trump
DC Films = clueless they have been doing Superman stories multiple times a month for decades but they can't find one to put in the movie 🙄
Supercop should've stayed dead when Doomsday killed him.
Call Christopher Nolan.
Superman 👏🏽 is 👏🏽 boring 👏🏽! Clark 👏🏽 Kent 👏🏽 is 👏🏽 where 👏🏽 it 👏🏽 gets 👏🏽 interesting 👏🏽!
He should be gender fluid and have a relationship with gay reporter Lewis Lane.
Another Henry Cavill film please! He is the best since Chris Reeves.
Get the Executives out of the way are the ones who are ruining it
Leave it be. Anyone think of that?
Hire good writers?
Make him a dork and not broody like Batman? They’re trying to have two of them and it’s not gonna work. Superman is kind and dorky. I can’t believe I’m saying this but they need to take Smallville for example.
Take away his super powers, make him stressed about journalism deadlines and make Kryptonite the name of his landlord.
Make it funny but like Thor 1&2 funny
If ever we needed a Superman, or Superwoman. Seriously DC film?
Okay, hear me out, Nicolas Cage needs work.
He beats up nazis
Smallville did it right
Make him punch nazis. You’re welcome, DC.
Yeah - he’s no Ant Man.
Superman is a wish that we find the best in ourselves. The most powerful creature on Earth, who could do anything and no one could stop him, chooses to use that power to help others. He is a metaphor for what the U.S. is supposed to be.
cut the bs and let it be known that you chose michael b jordan over cavill
Let Superman actually be who he is and internal conflict should naturally emerge. His ideal life is being a normal, faithful husband and father. But he can never bring himself to shirk his responsibilities as earth's greatest protector.
Clark Kent is what grounds superman ye big dummies 🙄
Make a nice and wholesome movie with him.
Just replace Lex Luthor with Peter Thiel.
of course make superman smile & joke!!! that's what modern audience expecting!!!
He needs to show weakness, not just with kryptonite or with the whole Christ morality of 'must sacrifice myself for the greater good.' We need to see a person suffering and not showing up others with his powers. Even I'd like that, and I've always disliked Superman.
What?! How about stick to the comics? justsayin
I’ll do it
Smallville did it very well...
Superman could easily clear the oceans of plastic and maybe learn to surf.
i don’t understand why DCComics hasn’t been tagged in so many of these suggestions.
This worked...
Maybe stop textieng to make him depressing; Superman used to be the best of us.
Problem not is Superman. The problem, is that the character is in the hands of incompetent people. DC and Warner have a diamond in their hands, and use it as a stone rather than as a jewel.
IDK maybe make a movie where he has an actual fun adventure instead of being symbol for X, Y, or Z. Example: Base it off Time and Time Again where Superman is blasted through time and trying to get home. Dinosaurs! King Arthur! Fighting Nazis!
Modern Superman should be social worker or teacher.
Make him act like a human being, simple and short
Lose some powers, make him physically vulnerable, heck make him emotionally vulnerable - it’s doesn’t have to be a big smashy, crashy, man-fest.
He could be very relateable if they could decide who he's meant to be relateable to.
Just make him a really nice noble person!!
What was happening was fine until the studio interfered. They need to pick up where Zack left off. Then after that if they still want their corny superman they can have it.
Perhaps it's the issue of him fighting for truth, justice, and the American way. Those things don't describe us anymore. Our culture now wants to blow the whole thing up, Which is what Superman escaped from.
He is addicted to Crystal Kryptonite and Pornhub, and spends his days being a troll on Twitter by pointing out poor spelling and grammar.
No words needed
DCComics wbpictures How to make Superman relevant; 1.) Read actual good Superman stories (not edgy deconstructions of him). Such as; Peace on Earth, All-Star Superman, Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes, and Superman Rebirth by Tomasi and Gleason (Superdad!) 2.) Film that.
Isn’t the superhero most relevant to modern audiences Ozymnandias from Watchmen (comic/film not tv series)?
Correction; it's the profiteers laying in wait who could finance said film who don't have a clue. (Hint comic book writers, some authors and fans know...)
Just make him a good person instead of an intimidating jerk. He still has potential. He's just too mean spirited atm. He's outright scary. Or just make him a scary AF villain.
Don't help them
If only there was a backcatalogue of exampls available - especially in an easy-to-carry format. Perhaps in paper...
geoffjohns You know what to do.
Have they tried having Superman punch a fascist? I hear it's popular as he once defeated the KKK.
Well DC is freaking idiots than
Make a good movie
Maybe then can start by writing a decent script? Just a thought.
Just replace 'The Fortress of Solitude' with 'The Safe Space', and make Clark an angst-ridden, nervous twenty-something who secretly uses his powers to un-offend millenials. Also have to change the character name to 'Super-Don't Assume My Gender Identity'. DCComics let's do it!
He's the simplest character to get right. If he feels a little outdated or 50sish, thats the point.
Just bring it back to the Reeve era, and don’t make it politically correct.
okpphead look at this whole thread
Do what Marvel did with Cap darn it
He was perfect but YALL messed t up and now Henry is gone
Translation: we have a super political character in our hands and we have no idea how to sell him to our perceived opposing stance reactionary audience.
A man with the power to tear the planet apart with his bare hands who helps people he owes nothing to because he is at his core good and noble. Work it out.
He's the easiest hero to write. You make him a good person doing good things and you make his villain someone he can't just punch through, not some crap version of a billionaire with a property scam
Everything is fine until his powers level a major city.
Then they shouldn't do something with him
Christopher Reeves portrayal is still relevant, why do studios try to reinvent the wheel...
Doesn’t surprise me at all this - Anyone who casts BenAffleck as Batman and JesseEisenberg as Lex Luther really hasn’t got a clue.
oh mY GOD, just make him faithful to his comics characterization, he doesn't need to be edgy or Injustice Supes, just make him the big, caring, goofy sweetheart that we all know & love. People love Captain America and Deku from MHA for these same reasons; regular Superman is FINE
SandeepSalmon
Maybe a video game like the Arkham series
Lose the chiseled abs Superman suit. We all know Superman has chiseled abs. But his character doesn’t flaunt it. His humility is his appeal.
Give him a personal “human” conflict. Repackage it. We get the idea that he’s an alien and his cousins are kinda evil. Let’s keep that but work with something else. May be get Superman to be from the hood. May be make him resent his powers. His HUMANITY is what doesn’t come thru.
Sorry, but Imma be that guy right now
Make him a gender neutral millennial who thinks hes way to clever for the world and instead of using his powers he types angry comments on random people's tweets
I liked the Reeves-Routh version of Superman. Very steady moral compass, confidence, charm. I know many prefer Henry Cavill's and he did okay, but...
Maybe because it’s always the same...
Wow ... guys that IS exactly what ZackSnyder did .. kicking and screaming into the 21st century!!! Superman aka HenryCavill aptly named ManOfSteel ... did it like a BOSS 💪
Maybe don’t hire a director who thinks Batman getting raped in prison should be a thing.
M a k e t h e m o v i e s a b o u t e m o t i o n a l c o n f l i c t r a t h e r t h a n p h y s i c a l:
Tbf hes written like the perfect baddie so just make an injustice movie ffs
Just go read the 100+ comics that came out in the late 90s and early 2000s that questioned the viability of Superman in modern times. It's a question the comic writers have been asking for years and they have many good answers, already written.
How about reducing the scope of his powers and having him start the process of slowly dying because Lex Luther sets off some sort of atomic weapon that poisons our atmosphere with Kryptonite?
My worry is that all of this is some weird precursor 2 needless suffering on the part of Lois Lane. DCComics Lois is not some damsel in distress, she's a force of nature. IF Superman is around when she slips off a cliff it's because he's trying and failing 2 beat her 2 a story
Maybe if people at DC Films actually read their comics and weren't idiots, they could make a good superman movie. People love comic superman, its not impossible. Also ReleaseTheSnyderCut
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Low-key true
Give Clark Kent a job at the Washington Post, the rest writes itself. Make him like a cynical, centrist, functioning alcoholic who frequently forgets why he entered a room.
are u serious DC? superman's story couldnt be anymore relevant today. hello? immigration and racism issue
Just reboot it with iamjohnoliver wearing the red cape 🙏
Superman could oppose the rise of authoritarian, populist nationalism perhaps. He could start with Brexit and work his way to Russia.
Imagine how does it feel to read something like this if you work for DC animation division.
just make him superman. don't twist him into something 'relevant'. that's what happened with new 52 and that line apparently wasn't well received.
Bullocks
It was already made relevant to modern audiences.👇🏼👇🏼 What happaned was instead of getting those people+the Superman that made people believe again (the one who wins every poll4 16 years) they brought Snyder+a cast to whom almost nobody related & turned Superman into an abortion
Superman doesn’t need to change to be “relative to the modern audience” just make a good movie and people will see it
I agree he does not fit this generation. Too teachers pet tbf
Don’t rely on his powers alone and do human stories. Supergirl has been doing it for five years and you’ll have a bigger budget WBHomeEnt
If you can make a movie about Fred Rogers you can make a movie about Superman.
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One simple answer: Clark Kent
Make him nice. Make him kind.
It's the American colors that don't fit in modern times, Superman is an idealistic American hero. But Americans are not idealists anymore.
The biggest crime most screenwriters commit is to assume what makes Superman tick can’t work. Maybe just try writing a Superman story?
Make a film of this you cowards
Truth, justice, and the American way. We can’t have that, can we?
I can think of a million things they could do
Our species is doomed...
Superman TAS. Nuff said.
Make him leap tall hoes in a single bound, he’s single now got no ring on his finger now
RME. The problem is noone holiday knows how to write a story without everyone dying left and right for no reason besides plot twists and omg the PAIN. RME. Just tell a story about an outsider beinga hero and doing the right things. RME
Wait so they didn't go the easy way of just 'Hey he is gay now' and boom?
If only there was an extensive volume of source material on this Superman character that could be used to make an entertaining film 🤷♂️
I've got an idea. Stop trying to make Superman dark brooding and gritty. You've already got a hero like that DC. I know the Nolan films made a stupid amount of money but we neither need nor deserve a slightly more colorful Batman.
For fuck sake, MAKE HIM SUPERMAN! HOW HARD IS THAT TO UNDERSTAND?
I always figure if they made him less OP he's more interesting. If he couldn't fly, just jump a building? Run faster than a train, blah blah. Bullets hurt and bruise but don't kill. Make him so he can get hurt. Alien with ultra dense atomic structure comes to earth.
The Daily Planet is owned by NewsCorp. General Zod is elected President. Lex Luthor is Elon Musk. Lois Lane is an antI-vaxxer. C'mon DC... this stuff writes itself!
Maybe they should try making him black, androgynous, and/or a woman. Those things seem to be very popular these days.
You know I didn't like Superman earlier. But when I saw man of steel, it made me a Superman fan.
So the studio tasked with bringing DC characters to the big screen, doesn’t know how to make probably the most famous and enduring, comic book superhero ‘relevant to modern audiences?’ Okay. Just hand the reigns over to Bob Iger and Kevin Feige over at Disney then.
Focus more on Clark Kent, just keep him a general nice guy Not every damn superhero has to be problematic
Ummm you guys realize Superman is not an actual person...right?
He's literally an immigrant who wants to help people wtf
Scrap this garbage
Haven't they already made a current Superman movie?
As much as I hate what Snyder did to Batman, I honestly liked Superman in Man of Steel and even Batman v Superman. Sure, it’s not the definitive Superman, which I wouldn’t mind seeing portrayed on the big screen, but it wasn’t bad. Just different.
Sure. Just make him black or a woman.
It’s because they haven’t known what to do with him for decades. People are responding to this like he was written and handled brilliantly up until MOS, which is far from the truth. This is an old struggle that only comes from ignorance of character.
I’ll start it for you DCComics lands in Mexico, makes his living as a strong but so so wrestler - it’s how he gets the suit. Decides to head north can’t get over a wall - anger triggers his superpowers and he smashed it down and heads for the super villain in the White House ...
Just don't overthink it and make him a boy scout. Superman is the guy who would never do the wrong thing, and would do anything in order to protect the world and humanity. That's it. Show him being nice to people. Reread All-Star Superman if you can't figure it out.
Easy.
Maybe just don't make another for the sake of making it?
Just keep Henry and hire a good director. It's simple as that
lol just make injustice... simple as that
They could start by understanding that Clark Kent is his costume. Superman and all his power is actually who he is. The spaceship/suit discovery scene in MOS should have happened when Clark was around 15.
Make his suit look right, and make him a nice guy who saves people. Don’t fix what wasn’t broken.
Put Superman back on the shelf for 30-40 years. His story is overdone. We don’t need anymore “man of steel” reboots, or expansion stories. Same goes for Batman Instead, invest the effort into other characters — Green Arrow, The Flash, Wonder Woman, Stargirl, Hawkman, etc
Did they never watch Smallville? You have to give the character personal struggles even if they are over-powered Or you focus a bit more on the companions and have Superman be the hammer for all the problems. If Overlord & One Punch Man can be good, so can Superman.
Make the person look more like trump..
Here’s a plot twist, he later on identifies as non-binary and uses ze and zir as personal pronouns.
here's a start. Keep the property away from Snyder
Have him punch Batman in the face. It's that simple. Just have him punch Batman in the face until money falls out.
Maybe a musical..
Why don't you base it on the source material? I hear there's quite a bit to work with.
If Marvel could do it with Captain America, DC has no excuse.
It’s almost as if Superman no longer sees the need to save a species hellbent of destroying itself. 🤷🏾♂️
I will write it i have seen enough to make a good Superman movie
He doesnt even fuckin smile. Hes supposed to be a symbol of hope, hes just placid strong guy that kinda cares
Have him played by actordougjones if Flashpoint and then use that as a soft reboot to make the Henry Cavil character actually Superman hopeful and likeable.
Just hire good director and writer. Make the movie wbpictures ReleaseTheSnyderCut
Superman is literally an immigration story. Home vs heritage. Struggling to find your place in a world where you feel completely ALIEN. And thats not relevant to modern times? WHAT DO YOU MEAN?!?
Have they considered a giant spider.
Let Christopher Nolan direct few more. He will make Superman relevant forever.
Superman is a symbol of optimism and hope. Return the character to those roots & the character will be plenty relevant.
Superman vs twitter
Superman sucks
Modern audiences are essentially stupid
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go ahead and upset the fascists, someone needs to.
Simple: have him take out the trash in the white house.
Sure, the take is a steaming pile of crap, but they’re not wrong that DC Films clearly doesn’t know how to do Superman right.
Bring back BrandonJRouth and a director and script writer who understand Superman. Stop trying for edgy takes. HE'S A NICE ALIEN BOY RAISED IN KANSAS.
Greta Thunberg wearing a cape.
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Maybe try a new approach and make him not so super? Just a man in spandex, strolling around ignoring crimes and watching people fall from tall buildings
If the animated versions make it work, then surely the live action can follow suit.
Wow! What a way to be an artist, Youre supposed to just create the art then while other people figure it out and judge you for it you make another one, At least that’s what Andy Warhol said. Stop doing it the other way around, It’s embarrassing and belittling to the audience
Everyone is saying how the movie can be relatable but im sitting here asking myself 'so i really want to watch some political propaganda?' Idk man sounds like a good plot but sounds too easy to just make it a movie about politics
Even with 1000+ issues as reference?... 🤔
You know, I am available.
You should never have stopped making episodes of Justice League Unlimited you cowards
Is this real life?
just make the best version of superman that's ever been written ... the broken one. Injustice: Gods Among Us comic book version. best character arc for superman, imho. Didn't want to show the final frame of that 1st comic because it is incredibly graphic for Twitter.
Literally do the Captain America thing, but instead of being a man out of time, make him lonely last-of-his-kind kinda guy (like David Tenant Doctor Who).
Make him an anarchist. Or an antichrist.
At the end of the day, Superman is just a good person who wants to help others because it’s the right thing to do. That never stops being relevant.
Sad reflection on western society as a whole - the superhero used to be revered for using their strength and superhuman talents to help those who needed it most, combat evil, and better society. Now those heros have no place...rather than X-Men, kids want to be the $-Men.
Supe is an earnest Boy Scout do-gooder. We got libraries of edgy complicated superheroes & antiheroes. Supe's at his best when he's just a good guy.
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Maybe Kathleen Kennedy told them there's no source material
Hand em over to Marvel and see how he becomes “relevant' to modern audiences.
Here’s my thing w Superman. The immortality thing is a big problem for storytelling in the CG era. Past Superman’s worked bc it was a story of “can he get there in time” or “can he juggle the deluge of danger at once” or “how will he handle being confronted w a choice”...
Put him in the public domain and watch the creativity flourish.
Unless he’s a gender queer, Muslim, black, disabled unicorn who announces his pronouns before he saves anyone, then I don’t want to see it.
Let zack Snyder finish his trilogy. That’s what you do with Superman.
I'm gonna throw an idea out here: Make a movie based around the shift in Superman from fighting citizens to fighting supervillians. He didn't become a hero to stop supervillians, supervillians appeared because Superman exists. He's not god, he's just a nice alien trying his best.
Well, when the people behind the movie would be the actual bad guys in the movie (billionaires, CEOs, etc), you can see how they wouldn’t be quite able to wrap their minds around it.
Have they tried making half of his face cg?
I think they are over thinking this....
Perhaps it's time he plays 'God', the all-knowing sage.
they are having the PERFECT Supes right under their noses whom they wanna erase.*pun intended*
Um, Supergirl did it. Follow DC Television's examples and you are golden. So much potential in Superman. Don't make him dark and gritty to appeal to modern audiences. Make him a light in a dark world. Cowards.
By making it black Jewish trans non-binary gender fluid lesbian paraplegic otherkin furry who smashes the patriarchy of course. Duh
DC isn't good at buildups, so they might as well do freak of the week movies
We need a gay superman...still keep henry cavill as the lead
I know like 5 writers who can make Superman epic.
Virtue doesn’t follow the crowd, it leads it. Trying to be relevant instead of being good is a greed mindset and (since we are talking movies) it happens to be how art dies.
god am i just gonna have to write the whole gd movie myself? fine. fine.
I’d much rather have a much less action packed Superman movie that takes a look at his every day life of maybe stopping a mugger and instead of putting him into a coma like Batman maybe tries to help him get into a better position in life by maybe getting him a job or something
Superman is boring. To me.
Just do a KingdomCome movie, DCComics! There's enough there for three movies!
He IS an illegal immigrant after all.
After the Crisis on Infinite Earths, call Brandon Routh, he is still heir to to Chris Reeves, and is amazing...total no brainer
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Truth, justice and the American way. 🇺🇸 dcfilms
Henry Cavill is the best Superman period. DCComics , it’s your best franchise.
Strong story,strong characters (hopefully well acted) a strong villain that brings a true sense of dread and lots of great action. Stop overthinking it,that been done too much with other movies recently and they are a mess.
Maybe they could create something original for once.
Make it about Superman's struggle between blending in and being normal vs. standing up for what's right. Conflicting goals between Clark and Superman.
Are they nuts? The world is crying out for a hero more than ever these days. I'll write the bloody movie! Superman has never been more relevant.
Make him a strong independent woke black woman
Give it to marvel. I bet they’d figure that shit out REAL QUICK
Easy, 👬. There ya go.
They mean woke.
maybe dont make him a dark asshole?
Have it be written by, off the top of my head, Geoff Jahn, Dan Jurgens, or Patrick Gleason and Peter Tomasi and they’d be off to a damn good start by getting the characters right from day one
I have an idea....STOP
Why does he have to be 'relevant '? It should be fine as long as the story is solid and Clark Kent is a likable, well rounded character
Hint: have a story. Superman movies haven’t been telling stories lately. Quit trying to copy Marvel, they’re not actually good movies.
Let AngryJoeShow school them
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Give him anxiety & an overwhelming student debt to deal with
Not relevant? Bullshit! I call Man of Steel a masterpiece.
😂😂😂 Marvel has made 3 movies about a Norse god and DC can't figure out a character created in the last 100 years.
myraysatu1 they gonna ruin it too
Since when is classic not relevant?
ReleaseTheSnyderCut 🙏❤
It's already been done by ZackSnyder. If warnerbros wants again to make Superman relevant then give this guy Superman.
Have they thought about -- and I know this is kind of a wild idea -- asking the audiences?
Bring Richard Donner and Geoff Johns to write a script, loosely based on Superman: Secret Origin, and choose a director who is fan of the character, and had optimism on his heart.
Hand him over to the Russo brothers. They worked magic on Captain America, I'm sure they could do the same with Superman!
He was relevant WB and you fucked him up. Great job!! Just bring back Henry and Zack and we will forgive you
Hagan a Superman un villano.
Wait, they are still going after Marvel style?
Oh idk, maybe just worry about telling a compelling story and trust 'modern audiences' to be capable of appreciating that on its own merit?
Easy have Zack Snyder make more Superman movies.
Just Release the fucking Snyder Cut, BringZackBack and continue his vision!
That misaligned enblem...
Finish the ZackSnyder story 🤷🏻♂️
The only way is to make him LGBTQ+ and spend the entire movie complaining about white males. It's really the only way
Dude. brianmbendis A little help here. Seriously. Zero snark.
Man of Steel already did that
It's already relevant. Ignore the 'only Reeve's Superman' man babies and wbpictures just give us MOS2 already!
He is relevant in MOS and BvS, enough with excuses.
it is relevant. They just dont want to accept it
ZackSnyder did it. warnerbros wbpictures just keep it. Simple.
thatnewbs Sigh. ItsMrZachary
May be if they ReleaseTheSnyderCut!!!!!
Original custom s the best.should have never changed.
Yes, I confirm☝️This is not a study error👌this is a problem in the difficulty of modern audiences👎🍭teenager. Darkness doesn't suit the Superman. It takes time and try to bring back the Classic Kal-El🔝🙌
Superman made 600 mill for the first DC extended... are you going to judge the character based on that outing... DC comics had an issue with this why don’t you just ask Jimlee
WTF? MOS was good! Yes, they undermined Supes in BVS (TC) and screwed JL. The MOS suit was magnificent & powerful. Superman is more relevant than ever and we need a MOS2 movie now more than ever. WB just need director/writer who is a good story-teller and is passionate about it
it’s easy: BringZackSnyderBack ReleaseTheSnyderCut
Maybe WB should start stepping back and let the director do what he/she needs to do instead of pushing and forcing things. Justice League should've waited until 2018. In 2017 we could've had The Flash, Cyborg, and Aquaman.
Superman and Batman are like the two only heroes who are so easy to make a movie on, they have so great stories alone and together and they can easily be translated to modern society problems. DC already burned Doomsday which could have been a great history for a sequel of MoS..
make him a black guy, but they won’t 😏😏😏
MOS was a good movie! But they undermined Supes in BVS. The MOS suit was magnificent & powerful. Superman is more relevant than ever and we need a Superman movie now more than ever. Supes just needs director/writer that is a good story-teller and is actually passionate about him.
Make him a puppet to the U.S
Adapt GeofJohns 'Secret Origin' and get Brandon Routh as Superman Sophia Bush as Lois Lane And Dallas Roberts as Lex Luthor
I swear literally every decision maker at warnerbros are stone cold dopes. Just ReleaseTheSnyderCut and give Henry another Superman film.
They already did! And ReleaseTheSnyderCut
What they should do is stop listening to pathetic youtubers and fake ass journalists who call themselves bloggers , who have done everything to prop up marvel and trash dc. WB should let the filmmakers handle the films and to stop looking for shortcuts by pandering to haters
Man of Steel was the most perfect relevant Superman origin movie. It doesn’t take rocket science to just make a proper sequel to that film. ManofSteel2 Superman
Make him a poor socialist, with a victim mentality. But a compulsive consumer.
SUPERMAN is a god. What do you mean?
MOS and BvS are the highest grossing films featuring Superman. If you just sit on that wondering what you should be doing with the character then you shouldn't be running things.
Make Him act like superman maybe? Unless you want to give Batman Super Powers. Down for that
wbpictures Superman's already relevant to modern audiences. He's perfect just as Zack depicted him. Problem isnt the audiences. Its the stupid ass reviewers paid by Disney to shit on whatever DC movie you release. Even Joker was crapped on by bloggers! ReleaseTheSnyderCut
Drivel.
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Notice how people only ask these sorts of about DC stuff? Its jealousy, small minded jealousy, simple as that.
ZackSnyder already did it ReleaseTheSnyderCut
Just turn to the porn industry... im sure they can give you a storyline.
Zack Snyder made me a Superman fan; he revitalized my interest in CBMs. WB/DC films should listen to the fans instead of the critics, because they have a good, valuable asset in Zack Snyder. Bring ZACK SNYDER back! ReleaseTheSnyderCut
Doesn't know what to do with Superman? Those decision makers must be more blind than the blindest man in the world, the answer is right in front of you: ReleaseTheSnyderCut and do more Superman movies with Henry Cavill 😉
How about embracing good old “Truth, Justice, and the American Way” themes, again?
Sure, just give the bellends this shit they love jerking over. ReleaseTheSnyderCut
Make MOS2 with Cavill You big dummies
Let me tell you what needs to happen Let Cavill return and do these films - Snyder cut of Justice League and finish the trilogy - Cameo in Black Adam and/or Shazam 2 - Man of Steel stand-alone trilogy Everyone is happy and wins, simple.
Has wbpictures and DCComics not seen Man of Steel?
I know someone who xactly knows how to make Superman 'relevant to modern audiences' ReleaseTheSnyderCut DCComics warnerbros
Wth is wrong with y'all ... ?
Easy, do nothing. Give superheroes a break for a while. Give it a couple of years. Give it a rest. We don't need 4 or 5 superhero movies per year.
By saying Relevant to modern audience you mean a superman that dabs and knows how to use instagram. Lmao. A whole studio don't know what to do with their IP's. Just lmao.
From childhood in Man of Steel, to young adulthood... being in the spotlight, facing the World as an alien, and all the problems that brings... in BvS From there we would have met ‘Superman’ Just give ZackSnyder the TIME to tell a story? ReleaseTheSnyderCut wbpictures
Just produce another movie, it is that simple.
ReleaseTheSnyderCut
ReleaseTheSnyderCut
Simple BringBackZack
He is relevant. He is the prime example and definition of a hero. Just simply, make a good movie.
Since everyone seems to be so damn sensitive just make him cry all the time
Superman is fine the way he is... just need better films, effects and graphics
It doesn't even stop at Movies. Warner Brother Games have been trying for a sandbox Superman game since 2014 and have consulted multiple studios for it. Multiple projects were scrapped into development.
Considering they succeeded but then let cry baby nostalgia morons make them change it all into an embarrassment WB deserve the current predicament they find themselves in.
Felt relevant to me. If anything if you stop bucking and backpedaling only to wait 10 years before doing the next reboot and actually have a consistent time table of releases to cultivate and create a fully formed character with an arc, maybe he’d feel fully relevant.
They need to do the super friends and legion of doom
ZackSnyder already fixed all these problems. I didn’t care about Superman until I watched Man of Steel. Superman is one of my fave characters now ReleaseTheSnyderCut
Zack Snyder did just that! BringBackZack
LOL there planet ended because of how they refused the signs of science
Man of steel exists sir.
They did it with Man of Steel (perfect Superman origin story movie) and then they started listening to basement dwelling bloggers who are still sleeping in Christopher Reeve's pajamas and then they made josstice league
Just sale DC to .Disney please so we can do the comicbook world proper
There is a guy called ZackSnyder he made Superman relevant and relatable, he is the answer to that problem. ReleaseTheSnyderCut
im just in awe of that suit while y'all are arguing in the comments lol
MarvelStudios made no talent hacks like Hawkeye and Black Widow relevant and dcfilms can't figure out what to do with the greatest super hero of all time 🤦🏽♂️
Do you mean 'relevant to modern audiences' like 'Terminator: Dark Fate'?
ReleaseTheSnyderCut ask Snyder. He seems the only one who knows what to do with this character
He’s a guy that just wants to do good. How hard is that? Also: keep Goyer away.
Mos and BvS are endlessly debated to this day. ZackSnyder made Superman relevant again. ReleaseTheSnyderCut
He reminds me the main character from Gladiator. Masculine, with huge power and almost unbeatable. But empathy occurs because he lost everything and driven by revenge.
HE. IS. RIGHT. HERE. HOW IS HE NOT RELEVANT Y'ALL CHUCLEHEADS ARE HAVING DISCOURSE OVER HIM EVERY WEEK
Zack Snyder knows warnerbros att Bring him back and ReleaseTheSnyderCut
DC films can’t make a tall muscled Kansas raised reporter that is also an superhero immigrant relevant to American audiences? Whoever it is y’all listening to, you need to stop.
I despair. We just had EXACTLY THAT! We had a take that took away the trappings and put the man back in Superman. We dropped an archetype into the real world & the results showed us a side of ourselves we didn’t want to see. People don’t like challenge they like jokes & nostalgia
Make him Super ManWoman.
They can do something about it, there's lots of comics,origins about him,pick one story line and just focus on it & Specially a Strong Villan like Thanos,So,they can setup future Justice League movie SuperMan ManOfSteel was so good film,what happens now
AS John Ford said, 'When in doubt shoot a western.' It's what Star Wars did with Mandalorian. Might as well do it with Sup. There's a comic book issue with a cowboy blasting Sup. in the head and turning him old. Check that one out. When in doubt shoot a western.
Whatever they do, they should be willing to bend over backward to keep Cavill on. They could try Into the Superverse, but live-action instead of animated. 🤷♂️
Why have Superman’s character change? Everyone knows who Superman is and everyone else needs to adapt to his character. Keep Superman the same. dontchangesuperman
One solution : ReleaseTheSnyderCut
Put Nolan back and proceed with Man of steel sequence alone. And leave it 'dark' as much as people criticized it at the time for being an adaption to the screen
Terrorism, facism, racism, sexual harassment? DCComics you can do better. Go!
Make him gay
They should make a movie where Goku destroys superman and ends him once and for all 😴
Superman is not a hero because he has seemingly unlimited power, he is a hero a 'super' man because he has unlimited power and it does not corrupt him. That's how you make superman relevant
I got an idea. Leave him alone. He's Superman. He doesn't need to be 'relevant' especially to the men & women numbnuts of today. Let him retire & die with dignity before they ruin him like they did Batman. Like all the other older franchises have been ruined.
Let ZackSnyder comeback and do is job!
Yep. Nice guy is dead.
Sell it to Marvel. I think they know what to do
They could allow the guy to finally get laid
How about: Less sulking Less darkness More humour More personality for the man of steel
let him fight terrorism
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The problem is they did make the character relevant and many fans were hypocritical about it, instead wanting stuff from earlier
Superman has always been too perfect. No-one can relate. Hard sell.
The man has too many powers, for starters: remove the time traveling ability he had in the (btw, brilliant) Donner movies
He could rescue refugees from fascist governments- help people flee safely and rehumanise the oppressed
tell them to get into contact with me this is literally my forte i am the BEST AT THIS
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