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Multiple new castings usually indicate significant reshoots... too bad. Hope there might be different cuts of the movie available on home video! But I somehow doubt it...

Yikes. Not to my taste... How did they score Johansson and Hemsworth for this?? Flop incoming? (September??) to be followed by the inevitable "serious" reboot more in the tone of the original 1986 animated movie. I'll keep my Nelson Shin/Vince DiCola/Orson Welles Unicron joint, thanks!

I guess they're going to go to the "Old Ma and Pa Kent" route...which is...I suppose...refreshing? But also antiquated a bit... but I'm sure Gunn has his ideas... Kurt Russell for JOR-EL, then?? 😁

...So where are the MOVIE sequels, huh?? Astounding that these haven't gotten made. Creative disagreements behind the scenes must be huge...

Great actor, but...wouldn't have been my choice. 🤷‍♂️

Good luck... 😁

Sure they do! It's this guy, right??? 😁

Where is this "most of the original footage being kept" info coming from? From what I'm reading, the trades are saying they are unsure how much is being kept at all...

The contracts are the contracts. Even if Disney currently owns 20th Century Fox/"20th Century Pictures", that studio entity apparently retains the film rights to all FF, X-Men, Deadpool, etc. characters so far... Would be nice to see 20th's logo be kept alive in some form...

No matter how they cast Doom, some segment will not be happy! 😁

Same as the trades recently "riffing" on Luc Besson's DRACULA, for which they claimed that Besson would "revisit the original love story of the tale, with Prince Vlad and his long-lost love" which of course had nothing to do with the original Bram Stoker novel -- similarly here, the trades are now seemingly employed with lesser-educated culturally hollow writers (and editors) who don't know how to describe the Frankenstein story -- referring to Bale's character as "Frankenstein"...when it sounds more like he is playing "the monster"?? "Frankenstein's monster"?? Come on, folks...do a little literary refreshing if you're going to constantly revisit these properties... Oh well, at least Warners now has the next-best thing to a Batman project in their Batman-less October slot... one of their most popular former Batmen coming back for one of the most famous stories ever told...

You folks are harsh, Grim. Sheesh. OK, I still think it's fair to say that "almost all" of the Batman live-action reboots include his origin. I thought we weren't judging people here based on "taste"? 😉 Don't worry, I didn't say I liked Snyder's (or even Nolan's) any better... 😁

Sorry, I guess most of The Batman was pretty forgettable to me! 😁😶

I'm assuming the translation more accurately would have James Gunn saying "flies", not "flees"...in which case he'd be revealing something more specific about a plotline...

...But every single Batman reboot has a flashback to Wayne's origins and parents' death, even if fans feel like they don't need it...It would be a real surprise to not see *any* of that, here...

On the other hand, this is no different than numerous filmmakers on high-profile genre projects over the last decade denying, denying, denying up front until the truth ultimately comes out. What I *could* see being the case is that this *is* a leaked photo, but of a prep for a flashback scene within the movie where "Superman" is first seen/revealed in public, with Kal-el's early costume. He updates his outfit some years later...with hopefully a longer cape! 😉 But I dig the logo choice. And the snow...which presumably (but not necessarily) signals some Fortress of Solitude action. And no, we haven't had any casting for any Martha/Jonathan Kent, yet, right? With Gunn being so traditional in re-establishing the rest (including Luthor's bald 'do'), it would be surprising to not see them much (or at all), here...but perhaps that's an angle he's taking?

This clearly should have been the first movie out. At least going on trailers...but that's what they want you to think... Still haven't seen Afterlife (or that "other one"), forgive me. But I'd be more interested in seeing this. Let's see if this works the same way for the general audience.

Netflix is a streamer by origin -- any titles we got from them on physical media were a bonus. Best Buy was a retail distributor; they had no hand in the organization or decision-making for any studio, other than getting some exclusive Steelbooks. Disney is now outsourcing to SONY, which yes, actually might help *increase* titles on the public market since they presumably will take away all of the physical labor work they had to preside over. Now it's really about executive sign-offs on certain titles and extras (which, give recent history, did come under some scrutiny within the studio organization, yes.) But I see hopeful things for this, as a still-semi-devoted collector of (and strong advocate for) physical media. If Disney/Sony sales go well, it will only encourage everyone else a little more to dig into catalogues.

They say it right there: They will now "either minimize the character or excise him entirely." And the claim is that they were already making moves to minimize the character after Quantumania underperformed (but seriously, folks, I don't know why they expected that movie to "explode"). My guess is that they will drop Kang, period, and the focus will shift to building an antagonist like The Beyonder as well as possibly...Doom.

Yes. Just prior to James Gunn's new role, the studio was apparently developing a Beyond-styled further Keaton live-action entry (with Michelle Pfeiffer's Selina Kyle/Catwoman set to return!), but this kind of film probably has the potential to do even better!

Half of the press doesn't, either. "How does it feel to join the Marvel Universe??" they continue to ask...

Let's not get our Batgirls and BatWOMANs confused, now... 😉 But they *both* were kind of "smoking guns" recently for Warner Bros.

Haven't caught up with the last season, yet, but from the first two seasons, it is a good show, and yes, a damn sight better than any recent seasons I'd seen of the other CW DC superhero shows. But they were already cutting costs, and as I said in another thread here, Warner Bros. surely A) didn't want to be embarrassed again like during the SMALLVILLE/Superman Returns competition that happened, and B ) Yes, surely Zaslav and/or Gunn were involved in making the decision here, as others have said, Zaslav has been very clear about his feelings on this matter in interviews already! I also think it's amazing that it's even getting a 4th season!

Oh, they realized how good the show is? 😁 No, seriously folks, the show was already being shaved down in terms of budget and the unsure future of THE CW. Plus... Warners learned from their SMALLVILLE experience! 😁 They're not afraid of "competition" per se...but in the off-chance that Gunn's film underwhelms, they don't want the same kind of situation, again -- SMALLVILLE lasted 10 years on-air and is *still* loved and talked about to this day, while SUPERMAN RETURNS lasted...maybe 2 or 3 in mass cultural consciousness.