We're going to get a lot of "Grim and Gritty Capes Are OVER" headlines without anyone realizing that it's not superheroes that are supposed to remain pure and inspirational and innocent, it's SuperMAN.
And I think that's why I get so frustrated with Hollywood's treatment of black superheroes, because it seems like the suits do not give a **** about essence when it comes to black characters.
I'm so pleased to see a back-to-basics Superman. Especially now. One that pulls from multiple generations of the character and blends it all together without the character seeming disjointed.
Kudos to the person editing those trailers! Hopefully the movie is just as good.
Your #1 is my gripe with the MCU. I don’t dig snarkastic Thor and Doctor Strange. But RDJ had a big hit with Iron Man, so everything pegged to that. Thor and Doctor Strange were always (in my experience) extremely serious characters dealing in extremely serious realms.
And the industry cannot afford that. The subgenre cannot afford that. The medium cannot afford that. Every time the audience was slightly broadened to reintroduce readers from previously shunned groups it was a hard-fought BATTLE. Women. Older readers. People of color. LGBT folks.
People cannot wrap their heads around it now, but there was a time in America when scores of people read comics and children of all backgrounds adored pulp adventures. The precursor to the superhero.
I'll admit when I learned Gunn was directing I was a little worried at first. I like every movie I've seen that he's directed but it needed to be a Superman movie and not a Gunn movie (i.e. his signature style). It seems I had nothing to be apprehensive about.
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Mainly because suits in comics don't either.
Kudos to the person editing those trailers! Hopefully the movie is just as good.
1) Heroes that are nothing like Superman changed to fit his essence and the tone of his stories.
2) A future whitewashing of the genre because people want to pin the IPs success on its original lack of diversity.
But it’s not for me anyway.