SUPERMAN Movie Script Review!! (Krypton doesn't explode)(Lex Luthor an alien)?

Aint It Cool News ^ | 9/23/02 | Moriarty

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I don't remember who said it, but as someone once pointed out: "Sure, Lois Lane is Superman's girlfriend... but he gave the fancy watch to Jimmy."

Of course he did.

Superman was a red blooded hetero and every red blooded hetero knows that, if you gave a secret signal watch to your GIRLFRIEND she'd be using it to check up on you every fifteen minutes:

"Superman, honey, be a dear and run to Paris and pick up some fresh brie for me....can you drop off this dress at the dry cleaners....why haven't you called...Why are you so distant lately...We never talk anymore...what do you mean you're on a case...all you ever think about is your career....etc."

;-)

[Steve Van Doorn]

very sad.

[B-Chan]

Touché.

[Darth Sidious]

Dear God... this sounds like a worse train wreck than Darren Aronofsky's screenplay for "Batman Year One". That abortion of a script had the Penguin as a drug lord, alcoholic Gordon, and a black "jive-talking" Alfred who, when Bruce asks him how the new Batman suit looks, replies "slammin'!"

[Johnny Shear]

I like the overall "New" story...I don't have a problem with any of it...

The only problems I have are the GOOFY parts...Superman coming back to life and Lex Luthor being a Superman himself. I'm quite sure they'll fix those two parts...They're both too GOOFY to NOT fix!

Back to the "New Story", or changing how things happened before...I don't have a problem with it...Kind of like Planet of the Apes...They changed a lot of that and it was still great. IMO.

[Oztrich Boy]

Wow!! There are going to be some SUPER Special Effects here!!! More FX!!! This is the way to Go!!!!

On thing i really liked about Lois & Clark was that they made Clark the suave confident one, and supes the one who was slightly unsure about himself.

As Clark explained it to Lois after (he said: Superman can't to that. - she said: What do you mean Clark, you are Superman)
"No Lois, Superman is just what I do. Clark is who I am."

He's been Clark all his life. Superman is the disguise. And it's his humanity that makes him a hero, not the sub-adolescent power fantasy of this script.

[Oztrich Boy]

Oh yeah. The first line is like sarcasm.

[Billy_bob_bob]

If Hollywood can consider "Iron Man" for a movie, then by golly they can consider David Boswell's "Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman" for a movie. A Reid Fleming movie would be great.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

If the guys making this Superman movie were making Reid Fleming, they'd turn Reid into an appliance repairman or something other than a milkman.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Dear God... this sounds like a worse train wreck than Darren Aronofsky's screenplay for "Batman Year One". That abortion of a script had the Penguin as a drug lord, alcoholic Gordon, and a black "jive-talking" Alfred who, when Bruce asks him how the new Batman suit looks, replies "slammin'!"

The good news is that, I think, that Batman script is out. The bad news is, I think, they canceled it to make way for this film.

[TC Rider]

Jimmy Olson's boyfriend?!?!?

But, is he still Superman's pal?

[TC Rider]

Bizarro

Of course, that's it, Bizarro is the producer.

Real World: Krypton explodes
Bizarro World: Krypton doesn't explode

Real World: Lex human
Bizarro World: Lex alien

Unless of course, Mxylplyx has something to with this. (yeah, I know I misspelled it)

[TC Rider]

BTW, I think this whole story line sucks.

I read the script for Superman Lives with Doomsday back whenever and I had problems with that too, but in hindsight, that was like Shakespeare compared to this.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Yep.

This is Bizarro world.

"Me big Hollywood producer. Me know way to hit movie is to make bad movie that all fans not want to see. Me so happy I could cry."

[Behind Liberal Lines]

According to Superman Cinema

[Warner Brothers executives are] absolutely furious at Aint It Cool News' review of the script and [the studio] is complete panic mode. Heads are rolling and the entire studio is in turmoil. It seems they are scared to death they may have another BATMAN & ROBIN situation on their hands (they do) where negative buzz kills the film before it is even released. This time before it is even shot! The entire project is now in jeopardy and that they may have to throw out the entire script and start over.

Someone who HATED the script and fought against it is the one who leaked it. But basically, there are a few people in the company who understand how bad the script is and that it will be a disaster the likes of which the company has never seen. We're talking a "CUTTHROAT ISLAND" sized bomb.

The Aint It Cool News review is 100% correct.

By the way, the studio heads, many of them have never seen the Donner film and do not know ANYTHING about the origins of SUPERMAN, which explains why they loved the Luthor is an alien concept.