Posted on 02/26/2021 12:48:57 PM PST by Bratch
Acclaimed essayist and novelist Ta-Nehisi Coates has been hired to pen the script for a feature reboot of Superman that will be produced by J.J. Abrams.
“To be invited into the DC Extended Universe by Warner Bros., DC Films and Bad Robot is an honor,” said Coates in a statement to Shadow and Act, a website dedicated to the African diaspora in the arts. “I look forward to meaningfully adding to the legacy of America's most iconic mythic hero."
“There is a new, powerful and moving Superman story yet to be told. We couldn’t be more thrilled to be working with the brilliant Mr. Coates to help bring that story to the big screen, and we’re beyond thankful to the team at Warner Bros. for the opportunity,” said J.J. Abrams in the statement to S&A.
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i’m guessing that White Kryptonite is fatal to Black Superman, right?
Yes, indeed. I know what you’re saying. :)
After what happened with “Mr. Potato Head” (recently changed to just “Potato Head” by the toy manufacturer), I’m just happy Superman remains as such ... at least until some other grievance studies graduate with too much time and too little wisdom discovers this horrible oversight. Then we’ll have just “Super” ... or perhaps “Superit”.
This one goes back in time, to the Second Age when Sauron corrupts men and forges the rings, so it could be really interesting. Amazon wanted their own “Game of Thrones,” so some folks (including me) are worried they may push the boundaries too much with violence or sex.
As far as the diversity goes, I’m not *completely* opposed if the stories are well done, and they’re not pushing the woke agenda (at all) through the stories.
How I wish there was a director now who loved America. (I think Eastwood is retired)
DC already has a black Superman character, with the secret identity of Calvin Ellis.
If Coates wants to be “groundbreaking”, he should resurrect the superhero created by Richard Pryor in his stand-up routines: he goes by the secret identity of Clark Washington (mild-mannered custodian fir the Daily Planet), is faster than a bowl of chitterlings, is able to leap over slums in a single bound, has X-ray vision that can see through everything except Whitey, and he heroically rushes to the conflagration engulfing Warehouse 86 to save his stash . . .
So it’s the Silmarillion, then?
I’ll wait until some people watch the first season, and see what they think.
As for fantasy, I liked Tolkien and a series of books called Dragonlance by Hickman and Weis.
They tabled the “Black Batman movie” because the lead couldn’t go into a liquor store without robbin...
Not the first age — it’ll focus on the Second Age and (the rise and fall of?) Numenor. So, the latter parts of the Silmarillion, with maybe some influence or stories from Unfinished Tales and Lost Tales.
As long as it’s well done it should be an interesting series.
superman is black and enslaves whitey
You and I have the same tastes, then. Tolkien is really the ONLY fantasy I ever truly enjoyed — and still to this day — but the Dragonlance series wasn’t bad. In general, I don’t really enjoy fantasy or sci-fi all that much — I’m mostly a history (WWII) geek.
Superman is one of the great American fictional characters. Whatever this black supremacist “creates,” it will not be “Superman.”
I found it dull because half the movie was endless CGI battles between Superman and Zod and the Kryptonians. I was fast-forwarding during those fights because they were so long and repetitive. I liked Batman vs Superman in the director's cut better than Man of Steel. Didn't care for Justice League and I didn't bother with WW84 because the word was that it sucked.
And... are you trolling me? ;-p
(Like the screen name, BTW.)
I don’t watch any movies JJ is involved with. His style relies on distracting, overdone special effects. The writer sounds like a SJW and frankly the subject sounds boring. This is exactly the movie nobody asked for.
Coates is the son of a former Black Panther according to Wikipedia.
To each his own.
I really like some sci fi books, and a handful of movies.
Especially Heinlein and PKD.
I certainly understand being into history, but I need my time away from humanity in books and movies.
Are they going to start over every 7 years?
It seems like they remake the original movie over and over again.
Fantastic 4 was into its third sequel when they started all over with #1 again.
At least a couple of decades went by after Christopher Reeves remade superman, and then they rebooted it in the 2000’s
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