…harder than an Anne Rice vampire.
Not looking forward to it. Blech.
He looks like the grungy Evil Superman from Superman III in that photo.
It’s that a bit premature based on just one dark, shadowy photo?
Looks OK to me-- like the ass-kicking Superman of the 1940s cartoons.
(But then I never liked that smirking Christopher Reeve in the role.)
I totally don’t see how you get that impression from that image.
What’s with the hair? I’m waiting to see him do a Super FistPump.
It is premature, but this is also possibly the worst picture Warner’s could have used to introduce the new Superman to the world.
It’s been well received, though it’s clearly a darkknighting of the character. Alas, comic book fans love dark and broody characters, even when they’re wildly inappropriate (e.g., Captain Marvel).
Concur with bells on.
Like I said, I’m OK with the linked picture, but the hair does look sort of…big.
Heh, I was able to deduce Zack Snyder’s involvement just from that photo. I don’t know that it means anything - it is Zack Snyder, after all.
There’s a dark and broody Captain Marvel? I am out of touch.
I see no brooding, just badassery.
If that guy had told me he wanted to be Superman for Halloween, I’d have told him that he doesn’t have the look to pull it off. For a movie? Fuhgettaboutit.
And how many bad Superman movies are they going to have to make before they give up on it?
That’s an awfully long cape. Bet that picks up a lot of dirt.
SUPERMAN RETURNS – which I agree was bad – grossed $391+ million on a budget of $200 million. CATWOMAN lost money, JONAH HEX lost money, GREEN LANTERN is on track to lose money; why the heck wouldn’t they make another bad Superman movie?
Because they lack the cojones to make a Deadpool movie?
Well, I’m still holding out for a World’s Finest movie, so I hope they don’t fuck it up too badly.
Deadpool is Marvel. Marvel has no problem making a buck off their movies: the X-Men trilogy, the Wolverine spinoff, the First Class flick, the Spider-Man flicks, the Daredevil flick, the Elektra spinoff, the Iron Man movies, the Thor movie, the Captain America movie – all turned a profit. DC? Slimmer pickings.
I daresay it’s because DC either takes its characters too seriously (thus we get all the Batman brooding and Superman-as-Jesus metaphors) or not seriously enough (thus we get all those painfully unfunny slapstick moments and campiness). Marvel is better at balancing it, thus you can have a serious scene with a out-of-left-field Renn Fair reference and not derail the whole thing.