Man of Steel 2

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

You know how leftists like to hijack an existing comic book character and either replace them with a new character who is LGBTQ and/or a different race, or simply force an existing character to be LGBTQ, because they know that on its own without that boost it'll probably fail? It's exactly the same principle.

i.e., "I really, really want to make a 'powerful' movie that makes a lot of money about systemic racism, how Trump supporters are nazis, and what a saint George Floyd was... but I know nobody will see it because nobody ever sees those kinds of movies (not in big numbers). But now if I package that movie inside of a 'Superman' relaunch movie! Ho-hooo!"

They're in for a rude awakening, because most Superman fans don't want "Black Superman". And most of them won't go see it on principle. Not because "they're racists" but because Superman Is A White Guy. They see through the pandering nonsense you mentioned, as it's very transparent and people aren't generally AS stupid as Hollywood thinks.

For ten years, fans have been bemoaning the state of Superman movies by claiming that MoS and BvS "didn't respect the source material". They're wrong, anyone who actually reads comics can write a book on WHY they're wrong, but whatever, that's what their Big Complaint was.

And now they do THIS? Ohhhh YEAH, those people who claim that they hated MoS and BvS because they "didn't represent the source material properly" are just gonna LOVE this.

Should just go ahead and make "Hancock 2" instead, if they wanna scratch that itch. Will Smith's been doing a whole lotta nothin' lately.