Imagine if JJ Abrams had "Superman" next....

[Silver Surfer]

 

[Ain't That Something]

I loved M.O.S.

 

[Kill Dat Noize]

i actually read that abrams was at one point attached to superman and that his story kinda resembled MOS in that it was a more grounded take on the story... although i imagine it would have been done with a lot more class and a lot more imagination.

 

[wire28]

that would be my worst fear marvel might actually have a challenge then

 

[Jello Biafra]

i actually read that abrams was at one point attached to superman and that his story kinda resembled MOS in that it was a more grounded take on the story... although i imagine it would have been done with a lot more class and a lot more imagination.

You would have been very, very wrong then.

JJ Abrams was going to make Superman: Flyby



Moriarty at AICN reviewed the script Abrams wrote and this was the most egregious thing about Abrams version of Superman.

Y’see, after all the Kryptonians are dead, Superman’s getting ready to go back home. He’s gonna go to Krypton because the Prophecy says so. Never mind the fact that he won’t have any superpowers back there. Never mind the fact that we DON’T FREAKING CARE about what happens on Krypton. That’s the set-up for part two, and Superman is in midst of his tearful farewell when Luthor shows up.
And that sinking feeling I got earlier came back. I knew it before it even happened. That thing I was so afraid of... Abrams is going to go for it, I thought... and I kept reading, almost peeking at the pages between my fingers...
Luthor tells Superman that he has come for him. And not in the way he thinks, either. He begins to rant about what a “goddamn spectacular job” he’s done, rambling like he’s lost his mind.
LUTHOR
The good soldier. The loyal. The dedicated. The tenacious. That’s me. When others would have quit – when others have. I kept up the charade. Following orders that made me sick! To impersonate the very thing I despise most in the universe.
(to Lois, with disdain)
Those like you.
And by now, I was practically screaming at the script. “NO! DON’T DO IT! DON’T DO WHAT YOU’RE GOING TO DO, YOU STUPID FREAKIN’...”
LUTHOR
I was hoping to do this on a slightly larger scale, SUPERMAN... but here we are. And the only way for me to be the good soldier is to tell you the truth.
(intense, evil beat)
No, that pod the CIA recovered... it wasn’t yours.
A long insane dramatic beat – and just as we get it:
LUTHOR
IT WAS MINE!
And then Luthor flies. Seriously.
And he and Superman have yet another superfight.
Because 30 pages of superfights wasn’t enough.
And because someone, somewhere, for some completely mystifying reason has decided that it would be a good idea to make Lex Luthor a superpowered 50 year old who knows better kung-fu than Superman.
In the long history of really stupid ideas in bringing superheroes to the bigscreen, this far surpasses the Amazing Hummingbird Man and Hot Guy from one of the lousy HULK drafts. I honestly think this is worse as an overall idea than Arnold’s Mr. Freeze and a bat credit card.
He’s Lex Luthor.
And he’s got superpowers. And he flies.

It sounded like it would have been a clusterfukk.

And count me in as loving Man of Steel flaws and all.

 

[Kill Dat Noize]

okay that sounds pretty awful, I take it back.

let someone else write the story, he could direct.

 

[Silver Surfer]

okay that sounds pretty awful, I take it back.

let someone else write the story, he could direct.

 

[Ain't That Something]

You would have been very, very wrong then.

JJ Abrams was going to make Superman: Flyby



Moriarty at AICN reviewed the script Abrams wrote and this was the most egregious thing about Abrams version of Superman.


It sounded like it would have been a clusterfukk.

And count me in as loving Man of Steel flaws and all.

I would have seen that movie just for the fukkery of it all
Like that nikka said batman and robin level of fukcery

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

You would have been very, very wrong then.

JJ Abrams was going to make Superman: Flyby



Moriarty at AICN reviewed the script Abrams wrote and this was the most egregious thing about Abrams version of Superman.


It sounded like it would have been a clusterfukk.

And count me in as loving Man of Steel flaws and all.

Wow thats AWFUL. almost as bad as nick cage superman

 

[Ain't That Something]

Wow thats AWFUL. almost as bad as nick cage superman

shyt sound worst breh. I mean Kryptonian fukking Lex

 

[92Inc]

shyt sound worst breh. I mean Kryptonian fukking Lex

And alien kung-fu

 

[TheGodling]

The problem with a Superman movie will always be that too many of the people involved in the production do not understand the character, at all, and then try to make a movie based on the Superman they think is different from the character they don't even understand.

 

[MartyMcFly]

that would be my worst fear marvel might actually have a challenge then

You didn't read that script did you?

You would have been very, very wrong then.

JJ Abrams was going to make Superman: Flyby



Moriarty at AICN reviewed the script Abrams wrote and this was the most egregious thing about Abrams version of Superman.


It sounded like it would have been a clusterfukk.

And count me in as loving Man of Steel flaws and all.

Exactly

 

[wire28]

You would have been very, very wrong then.

JJ Abrams was going to make Superman: Flyby



Moriarty at AICN reviewed the script Abrams wrote and this was the most egregious thing about Abrams version of Superman.


It sounded like it would have been a clusterfukk.

And count me in as loving Man of Steel flaws and all.

a fresh twist on an old story abrams would have won again

 

[KravenMorehead™]

You would have been very, very wrong then.

JJ Abrams was going to make Superman: Flyby

Moriarty at AICN reviewed the script Abrams wrote and this was the most egregious thing about Abrams version of Superman.


It sounded like it would have been a clusterfukk.

And count me in as loving Man of Steel flaws and all.

I was about to mention that script.

For me I wanted Man of steel to be a cross between Jeph Loeb/Jim Lee Superman and Grant Morrisson/Frank Quitely All-Star Superman mood and sensibility wise.

Snyder has this drab color pallete thing that he does which I despise. Superman should be a mix of lush and vibrant, instead they infused it with Nolanverse DNA and wrote Superman begins...