Is it a bird? Or a plane? Or does James Gunn's Superman have the potential to be an amazing comic book movie? As we've mentioned before, Superman as a character is tricky to adapt. We've also been pretty doom and gloom about the state of comic book movies as a whole, pondering if there will ever be a film that is satisfying to audiences that truly captures the essence of what makes comic books so great and fun. It's not that we haven't had amazing comic book movies, but it was starting to feel like the farther away we got from what we expected in "movie" storytelling versus what is par for the course in traditional "comic book" storytelling. Well, if the first two minutes and 20 seconds we've seen of James Gunn's Superman are an accurate indication of the final feature arriving July 11, 2025, then we're about to see some good-golly proficiently adapted comic book storytelling in film, my friends. Let's break down why the Superman trailer is bleeding with hope for the future of comic book storytelling on the big screen.James Gunn is Free James Gunn is four for four in his adapted characterizations of superheroes with Guardians of the Galaxy, Suicide Squad, Peacemaker, and, most recently, Creature Commandos (with an honorable mention to Super). That being said, he's been slightly constrained in his earlier group outings within the confines of the Marvel Cinematic Universe model of storytelling, as well as fitting Suicide Squad within the framework of...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Thursday, 19 December, 2024