-
Ever wanted an RSS feed of all your favorite gaming news sites? Go check out our new Gaming Headlines feed! Read more about it here.
-
We have made minor adjustments to how the search bar works on ResetEra. You can read about the changes here.
The new, recently announced SUPERMAN film will star a Black Superman
- Thread starter DiipuSurotu
- Start date
- Rumor
I haven't actually read any Ta-Nehisi Coates comics, but I did listen to the audiobook of Between the World and Me (narrated by Coates) and that was some next level excellence. I'm here day one for this.
The only reason that Regé-Jean Page wouldn't be the obvious choice is if he decided he wants to be the next James Bond instead.
Man I would love to see him as the next Bond.
Cool... although, I would find a Blue Marvel film so much more interesting. Kind of tired of Superman to be honest.
A Coats and Spike-Lee Blue Marvel staring John Davis Washington would lift my soul.
A Coats and Spike-Lee Blue Marvel staring John Davis Washington would lift my soul.
I have zero issue having a black Superman, however I don't know if it the right time for him. I don't trust anything WB/DC has been doing and fear it wouldn't be done properly. On top of that, all the asshats that will come out if it fails at the box office. I'd rather have a major Marvel character be swapped out, because I have way more faith in them at the moment.
If there's any truth to this I hope it isn't Clark/Kal-El. Give it to another character. Val Zod?
I still hope to see more from Henry Cavill, and was pretty sure he'd already signed up for more appearances in the future (Shazam 2? Black Adam?).
I still hope to see more from Henry Cavill, and was pretty sure he'd already signed up for more appearances in the future (Shazam 2? Black Adam?).
Last edited:
I thought Cavill had the OK from Warner to do another one, or are we getting 2 Superman movies?
Love Cavill it would be super cool if we got 2 movies! I'm not familiar with the black supermen from DC but reading the thread they seem pretty cool, I love the dude from Raised by Wolves so my vote goes to him!
Also is this really a rumor? Seems pretty confirmed going by the link posted.
Love Cavill it would be super cool if we got 2 movies! I'm not familiar with the black supermen from DC but reading the thread they seem pretty cool, I love the dude from Raised by Wolves so my vote goes to him!
Also is this really a rumor? Seems pretty confirmed going by the link posted.
Last edited:
I have no problem with this, but I did want Cavill to get some more movies under his belt before a recast
While I'm super happy that POC get more front and center roles, I just hope they take a Miles Morales approach rather than using the Kal El Story.
Also:
Also:
I never actually thought about that but it absolutely makes way more sense.
Cavill: Listen, I'd really like to continue portraying Superman.
WB: Yeah, about that...we're going with a Black Superman for this.
Cavill: Yes, I know. I'm still really interested in the role. Can we talk about how we can make it work?
WB: ......step into my office.
Coates?! That's awesome!
Bummed that this likely means no more Cavill Superman (although honestly its still possible with DC embracing a less connected film universe) but I'd love to see a black Superman story. Bring it!
Bummed that this likely means no more Cavill Superman (although honestly its still possible with DC embracing a less connected film universe) but I'd love to see a black Superman story. Bring it!
This comes across to me as "we're too lazy or just not interested in writing new headlining black characters so we'll just race swap existing white ones"
Don't get me wrong, it's still a good thing, but some real commitment to creating new PoC characters that stand on their own needs to be made.
Don't get me wrong, it's still a good thing, but some real commitment to creating new PoC characters that stand on their own needs to be made.
It's not lazy at all. Calvin Ellis is an established comic book character. Clark Kent isn't the only Superman, just like Bruce Wayne isn't the only Batman. This is really no different to a Green Lantern movie having John Stewart as the lead instead of Hal Jordan.
Dude, read up on Coates. Not only is he a black man, but he is an incredibly important voice of the community. Read Between the World and Me and The Case for Reparations. The latter directly inspired the new Watchmen show.
He's a great man.
He also cut the screen time of Kelly Marie Tran
STILL didn't do shit with Finn in TROS
Made him a janitor
And made two black characters in the movie possible relatives.
this is cool but
let's not pat folks on the back for doing the minimum every time. Especially now when even Jake from State Farm is black. Everybody hopping on the train rn.
Pretty obvious how it'll work, Clark Kent, Kara Danvers, Val Zod or Calvin Ellis, Kenan Kong, and Captain Carrot come together to fight interdimensional Dominators
meh , warner bros management has been a shit show
an more importantly they still haven't made things right with ray fisher over joss whedon, walter hamada an geoff johns, SO FUCK EM
it kinda seems like a way to erase all the bad press
an more importantly they still haven't made things right with ray fisher over joss whedon, walter hamada an geoff johns, SO FUCK EM
it kinda seems like a way to erase all the bad press
While cool. There is something funny retrospect knowing that Cyborg was being pitched as the black superhero only to get his own movie and no more cameos due to the mistreatment of Fisher. And now WB is making a black superman movie with a writer known for essays on race and producer who worked on movie series where the black actor so had issues :/
Only question is beard or no beardIf we're doing fan casts:
Y'lan Noel
or...
Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman
Well, shit! I must have been asleep when that broke. That's great news.
this is why people have been mentioning Calvin Ellis and Val-zod. They are their own characters while still maintaining the legacy of the characters that came before them.
it's the beauty of DC tbh. Most of their legacy characters are better than the original
The only reason that Regé-Jean Page wouldn't be the obvious choice is if he decided he wants to be the next James Bond instead.
I'd never heard of either of these dudes but after looking up some Youtube clips, yeah, they'd both be great fits. They've got the height, looks, and physicality plus the million-dollar smile you associate with Superman.
And yeah, Page also looks like he'd make for a great Bond as well.
This is Val Zod from Earth 2. The other option for a black Superman if they don't do Clark Kent (please don't do black Clark Kent) is Calvin Ellis, who's got an ok suit too:
Last edited:
Coates is a terrific talent, but his comic output hasn't been the greatest.
As a non American: most of the more obscure superheroes aren't widely known, so for representation a black Superman would get a lot more traction.
Always down for more Michael B Jordan. Get him on board please!
I got more faith in this than anything else DC-related aside from Pattinson Bats.
If I'm gonna keep it 100% tho, I always thought a Hispanic Superman would be more resonant.
If I'm gonna keep it 100% tho, I always thought a Hispanic Superman would be more resonant.
I get what you mean, and I don't disagree. I didn't mean it like that. I meant more, now that they have a multiverse, they embrace that and try different things. Things that they would never dare do before. They shouldn't however be going like "Don't worry, folks, this ain't the real Superman." But it's tricky. The Batman isn't set in the DCEU, but I'd be hard pressed to not call that the "main" Batman, since that's the only Batman series we'll be getting in the foreseeable future.
Last edited:
Hope they do Val Zod or Calvin Ellis, otherwise it really worries me the studio's going to veer into those old comics.
....Also back in the day why did Superman just have one of those?
Although with Coates on board I'm not TOO worried.
....Also back in the day why did Superman just have one of those?
Although with Coates on board I'm not TOO worried.
I appreciate his candor. Sounds like his issue has always been with the executives and their meddling. I s'pose that's why Ray Fisher is so understandably supportive of Snyder's cut of Justice League, because the guy literally gave up his pay to be allowed to make the movie he wanted to. Whether the movie will be any good is irrelevant, but I will be very happy to see all of the hard work minority actors put into the movie being restored.
Kinda just goes to show how much of a scumbag Whedon is too, if he played along with such blatant racism and even worked with Geoff Johns to basically cut all the black people from the movie. Plus, the fuck they mean by "act like Quasimodo"? As if being racist as shit isn't enough, they have to mock disabilities too?