LogFAQs > #910354500

I think this isn't a great direction, but not because it couldn't sell - but rather because it's not Superman. The overwhelming, defining characteristic of Superman is that he's a hope bringer. He's there to remind us that we can be more, that we can be better people. A movie that ends with Superman getting Ozymandias'd is a movie where Superman is proven wrong, and consequently where the message we're given is that we as a species are too flawed, too stupid, too morally weak to move past our failings without destroying each other. That's not the tack a Superman movie should be taken - you shouldn't darken Superman, not because it's impossible, but because it's precisely why the DCCU movies turned out so poorly. I don't think this would go better.
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Shine on, you crazy diamond.