Lamer than a speeding bullet: why the Superman trailer is cinematic Kryptonite
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Oh Superman, what have they done?. Now while any new take on superheroes, any of the endless variations of these characters, the reboots and reinventions and recastings, are always fun to see in the first trailers and shouldn’t be judged too much out of context of the actual film… this new Superman looks bad. Very bad.
This is the first glimpse we have had of James ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ Gunn’s DC Universe, with the former Marvel man now firmly in the hot seat at the rival comic company and with a long schedule of TV and films ahead. And judging by the trailer, this is a firm step away from the previous DC Universe, which was dark and gloomy, mostly presided over by director Zack Snyder. It notoriously paled in comparison to Marvel’s record-breaking Avengers and Spiderman and Guardians films, which were playful and self-aware in contrast to DC painting itself into a corner with ever more serious and darker takes on Batman and Superman et al, until there was no fun left at all. Justice League? Crikey.
While Batman decided it hadn’t had enough of trying to be the darkest thing ever – and Matt Reeves’s The Batman with Robert Pattinson actually thrived in descending to Seven levels of grimness, followed by The Penguin’s success in doing The Sopranos meets Scarface in hell – Superman, now played by David Corenswet, is clearly going in a different direction….
