Warner Bros. plans 'Superman vs. Batman' Movie

ReadParse writes "The Sacramento Bee is running an AP story about Warner Bros' plans to produce a Batman vs. Superman movie. It's kind of hard to imagine anybody but Christopher Reeve as the Man of Steel -- somebody check Michael Keaton's schedule."

Gnutella developer Gene Kan, 25, commits suicide

[Anonymous Coward]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/ 20020710/people_nm/kan_1

What is more newsworthy? The story of a great programmer who killed himself or this stupid movie?

Wolfgang Petersen also directing 'Ender's Game'

[Bonker]

Which, in my humble opinion, going to be a lot more interesting than a fanpiece like 'Superman Vs. Batman'. Well, if you get to make both, why not?

The problem with the Ender's Game movie is that the studio is apparently trying to submarine Petersen's efforts into getting a cast that he feels is realistic for the story. You can read the AICN rumour here: http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=12681 [aintitcool.com]

Essentially, it boils down to the fact that Petersen wants to include a racially mixed cast to reflect the in-book and real-world race ratios at the time Ender's Game is supposed to be set. The studio has vetoed his plans claiming that white audiences won't want to go unless the adults in the movie are all white.

From the rumour:

He was flat out told "Not a chance in hell. There will be a handful of token characters from other races but every other child will be white." As the studio execs pointed out, if there are too many background characters that aren't white, white people will be afraid to go see it.

This puts "Ender's Game" on hold

[Lumpish Scholar]

According to http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/eo/ 20020709/en_movies_eo/10217 [yahoo.com], "Petersen says he will temporarily shelve his other Warners projects--the epic Trojan War and an adaptation of Orson Scott Card's sci-fi novels Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow--and will begin working on Superman vs. Batman."

Re:A serious reply: Would a superheroine movie sel

[JoeBuck]

Well, people watch this show [buffy.com]. The original Buffy movie was a joke, of course, but the TV show takes things quite seriously.

Re:sequel to Dark Knight?

[3Y3]

The 2nd part of the Dark Knight story line is called 'The Dark Knight Strikes Again', you can find more information on it at:

http://www.dccomics.com/features/dk2/dk2.html

I personally don't really like the art in this one, but the fact that the story line is top notch more then makes up for it.

Re:How is this a fight?

[starvingartist12]

In the relatively recent JLA comic story arc writen by Mark Waid, called "Tower of Babel", a villain breaks into Batman's secret logs of all his teammates and uses it to systematically defeat every member of the Justice League of America.

Batman never talked about himself in the JLA, but often coaxed little pieces of information from his teammates. He secretly worked on "protocols" for defeating them. Batman made sure he could stop any of the JLA, and he thought they were foolish if they weren't doing the same.

His tactics:

Aquaman - Made him fear water, which he needs to live.
Green Lantern - Blinded him, leaving him unable to create anything with his ring
Flash - Created a vibration bullet that doesn't phase through the Flash, leaving him subjected to light speed epileptic seizures.
Wonder Woman - Subjected her to a virtual unending combat.
Martian Manhunter - Created nanites that embed themselves to his skin, making him a human flame (with fire being his weakness)
Plastic Man - Froze and shattered him

and of course...

Superman - Synthesized a red kryptonite, which left Superman in tremendous pain.

While Batman wasn't the one to use these tactics, his friends felt betrayed, cheated and physically scarred.

Re:How is this a fight? (Hint: it was, Batman won)

[Kwil]

Well.. what wasn't mentioned is Batman did have a wee bit of an advantage in the Miller books.

Superman had just recently been at ground zero of a multi-megaton nuclear bomb, one that kicked up enough dust that there was next to no sunlight getting through to the earth. Being that sunlight is what powers Superman, he was in a weakened condition to begin with.

Plus, Superman didn't actually want to kill Batman - he was just there to "bring him in", and considering that Batman was in his elder years in the DKR, Superman was probably holding back considerably.

Mix this with Batman being in a veritable tank of a suit and using Superman's known weaknesses (such as they are) including electricity, sonics, and of course kryptonite (which in the words of the comic "The stuff took years and millions of dollars to synthesize, but luckily I had both")

Put it all together and you wound up with a situation where Batman could beat Superman.. if only just barely.