I hope they match the Super powered alien with a muscular man in a cloth suit with practical gadgets :

rather that a rubber muscle robot with electronic gizmos.

Thought I'd create a quick mockup of Affleck as Bruce Wayne/Batman that made it look serious...

Hmm he might be okay? Ledger was a joke until everyone saw him in the film, so who knows.

btw I love the idea (Above) of bringing Keaton back to play old Batman.

This video of Akira The Don's (Rapper and comic geek) wife breaking the news to him about Affleck is hilarious...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYA6bEh9T-s

I just got back from having root canal work done and I was walking through an underpass with a busker singing in the Bob Dylan mode when a wee lad ran up to him and asked, "Can you sing Batman?".

He thought about it for a microsecond or three and then I was treated to a 60's protest version of Nelson Riddle if you can picture it.

The problem is not Affleck, who can very likely do a decent or good job in this version role which they have obviously casted to have someone to banter with the young Supes.

The problem is that this is Man of Steel II.

If it works, then likely expect an Affleck directed Justice League.

They should have had three Man Of Steel films before pulling this cracker.

As long as the next one actual has a final act.

That skyscraper demolishing screensaver burning vortex crap got boring really quickly.

doubleofive said:

I was never sold on (1) Man of Steel, (2) Zach Snyder, (3) another Batman reboot, or (4) a versus movie, so adding Affleck doesn't mean anything to me.

Same here.  This isn't even a blip on my radar.  Funny how much attention it's getting.  It's a comic book film.  They're throw-away.  Watch the ones you dig, ignore the ones you don't.  No single film can ruin a character or franchise.  Unless you let it.

Anchorhead said:

 No single film can ruin a character or franchise.  Unless you let it.

Got to disagree...

1987 Superman IV*
1990 Rocky V
1995 Judge Dredd**
1997 Batman & Robin
2002 Star Trek: Nemesis

... all films that stopped franchises dead for around a decade. Until...

2013 Man Of Steel - Skipping over Superman Returns as that just killed it again ;-) (26 Year gap)*
2006 Rocky Balboa (16 Year gap)
2012 Dredd (17 Year gap)
2005 Batman Begins (8 Year gap)
2009 Star Trek (7 Year gap)

* Souring a franchise for a quarter century was testament to how awful 'Quest For Peace' was.

** My favourite comic character growing up was nearly killed off for my entire adult life because one film sucked so badly that it overshadowed everything that was great about Dredd. Thank god the latest film was awesome! :-)

If MOS2 is so terrible that it fails to perform financially as expected, it would wipe out Superman and possibly Batman with him for another decade. Let's not foget that MOS didn't set the box office on fire. It made a 200m profit, sounds good but 'Iron Man 3' made twice what MOS made at the box office and took home over 800m profit.

200m is only half the budget needed for MOS2 (Including marketing) so this franchise needs to start paying or Warner Brothers are just going to go elsewhere.

To be fair Superman 3 was pretty bad but nowhere near as astonishingly bad as Superman 4 and Superman Returns in my book is a much better film than Man Of Steel and not that bad at all.

Nemesis is almost identical to JJ's Star Trek too.

Bingowings said:

To be fair Superman 3 was pretty bad but nowhere near as astonishingly bad as Superman 4 and Superman Returns in my book is a much better film than Man Of Steel and not that bad at all.

Nemesis is almost identical to JJ's Star Trek too.

Superman3 is a great action-comedy movie, one of the best, Richard Pryor is hilarious. But as a Superman movie it falls short.

I had issues with MOS but it was action packed, epic and emotional unlike SR. MOS was just too action packed, trim out 30 mins of smashing crashing and it'll be nigh on perfect.

I know Shinzon and Nero have similarities in appearance, actions and general underwhelmingness (Nero is like Spock's nemesis). But the difference is that Shinzon is the central focus of the plot of 'Nemesis'. Where as Nero is mostly in the background and only serves to keep the central plot of our heroes coming together ticking along. If Nero vs Spock had been central to 'Star Trek 2009' I'd agree that it would have failed in the same way and for similar reasons.

btw I was reading a rumour yesterday that Bryan Cranston was going to be Lex Luthor.

Then we'd know-for-a-fact that at least MOS2's villain is going to kick ass. With one caveat, he should in know way... allow himself to be captured and imprisoned in a glass cell before detonating a bomb that destroys The Daily Planet.

doubleofive said:

I was never sold on (1) Man of Steel, (2) Zach Snyder, (3) another Batman reboot, or (4) a versus movie, so adding Affleck doesn't mean anything to me.

Same here.

doubleKO said:

Bingowings said:

Superman Returns in my book is a much better film than Man Of Steel and not that bad at all.

At least the costume was proper. Undies on the outside or GTFO.

I didn't like the collors.

Bingowings said:

doubleKO said:

Bingowings said:

Superman Returns in my book is a much better film than Man Of Steel and not that bad at all.

At least the costume was proper. Undies on the outside or GTFO.

I didn't like the collors.

They were certainly more vibrant than the suit in Meh of Steel.

What's with them making Superman so grey?

A Superman film is supposed to be bright and vibrant, the colours practically dripping off the screen. Not boring bland bleakness. Bleagh.

Suffice it to say, I won't be watch anything Batman-related with Affleck as the character.