Comic Creators Respond to Warner Bros’ ‘Dark Superman’ Idea

August 28, 2008

Filed under: Action, Warner Brothers, Celebrities and Controversy, Fandom, Newsstand, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and Sequels

It seems the entire comic book and film world “misread” Warner Bros’ announcement that they were angling to make Superman’s reboot a gloomier one. No one seems to have read the original article slowly enough — not even MTV, Kevin Smith, Christopher Golden, Jeph Loeb, Steven T. Seagle, or Mark Waid.

The wonderful geeks over on MTV’s Splash Page chased down all the above, and asked them what they thought about the studio’s latest plans for the Man of Steel. The funniest and most extreme reaction isn’t Smith’s, it’s Golden’s! “How stupid is that? That announcement made my head spin . . . Making a dark and gritty Superman motion picture because Dark Knight made a ton of money is incredibly stupid.” Oddly, Smith is actually more tempered in his comments, and that he was all for a reboot. “You always have to always keep Superman very distinct from Batman … Superman is about the hope in people, the good in people, whereas Batman is about the more driven, hungry for justice angry side of us. [So] I don’t know if doing a dark Superman is the approach.”