Now, this is an interesting one.
In a Twitter exchange between Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts and Mark Millar, it has been revealed that Warner Bros. have plans in place for a movie based on Millar’s Superman: Red Son. After the tweets came out, Den of Geek UK‘s sources (who they say are very reliable) told them this will be a live-action movie, and not animated.
Did you hear WB pitching directors Red Son? Two diff pals in last 2 months. This truly is Putin's America.
— Mark Millar (@mrmarkmillar) June 27, 2017
Wait, really? Because I pitched it to them months ago and was told no. It's the most punk rock thing the DCEU could do in my mind.
— Jordan Vogt-Roberts (@VogtRoberts) June 27, 2017
100% agree – in the excitement for shared universes I think people forget the fundamental potency of cinema is a beginning, middle and end.
— Jordan Vogt-Roberts (@VogtRoberts) June 27, 2017
In some other tweets, Vogt-Roberts revealed his pitch was for a spin-off movie that wasn’t connected to the DCEU, and wouldn’t star Henry Cavill as Superman, or Ben Affleck as Batman.
Millar’s Superman: Red Son was a short-run comic series in 2003 which depicted an alternate reality where Kal El landed in the Soviet Union rather than the United States. The comic charted Superman’s entire career, and his battles with Batman, Lex Luthor, Brainiac, the Green Lantern Marine Corps and Wonder Woman. It was incredible well-received upon its release, with Cavill revealing in an interview that it was one of four comics that inspired his performance in Man of Steel.
UPDATE: Millar has released a statement to Den of Geek playing down his comments that the movie is in development:
“Is this something they’re genuinely planning? I have no idea. I’ve got pals at Warner Bros but never discussed it with them. I think they’re just going through their back catalogue of big books and hoping to lure in good directors as opposed to any particular interest in developing Red Son. There’s always 50 conversations for every comic book movie that gets made and as far as I know this is something that is very much just at conversation stage.”
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Would you like to see a Superman: Red Son movie? Do you think spin-off movies can exist outside of the DCEU timeline?
BAHAHHA says
This king kong director doesn’t deserve to do shit for while. Go sit down and think about the mistake you made with king kong.
chrishaagan says
WFT was wrong with it? It wasn’t a masterpiece. It was Kong smashing shit and helping humans at the end because at heart he’s a infant minded innocent who has no beef with humanity. It was dumb 40’s style matinee junk and for once Kong wasn’t left lying dead in the street, he was a hero. Didn’t expect Shawshank Redemption after Godzilla, but as a Kong fan I wasn’t disappointed. Jesus, people will shit on anything.
Mohammad Yasin says
not me I accept everything
Mohammad Yasin says
the new one was a hit sit down kid
towblerone says
“Putin’s America” These libs are more Russia-crazy than conservatives were during McCarthyism. Libs nowadays see Russians under every sewer grate and hiding out in every cup of coffee. It’s hilarious how badly they’ve fallen for fake news.
Burzghash says
lol, stupid historically illiterate cuck. Russia is not our friends. And if you think that destabilizing our country and our relationship with our long-time allies hasn’t been their goal since day 1, you’re a fucking moron.
towblerone says
FOUND ONE! lol
Joe says
Right, because Trump’s followers aren’t terrified of Mexicans, Muslims, or “Muslim-looking” people. Maybe after they beat/kill a few more Sikhs, they’ll feel safe.
towblerone says
Fear-mongering and generalizing all Trump supporters as hating foreigners isn’t helpful.
I can’t speak for every Trump supporter, but I’m certainly not terrified of anyone who wants to legally come to America, embrace the local culture, BECOME AN AMERICAN and then work hard to achieve success. I don’t support criminality of any kind, especially those who want to cut in line and trespass. My mother’s family all emigrated to America from the Philippines and did so LEGALLY out of love for the country and a desire to succeed on their own terms and all of them have.
America was always a multi-ethnic country. This isn’t necessarily a strength(individual choices are merits, not ethnicity), it’s just a bi-product of the tenets of a nation that promises that anyone who becomes a legal citizen will have a right to their own life, liberty and the ability to pursue whatever they deem as happiness. Multi-ethnic countries absolutely can work AS LONG AS THERE IS ONE UNIFIED CULTURE that we agree upon and live under.
I love Sikhs, Hindus, Buddhists, Catholics, Mormons, name your religion, however when you have an ideology like Islam whose holy book orders its adherents to spread their faith, lie and deceive in order to do so, outbreed infidels and/or kill them to conquer foreign nations, own your wife as property, kill gays on sight, THAT is fundamentally opposed to the freedoms we’re meant to enjoy as Americans. This is why we have Separation of Church and State, to keep even the Christians at bay.
You can’t have a culture without a nation and you can’t have a nation without borders. If anyone can come and go as they please you have no security. If you have no security eventually you’ll have no freedoms.
I love immigrants because I’m a first-generation American of an Asian immigrant mother and an immigrant Scots/Irish father. Invite in all of the Indians, Russians, Irish, Spanish, Australians, Thai, Chinese, Egyptians, whoever wants to come… AS LONG AS THE PROCESS IS DONE LEGALLY and those immigrants come here with the intent to assimilate, strengthen America, embrace our collective culture and become stronger together.
I have no mercy for people who want to skirt the law, trespass our borders, invade our lands, exploit the welfare system and/or seek to hurt my countrymen of all colors, genders and religions.
Not all cultures are equal, though, and whereas ours protects the rights of people to live how they want, not every other culture can boast the same. It’s those belief systems that need to be kept at bay. That’s not fear, that’s pragmatism.
My_Own_Action_Figure says
As much as I love Red Son – and I LOVE Red Son – I can’t see it working as a movie.
Not in terms of concept – that’s perfectly cinematic – but in a world where I heard people talking about how Batman Begins was a prequel to Batman ’89 and couldn’t understand why the car was different, there’s no way Mr & Mrs AverageMovieGoer will understand how Superman is suddenly Russian and not Henry Cavill anymore. Or at least think it’s a stupid reboot.
towblerone says
Agreed.
The casual viewer would just be confused and people would drag politics into it and everyone would get angry. It’d be a horrible move for WB. I’m a fan of the Red Son story but it’s not something you could sell to casuals.
DC Comics and Movies says
Just make a animated film…Henry already said he saw open to voice the role
Mohammad Yasin says
they know a spin off when they see it they aren’t stupid
-ve says
WB/DC, the one thing everyone will agree that you can do like nobody’s business, is making animated films and series. at least make some animated movies based on these incredible stories, and if you can, focus on characters other than Batman.
I want to see anims based on Superman: Earth One series. I don’t see how some people claim MoS was based on it. if that was the case, that movie would’ve been 100 times better. Snyder would’ve been in his element – just using the comic panels as storyboard, and getting credit for it.
-ve says
if WB makes Red Son part of DCEU, they will somehow find a way to turn it into another Batman movie.
chrishaagan says
I’d love to see Elseworlds movies. Speeding Bullets?