quote:Originally posted by King Krypton: The "fans" will support and encourage a movie where everything about Superman is chucked to the curb (the Abrams/Peters/McG script), but change so much as a syllable from John Byrne in the comics and the "fans" are ready to burn you at the stake.
What fucking universe are you living in?
The fans tore apart the proposed script
Until JJ Abrams sweet-talked Harry Knowles into reversing his stance on the script. That pretty much shut down the protests. I've lost count of how many times I've seen people come to that script's defense since then.
quote:and have lambasted the constant attempts at getting teen heart-throbs into the lead role.
Funny. At some Superman movie sites (like Superman CINEMA, for instance), Kutcher was and still is a popular choice for the part.
quote:Fans have kept that shitty movie from getting made so far.
More like WB incompetence has been keeping that film from not happening. The fans' impact on the project is negligible as far as I can see.
quote:King, you never cease to amaze me. Birthright didn't sell. You can't blame people for not liking it.
They never even gave it a fair chance. They skinned it alive from the go-get for not being a slavish, note-for-note Xerox of John Byrne's work as soon as the perview pages hit. The book was doomed from the start simply because it wasn't the same old thing we've been getting since 1986. (Trinity suffered the exact same fate, and as with Birthright, it was unjustified.)
And if you even bothered to read my first post, I made it clear that DC's refusal to support the book is half the reason why it failed. But the selfishness and egomania of the "fans" is the other half of the reason it bombed. The "kneel before 1986" mantra strangled it in the cradle. It never ceases to amaze me how John Byrne could do whatever he wanted and get away with it, but that nobody else can do the same thing. Where's the fairness in that?
