It's Official: Nolan Rebooting Superman

[rocketpig]

d21lewis said:

rocketpig said:

Yes. The importance of Superman to the world would have to be firmly established, much like Nolan did with Batman at the end of the Dark Knight. Most of the Doomsday story revolved around everyone else in the Justice League (the bit players, anyway) getting their asses handed to them and the entire world sitting in horror as they watched Superman battle a mindless monstrosity and ultimately die.

That storyline rocked!  Why?  Because the death of Superman was just the beginning.  It was the way the world reacted after he died and the way that he returned that was the REAL story.  It was worth Superman's death to get to the awesome Reign of the Supermen storyline.  If only the direct to DVD story matched (at all).  Too much for a feature film, though.

I liked SOME of the Reign of Supermen storyline. The Superboy kid was annoying and Steel was pretty ridiculous. Most of what I enjoyed was the fallout from Supe's death and how the public dealt with it. That was where they got a lot of things right.

I didn't bring that stuff up because, like you said, there's just no feasible way to work it all into a film.