itt: consternation and wailing about Zach Snyder's upcoming SUPERMAN/BATMAN film/sequel to MAN OF STEEL -- official title: BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE

seem like the Cyborg casting choice is solid, lookwise anyway

looking at these lists of studio releases is really depressing to me

i find them oddly comforting. where i worry about apocalyptic matters hitting us in the next five years, this gigantic corporation thinks we'll be in the mood to watch a Green Lantern reboot

haha

So Jena Malone might be playing the Carrie Kelley version of Robin in this. Bloody hell, how many new characters are going to be introduced in this thing?

i mean, there is the possibility this dystopian dark knight rises riff with cinematically unestablished heroes popping out of the woodwork will just knock america on its ass and we'll all get on board immediately

but this is the director of watchmen
and sucker punch

i guess i can say at least it's a Batman and Robin we haven't seen in the movies before (or... Cyborg? I guess?)

woops, i meant dark knight returns riff, as in the miller comic

Rumor mill time via io9 but as there's a set photo to go with it seems likely. Also, this sounds awesomely terrible.

There is also supposedly an "almost red carpet montage where the rich and famous are asked their views about the Superman who appeared in the public eye recently. The red carpet setup is attached, and will include both Bruce Wayne and Lex Luthor being asked that question by Lois Lane and Clark Kent on the carpet." The photo of the set-up, below, was briefly on Twitter.

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/954594403662748483.jpg

I keep reading things about how the new movie is going to address the impact Superman's wanton destruction in the previous installment as if this was Snyder & Goyer's intention all along, which gives me a very Wiseau-esqe "oh hi of course I intended it to be a comedy all the time" vibe.

wow that shot is exciting

all credit to 'bananadoc'

what a stunning red carpet affair lex luthor is attending

you can really see how unlimited the budget on this picture is

yeah it's cool to see in that shot how they're obviously doing a lot of practical effects

Oh man I wanna see the purple & green Lexcorp power armor

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120322064925/legosuperheroes/images/3/34/Lex_luthor_exclusive_minifig.png

Okay, turgid green and swamp mauve, for this movie's palette

i will already be seeing this crazy thing asap but if jesse eisenberg will be wearing lexcorp power armor i will be there at midnight

In more amusing news, Jason Momoa has been hanging around Detroit during filming, bought an old abandoned GM bldg and is converting it to a brewery

staffed by his finny friends

i will say mamoa is outstanding casting for aquaman. with powers as dubious in value as his, we need to believe he could fuck us up with or without them

so many awesome designs to choose from

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100813035934/dcuo/images/3/35/Lex_luther_power_armor.jpg

http://haroldjennett.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/lexluthor.jpg

http://www.toyarchive.com/STAForSale/NEW2001+/SuperPowers/LexLuthorLooseComp1a.jpg

http://files.animatedsuperheroes.com/images/pictorial/lexluthor84.jpg

never understood the utility of a suit that complete obliterates your peripheral vision

This will not be the first time a DC characters has a cinematic costume preventing its wearer from turning his head:

http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/list/f0aa9287bc22acbc01223452cbf8c62093a0b0c8.jpg

you can bet luthor was all proud of how his armor didn't have a cape and man how dumb are capes those suckers flapping around and hey something fell down behind me i can't move my NOOOOOOOOOO

This will not be the first time a DC characters has a cinematic costume preventing its wearer from turning his head

right but that was a flaw of the Batman costume specifically designed for the movie - those Luthor powersuit designs are from all over and they always feature that head-surrounding shield thing

tbh I'm sure this will be the least of this shitshow's problems

http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/list/f0aa9287bc22acbc01223452cbf8c62093a0b0c8.jpg

vs

http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/comicsalliance.com/files/2012/07/superman056.jpg

So awesome and so dumb

haha yes

too bad Snyder only delivers the latter

"now i can punch people in the sky without getting my hand all icky!"

On thing I'm amused by is that Cavill is only 6'1", while Affleck is 6'3", and Momoa is 6'4".

The latter two are considerably more ripped than the former, making me wonder if they're going to try to hide the size discrepancy at all

three inches is nothing for hollywood, if they could make bogart and bergman work they can do this

http://www.tampabay.com/resources/images/blogs/80s/57264.jpg

l-r 5'10", 5'7"

I remember reading in a question to the comics (when some of theses were actually answered) ... I think it was around 1959 or 1960. The question was about Superman but the answer came back as Supes was 6' 2" tall and weighed 235#. The Bats was 6' 4" and 245#. Most readers here weren't even a thought in their parents dreams then but I am absolutely certain of that response because I thought it was so interesting and I had a near photographic memory in my youth.

l-r 5'10", 7'9", 5'7"

http://s3.amazonaws.com/auteurs_production/images/film/jerry-maguire/w856/jerry-maguire.jpg

l-r: 5'7", 6'5"

cruise is actually standing on top of jonathan lipnicki in that photo

BTW everything about this paragraph from io9 is painful:

Deadline is reporting that Jesse Eisenberg is in negotiations with Warner Bros. to be Lex Luthor in the upcoming Suicide Squad movie. Whether or not that is going to happen is in doubt, since he's already committed to Now You See Me 2, and has been linked to Todd Phillips' Arms and the Dudes, which might not leave much time for Suicide Squad.

sounds like a super easy paycheck for what's probably a minor role

curious if dc/wb is super-jazzed about eisenberg's performance in BatSupes or if they're at a loss at what other connection they can make between this film and the others

kinda suspect it's the latter tbh

I guess they can't get Angela Bassett back as Amanda Waller
Or they want to pretend Green Lantern didn't happen

that's been my position of green lantern for some time

also odd that wb didn't already have an option on future eisenberg-as-luthor performances

they probably do for a Superman sequel, but didn't give him the Sam Jackson buffet deal

you know what's a phrase i'd be timid about using for a pg-13 tentpole movie, based on the possibility of cultural events rendering it distasteful, as well as the possibility parents won't want to take their kids to it? Suicide Squad.

It's doubly baffling given the fact that WB has already scuttled their plans for an Auto-Erotic Asphyxiation Alliance adaptation on similar grounds.

for the animated series they went with the laughably generic "Task Force X"

depending on the next "suicide squad" to make the news they might end up going with that again

Electric Kool Aid Brigade

wait, aquaman is in this?

i curse the day it occurred to anyone to adapt a comic book to film