Maybe I've just been in fandom for too long. Maybe that's it. But it's almost there's a script to this sort of thing. A very predictable script.
In the lead-up to a new Superman project...
* The Siegel and/or Shuster estates will take some legal action or another. They don't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning, mind you. They just want another "final payout" from whoever owns Superman at the time. And the public domain clock is ticking on that so I guess make hay while the sun shines, you parasites.
* The actor playing Superman will state his admiration for the Alex Ross version of Superman.
* The actor playing Superman will also announce that his version is "more human" than all previous incarnations.
* The actress playing Lois will do a junket where she informs the world that her version of Lois is quite different from all the others because all other versions of the character were (apparently) shy, conservative, demure and passive damsels in distress while [the current Lois] is sassier and more modern.
I've been watching ish unfold for decades now, it's literally the gd same every single time.
In the lead-up to a new Superman project...
* The Siegel and/or Shuster estates will take some legal action or another. They don't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning, mind you. They just want another "final payout" from whoever owns Superman at the time. And the public domain clock is ticking on that so I guess make hay while the sun shines, you parasites.
* The actor playing Superman will state his admiration for the Alex Ross version of Superman.
* The actor playing Superman will also announce that his version is "more human" than all previous incarnations.
* The actress playing Lois will do a junket where she informs the world that her version of Lois is quite different from all the others because all other versions of the character were (apparently) shy, conservative, demure and passive damsels in distress while [the current Lois] is sassier and more modern.
I've been watching ish unfold for decades now, it's literally the gd same every single time.