>David Zaslav cancels JJ Abrams black Superman movie for being too “woke”

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I thought Abrams was in permanent Hollywood time-out for ruining Star Wars.

>>149463240 (OP)
Are you happy now chudcels? Would have finally had a good superman movie with Val Zod and you cry because his skin color is different and elect a fascist.

Acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates was gonna write it too. You threw it away over bigotry

>>149463240 (OP)
Abrams is a fucking no-talent hack without a single original thought in his head. I hope he never works again.

>>149463240 (OP)
>new DC report reveals there is still a possibility it could come back.
So is it cancelled or not?

>>149463286
I'm sorry that you and OP are illiterate.

>>149463240 (OP)

>>149463286
this, but unironically

>>149463286
You didn't even know this character existed

>>149463240 (OP)
He should have canceled it for being a movie that's directed by JJ Abrams.

I totally forgot this movie was a thing.

>>149463802
This character because of Obama derangement syndrome and that's literally it.

>>149463834
Another casualty of Trumps America

Biden would have saved it

Superman is an alien. He doesn't have a race in the traditional sense. Clark and Calvin do though.

>>149463286
>bigotry
im sure mediocre capeshit fatigue had nothing to do with it

>>149463240 (OP)
>there is still a possibility it could come back
Rev up that India hype machine

>>149463240 (OP)
>J.J Abrams
Okay, what mystery boxes would he have set up?

>>149463861
maddamn pleeze do this for me okay?

>>149463849
Hahahaha

This nigga never heard of the island of Vathlo on Krypton, where the dark skinned Kryptonians come from

>>149463971
Technically there's no reason there can't be black Kryptonions, depending on how a red sun effects melanin, they just wouldn't have anything to do with human blacks, like Icon.

Why not just make an Icon movie?

>>149464071
no one knows who icon is, sadly.

>>149463971
>This nigga never heard of the island of Vathlo on Krypton, where the dark skinned Kryptonians come from
I didn't say there weren't dark-skinned Kryptonians. I said Superman doesn't have a race. Race is a social construct. Kryptonian society is fucking dead. And everyone knows his ass as an alien.

Actually, did you respond to the wrong post?

>>149464071
Same reason they made a Miles movie.

>>149464152
but icon is a decent character and usually well written. miles is neither of those things

>>149463286
>Acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates was gonna write it too.
He turn against his masters, the hats. So of course the product was going to be canned.

>>149463834
I thought it was canceled ages ago

>>149464071
Because he's conservative. Dwayne McDuffie accidently wrote a good right wing character and hated himself for it.

>>149464071
Val Zod is a better character.
It would also be a chance to do an interesting elseworld story that also featured Power Girl, and some other differences with the mainline DCU - but this means it happens say 2030, or after there's been a proper standalone Superman sequel and after theatrical audiences suffer through Multiple Eisner Award Winner Tim King℠ brand of Supergirl, decide they don't really like Drunk PTSD Kara and are ready for better.

ALSO, if Coogler was interested and if Michael B. Jordan remained interested, WB would definitely make it happen, notwithstanding Gunn and Safran allegedly can do what they want and no one can 'make' them otherwise.

I'd be okay with a good Elseworld quality animated series, say 6 to 8 episodes, but Coogler won't have anything to do with that and there's be no reason for Jordan to want to do VA work.

>>149463240 (OP)
good

>>149464171
So what? Do you think the reason they made Miles movies is because someone thought he was a decent character or well written?

>>149463240 (OP)
President Superman has a lot of fun potential but I don't think it deserves a movie. This would be a good two-parter for a Superman cartoon, and/or give the guy a comic mini.

Fascists keep censoring art while they claim they’re in favor of “freezepeach”

>>149464145
If race is a social construct then superman is white anglo Saxon Protestant because he looks white and was raised by them

>DC paid 500 million to JJ to make zero movies
I could've done that for much less

>>149464718
You’re just a white incel with no talent, unlike JJ Abrams and his son

Henry Abrams has written a Spider-Man comic at just the age of 21, what’s your excuse???

>>149464694
>If race is a social construct then superman is white anglo Saxon Protestant because he looks white
Looking white doesn't make you white. It's called a social construct for a reason. Your appearance isn't a fucking social construct.
>and was raised by them
Nobody fucking knows that.

Everybody knows him as a space man. He's not white.

>>149465077
>it’s a social construct, entirely based on perception
>BUT YOU NEED THE PRECISE DNA TO IDENTIFY AS IT

pick one

Superman is white

>>149463240 (OP)
He's right though. The media is completely oversaturated with producers pushing black people into the spotlight of movie/tv/video game franchises with a predominantly white/non-black fanbase. Seeing black people in there ragebaits them and then they go from the announcement till a little after the movie's premiere seething about it.

It used to be and sometime still is a good business strategy because it gets the alt right's ragebait views which in turn gets normal people's eyes on it, and then the black community is split between going to consume the product as a form of spite or they were on board with it anyway since it means more black representation.

The problem with it now is that this is pretty much everywhere. And one of two things are going to happen, people are either going to get sick of it and then drop it or the alt right community will successfully turn people off of it with their non-stop hit pieces and grifter content that'll sour people on the idea because that's what they unconsciously associate it with.

The Assassin's creed game with Yasuke is literally exactly what I'm talking about.

>>149463286
>Would have finally had a good superman movie with Val Zod
The movie was still going to be clark just clark but black instead of zal zod.

>>149464884
I'm not a Jew who gets promoted due to nepotism

Good. I'm sick of that Michael Jordan guy in everything.

>>149464694
Does farmers in Kansas are considered wasp, tho? I can see why characters like Bruce Wayne can be considered WASP, but Clark at best could be a plain white guy.

>>149465259
I don't think that anon understands that WASP means a very specific social class of whites and not all whites. It's not uncommon for non-whites to have no understanding of white social hierarchy.

>>149463240 (OP)
>implying it was being made in the first place

>>149464071
Because Icon is a Republican and most people currently hate Republicans for how fucking evil and stupid they are.

>>149463240 (OP)
Jesus, how does that racist idiot still have a job? Why are they working for white people if they hate them so much?

>>149463842
lol now I'm remembering all the comics that starred Obama that came out in 2008 - 2009.

>>149465077
There was a comic where someone revealed that Superman's true form is a hideous monster, not a human form.

>>149463842
Why can't we have a president with some major group becoming oddly deranged about them?

>>149463286
Fuck Niggers

>>149463286
Why would you want the confusing sorry of Val Zod, over Calvin Ellis? He's a way better black Superman

149464071
/co/ forgets or ignores the fact that Icon was wrong most of the time and Rocket was the actual hero.
>>149464171
Icon is interesting, not decent. He does get better as he slowly realizes his conservatism was part of the problem and he needed to do things a bit differently.

>>149463240 (OP)
kino
>>149463286
nice bait

>>149464270
same

>>149465588
>most people currently hate Republicans for how fucking evil and stupid they are.
only redditors think like this.

>>149463240 (OP)
BASED BASED BASED
>t.black male

>>149465220
Fuck off with the anti semetic racism you fucking piece of shit goy

>>149466558
Only red hats think it isn't like this.

>>149465140
>BUT YOU NEED THE PRECISE DNA TO IDENTIFY AS IT
This argument doesn't really hold up when people know Superman is an alien. They don't need his DNA. He doesn't hide the fact.

Also people can't fly or punch meteors or shit.

>>149467971
Tibetan monks can.

>>149467971
Glad we can all agree that Captain Marvel/Shazam is an alien.

Has anything JJ Abrams worked on stood the test of time? everything he makes is completely forgettable garbage.

>>149463240 (OP)
Whatever happened to Michael B Jordan's Static movie?

>>149463286
I mean....yeah.

>>149463286
JJ and Coates' project was NOT going to be Val Zod. It was going to be about a Black Clark Kent, in 1930s or 1960s America, I can't remember which.

Michael B Jordan was the one attached to the Val Zod project.

>>149463817
He actually might have. The article said it happened in 2022, that was when JJ's projects at WB were canceled.

>Demimonde
>canceled 2022
https://deadline.com/2022/06/jj-abrams-demimonde-dead-canceled-hbo-budget-1235040266/
>Madam X and Constantine
>canceled 2022
https://deadline.com/2022/09/j-j-abrams-constantine-series-madame-x-will-be-shopped-elsewhere-after-hbo-max-passes-1235121246/

I honestly think that article was released saying Zaslav rejected it for being woke, just to placate those complaining that Superman 2025 was woke. Like as if they were going, "see? see? this guy running WB canceled stuff for being woke. How could Superman 2025 be woke then?" On the other hand he did shelve the Batgirl movie.

>>149463240 (OP)
Never forget that even though Gunn's DCU looks like it's going to take off, that Zaslav is a fucking moron. Unironically he should be fired and replaced with someone who's not a drooling idiot.

>>149463286
Unironically this could've been great. Fuck the haters, we could've gotten something really cool and unique, a true Golden Age Superman movie, only one centered around a black Clark.

>>149463286
>a good superman movie
>Acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates was gonna write it

Pick one.