It’s reported that DC is going to really make a Michael B Jordan led Superman-esk project where Jordan will be planning Val Zod, a Kryptonian who also escaped the destruction of his planet and came to Earth just like Superman. Well, Earth 2 but that doesn’t matter to me. Most of the negativity is race related, but my gripes are with the actual idea of making another Superman.

In the past few years, we’ve the Superman clones in Omni Man, Homelander and now Ikaris in the Eternals. DC also has Shazam, who is very similar to Superman and now a Black Adam movie where again we are dealing with a similar set of powers. Super strength, flight, cape, some kind of projectiles he shoots out. There are too many Supermen right now in movies and tv shows.

I would rather see Jordan play John Stewart, the Green Lantern. Or Captain Atom, sure he does check off some of Superman’s powers, but he’s different enough to not pull any parallels. Or if DC goes with the Snyderverse Jordan can play Orion, Darkseid’s son.  Jordan can even play Steel. There are a lot of heroes in the DC universe that Jordan can play. I get that he wants to play Superman and from what I read he’s producing the movie and writing the script, I just feel like a Superman character was the wrong direction.

Simptastic Joe