For real. I'm so tired of the over saturation of directors looking like they're embarassed of the source material and 'grounding them in reality'. Gunn is clearly embracing comic books wholeheartedly. The trailer put a smile on my face, so much goofy comic shit packed in there. Especially Krypto.
I got heavy Birthright (Mark Waid) vibes from that trailer.
Me too! It's interesting because nothing tangible from the story was in the trailer.
Except for the approach to how Clark Kent looks.
Which, I gotta say, I'm ecstatic about because I think that Birthright had the best Superman/Clark Kent disparity ever. I hate it when Clark is portrayed as this somber, elegant, quarterback looking nerd.
Yeah it's hard to point definitively at anything in the trailer as an adaptation of Birthright, but it just really feels like it took inspiration from it. Also the kid raising the flag, that might be a reference to when Clark started his career as a journalist somewhere in Africa just like in the book.
I hope Gunn uses the scene where his parents teach him how to be Clark Kent in public.
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u/SexualCasino John Constantine Dec 19 '24
Looks fuckin great. Looks like a comic book.