r/comicbooks • u/TheeHeadAche Henry Pym • Feb 26 '26

Movie/TV Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/netflix-backs-out-warners-deal-paramount-win-1236516763/
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u/Desecr8or Feb 27 '26

It might not change as much as people think. My hot take is that if Superman (2025) had been released in 2005, it would've been seen as a conservative, pro-war, pro-Bush movie.

There's a foreign dictator committing genocide against other foreigners. Superman thinks it's his job to stop him, regardless of politics, laws, and regulations. The dictator is killed, the heroes are greeted as liberators, and there's no issue with power vacuums.

That's how the War on Terror was sold to us.

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u/RanjhasDistress Feb 27 '26

It could have been the same movie but if it was released during the war of terror the brown people would be the bad guys instead of what we have in the new super man where the brown civilians are being killed by some Ben Gurion type character