It is not easy to make the right movie "Superman", as Warner Bros. has learned the hard way in the last few years. This probably remained a problem dating when director Richard Donner hanged his cloak, which Anyone watching "Superman III" and "The Quest for Peace" It can confirm and stretch throughout the 21st century. The last solo film in the center of Superman was Zack Snyder's "Man" division in 2013 more than a decade ago. The latest appearance of a large Superman screen is unlikely to be considered as such, when the creative team behind 2023 "The Flash" has decided to resurrect the digital shell of Christopher Reeve and Digitally De-Towlist Helener Superer for Superer for a pair of badly imagined Comeos (With little action of Nicholas's cage thrown in good measure). Rebooting Superman's "Superman" by Jameseshes Gun later this year could not feel more significant, as for Warner Bros. as a studio and the DC brand as a whole.

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But who says he should be the desired superhero This Hard to crack? Christopher McCari certainly doesn't think so. Writer/Director "Mission: Impossible - Last Calculation" had their brushes with the image in the past yearsThe most famous submission on its own before the release of "Mission: Impossible - Fallout" in 2018. But just because he has since moved to bigger and better things - to enable Tom Cruise's continued adventures and his endless search to put his life on the line for our entertainment - it does not mean that he is completely forgotten for Krypton's last son. If nothing else, he just fulfilled his thoughts on Superman. And, how a well -documented doctor for the script that isHe put his finger on the precise issue that has been struggling with Donner's "Superman" and "Superman II" for decades.

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Leave it to the guy who wrote the "usual suspects", preserved "Ghost Protocol" and continued to complete the whole quartet of the "Mission: Impossible" film to point out what was not so terrible with Superman in various DC films. For a character with so many fans on his behalf, it is actually difficult to make a version of the hero who appeals to most audiences. Brian Singer's "Superman Returns" was overwhelmed by Richard Donner's films and is not almost sufficiently distinguished by its own conditions for modern audiences. (Plus, you know, there was all that. "Did not earn enough money"Something.)" The Man of Steel "by Zac Snyder was too gloomy and morally suspicious of traditionalists. (It also didn't earn enough money.) Is there any hope for the Jameses Gun "Superman"?

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According to Chris McCarari, it is much simpler than you think. As they appear on The podcast "happy/sad/confused", hosted by Oshosh HorowitzThe veteran director wore a hat of his teacher and the rest of us took only mortals to school. The lesson of the day? What makes a good movie "Superman"? As he deliberately explained:

"It's really what it's Superman. It's about hope and it's an inspiring and joy that that character created. I think you shouldn't live in Donner's" Superman "shadow. I don't think you should live in the shadow of Johnon Williams. He is himself. "

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For the most unbeaten hero of all, it makes the perfect sense for writers to think about introspection and internal conflict, rather than external threats. Of course, there is an instant excitement in Superman by exchanging strokes with Steppenvolf or throwing a continent of cryptonia into space (well, maybe not the last) ... But what about the forcing of the steel man to reconcile with himself? Donner understood that wonderful, and hopes Gun does the same when Superman hit the theaters later this July.