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I don't know, I don't manage my time well.
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Why?
1. The movie really takes forever stuffing this stuff into the opening act. And yet it also feels super-rushed. Krypton's dying, boom, Zod's leading a rebellion, boom, Zod's been captured, boom, Krypton's dead. I wanted something shorter and sleeker. This is ten pages, so, about ten minutes. Pretty reasonable, I think.
2. Did anyone really want Superman's Dad: Action Hero? Dude's a scientist.
3. This kinda would play out more with the rest of the hypothetical screenplay, but I want to see just how Keep it Simple, Stupid the same basic story could be made. So here, the idea is that Zod has an army of Kryptonians, but he needs Superman's whatsit to get them out of the Phantom Zone.
4. Zod being captured and imprisoned in the Phantom Zone to survive Krypton's destructive is too beholden to Superman 2. It diminishes him as a villain that he gets his ass kicked by Jor-El (a scientist, dude) and then his rebellion fails epicly. Here, he actually wins, just so we get an idea of how an Earth ruled by Zod would suck.
5. Zod's motivation is a bit more interesting, says I. The way I see it, some TBD villain (Brainiac or Darkseid, whatever) launched an attack on Krypton and, though they were beat back, their scorched-earth policy has doomed the planet. Zod himself has a raging case of PTSD, and his paranoia won't be satisfied until his people are absolutely safe. So that's his goal--get Earth, this one planet in the cosmos where all his people are absolutely safe. So you can sympathize with him a little, but also go... Christ, what an asshole. And, you know, a few years down the line when it's sequel time, you can pretty easily make the main villain EVEN WORSE than Zod by revealing they're the guys who trashed Krypton in the first place.
6. A bit more for Lara to do. If I kept going, the "look, up in the sky!" would turn out to be a helicopter carrying Lois Lane, we'd see her first meeting with Clark and then, from her investigation of him, we'd get all the Superman backstory. So instead of just randomly flashing back to Clark seeing X-Rays, we'd see Lois talk to his teacher, et cetera et cetera...
So anyway, that's my bit. It's quick and dirty, but I don't know how much time I really want to spend on this. If you like it, I might try rewriting it as a prose... thing. I have some slight ideas for the rest of the movie, but for some reason, rewriting an entire movie as a fanfic seems just a little less social-life-y than writing lesbian porn based on children's cartoons.
( Read more... )
Why?
1. The movie really takes forever stuffing this stuff into the opening act. And yet it also feels super-rushed. Krypton's dying, boom, Zod's leading a rebellion, boom, Zod's been captured, boom, Krypton's dead. I wanted something shorter and sleeker. This is ten pages, so, about ten minutes. Pretty reasonable, I think.
2. Did anyone really want Superman's Dad: Action Hero? Dude's a scientist.
3. This kinda would play out more with the rest of the hypothetical screenplay, but I want to see just how Keep it Simple, Stupid the same basic story could be made. So here, the idea is that Zod has an army of Kryptonians, but he needs Superman's whatsit to get them out of the Phantom Zone.
4. Zod being captured and imprisoned in the Phantom Zone to survive Krypton's destructive is too beholden to Superman 2. It diminishes him as a villain that he gets his ass kicked by Jor-El (a scientist, dude) and then his rebellion fails epicly. Here, he actually wins, just so we get an idea of how an Earth ruled by Zod would suck.
5. Zod's motivation is a bit more interesting, says I. The way I see it, some TBD villain (Brainiac or Darkseid, whatever) launched an attack on Krypton and, though they were beat back, their scorched-earth policy has doomed the planet. Zod himself has a raging case of PTSD, and his paranoia won't be satisfied until his people are absolutely safe. So that's his goal--get Earth, this one planet in the cosmos where all his people are absolutely safe. So you can sympathize with him a little, but also go... Christ, what an asshole. And, you know, a few years down the line when it's sequel time, you can pretty easily make the main villain EVEN WORSE than Zod by revealing they're the guys who trashed Krypton in the first place.
6. A bit more for Lara to do. If I kept going, the "look, up in the sky!" would turn out to be a helicopter carrying Lois Lane, we'd see her first meeting with Clark and then, from her investigation of him, we'd get all the Superman backstory. So instead of just randomly flashing back to Clark seeing X-Rays, we'd see Lois talk to his teacher, et cetera et cetera...
So anyway, that's my bit. It's quick and dirty, but I don't know how much time I really want to spend on this. If you like it, I might try rewriting it as a prose... thing. I have some slight ideas for the rest of the movie, but for some reason, rewriting an entire movie as a fanfic seems just a little less social-life-y than writing lesbian porn based on children's cartoons.
