11.12.09

WWDSD? What The Next Superman Trilogy SHOULD Be

Since no one since Richard Donner will ever bother to make a great Superman film and rebooting the franchise again just seems stupid, I might as well spew my Super-wad of an idea for a Supes trilogy that would grow from Superman Returns AND take care of that pesky kid problem, all right here on my own blog.
And if this ever gets to the eyes of anyone connected with Warners, DC or the Siegel estate, please feel free to steal my ideas. The world will love you for it and as long as you hire me for something else I won't be mad, I promise.

PART I: SUPERMAN VS SOMETHING THAT REALLY TESTS HIS FUCKING ABILITIES AND GIVES HIM A CHANCE TO FLY AROUND ALOT AND BEAT STUFF UP (Working Title)
A typical day in Metropolis, marked by Super Clark trying to deal with his Super kid being raised by Lois and her swell husband. Sticky relationship stuff. Until a small armada of alien spaceships arrive on Earth.

First Contact, biggest story of the millennia, from a struggling newspaper's point of view. The world is by turns shocked, afraid, curious and ecstatic. We try to communicate but the aliens have no interest -- they go all Roland Emmerich on us, bombing the shit out of our planet, destroying cultural monuments, upending ecosystems, not using turn signals while changing lanes, just generally being a nuisance.

Clark puts his "regular" life on hold and goes into Superman mode, but these aliens are tough bastards with many tricks up many sleeves, giving ol' Supes a real challenge.

Superman eventually beats the aliens down, destroying almost the entire armada. Almost. The last ship takes off and Superman thinks he's won. But the ship ends up at Lois's home, abducts the kid and take off.
Lois and the hubby tell him what happened and Superman takes off into space to find their missing son.
THE END

PART II: SUPERMAN AND THE WHOLE GANG TOGETHER AGAIN, PLUS ONE.
Two years after the alien assault the world is still rebuilding and Superman is again our savior, but he, Lois and her husband have spent their time in search of their son. Superman has enlisted the help of a world renowned female astronomer. A hot one.

The astronomer and Superman start cozying up, making Lois all territorial and jealous. Meanwhile, Lex Luthor has been futzing with alien DNA, injects himself with it and gains alien powers and strength. He is now a physical threat to Superman, and they go mano y mano. Lex is more than a match for Superman and gives him a proper smackdown. Superman crawls back to the astronomer, who tells him she's found the alien planet. His son may or may not be there, but the aliens definitely are. Superman is so happy he and the astronomer share a little kissy kissy. He then takes off and does some soul searching -- he and the astronomer, he and Lois, wanting to go after the aliens that took his son but can't leave earth in the grip of SuperLex.

A contact of Lois's figures out Lex's game and reverse engineers a vaccine. They give it to Superman, and he and Lex battle again. Lex has Superman on the ropes, but Superman injects him with the vaccine and Lex reverts back to fully human. Lex is jailed, but not before telling Superman not only does he know where the aliens are, he knows their whole back story: Lex reveals they came from the same general vicinity of where Krypton used to be. Coincidence? Lex thought not. The aliens were at war with Krypton just before it blew up. Since then they have found and eliminated every stray Kryptonian, Superman and his son now being truly the last of their kind. Lex points out the aliens never would have found earth if Superman didn't revisit the remnants of Krypton (set up in Superman Returns), therefore if it wasn't for Supe and his son, the devastation the aliens wrought upon earth would not have happened. The astronomer tells Superman a dude's gotta do what a dude's gotta do and with Lois and her husband's blessings as well, Superman takes off into space, heading for the alien planet.
THE END

PART III: SUPERMAN AND LEX, BFF
Superman flies to the alien planet, which turns out to be Bizarro World (look it up, it's part of the comics). Superman has to navigate this backwards, contrarian planet, running into twisted copies of Lois, Jimmy, Perry, everyone the aliens came in contact with back on earth (and other planets), including an Bizarro Lex Luthor, who in turn becomes Superman's greatest ally.

Together Superman and Bizarro Lex either find the boy, or they don't. Either he's intact, or has been turned into some weird Bizarro experiment which Superman will either have to save or destroy, depending on whether we want the kid back on earth with Superman or not. In any case, Bizarro Lex plays a big part in Superman's success.

After his great adventure, Superman returns to earth, his spirit now as strong as his physical form.
THE END, AND THE SAGA CONTINUES...

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