Superman - Peacemaker Sets Up Superman Sequel!

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Welcome back to the channel, guys. I hope you're having a great evening. So we're gonna get into it today a little bit. We're gonna talk about how in the James Gunn-verse Peacemaker is shaping up to be the— which will be the prequel to the next Superman film. Um, Ah, the David Corenswet's version. Um, of course, in, uh, Peacemaker Season 2, uh, we can see the tie-ins. We've already got the Justice Gang, we've already got Lex Luthor in there, a big treat. And, um, that was the preview of the season, or rather Episode 8. And we don't know if there's going to be a big character for the season finale. Some people are speculating it could be, uh, which would be Omni-Man, right? Which would be the— I'm sorry, Ultraman. Omni-Man, wrong series, guys. Ultraman, which would be— or Bizarro Superman, however you want to refer to him. We know, spoiler alert, at the end of the Superman film, uh, we got Ultraman being basically tossed into another, um, what could be another universe in that pocket universe of Lex Luthor's, right? So he could be somewhere there, right? Some in some other dimensional world. Of course, uh, Lex Luthor, as he's explaining how these things work, it seems to be a different, uh, he has a, a less stable pocket universe, whereas the one that Peacemaker acquired, his family acquired, came directly from his father, came directly from an alien, a frog-like alien. This is a very stable one that he can use. And of course, as we got to see at the end of episode 7, we basically got Peacemaker turning over the, the dimension box to Rick Flag Senior, right? So now it's in control of Argus, and in which Argus is able to, uh, basically, um, use this. And it seems like they're going to be exploring many of these pocket universes, right? So let's talk about, guys, how do we feel about this interwoven, uh, situation with Peacemaker and Superman. Uh, it is— well, first you gotta understand James Gunn. So James Gunn, what he does is he seems to have a talent for taking, uh, if you want to refer to him as B-list D-list superhero characters and making them exciting, making them interesting, making them the biggest brands right out there, right? Like what he did with Guardians of the Galaxy, of course. And he seems to have struck gold again with Peacemaker, so much so that it's hard to separate Peacemaker from Superman, right? And that's not a— you know, I don't necessarily think that's a, um I don't necessarily think that's a, a, a bad thing. And let me explain, uh, why I'm saying it this way, why, where I'm at with this whole, uh, universe and, uh, how everything's kind of tying together, similar to like how they did with the Marvel, you know, formula. Something James Gunn probably was, uh, accustomed to doing, you know, over at Marvel. And guys, I hope I haven't been muffling the sound that long. I might have had my my hand on the microphone. I hope not, guys. I hope I haven't messed up the video with the sound. But, um, yeah, but, um, what he's— what he does well is he takes these characters and, uh, you know, these characters we know very little about, and he, he makes them great. Now, while I was saying that, uh, it works for me to a great degree is that I think it's been erroneous that many people, you know, say things like, oh, they can't get these Superman, uh, movies, you know, right. And, uh, you know, what are they gonna do, a good Superman, all that stuff? Well, here's the thing, that's erroneous in that if you look at many of these DC properties, you look at Superman and Batman, they have been done very, very well, right? You know, uh, You know, of course, the Superman, you know, when it came to screen and we got his origin stories told the best that could be told from any superhero, uh, genre, right? Um, you know, uh, even with the Snyderverse, even though I wasn't a big fan of the Snyderverse, there are a lot of people who love the Man of Steel, right? So it is erroneous to say that They can't get Superman movies right. They've gotten it right, right? So why am I so accepting of this James Gunn version and take on mixing all this up with Peacemaker, mixing it up with the— because I think now, you know, being a diehard Superman fan, but I do think I want to see the next chapter with Superman. I think his standalone movies have hit gold. They've done well. I think that his origin stories have been told the best they could be told. Uh, what we— what I haven't seen done well on the screen is Superman teaming up with a screen full of other characters. How does Superman, a being as powerful as Superman, so much so than many other characters, how do they play off one another? And how do you incorporate Superman in? And, uh, I had— this will be the first time we've actually— well, we did see that in the Snyderverse, but The kickback on the Justice League and things like— we— it left us wanting, right? So I guess we could accurately say the Justice— the version of the Justice League we got, or Superman team-ups we got with SnyderVerse, wasn't good, right? I think many, you know, would say that it's something left to be desired in that. But James Gunn showed over at Marvel he's very good at combining, you know, merging all these, having a character full of a screen full of characters. And he does that quite well. So with— I think the reason I'm so accepting of what's happening with the piece in Peacemaker, his particular universe being connected to Superman, not only does it feel like a fresh take for me on these superhero films, right? It's interesting. It's exciting. I don't know what to expect. It's, uh, the theme of it is, um, you know, interesting. It's kind of like comedic, so it kind of reminds you of like how they do with Deadpool, mixing them up with Wolverine. And so you got all those elements, and it's interesting, it's exciting, and you got all these elements in one. Yet then at the same time, you got David Corenswet playing a Superman that can be a standalone Superman, that can be a very good Superman, right? Uh, that is a very good Superman. Um, Again, going back to the Superman Legacy, the Superman we saw, uh, to understand how the movie business works today, they can no longer put a 4-hour movie on screen, right? But if you go back to back in the day when they put the first Superman on film, that movie was over 3 hours, right? That movie is well over 3 hours long, right? Literally. And so What I'm saying with the James Gunn universe, uh, something like what he was doing with the Superman Legacy, I think everything was great. For me, the movie wasn't long enough, right? And so, um, you know, uh, if he got like a director's cut or something like that, that would be awesome. But saying that a movie isn't long enough is not saying the same as it's a— it's not good enough, right? I like that. I like this, uh, Superman, but it did feel short for me, right? It felt short for me. It was— we got so much going on, so many characters, which is the James Gunn formula. It worked over at Marvel because remember, at Marvel you might have 30, 40 films to tie together, right? This is the first basically silver screen rollout for the new DC, and it's not a whole lot to play off. You know, you got Creature Commandos and You got Peacemaker, of course, which is very helpful, right? Especially now. So I think that's why I like that. And I want to see the next chapter with Superman, of course, and what he's got going on. So the Peacemaker, he plays into these elements very well to have it connected. Of course, it's going to have elements of that Peacemaker universe. I like the idea of it being able to go back and forth like that, though, again, You know, looking at like how they do the Deadpool thing. Deadpool can be with the serious characters, he could be in and out, and you kind of just know that's Deadpool, that's Deadpool's world, that's Deadpool's energy. But now that energy is gonna have to get drug along, that madness and craziness has to get drug along into the real superhero, you know, to their reality of the day-to-day superhero. And for some reason it works, but I do think it takes an amazing talent to make it work, right? Like, I don't think any writer can make that work. James Gunn is an excellent writer, and you have to keep that in mind that when James Gunn's, uh, combining all these characters together, that James Gunn has a talent far beyond what your average, um, comic book adapter to film is gonna have, right? He has a talent for that, right? How he does things, how his mind works. And, uh, that's just the reality of that. That's why the Peacemaker series is so good. That's why you can sit up there and say, yeah, it's a lot of wackiness in this. You got these wacky aliens in it. You got this crazy musical number at every, uh, beginning of every episode, right? That— now that's just, you know, that's craziness, but it works, right? It works because maybe the superhero world, when you mix it with the general world, our reality, it is crazy. Right? Somehow it works. And, and so it's been working for me. Um, now I know some people want to see more of like the, the Henry Cavill type Superman, like, like a serious Superman. Let's keep in mind that's really what the Christopher Nolan idea of Superman was like, because remember, they wanted Christopher Nolan to do, um The last version of Superman we got, right? The, the image many of us get about that serious Superman, uh, and I always felt that way. I was like, I want to see, uh, a serious Oscar-worthy Superman, right? Be like the first one, the first comic book movies to win an Oscar, right? And I thought you could explore so many elements with Superman, right? The, uh, the idea of being a god on Earth and dealing with human-like problems. Human problems. I, I thought that could be, if done right, if done by someone like Christopher Nolan, I thought maybe that could have been it. But of course Christopher Nolan turned it over to Zack Snyder and, uh, it, it became a nice looking film, right? But it just did— it didn't have the— I think David S. Goyer wrote it. I, I don't want to slam on David S. Goyer because of some— when he does like television things, I've liked a lot of his TV stuff. Like, I think he's um, involved in Foundation. I believe he's involved in, um, uh, he did Krypton, right, which was a series about Superman. I thought, I thought that was a pretty darn good series. I thought, I thought the Krypton series was way better than Man of Steel, right? And I think he wrote Man of Steel, but you know, uh, it was elements of, uh, Man of Steel in the Krypton series, but that series was was a great deal better to me than what we got in Man of Steel, right? Um, and so I don't want to slam David S. Goyer, you know, but, uh, that film trying to create this serious Superman, it missed. It just didn't get there for me at all. Whereas I'm satisfied when I watch Peacemaker 'Cause I know Peacemaker's, you know, he's not trying to be Superman. I like the idea they're moving around this Superman universe, right? They're sharing this universe, Superman. But I also like how Superman's able to kind of weave in and out of that, right? And so, whereas a serious Superman film probably could have been done, like the one I'm thinking about, maybe that time has passed, right? Or maybe it already happened, right? I believe we could say the Oscar version of Superman occurred with the Donnerverse, right? It occurred when you had Marlon Brando playing, had an Oscar winner, right, in a superhero film, right? So that was that, and that's done. I, you know, you can't redo that, right? That's done. So now it's time, in my opinion, to just move Superman on. You know, with, uh, sharing the screen with other characters. And I, I think that's going to be a good thing, right? Uh, so anyway guys, that's all I want to say in this video. I think the setup will be great, uh, in the last episode of Peacemaker, this season finale, to move us in what this next Superman movie is going to be about, what this Supergirl movie is going to be like. I'm very optimistic about it. This energy is working for me, even though Normally I would say I will prefer a more serious take on Superman minus the James Gunn comedy, but guys, what can I say? It works, it works, right? It works. And, and, and, um, I'm entertained. And, um, uh, I, you know, the cool thing about what James Gunn's doing, the more, no matter how hard the, uh, characters that Superman engages with, uh no matter how difficult they are to bring to screen, uh, he set up a world where he's going to be able to accomplish that, right? He could— he can actually have a wacky character on screen mixing with Superman and it'll work now because that's just how the Gunnverse works, you know. Uh, that's how Suicide Squad works, you know.

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you know, you got this pretty serious energy happening in Suicide Squad, but then you got them fighting a giant— a gigantic starfish, you know. So, you know, it just works. What can I say? But that's all I want to say in this video, guys. Guys, if you like content like this, don't forget to like, subscribe, share the video. Give me your thoughts and opinions about what you think about Peacemaker, what you think about Superman and the DCU going forward. Uh, until next time, as always, take care of yourselves and each other.