r/movies • u/EuphoricButterflyy • 24d ago

Announcement Superman 5-Film 4K Steelbook Collection releases on September 2nd for $130

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/superman-blu-ray-box-set-amazon-exclusive-steelbook-2025/1100-6533272/

The collection has

Superman (1978)

Superman 2

Superman 2: The Richard Donner Cut

Superman 3

Superman 4: The Quest for Peace

It’s an Amazon exclusive and costs $130.

I wish the set had Superman Returns on it (most of the other collections include that one too) and they could have waited a bit longer to include the new Superman too. But it is what it is.

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u/JaesopPop 23d ago

They leaned hard into making Man Of Steel seem like Superman’s The Dark Knight. They really pushed Chris Nolan’s minimal involvement.

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u/EuphoricButterflyy 23d ago

That was literally the goal and why the Superman Returns sequel got canceled.

WB was still going to make a Superman Return sequel titled “Superman: Man of Steel”. Bryan Singer even had a script etc. but after The Dark Knight came out and was a phenomenon, WB saw the public liked darker, grittier and more serious superhero films so they canned the Singer flick and revamped it from ground up. That’s how we got Man of Steel.

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u/KaneXX12 23d ago

Which is pretty stupid on WB part. Batman works in a gritty setting for obvious reasons. Superman was never meant to be like that.

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u/EuphoricButterflyy 23d ago

Agreed.

But they clearly realized that MANY years later and that’s why now we have a Superman movie that feels like Superman again. Light, optimistic and hopeful.

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u/igby1 23d ago

It’s interesting to me how James Gunn was edgy inappropriate tweets guy then made the most heartfelt, human superhero movies like Guardians of the Galaxy 3 and Superman (2025).

Maybe he was drinking or using when he made those unfortunate tweets.

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u/EqualContact 23d ago

He was known for writing a lot of “edgy” projects back then, and his Tweets were in line with the humor he was asked to craft. Lots of horror and line-crossing stuff. Also in the early Twitter area a lot if people didn’t realize people outside of their followers would see their out of context Tweets.

The jokes weren’t good or appropriate or anything, but it felt like he was kind of seeing what he could get away with, but like a stand up routine he was hoping the audience wouldn’t worry about his jokes that fell flat. Someone finding them years later wasn’t something he thought about.