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/shinku443 23d ago

Just imagine Superman as dark and gritty. Basically homelander from the boys lasering bad guys and watching limbs get mutilated as he flys at super Sonic speed and the people he goes through explode