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Originally Posted by trackercowe
I for one would be against a picture with Doomsday involved. Sure the Death of Superman was uber-popular in the 90's, but even though Superman #75 was excellent, I thought the rest of the rest of the series for the most part (especially Reign of Superman) was a joke. Chalk it up to 90's comic writing I guess.
Also look at the many alterations they have done with Doomsday throughout television, and even the Death of Superman animated film. For the most part they have all been mediocre at best, and obviously writing an origin story for Doomsday would be near impossible. Of course the unexplained was what made Doomsday great, but I just don't see it working in a big screen picture.
Now if they decided to bring in Brainiac, or Darkseid I would be all for it. Both have played a much more prominent role, and I could see them doing big screen adaptations of either. Darkseid might be tough, because they would have to develop Apocalypse, but the animated versions have been well made.
The real question I have is whether they can "reboot" Superman and not have Lex Luthor as part of it. Unlike Batman who has no real arch enemy (Joker is obviously close), so they brought in Ras al Ghul, and Scarecrow for the origin story. But, for Superman Luthor has almost always played a prominent part in Superman's story, and is usually a must have when it comes to big screen versions. I could see them having Luthor create Doomsday in order to destroy Supes, but that would be very similar to Superman 2.
Just my opinion though.
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Doomsday's origin is perfectly fine the way it is. Kryptonian scientists kept sending a baby out to die millions of times in a hellish environment and collecting the DNA from the body and re-engineering his DNA everytime to pseudo-evolve the most powerful and undefeatable thing ever. Since he's Kryptonian too, you can hide hints of it in Superman's own origin story and so it loops together.
Lex works just fine if they respect the comics character who was a mad scientist and thus had great powers available to him (through science, manipulating aliens, controlling Brainiac, using Kryptonian power suits, etc.).
Lex doesn't work in the movies because for some stupid reason they keep making him a real-estate mogul and that's not what he's about. He's not about land grabs or money. He's a brilliant scientist (who is rich from his inventions and business acumen) believes he's the hero and savior of mankind and he is passionate about saving earth from aliens and that includes Superman.
Comic book movies do not need to be "dark". Was Iron Man dark? No. They are just fun and entertaining and a little bit uplifting. Dark works for Batman. It does not work for everyone and it does not need to be. They just need to treat the material with respect and not treat audiences like children like Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin or Spider-Man 3.