The only reason I think using the Authority in the new Superman movie is because it might enable the possibility of seeing them and Supes opposed to each other in a big-screen version of
Superman vs the Elite. I think right now, with the explosion of deconstructionist try-hard superhero content like
The Boys and
Invincible, coupled with the character's big-screen portrayal being shackled to the wanton edginess of Zack Snyder, presenting a story where Superman contrasts the violent cynicism of modern superhero media and reminding audiences why he's special might be a good move, and positioning Superman against the Authority might accomplish that.
That is, of course, assuming James Gunn does any of that. I'm not personally keen on anything he does--I thought his
Guardians movies were the start of Marvel transitioning into irreverent yuck-yuck fodder, and I hate the Suicide Squad inherently as a concept to give anything even tangentially related to it, be it his version of that team or spin-offs like
Peacemaker, one lick of my valuable time.
I'm in the minority on this but I actually kind of dig the new suit for Superman. The lines are a bit much but I like the brighter colors. I'm just happy the old DCEU was put out of it's misery.
I actually like the new suit as well. Maybe it's because I'm starved for a Superman costume that actually has the bright and vibrant colors of the comics--something we've lost slowly with each new post-80s Superman movie's fruitless and eye-rolling pursuit of "muh grit" or "muh realism". The Snyder version was the worst version of all--he looked like he was wearing a body condom covered in fish scales, and the lack of the red trunks just made him look like he had a naked blue guy's torso.
My only hope for the new suit is that the colors aren't muted in post-production. That's what really destroyed rewatches of
Man of Steel for me, seeing Superman fly around in a world of greys and teals thanks to Snyder's obnoxious "gritty" color grading, where at its brightest his cape is a brownish maroon, and him and the Kryptonians fighting just devolves into greyscale simulacra with indistinguishable grey and black blobs fighting each other.
I know--imagine the audacity of someone wanting color in their comic book movie.
I can but that's because I've seen tons of interviews with him about other stuff and that seems to be his real personality he's like a happy goofy fuck. that being said he'd kill it at the older supes thing and the fact Gunn kicked him to the curb and they aren't going to at least give him something like that is criminal.
The thing is, Gunn and the current DCU regime want to milk its new stars for a whole swath of sequels and shared-universe crossovers. That means picking up a cast at an age where you can exploit their talents for a decade at least--and Cavill's already in his 40s. If the overseers of the current DCU want to keep this continuity going for as long or longer than the MCU did, they're going to want someone who's not going to be in their 50s when it's inevitably time to do the DC-equivalent of
Avengers Endgame ten years from now, or even further.
To be honest with you, I didn't really care who Gunn cast or recast to play Superman--my priority was who he cast as Lois Lane. Amy Adams was a fucking
terrible Lois; she didn't look or act like her comic counterpart at all, and she often came off as either bitchy, mopey or some unlikeable middle ground in between in Snyder's films. That's where I have the biggest reservations about Gunn's new Superman movie, more than whatever he does with Supes himself.
The top priority, and something Snyder completely lost in his brain-addled scramble to make his edgy slow-mo anime AMVs masquerading as movies, is to get not only Lois right, but her chemistry with Superman right. Clark and Lois' romance is the literal beating heart of Superman stories; it's what gives his battle stakes, grounds him to a human level during his biggest dilemmas in Metropolis, the one person he confides his anxieties and human emotions to besides the Kents. You need that to get the audience to care (and no, Snyder shitting out dumb melodramatic plattitudes in dialgoue about Lois "being Superman's world" or proposing he'd be a susceptible pawn of Darkseid out of heartbreak for Lois' passing does not count as capturing their romance on-screen. OR his initial plans to have Lois cuck Superman for Batman--and yes, we almost got that in his Justice League sequels).
If Gunn doesn't get that right, the same way Snyder failed to, then this whole Superman film will collapse. Not because of what villain he fights or what costume he wears, or what random DC asshole makes a cameo in his film.
