Ta-Nehisi Coates to write new Superman movie produced by JJ Abrams for Warner - "What does the N stand for?"

[Miller]

Henry Cavill is out, they want a black actor for JJ's Superman.

J.J. Abrams is producing the feature, which, according to sources, is being set up as a Black Superman story.

Acclaimed essayist and novelist Ta-Nehisi Coates has been hired to pen the script for a feature reboot of Superman that will be produced by J.J. Abrams.

“To be invited into the DC Extended Universe by Warner Bros., DC Films and Bad Robot is an honor,” said Coates in a statement to Shadow and Act, a website dedicated to the African diaspora in the arts. “I look forward to meaningfully adding to the legacy of America's most iconic mythic hero."

“There is a new, powerful and moving Superman story yet to be told. We couldn’t be more thrilled to be working with the brilliant Mr. Coates to help bring that story to the big screen, and we’re beyond thankful to the team at Warner Bros. for the opportunity,” said J.J. Abrams in the statement to S&A.

According to sources, the project is being set up as a Black Superman story. This is something that the studio has been trying to wrap its head around for months, if not a year or two. Michael B. Jordan tried to develop a Black Superman project when he first arrived at the studio with his deal in 2019, but that did not go very far at the time, according to sources. It is possible that the studio could return to him to star down the line.

Coates is a superstar author whose books include We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy, The Beautiful Struggle, The Water Dancer and Between the World and Me, the latter of which was adapted by HBO. In the comic book space, he has worked on Captain America and Black Panther, with Disney’s Bob Iger crediting his influential run on the latter in the decision to greenlight the groundbreaking film starring Chadwick Boseman.

Superman first flew onto the big screen with filmmaker Richard Donner’s 1978 film Superman: The Motion Picture, which starred Christopher Reeve. The actor appeared in three subsequent films, with Brandon Routh donning the cape for 2006's Superman Returns and Henry Cavill stepping into the role for 2013's Man of Steel, 2016's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and 2017's Justice League.

This is the first DC feature known to be in development under Abrams' expansive WarnerMedia deal, but he has several DC series in the works for streaming service HBO Max, including Justice League Dark and Constantine.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/ta-nehisi-coates-to-write-new-superman-movie-for-warner-bros

 

[Oats12345]

Cavil is out, they want a black actor for JJ's Superman.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/ta-nehisi-coates-to-write-new-superman-movie-for-warner-bros

Good God they actually did it.

 

[TurkishOreo]

Good God they actually did it.

Maybe in the year 2077 people will look at this as the racism it is.

 

[The Jumping Dwarf]

WE WUZ SUPERMENZ

 

[The Nothingness]

Instead of heat vision, he'll have lens flare vision.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Shouldn’t Abrams be considered box office poison by this point?

 

[James Roancrest]

I wonder what will happen if the Snyder Cut ends up being a commercial and critical success? I'm not betting on it, but it would be interesting to see the fallout.

 

[rbzfan]

I just wanted to play video games...

 

[Bland Crumbs]

I assume in addition to changing his race they will change his weakness to paying child support and obviously this version has no qualms about murdering people.

 

[Dom Cruise]

They're really going to go for it, huh?

I remember when JJ seemed like a filmmaker with promise, the 2009 Star Trek reboot was pretty good, Super 8 was flawed but still pretty interesting, it seemed like he was getting better, then everything started going Woke and he threw his hat in with that.

I wish things could have stayed at Star Trek 2009 levels, because while the movie wasn't great it was only interested in entertaining you, which for anything geek culture related seems like an incredible novelty today.

 

[Johan Schmidt]

Gross.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

If they don't change Louis' name to La'Tonya, I'll be fucking pissed.

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

Ta-Nehisi Coates. What a massive turn-off.

Apparently he can't create any original black superheroes.

 

[Oats12345]

On the bright side Superman can finally say the N-word.

 

[drtoboggan]

On the bright side Superman can finally say the N-word.

Just say nigger. Don’t call it the N Word.

 

[Godzilla@1989]

Great, can’t wait to see Coates turn Superman into a mouthpiece to condemn the evils of "White America" or make him black outright. Wouldn’t be surprise if Lex Luther is transformed into Trump because reasons.

This is as bad when Chuck Wendig turned Turok into a black man fighting Nazi dinosaurs.

 

[ZMOT]

can't wait to for the black dude dumb enough to wear skintight spandex and a fucking cape to get heckled by his "brothers" how fucking gay he looks. not even pimps go that far, and they still have a cane.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

OK I've now seen it all, a nigger Superman for no other reason than to score woke points, publicity and asspats. Hiring a mediocre writer for no other reason that he's the current year favorite pet negro of the liberal elite to write what will be a convoluted and mendacious script that will have nothing to with the actual Superman is guaranteed.

Hollywood delenda est.

 

[Travoltron]

can't wait to for the black dude dumb enough to wear skintight spandex and a fucking cape to get heckled by his "brothers" how fucking gay he looks. not even pimps go that far, and they still have a cane.

Maybe they'll redo this scene

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Great, can’t wait to see Coates turn Superman into a mouthpiece to condemn the evils of "White America" or make him black outright. Wouldn’t be surprise if Lex Luther is transformed into Trump because reasons.

Will Coates' vision also include these (((white men)))? I have some doubts.