I was catching up on comments and got to the one about rebooting Superman and this occured to me:A dark, gritty Superman does seem fundamentally flawed, but I think they could learn a lesson from comic books here: don't be afraid to do A new take on a character that doesn't have to become THE take on the character.
Reboots are relatively new, and what they're supposedly good for is breathing new life into a franchise so a string of sequels can be made exactly like the reboot.
But why not just keep rebooting? Do a dark Superman story, and then do a happy, hopeful one. Comic books do it all the time. DC has a whole Elseworlds imprint for weird sideways takes on their characters.
Movies have already started doing it. Friday the 13ths 9 and 10 were both shameless reboots with no connection to anything. Not the best examples, but Freddy vs. Jason was a great reboot of both franchises. They're already moving in that direction. The Nolan Batman came out 13 years after the last Burton Batman, but the Incredible Hulk reboot came out only five years after Hulk.
Remember how cool the Frank Miller Superman was in the first pages of the third issue of the original Dark Knight? What about an alien invasion from dark, scary aliens, and Supes has to handle dark, scary things to beat them? And then later everything's fine! Like in comics!
(Not really related to what I'm saying here: I think Superman Returns should have been a reboot, but Singer was too in love with the Donner Superman, and gave us a weird sequel instead.)
(The rest of the Disney Sin City girls can be seen here. Some of them are good.)
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