by Kevin Smith
Smith has been pretty vocal about the horrors of development. For all the hype, I’m not too keen on this script. It has some interesting elements: the death and rebirth of Superman, the presence of both Lex Luthor and Braniac. I liked the way the story just starts without explaining who Superman is — like a comic, or an episode of the animated show. But there is some humor that doesn’t work, and three separate robot characters. That’s at least one too many robots for me.
An entire documentary has been made about the project, entitled The Death of ‘Superman Lives’ What Happened?
The Projection Booth did a great episode on the topic at http://projection-booth.blogspot.com/2015/09/special-report-death-of-superman-lives.html