{"id":27,"date":"2008-10-30T01:26:52","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T01:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almostwp\/?p=27"},"modified":"2019-06-24T17:24:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T17:24:26","slug":"superman-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/archives\/27","title":{"rendered":"Superman Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>by Kevin Smith<\/strong><br \/>\nSmith has been pretty vocal about the horrors of development. For all the hype, I&#8217;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 &#8212; like a comic, or an episode of the animated show. But there is some humor that doesn&#8217;t work, and three separate robot characters. That&#8217;s at least one too many robots for me.<\/p>\n<p>An entire documentary has been made about the project, entitled\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tdoslwh.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Death of &#8216;Superman Lives&#8217; What Happened?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Projection Booth did a great episode on the topic at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/projection-booth.blogspot.com\/2015\/09\/special-report-death-of-superman-lives.html\">http:\/\/projection-booth.blogspot.com\/2015\/09\/special-report-death-of-superman-lives.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maddogmovies.com\/almost\/scripts\/supermanlives_smith3-97.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download screenplay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Kevin Smith Smith has been pretty vocal about the horrors of development. For all the hype, I&#8217;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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[53,37,38],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-never-produced","tag-comic-book","tag-kevin-smith","tag-superman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddogmovies.com\/almost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}