Superman’s a random alien from the planet Krypton and Peter Parker got his powers from a radioactive spider, right? Potentially, wrong.
It appears that these reboots are doing more than just rebooting film continuity. They’re starting from scratch. We reported a long time ago that “the conditions of Peter’s transformation” might be different in this Spidey incarnation, but according to Badass Digest, Peter’s powers will come from a dormant segment of his DNA that will be activated by the spider bite.
Spider-Man’s origin has been changed in The Amazing Spider-Man. The spider bite no longer gives Peter powers, it rather activates something already in his genetic structure. Something placed there by his father. Peter Parker is no longer super-powered by chance, but rather by design.
Of course, there’s no official production confirmation that this is true, but it would make sense since The Amazing Spider-Man seems to be trying to make a big thing about uncovering “the mystery” of Peter Parker’s parents.
On the same vein, ThinkMcflyThink is reporting that Man of Steel is undergoing a similar origin shift. He’s still an alien and he’s still from Krypton, but the Zack Snyder-helmed Superman film is said to feature a Kal-El that was actually a Kryptonian prince prophesied to save the world.
Amazing to see how much out in the open is clearly taken from Superman: Flyby, the J.J. Abrams script intended to kick-start Kal-El into the twenty-first century with McG directing.
Warner Brothers spent a fortune getting the franchise off the ground before Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns. Way more than the $65 million quoted. They want to justify spending all that cash, even though they wrote it off years ago. Economically, makes sense. Don’t blow money when you have perfectly good ideas collecting dust in the Burbank archives. Also helps despite the backlash, Warner Brothers loved the Abrams script (that and Andrew Kevin Walker’s Batman versus Superman). Hence you look at The Man of Steel and marvel at the comparisons to Flyby; the same suit, same actor wearing said red-and-blue, trunk-less design (Henry Cavill was originally cast by McG), Krypton modeled after Coruscant (per Latino Review), among others.
Rumblings we hear is another vital Flyby component is being used; the revelation Supes/Clark/Kal is a lost Kryptonian prince prophesied to save the world. Is it as radical as the big stink being made about changes to Spider-Man’s origins in The Amazing Spider-Man as leaked by Badass Digest? It’s out there, and lazy, let’s be honest throwing in the tired “Chosen One” or “Destiny” cliché. But considering how far Flyby originally deviated, it was the least egregious material Abrams cooked up (God forbid they used Supes dying and visiting his father in Kryptonian Heaven!)
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Obviously, these reports don’t function as official confirmation, but since both are reboots, it is to be expected that we will see some changes. Whether or not the changes will be quite this big remains to be seen.
What do you think? Are you hoping for the changes? If not these, what changes would you like to see to the Spider-Man and Superman legends?
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