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Description: Kaz isn’t known for his friendly smile or his sparkling personality. He’s a man of little words and little stature. He’s perfect for customers who want food with no god-awful small talk and forced hospitality. Some might say he’s bad tempted, and he would tell them to piss off….under his breath…all he’s got is his job and he’s not going to lose it. Superman & Lois is the Arrowverse's Kryptonite. It looks like this isn't a job for Superman, after all. Superman & Lois spoilers won't be found here. The first trailer for Superman & Lois promises a new take on what many regard to be the very first superhero story. "We all begin as one version of ourself," says Clark in a dramatic voiceover. "But as we grow, life changes us." And change is key. Because over the past 80 years, we've heard this story more times than Superman has changed out of his spandex skivvies. Supergirl successfully switched things up by switching the focus entirely to a different Kryptonian, but now Kara is flying off into the sunset, Superman & Lois needs to do something completely different to justify the existence of yet another Superman show. Crucially, this isn't even a new Superman. Tyler Hoechlin first wore the cape in Supergirl 's second season, and on that show, he filled the spandex admirably, embodying the essence of Superman without taking centre stage. But now that he's the main character in a brand new Arrowverse show, what can Superman & Lois offer that other adaptations don't? Within minutes, the first episode tries to establish this show as something different by speeding through Superman's origin story to set up a new dynamic. Yes, Lois is still Clark's wife, played again here by Elizabeth Tulloch, but Superman & Lois quickly differentiates itself with the addition of two teenage boys, Jonathan and Jordan Kent (played by Jordan Elsass and Alexander Garfin respectively). The idea is that this show will juggle the challenges Superman faces when he's saving the world with those he encounters as a working parent. Except, if we were Clark, we would rather face an exploding nuclear reactor than these boys any day of the week. Early on, Clark tells us that Jonathan was "always happy, always smiling," as a child, but the Jonathan we meet here is a somewhat arrogant jock who doesn't have time for his father. And he's the easy one. "Things with Jordan were more challenging," says Clark, before listing problems like tantrums, night terrors and social anxiety disorder. A scene where Jordan beats Superman up in a video game is a bit on the nose, but in theory it makes sense to include these kind of problems in Clark's world. In the wrong hands, Superman's perfections have previously come across as boring, so the addition of two angsty kids presents Clark with new problems that not even his almighty powers can solve. The issue here is that all of this angst is also intensely unlikeable. Of course teenagers like this exist in the real world, but (almost) all of them possess some kind of redeeming qualities. Aside from a few glimpses of these kids growing up in the opening montage, we're not given the chance to like them before they quickly become defined by their overwhelming resentment of their parents. One thing that opening montage does establish well is how stunning this show looks in comparison to the rest of the Arrowverse. Everything is shinier and better-looking thanks to the kind of budget that other power-heavy shows like Supergirl deserved but never received. In fact, there are moments where Superman & Lois more closely resembles Zack Snyder's take on the Last Kryptonian, but unfortunately, we don't just mean this in a visual sense. In the first episode alone, Superman endures more tragedy and heartache than other Arrowverse heroes face in an entire season. By confronting the Man of Steel early on with a barrage of problems both big and small, it feels like there's a concerted effort here to make him more relatable. That's certainly been a problem in the past, so it's easy to see why the writers would want to avoid deifying Clark like so many previous incarnations have done. But unfortunately, the premiere also overlooks what makes Superman special in the first place. Just like the run-down Smallville that he returns to, this version of Clark lacks heart. Tyler continues to impress in the role, but here he's weighed down in ways that suppress the charisma which shone through when he played second fiddle to Supergirl. Despite being one of the most popular heroes ever created, Superman is a hard one to pin down. Make him too heroic and he comes across as goofy. Make him too dark and you risk betraying the character at his core. Superman & Lois commendably tries to navigate that balance, but the lighter aspects of this story are smothered by clunky scripting and a distinct lack of charm. Although Arrow 's first season was also darker than the rest of the Arrowverse, even Star City wasn't entirely devoid of hope. Based just off the first episode, Superman & Lois doesn't seem to know if it's part of the Arrowverse or if it's just the cheaper cousin of Zack Snyder's movie fare. Either way, the show as a whole suffers for it. Future episodes may start to rectify these issues, but we're not particularly hopeful given how much controversy has already come out of the writers room before a single episode even aired. In Clark's voiceover, he worries that he might lose himself to the stress of it all before saying, "Under the torn fibres is a strong person forged like steel with the courage to fight for those we love." Let's just hope Superman has the strength to pull these fibres back together in future episodes and forge something new, something worth fighting for. Richard Donner. Richard Donner is a film director, and producer through via "The Donners' Company," which he and his wife, producer Lauren Shuler Donner, own. Although known for The Omen and the Lethal Weapon films, he is most famous for the hailed creation of the first modern superhero film, Superman, starring Christopher Reeve. The influence of this film eventually helped establish the fantasy genre as a respected film genre. Contents. Superman works. Superman: The Movie (director) Superman II (co-director) Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (director) Action Comics Annual #10 (co- writer) Superman: Last Son (co-writer) Escape from Bizarro World (co-writer) Superman films. His break-through film was in 1976 with The Omen, produced in the 'horror boom' following The Exorcist. He followed it with the hit Superman in 1978. Armed with two scripts for Superman:The Movie and Superman 2 he shot principal photography for both films to save on set dressing and actor/crew overheads. However, the original ending on film 1 where Superman flew from accident to disaster was deemed to be missing a certain something by the film's independent financers Ilya and his father Alexander Salkind. The scripted time reversal ending of Superman 2 was taken to pad out and fulfill Superman:The Movie once the film had been identified as a priority with a view to piece together an alternative end to the second film later. After the first film's successful release Donner was offered the directors role a second time but demanded that his trusted editor Stuart Baird be part of the deal. This posed a problem for Ilya Salkind as his child hood friend John Victor-Smith who had a working relationship with the Salkinds on The Three Muskateers and The Four Muskateers was already engaged to complete film two. The decision to remove him from the film series, made by producers Alexander Salkind and Ilya Salkind, has been widely viewed by many fans as a huge mistake on the Salkinds' part, as the subsequent Superman films helmed by their preferred director Richard Lester, while still breaking the $100m mark for domestic USA alone were perceived as being of poorer quality and quickly resulted in a downward spiral in popularity for the series. The demands of Marlon Brando to receive the same percentage of cut for film two as he received for film one regardless of how much previous footage used exacerbated the Salkinds position to at least walk away from a, by that time, five year project with profit as Superman:The Movie was still un-officially paying back creditors.