The Batman - 2022

[Psyren]

I wonder how people would react to a superman flick where there is no zod, no braniac, no doomsday, no darkseid. Its just clark kent trying to live his life as clark kent while not being able to ignore all the pain he can hear all the time in metropolis alone. Where its not an action film, its a dramatic one with character growth being the primary focus. Maybe put it so its right after he gets to metropolis and starts to experience how different it is from smallville. Living on the farm he isnt being exposed to literally millions of people with dozens to hundreds of crimes going on every day that he can hear taking place. He gets to experience the difficulty in being clark kent when superman is needed so often. A different version of tobys spiderman 2 where everyone sees him as unreliable because his time in the suit keeps getting in the way of time as himself. He is trying to be a reporter, trying to make friends, but he keeps getting called away to save lives and stop crimes and doesnt know what to do.

Sounds incredibly dull for a blockbuster, but might work as a slice-of-life tv show.

And didn't Spiderman 2 have a literal doomsday device plot?

Get a solid character actor and you could make it work. Joaquin Phoenix made Joker a billion dollar smash hit without Batman or Harley Quinn on the strength of drama.

That was a Start of Darkness though, and a mystery besides. How/why does Clark Kent become Superman is a lot less narratively interesting, especially since Man of Steel and '78 Superman already answered that question in detail, and still had half the movie left that they needed to fill with Big Bad stuff.

Do you mean Batman or did Jimmy Olsen make a billion bucks without me knowing (which wouldn't be surprising)?

Jimmy Olsen is just his pal IIRC