Turning Point

I finished reading through Superman: Birthright and I have to say, it's not entirely what I expected.  For those of you who might not have read the comic and plan to, I feel it important to give you a giant Spoilers warning, so here it goes.

********** The following information may include spoilers to the Superman: Birthright comic, you have been warned.  **********

So I see where my friend came up with a lot of the ideas for the script.  Well, I shouldn't say a lot, but there are many elements that we decided to use that I recognized.  Clark heading off into the world trying to do right, but being forced to leave because of his special abilities.  Imagine you came across a man who could uproot a tree with his bare hands and fly, you'd be freaked out.  Admit it...ADMIT IT!  There, the best thing you can do for yourself is tell yourself the truth, don't you feel better now?

Most of the comic made complete sense, no suprises until a chunk of kryptonite with kryptonian symbols on it?  Ok, that's new.  A portal into, not only the past, but the past of another world, krypton?  The ability for Lex Luthor to somehow build a GIANT spider looking thing with the S symbol on it's chest.  Wait, huh? 

Lex is a genius, got it, smarter than anyone on earth, ok, cool.  Is able to singlehandedly build a robot the size of several city blocks and about as high as all the sky scrapers in Metropolis, ok, that might be pushing a little too far.  I know, it's a comic, but still, couldn't you have save SOMETHING for the sequel?  

I loved what they did with the Lex/Superman relationship, each trying to discredit the other, so many elements play out in so many different versions of the Superman legacy that a lot of the stuff I was thinking of doing in my script, just seem to fall into place.  Oh and sequels after the 4 scripts that I'm working on?  Didn't think I was going to be able to do it, but sure enough, plans are being formulated.  I could do a 7 movie deal and have each one be interesting and fascinating on their own, but show an arch through the course of the entire series. 

Alright, lets not get ahead of myself, I'll keep my story archs to the 4 movies and if by some miraculous occurance I actually DO get someone to read the scripts and get luckier than I would need to be to win the lottery and actually have a chance to have them made into actual movies, well then I shall push on.  I've worked on this for so long, but have never been this energized by it.