Maybe it’s because I was in college and both a) young and b) perpetually drunk enough to appreciate 300, but Zack Snyder has built his entire career around style over substance. It works when the entire premise of a movie is “oiled up Greek dudes killing Persians in slow motion,” but the rest of his filmography is…

And yet The Forever War, complete with its totally cool twist ending, still has no adaptation. (And guess what Hollywood: the book’s length is a “good fit” for a two-hour movie. It’s a win-win. IF it’s ever adapted.)

... but you'll wish it was

Other future Snyder franchises:

I mean, dunking on your worst fans is one thing, but continuing to make material that panders directly to what those fans want kind of undercuts said dunking.

“Zack Snyder seems like a very nice man who is doing his best.”

This. The fact he has attracted such weird, angry fan base is a little mystifying. But that said, Snyders work clearly demonstrates he’s the guy who only looks at the covers and splash pages of comic books instead of actually reading them.

Worth mentioning - Zack Snyder seems like a very nice man who is doing his best, this movie is fairly diverse and he’s dunked on some of the alt-right chuds who worship him right to their face - but his fanbase is one of the worst on the internet. The intersection with MauLer fans, who are actually the worst, is…

Snyder fans love this shit though. They don’t want to think about what the characters are feeling (most aren’t very interested in how other people are feeling in-general), they just want to move on to the next overshot tedious action scene. 

Robocop Rogue City. What a fucking delight, a competent, violent and gory shooter that nails the aesthetic and feel of the classic film, while getting to dodge anything from the shoddy third film that cratered the franchise.

But-but the “Star Wars cantina” scene is set in a brothel! What better illustration of Zac Snyder’s deconstructive genius could anyone possibly need?!

Rebel Moon is a limp, soulless regurgitation of tropes stolen from much more formidable films.

Or Sunday Comics

TJ Miller comes to mind. In the mid-2010s, he was a regular cast member on a very successful HBO show (Silicon Valley), was regularly in a handful of movies every year including some big franchises, and regularly toured his stand-up with a couple of specials produced. Plus he did voices on commercials too. It’s not…

Maharshala Ali has been cast as Blade for some time now but who knows when or if that movie will be made.

You forgot the whole Gollum/Kong/Walking Dead/Day Before quadrafecta of game release fail explosive diarrhea.

But Kang doesn't have to be buff.  His power comes from knowledge and technology.

Man, I’m not sure if I can recall someone who fell so hard right when their star was really rising in recent memory. To think, all he had to do was not be a massive shithead. 

I think you could easily insert a variant of Renslayer into the Kang role and it would work. Gugu Mbatha-Raw did a wonderful job in that role, making it pretty sinister in the end. If she could agree to selling her life to Marvel for the next half decade, the villain problem is solved.

I don’t understand why jettisoning the existing plot, to the extent there is one, is more exciting or preferable to just recasting the guy. Just finish what you started, right? Hastily pivoting to a totally different villain with a totally different gimmick sounds like it wouldn’t make anyone happy.