I don't particularly liked the dark realistic setting for superheroes if I'm being perfectly honest.
Sure, it worked all fine and dandy for the Nolan trilogy, but that's because realism (sort of) and grittiness go hand and hand with Batman's character. But most superheros and comic books take massive steamy dumps on actuality.
As for MoS, it could go either way really. Maybe the dark tones will play well, but I doubt you can have realism embedded in a character who uses sunlight to fly and shoot lasers from his eyes.
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I guess it isn't necessarily that the films need to be darker but that they take themselves seriously. I don't want the superhero genre to turn into the male equivalent of the rom-com.
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It'd be pretty difficult for a movie based on people with powers who dress up in costumes to take themselves seriously. Not saying it's impossible, just not easy.
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Then don't have them dress up in costumes. There are not enough original superhero ideas in films, they are nearly all adaptations. Why not write stories free from the general stereotypical nature of superhero films.