>A spaceship crash-lands in Brightburn, Kansas. A local couple, Kyle and Tori, investigate and find a baby inside. They adopt the baby and name him "Brandon".
>Tori is kind and loving, but Kyle is cold and doesn't really see Brandon as his son.
>Brandon grows up to be a loner with a crush on a popular classmate.
>Brandon begins developing superpowers and his spaceship begins driving him crazy with psychic messages to "take the world".
>There's an exposition-heavy biology class about how some predatory species use their unsuspecting prey to raise their young.
>Brandon begins acting weird, which further alienates him from his classmates and Kyle.
>Tori decides to tell Brandon that he's an alien, but this just makes Brandon angrier.
>At one point Brandon cuts himself with a piece of metal from his ship, the only thing that can hurt him.
>He begins stalking his crush, and her mom tells Brandon to stay away from her.
>Brandon goes to the diner where the crush's mom works as a waitress and kills her.
>Brandon's aunt, the school guidance counselor, suspects that Brandon is involved and subtly tries to interrogate him.
>Brandon realizes she's onto him and decides to kill her, but his uncle shows up and decides to drive Brandon back to his parents' house.
>When he makes a snide remark, Brandon forces his car to crash, ripping the uncle's jaw off, and kills him, drawing his alien crest on the scene in blood.
>Kyle slowly realizes Brandon is behind everything and takes him on a hunting trip in the woods.
>When they're alone, Kyle shoots Brandon in the head, but the bullet bounces off. Brandon then overpowers Kyle and melts his face off with heat vision.
>Tori finds Brandon's diary, which is filled with sketches of his crest, his crimes and his intentions for the world, and realizes Brandon is evil.
>She calls Kyle to warn him, but Brandon answers the phone and tells her everything is fine.
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>Tori realizes Brandon killed Kyle and calls the police before retrieving a piece of metal from Brandon's ship.
>Brandon arrives, kills the cops and destroys the house.
>Tori pleads for Brandon to stop and tells him she loves him and everything will be alright.
>Brandon breaks down and says he's trying to be good but just can't.
>Tori takes the opportunity and tries to stab Brandon with the shard, but he survives.
>Her betrayal causes Brandon to snap. He flies her up in the sky and drops her to her death.
>Brandon then collides with an airplane, killing everyone on board, and makes it crash into his house to cover up the murders.
>The police believes Brandon to be the sole survivor of a horrific tragedy and take him away as he smugly eats cookies.
>Movie ends with a montage of Brandon destroying cities and killing people across the world.
>Allegedly there's a post-credits scene of Michael Rooker as a Alex Jones-esque radialist saying Brandon is not the only superpowered monster out there in the world and namedropping an "aquatic monster" and a "woman choking people to death with her lasso".
>Allegedly there's a post-credits scene of Michael Rooker as a Alex Jones-esque radialist saying Brandon is not the only superpowered monster out there in the world and namedropping an "aquatic monster" and a "woman choking people to death with her lasso".
This literally sounds like a Superman creepypasta.
How did they manage to fund this movie?
The deaths sound cool in this atleast, melting peoples faces off and ripping jaws out.
>Tori pleads for Brandon to stop and tells him she loves him and everything will be alright.
>Brandon breaks down and says he's trying to be good but just can't.
>Tori takes the opportunity and tries to stab Brandon with the shard, but he survives.
>Her betrayal causes Brandon to snap.
Roasties ruin everything. They are literally the reason why incels exist
>fund
James Gunn name attached to script
you make one or two good movies and (((Hollywood))) sucks your dick
Oh god imagine if they do a horror film justice league movie...
Hide forced viral marketing threads.
Until the mods start banning these paid brightburn posters that's all we can do.
>Movie ends with a montage of Brandon destroying cities and killing people across the world.
Fucking lol, sounds hilarious. This is so absurdly juvenile how did this shit even get made?
>AHAHAHAHAHA LMAO HOW DID MOVIE GET MADE ITS NOT WHAT I LIKE SO IM GONNA PRETEND ITS IMPOSSIBLE FOR IT TO WORK IM A FUCKIN MOROOOONNNNN
chill
Please name a good montage that wasn’t tongue in cheek or campy fun
I’m genuinely curious
The kid is also Gunn's nephew
why does he wear a cape and mask
Plot twist, this is actually Earth 3 and we are seeing the Crime Syndicates origins.
>DUDE WHAT IF SUPERMAN WAS LIKE, EVIL?! THAT WOULD BE SO EDGY THIS HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE!
I actually want to see this now
Picrelated would be a good Evil Cyborg, if it wasn't Blumhouse.
>THIS HAS NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE!
It hasn't, nerd.
I've never heard of the idea of a superhero but evil before. What will we call this new class of character? A super bad guy? A super enemy? A super antagonist? A super nemesis? The mind reels at the possibilities. Thank you James Gunn for this most novel innovation. I am sure this originality will birth an entire new genre and inspire creators for decades to come.
Is that movie worth watching?
Injustice says hello.
sounds meh
when you take into account that it had a sub $5million production budget, it’s one of the best movies last year
its decent.
Like i said, it has been done in comics but not in film. There are countless of concepts literature did before film and no one bitches about it. Fuck off.
Jesus fucking christ on a stick. This is the first time ive looked at an image of this kid in a mask and realized that the stitching is not some wierd mosquito/gonzo the muppet nose. What the fuck man I thought he had a little sock trunk
>injustice
>not even a movie
If you want to talk about other forms of entertainment, why not say comics where evil superman happened long time before.
>implying that the story mode of injustice isn’t already basically a movie
Okay retards, go kill yourselves.
Wait. That’s most of the plot to Supreme Power Hyperion. Gay.
Do you think they fucked?
Idgaf about some edgy movie but the fact that theyre so blatantly using the Brand from Berserk enrages me
I mean, kinda cool? I love Crime Syndicate
Fuck Berserkfags.
Goddamn thats tame. Fuck that
Are they trying to do what unbreakable/Split/Glass did?
No, fuck you
the injustice comics/story is actually pretty decent. dealing with an evil/tyrant superman. this just sounds dumb as hell.
>Description: DANM after ending that kid kill all people and earth was dead cuz he kill them all
Thanks Coke_ master345
The ending of The Wire.
Disgusting.
they are trying to make a crime syndicate movie without the rights to DC characters
Superhombre would keep this little shit in check.
Oh definitely.
Berserk hasn't been good since the actual Berserk armor went into play. It's trash now.
is this kid hapa holy fuck the memes. can't wait to watch this shit. also why does she fall like a retard sitting on a greenscreen box
kid's face looks like an uncanny valley 90s 3D model
>Roasties ruin everything. They are literally the reason why incels exist
The kid killed her husband and loads of other people. She didn't do anything wrong. That kid was already a shit.
>Brandon breaks down and says he's trying to be good but just can't.
I watched the cam rip dude, and yeah he says that, but I don't think he meant it. I think he just wanted his mom to try and kill him, sort of to see how it would go, and also as a justifier for his actions of killing her.
The kid is so ridiculously beyond hope, it's made pretty clear in the movie that there was never actually any point where he was redeemable. The very VERY last part of the movie where Brandon was being genuine, was the part where he gets mad at his mom for lying to him about where he's from.
He is, as it turns out, extremely overjoyed that he is not actually human, because he hates all of the human around him just instinctively, and sees himself as superior/ubermensch compared to them. We can see this by how he dissects the lady at the diner simply for his amusement and nails her body as a trophy next to the broken ship.
>>Allegedly there's a post-credits scene of Michael Rooker as a Alex Jones-esque radialist saying Brandon is not the only superpowered monster out there in the world and namedropping an "aquatic monster" and a "woman choking people to death with her lasso".
The only good part of this pedo's film.
what an ugly fucking kid
why do they keep casting these arya stark looking ugly fucking kids, jfc
It's pretty damn good
>never actually any point where he was redeemable.
in the first 10 minuets he was a good boy. willing to cut the lawn and help his dad around the house
>lives in Brightburn, KA
>his alien symbol just so happens to be two Bs
Bravo
Everyone that had any mild interest already watched the screener. I haven't been this bored by a film in years. Struggled to finish it, and it's not even feature length.
Roasties gotta toasties
He was just going through the motions, doing what he thought he was supposed to do. He never actually liked it, not at any point. That's why he celebrated when it turned out he wasn't human.
Meant camrip, before I get a sperg sperging.
Its a kid asking a superman type symbol out of his initials. it fits perfectly
>going through the motions
not at all. he was clearly happy to have his family around and to help out. it only turns into what you are saying till after he sleepwalks and finds out he has power.
So what happened to his crush? Did she die?
T. James
No, her mom just got disemboweled and hung naked in his basement.
Suicide Squad,
Why would he name his alter ego after his town? That's dumb
tetsuo STOPPP
Brandon is insanely hot.
A masterpiece compared to brightburn
This movie is obviously meant to be a one-off, and will not be very popular imo. But it would've been cool if they introduced a Luthor-esque anti-hero to combat him. You have to think about the type of sacrifices you'd have to make to defeat this kid.
You'd have to go full James T Kirk on him early on. But it would also require throwing a few ethics out the window.
Remember the episode on Star Trek where there's the immature teenager who can literally warp reality? How did they defeat him. Purely through psychological means of course, because what you cannot defeat through strength you must defeat through intelligence. The Brightburn kid looks strong and fast, but he doesn't look very smart. His emotional response to everything is to destroy it. If someone makes him angry, he kills. He acts purely on impulse. He is an alien demon child but he's still a child. He kills his father, and terrorizes his mother but doesn't kill her until the last moment. This means he does want to be loved on some level, and to have purpose.
Use that, make him curious about where he came from. If he's not curious already. Learn about the symbol he uses. Find out what he already innately knows about his alien race. If you can trick him into voluntarily leaving earth, then you potentially win.
You can go the psychological route right away, while also trying to gauge any possible physical weaknesses he might have.
To fight him, you need to lure him into different places to test to see if he has any limitations and if so, what they are. Maybe you can't run from him, but can you hide? Are there any metals he can't see through like lead with Superman? Does he have any weaknesses? Is he sensitive to sound waves or frequencies? In order to figure this out you'd have to intentionally lure him into different places and have that tested, but this is the unethical part, you'd have to do this with the full knowledge that where ever you lead him, people are going to die. You also can't have it appear as if any of the governments of the world are committing their armies or resources to it. You have to make it seem like(to him) that whatever he is facing is some kind of villain.
Create an artificial false "villain" for him to fight. Like an "L" type figure. Someone who publicly tauntshim. If you can't trick him into leaving earth, create something for him to be distracted by. An enemy for him to fight. Not a real enemy of course, just a fake enemy. Considering how emotional he is, this shouldn't be too hard. Replicate the "L" technique used in Death Note, don't actually reveal the face of the villain. Make him a mysterious figure. Someone that Brightburn shouts out "coward show yourself", and of course, he never does, because he isn't real.
If you can keep this charade up, you might even get him to help humanity to defy you out of spite.
Huh?
Anyway, I think the highlight of this could have been a Luthor-type character, but clearly it's just meant to be a pump and dump cash-in on capeshit with the horror movie twist.
It's not THAT bad. Just strange things, the baby attacking scene is as pathetic as it sounds. Maybe the cgi was a bit dodgy but other than that, you get the film you paid for. A little shut being evil
london
Why can't I have his powers and exact vengeance upon my enemies? Fuck this God damn nigger loving gay earth
Wonder woman and the creature of the black lagoon?
*a little shit
>we're actuall getting a set up for the Crime Syndicate
The dumb bitch of a mother should've written down his weakness and kept a piece of his ship literally anywhere in case she fucked up.
Yes, but can he beat Thanos?
Dude what if superpowers but evil lmao?
isnt that the question of the day
Seemed like the ship set him off and everything went out of control after that point.
This did not age well at all
Superman can't even beat Doomsday without Kryptonite.
>pedo
Have sex
>marketing threads
>giving all spoilers so people doesnt even have to watch the movie
are you clinically retarded? what kind of meds do you use to be functional?
It's true. Gunn did insist Brandon be in a towel
Saw this on tuesday. It was a boring shallow turd. The writers/director are hacks shoving in inappropriate tropes having no idea how to use them effectively.
Yes
>hey let's make Superman
>but HORROR, DARK AND EDGY!
this is Alan Moore's fault
Damn James calm down even if you did make a shitty movie I still liked GotG
>UH WUT IF SUPERMEN WUZ BAD AND SUPERMEN KILL AND DEN AND DEN DA PEOPL DIE AND FIRE GOES WOOOSH AND EXPLOSION AND BOOM BOOM AND VROOOOM AND WOW BAD!
The film makes me think you truly are guilty, Gunn
>dude, rape lmao
Literally just summed up this autistic series
This could have worked as an Earth 3 Ultraman movie and been absolute kino. Now that last part is just a dumb reference
They aren't using the brand at all. Look at them again
It's the kid's initials
Doomsday is made to kill him
James Gunn didn't direct or write this.
Just insisted to have a conversation about jerking off in it
>And it's better than Hack Snyder's/Whedon's frankenstein CGI-stache abomination
lmao who the fuck is that Superman wnnabe?
>horror movie where the killer is an invincible monster
>horror movie where the killer/monster is a shitty child actor
>horror movie where nobody has a chance and everybody dies at the end
could they have combined three worse concepts? sounds boring as shit
It's an evil justice league from another universe.
I thought it was really bad t b h. Completely surface level and unambitious.
Megamind did it. So there goes this defense
>spoilers
camrip is out...
What's worse than capeshit? Young adult centered capeshit.
Loved it. A satisfying experience and it actually made me like budget-Tom Hardy.
Batman vs Superman ring a bell?
>It's another 'what if superman bad' story
>Brandon breaks down and says he's trying to be good but just can't.
You know I really don't like it when a story says that someone is evil by nature
WOT IF SUPRMAN EVIL?
Jesus it's like if some movie exec played Prototype then thought a movie would be good but only if they got rid of the folded over 6 gorirrion times edge that made it fun and instead made it generic evil kid edge.
Why do you claim that?
And comic Doomsday is ridiculously OP
You know what's funny? Warner Bros could have done this same exact thing.
>superman movie
>ultraman movie
>WW movie
>Super woman movie
>Batman movie
>Owlman movie
>Flash movie
>Johnny Quick movie
>Aquaman movie
>Sea King movie
>Green Lantern movie
>Power ring movie
>Justice league movie
>Crime Syndicate movie
>crossover
you could have done the good version and the "what if superheroes but EVIL" and people would eat that shit up.
we're living in Trump's America where incel culture is rampant
honestly to me its more so just column B that is the issue if they just jumped him to being an adult then it wouldnt be as bad as it sounds
There's a viral marketing campaign here to push this same as there was for It Follows and Babadook.
Just try and ignore it and just sage these threads. I wouldn't watch this garbage for free.
Actually quite amazing. Movie looks $40 million budget at least. Guess you can achieve quite a lot without giving Downey Retard half a billion dollars huh
If it generates an interest in Hollywood to make movies with under $20 million budgets that are still entertaining and still tell a decent story, then it's worth it. These multi-hundreds of millions of dollar atrocities they've been spewing out are stranglethorns devised by major studios to cut out everyone but their bloated peers.
It's not that, you can hurt him with anything, she just pulled of a piece because it was sharp.
What actually makes him vulnerable is the ship itself, when he approaches, the shit turns on and starts glowing red - that's when he can be hurt.
It's essentially Kryptonite.
They shouldve made the kid in his teenage years, so they could throw in some rape and other edgy stuff, what they went with is completely uninteresting.
It's an occultist, judaic ritual movie pretty much a movie embodying the Jewish Talmudic messiah, the director is a literal kike, so of course it passed you fucking assburgers retard
Kikes
rape os boring stop being a nigger
So is he evil cause he's an alien or is he just a rare case of psycho
well atleast now i don't have to watch the movie, sounded intresting at first
Super villian you twat
ok but is it fun to look at ? a couple of friends keep insisting we see it in kinoma, is it worth it ?
That's not answered. Doesn't have to be, he just wants to be an asshole
I call bullshit on the last one. This sounds like some silly speculah.
>Produced by James Gunn and written by his brother
You wanna bet?
Evil Superman who snorts Kryptonite to power up cannot stand the sun.
Tell me more. I only know these guys wrote silly crap like Scooby Doo and created that kitschy Guardians series.
I want the Real Superman to meet this kid and beat sense into him.
Looks like a certain page is filled up gonna cross check the spoilers.
Edgy would be if at the end he swooped down on the girl who bullied him, flew up and started fucking her as she helplessly clings to him to not fall.
aquaman you moron
>This is so absurdly juvenile how did this shit even get made?
Anyone else find "Superman turns evil" to be fucking lazy? DC making it a major franchise with Injustice is doubly stupid.
Moore's Miracle Man, Ennis's The Boys, and that one Mark Waid did at Boom are the handful that were decent. And even then you have to like those authors already.
Neither did Max Landis
A daring synthesis of Superman and DBZ.
I'm going to need an explanation
Liked it better when it was called Omen.
Megamind. Megamind did this before bright burn.
So, basically Son Goku if he never smacked his head and forget his Saiyan orders.
It's been done 100x better.
It would be smarter to pretend to be a hero to take control of the planet for your people.
>Child with powers
Ill pass
Is James Gunn and edgy enough faggot to make a Coldsteel movie?
Very much so
I would rather see the evil Wonder Woman being a complete sadistic CEO that breaks people's knees with her high heels and choke people to death who dissapoint her.
is there any doubt?
>being this much of a normie
You don't belong here.
This is fucking stupid.
How about something worse, like a feminist?
>Superman blocks magical gauntlet
>Superman
>Magical
He would die due to his own ego as he goes to take a punch to the face, then his head explodes off his shoulders due to his weakness to magic.
He’s evil cause he’s an illegal alien that refuses to assimilate into the native culture, truly a powerful political statement
The spoilers actually seems pretty tame. I was expecting dumber.
>the movie's a giant "fuck you" to DC
I hope this and Deadpool 2 are the start of the next new trend
>send a child to destroy a planet
>use a ship made out of the only thing capable of hurting it
Why were the aliens such retards?
Turning him weak, imagine the kid kicking inside the ship with full power.
>Brandon breaks down and says he's trying to be good but just can't.
Irredeemable, Injustice, Superboy Prime, Miracleman. I could go on. It’s been done a lot.
Wow that is one of the most pointless story ever.
>powerful confused alien kid
>people fear him
>turns out he's actually evil as well
Seriously it doesn't expand over its basic premise, no development, no conclusion at all.
>>Kyle slowly realizes Brandon is behind everything and takes him on a hunting trip in the woods.
>>When they're alone, Kyle shoots Brandon in the head, but the bullet bounces off. Brandon then overpowers Kyle and melts his face off with heat vision.
Haha Kyle sounds like such a cuck getting made into a bitch by a child. I bet Brandon fucked Tori really hard.
Who's the guy in the back with the exploding head
>Written by Lex Luthor
This sounds like a fake movie, like something you would see being pitched on a TV show by a sleazy, overweight yes man who's meant to be stupid and pathetic and you're meant to laugh at his suggestion
How did they make an entire movie out of Pointlessly Evil Superman
>the post-credit scene pans out to Lex sitting at an animation desk
>he looks at the camera
>"ain't I a stinker?"
>merry go round broke down starts playing
did Max Landis write this
I have no idea if this will be any good, but if it starts a new era of villainkino I welcome it.
Sounds Kino, looking forward to watching it.
This
that sounds like hot garbage but I'll probably watch the Michael Rooker scene on youtube
it would have been better to make the backstory the montage and the destruction montage the movie
>Anyone else find "Superman turns evil" to be fucking lazy?
Everyone else ITT thinks you are a faggot
LMFAO literally a happa incel goes turbo autismo and destroys the world.
based quasi-oedipus poster
Gods and Monsters was so fucking good.
The kid is shown to be exceptionally smart though and was able to sense his mum stabbing him from behind and stop the shard. Perhaps he could be liable to emotional manipulation but he is kind of a sociopath.
The spaceship "activated" when he was of age and triggered his abilities while telling him to "Rule them all"(something like that I can't remember exactly). Seems to be like he was sent to conquer Earth.
Enraged he has super powers and a 1 inch penis
It is true. I actually watched it last week, somehow it was released early here. There was also a parody of Aquaman
Hellstorm or something, evil version of firestorm
>Billie Eilish song at the end
Sounds boring and edgy.
This. It doesn't really offer anything to me. Instantly forgettable.
Well, the kid sounds like he is the self insert of James Gunn.
He was probably molested by his uncle (dads brother) and he packed the trauma away by pretending to be Superman.
Unfortunatly, the trauma was repeated so much that his coping mechanism made his Superman insert become evil.
Easy to see that is why he loves making comic book movies and molesting kids (or atleast, acting like he loves molesting kids on public forums)