Metropolis: 10 Things The Superman Prequel Must Include
8. A Watergate Style Story
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With Steven Spielberg's The Post tipped to win just about everything this awards season, it could be said that Pakula-esque, journalistic thrillers are experiencing something of a revival.
Chief among that genre rests All the President's Men, Alan Pakula's 1976 classic that told the tale of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's efforts to unearth the Nixon Presidency's ties to the Watergate break-in. Who could DC's Nixon be? Well, there is one businessman who seems to have a hand in everything in Metropolis, and not a single hair rests on his head.
Yes, the aforementioned Lex (who even became president at the turn of the century, by the way), is the prime candidate to head this kind of conspiracy. Metropolis has potential to be this crazy little House of Cards-esque thing, following on from classic capers like Pakula's opus, and it'd be a shame if it were to adopt a different tone altogether.
Plus, y'know, who doesn't want to see Lois and the rest of the Planet cracking a conspiracy on their own?
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
