As to why Jordan wouldn’t just team up with Abrams and Coates on their Superman film, their report quotes an article in Black Girl Nerds that claims, per their sources, that Jordan doesn’t want to play a version of Clark Kent who happens to be Black, and would rather work on a project about a character like Val-Zod, who is canonically Black in DC Comics.
Those clamoring for Michael B. Jordan to play DC Comics’ Superman may get their wish — though not quite as they expected.
Instead, Collider reports that Jordan and his production company Outlier Society are developing their own project about a Black Superman, this one based on an existing DC character named Val-Zod.
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