So, will there ever be another Superman movie ?

[The Bat]

With the incredible success of Dark Knight, I can't see Warners ticking off Chris Nolan and hurting the chances of him returning to direct the third "new" Batman movie. Apparently Nolan and crew were none too happy about another Batman coming to the screen in the JL movie, and who could blame them.

As much as I'd love to see that movie get made RIGHT one day, this didn't seem to be it. It just had disaster written all over it.

Chris

No arguement!!

[Earth 2 Chris]

With the incredible success of Dark Knight, I can't see Warners ticking off Chris Nolan and hurting the chances of him returning to direct the third "new" Batman movie. Apparently Nolan and crew were none too happy about another Batman coming to the screen in the JL movie, and who could blame them.

As much as I'd love to see that movie get made RIGHT one day, this didn't seem to be it. It just had disaster written all over it.

Chris

[The Bat]

DC and Warners just had a planning summit for the movies. The JLA movie is on hold and they are looking to junk the Superman/Singer franchise for something new.

YUP! If WB likes Mark Millar's Script....Singer could be out!

[thunderbolt]

DC and Warners just had a planning summit for the movies. The JLA movie is on hold and they are looking to junk the Superman/Singer franchise for something new.

[cjefferys]

I thought that Warner was putting the next Superman movie on hold and instead were planning a JLA movie first (which supposedly will involve different actors playing Superman and Batman, not Routh and Bale). But now looking at IMDB anyway, it seems that the Justice League film is on indefinite hold, so who knows what's happening next.

[ScottA]

I just want him to punch someone/something more than once and actually have a decent fight scene(s).

Maybe in the next one they will introduce the kid as "Superboy".

[Mikey]

I mentioned this before .....
I seen it in 3-D IMAX

The effects were - to say least-- stunning ...

But the story itself just sucked ....

It also seemed like most of the movie was filmed either in the dark or on overcast days.
The feel of the movie felt more like they were trying to make a Batman movie rip-off -- right down to Metropolis looking very Goth
Anyone else notice this ?

[megoscott]

Luthor was a street thug who gives Superman a common beat down. I didn't need to see that, it was done better in Superman 2.

In the end the big climax was Superman lifting an enormous ROCK. It was a BIG rock, but...wow. Not compelling.

I'm still irritated by that burgundy costume. Red yellow and Blue. Primary colors. It's not broke, don't fix it.

It was a thrill to see Superman flying with state of the art effects. That was it for me. The floating above the earth shot, the airplane crash. Everything else really let me down. I left feeling deflated.

[Hector]

I like Superman Returns...so there.

[Raydeen1]

I remember when Superman Returns cam eout and people were saying it was the best superhero movie of all time. I didn't go to the theatre to see it but my youngest wanted it so we got it for him for Xmas. To say it was bad is a bit of an overstatement. It was mediocre at best. I actually quite liked Brandon Routh although you do have a point, not much personality. I think that's possibly because he was cloning Chris Reeve to the best of his ability and it made him a bit static. Overall, I liked some parts, hated others. I absolutley can not buy Supes having a kid. He just isn't that dumb nor would he leave knowing he had a child. He would have known Lois was pregnant. He would have heard the heartbeat. It was just DUMB for him to have a child. However, I did like the scene with him at his bedside at the end. DULL is how I'd describe the movie. Luthor again?????????? They should have gone with a different villain. Plus the just plain weird, completely unneccessary stuff like the canibalistic dog. Not to mention the suit. LAME. The movie was a turd.

I'm sure they'll do a new one and I hope they choose a better route. New villain should be a no brainer.

[Mikey]

The thing about Superman Returns ..... this is just me .......

I really -REALLY wanted to love it ..... (bare in mind, i'm the same guy who also loves Superman-3 and 4 so i'm not that hard to please......

When Returns came out I was really let down .......

For one, I admit ... I wanted a Christopher Reeve clone ........
I got that .......
The only problem is, this guy had no SOUL .......
He looked the part, but there was nothing there (hard to explain)

I totally HATED Lois ......
Why was Lois like 17 years old in Returns ?

Jimmy was decent, as well as Lex,

The guy that played Perry, I didn't like ......
He's always a bad guy.......
Why cast him as Perry ?

The story itself ........

WAKE ME UP WHEN IT'S OVER
It made Superman 3 look like an action packed extravaganza

Returns was just SOOOOOOO boring

[The Bat]

The Comic writer Mark Millar wants to steal SUPERMAN away from Brian Singer(add a new Cast)...and is working with an un-named "BIG" name American Director. They're pitching it to WB...in case Brian Singer drops out!

Here's the interview:

Can I ask how the Superman pitch is going?

It’s quite weird actually, because I’d sort of given up on it. It’s really odd; I’ve been a huge fan of Superman my entire life, and I felt like something just happened, a couple of years ago after I’d seen Superman Returns. Not to **** on the movie or anything, but I think it was just kind of …probably the way people felt after Star Wars: Episode 1, where…you know that feeling when you’re sitting in the cinema on opening night with your friends, and I’d actually bought tickets [to Superman Returns] for all my brothers and friends and so on, and I did the same with [Phantom Menace] as well.

You know when you hear that Star Wars music, and I…I’m so embarrassed to say this, but I actually leaned over and I said to my wife and my brother. “I think this is going to be the greatest movie of all time” [laughs]! And I actually felt my eyes watering up when I heard that Star Wars music.

And then, one hour in, with Jar Jar Binks and all that, I actually just felt like killing myself. That’s the first time I think I’ve ever felt that crushing disappointment, coming out of the cinema.

It wasn’t quite on that scale with Superman Returns, because obviously the movie wasn’t as bad, but still , Superman meant even more to me than Star Wars, so the idea of walking out of a Superman movie and not being elated…

I genuinely had waited since 1987, Superman 4; buying magazines, checking it out online when the internet came along, just praying for a Superman movie. And managing to snare a draft of the Tim Burton scripts, and probably versions people haven’t even bothered looking at. I’ve probably read them all. So I was really anticipating this Superman movie. In the end it just sort of came out and didn’t do all that well, and it sort of deflated me on Superman; it took me a couple of years to get back into it again. Obviously Superman has a huge place in my heart.

The ‘director’ phoned me about a month ago, and said ‘Look, I’ve got absolutely no authorisation from Warner Brothers, because Warners aren’t looking in particular, but I want to have all my soldiers lined up, just in case.” He said “I want to do a complete reboot of the Superman franchise”. He said “I know you’ve got a huge passion for it and the buzz on Wanted is great”. I think it was the week before Wanted opened. He said “I’d just like you to be a part of it. I think there’d be a really good fan reaction, because people have said they’d like to see what you’d do with it. And I’d just like you to be part of the team. Are you interested?”.

[laughs] It took me a nanosecond to say ‘yes’. I’ve had the plot for an amazing Superman trilogy figured out since I was about ten, so I told him that and he loved it. When we were in the states, we met up – he’s an American director, and he’s a big, big deal in terms of action movies and so on. But in terms of courtesy, you have to wait and see if Bryan [Singer] is going to do any more. You can’t just go in there and nick a project off a guy. If Bryan ends up standing back and goes to move on and do something else, we’ll be in there like a shot.

One of the things I do love about Superman Returns is the reverence for the Donner version, with the music and so forth – but would you have to jettison that for your own project, just to give it a fresh start?

It’s funny you say that – [Donner’s] Superman is obviously the one I grew up with. We were talking about casting various people; obviously we’d be starting from scratch with a whole new cast; but one of the things this American guy [the ‘director’] said to me was that you’ve got to love Donner’s version and keep it in your heart, but we’ve got to do the new one. I said ‘What do you mean?’. He said “Imagine Donner had said ‘I grew up in the fifties and I love the George Reeves TV show – I’m gonna do it just like that’”. He said make it appropriate to the world around you now, and I thought ‘That’s a very good point’.

Chuck Allen was nothing like George Reeves and George Reeves was nothing like Christopher Reeve; the Clark Kent could not have been more different. The idea of moving it on one generation again so that it’s very identifiable to that period is a very interesting idea.

You’ve got to keep Superman as the cornerstone of it, but the world around him should be quite different.

Superman was very conflicted in Returns – almost apologist. What is the problem people have liking Superman as he is?

I actually think it’s a sign of a malformed personality, people who don’t like Superman [laughs]. In fact, nearly all of my friends say ‘Oh, I hate Superman’, and I ask why, and they say ‘Oh, cause he’s such a goody-goody’. So it’s like ‘Don’t you like nice people?’ [laughs], y’know, ‘What is wrong with you?’. And they say ‘Oh, I prefer Batman, he’s more sort of evil and bad-ass’. But who would you rather hang about with? Who’s a better role model with a more kind of positive outlook on the world? I think it’s the same kids that carve a swastika into the vestibule at school – that’s the kind of person who doesn’t like Superman [laughs].

I think the mainstream public, left and right, would go nuts for a Superman film right now, especially in this period where America ’s slightly at ease with itself…to do something that has America feeling good about itself again, and something that just has the hairs on the back of your neck standing up for the whole movie. Could be amazing…

Is there anything controversial in the vision of Superman that you’ve been nursing for about 30 years? Something that might surprise the fans…?

It’s funny, but sometimes you do that when you go onto a new project. I did The Authority a few years ago, and that was like my first big break over at Wildstorm, and I do remember thinking [laughing] wouldn’t it be funny if you had the guy who looks like Superman getting buggered by the guy who looks like Captain America?

Sometimes you do go into a project with that in mind. But I think Superman is a project that you shouldn’t court controversy in. But in saying that, without meaning it, and not in a crude way, I have got some ideas that are quite radical for it, and when I was talking to the director in L.A. he was very excited, saying ‘God, that’s a take on it we haven’t thought of before’. So I think it’ll probably naturally be controversial following the decision, if it happens…but in a good way. It’d be nothing like Chris Nolan’s Batman, because Batman and Superman are so distinct. To me, this is a film that you can take your five year-old to, and his eyes should be lighting up saying ‘This is the best film I’ve ever seen’…

I’ve had this insane thing, my whole life, like I’ve always felt—everybody’s here for a reason, and I’ve always felt that’s my reason. Everything else to me is training to do a Superman film. Everything else I’ve ever done, the good stuff, the bad, it’s all just training to revamp Superman. And then after that I should just **** off and do something else [laughs]. That’s my only real ambition.

I hope it happens. That’s a film I really want to see.

Thanks very much. It’d be terrible if it turned out to be **** now, wouldn’t it [laughs]? But in our minds, it’s great, and honestly the director is so so good at this kind of thing, and I think it could just work out pretty brilliant, actually. I’ve got a good feeling about it.

[MIB41]

I can assure you there will be no Superman in 2009 (as that one link suggests). They have no script, no signed actors, and no effects house onboard to do the CGI. At the very earliest we could have one in late 2010, IF they get the concept and cast together now. Personally I think they need to give him a rest. Take a lesson from Hulk 101. Returns is well in people's minds. Any movie they put out right now would be a failure because of that film. The Hulk proved that point definitively.

[toys2cool]

I'm sure there will be one soon,but Superman movies are just always a little boring to me

[Earth 2 Chris]

I think DC/Warners is weighing their options here. I think the opposite though, about SR. It seems people have grown to appreciate it more to me. I've said it before, but I feel it's a good movie, just not the movie people were expecting.

Chris