TheMutt92 said:http://www.superherohype.com/news/supermannews.php?id=7634
Video where Millar talks more about the film and his obsessions w/ Superman (including owning the dead cat used in one of the films )
bonoferox said:No Singer
No Routh
No Thanks.
Screw you, Warner Brothers.
The Man said:Had Superman Returns made sufficient money at the b.o. this would not be happening. They were 'delighted' with Singer's 'vision' before the dollars were added up.
The last Superman movie they were satisfied with was released back in 1980!!! Shouldn't they just stop? When they've denounced THREE out of five movies, then that franchise is best left alone...
Kevin Spacey will once again transform into Superman’s arch-foe, Lex Luthor, in the next Superman film, tentatively titled Superman: The Man of Steel.
What this means on the heels of the news that Warner Brothers is looking for a “darker tone” to the next film in the Superman franchise is unclear. It is similarly uncertain if Brandon Routh, who played Superman/Clark Kent, or director Bryan Singer will be back.
If anything, his work at the Old Vic has placed his experience making movies in sharp relief. "The main difference between the experience that I've had over these last five and a half years and making movies is that movies are very unorganic to make. They're put together and a year later you go and see them and you go 'wow that really worked out'; or 'wow, that really didn't'. Then they go off in to cinemas and you don't see how it affects people, experiencing it night after night. And also, in the movie business, no matter how good you might be in a movie, you'll never be any better. What you learn in the organic living experiment of coming to work every night and tackling a role in a play with a company from previews to 16 weeks later is a journey." That may not go down so well with the producers of the follow-up to Superman Returns, who will be paying him big bucks to reprise his role as Lex Luthor next year. "Well, look. If I'm not producing, then I'm an actor for hire. It ends there. That doesn't mean you're not working with a director and other actors and a writer to make the best movie you can, but it's a temporal experience, you'll be together for a couple of weeks or months and then you're done."
In fact, he told me that ?Last week Brandon Routh has come around the offices in New York and Los Angeles as of late to talk about Superman and what we want to do???blah blah blah!
At first I thought it was the Apple Martini I was drinking but I soon realized that I just heard a bombshell go off in my brain! Brandon? He did say Brandon Routh was coming around talking about Superman! Why the hell would they be talking to Brandon if he was not going to be part of the reboot? Because he?s still in the mix!!!
The truth of the matter is that the way Mr. Levitz made it seem is that they love Brandon as Clark Kent and that he?s just a great guy, which I agree. I mean remember we at Latino Review told EVERYONE he was going to be the next Superman.
deckard24 said:Seriuosly why does Lex Luthor have to be in every Superman film? Can't they just come up with a new villain? Batman doesn't fight the Joker in every movie, nor does Spiderman fight the Green Goblin! Also Luthor isn't even really a threat to Superman in the way a Doomsday character would be. We need some serious one-on-one fighting between Superman and his villain, not him flying around the world trying to undo whatever natural disaster has been set into motion by Lex! If WB really wants to make a film that will excite moviegoers, they need to put Superman in some serious peril and have him actually fight! Enough of the lifting of heavy objects for 2 1/2 hours!
Mark Millar wants to create an epic 8-hour screen story which will follow the entire life of Kal-El from his birth on Krypton a thousand years ago, until he is the last being left on Earth.
Mark has been working closely with a ?big-Hollywood action director? ? who he refuses to name at this stage ? on a pitch for what he is calling the Magnum Opus of Superman stories. His idea is for an 8-hour saga, split into 3 films to be released a year apart, in a Lord of the Rings fashion. Although several other sources have reported similar conversations with Mark, he went into further detail, fleshing out the story arc a little more.
?I want to start on Krypton, a thousand years ago, and end with Superman alone on Planet Earth, the last being left on the planet, as the yellow sun turns red and starts to supernova, and he loses his powers."