Brandon Routh as recently as last week told us that he expects prep work to begin on Superman: The Man of Steel early next year, for a release in June 2009. This would all seem to make sense as director Bryan Singer is busy at work with shooting Valkyrie and fighting off the German Defense Ministry who believed Tom Cruise was evil!
The latest comments though by Singer’s producers of The Mayor of Castro Street (another movie he has on his potential slate) hint that the Superman Returns sequel won’t be his next film, and instead it could well be the Harvey Milk biopic we told you he was interested in shooting back in April.
“The next Superman, that’s a ways off,” claimed Meron to RT. Zadan added: “Don’t worry about it. Trust me. We may even start preproduction on Harvey Milk while he’s on post production on the Tom Cruise movie.”
This doesn’t actually surprise me as much as you would think because Singer isn’t the only one interested in a Harvey Milk movie. Gus Van Sant is also trying to rush a Milk biopic into production and as is always the case in Hollywood, whichever movie gets off the ground first usually ends up being the successful.
So could Superman: The Man of Steel be delayed for another year and not come out till 2010? Or instead, will they go out and find a different director if Bryan Singer once again fails to commit himself to the project?
You know if Superman Returns had actually been the success it should have been you have to believe it would have been the latter as Warner Brothers wouldn’t sit on a money making franchise to wait for a director to finish off his personal projects. As it was though, Returns never set the world alight, so maybe WB will wait until 2010?
source – slash film
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Singer should never have directed SR, he should have completed his X-Men trilgy and moved on. His casting on SR with the exception of Routh and Spacey was awful and the inclusion of Supes having a bastard child especially given the fact that the actress who played Lois Lane still looked like a child herself did not work at all and through me out of the films reality. Supes should go to another respected and hungry director.
I’m with Tino on this. Singer is a talented enough director, but his casting choices are poor and his story ideas suck as well. He needs to dump a lot of his indy sensibilities, and what he seems to think are “bold” ideas since they have no place in mainstream movie making.
I never agreed with his choice of IanMcKellen as Magneto, and let’s not forget he originally wanted Dougray Scott to play Wolverine and held up production for months in hopes of getting him, even after Dougray Scott got injured on the set of Mission:Impossible 2. It was only when the shoot went weeks and weeks past schedule that the studio finally forced him to recast so they could make their May 200 release date. He didn’t want to BTW. That’s not an artist, that’s an asshole.
Hugh Jackman got the role of Wolverine, but consider the lengths Singer was willing to go to to get a bad actor. Kind of like Jonathan Mostow’s casting in T3. He only cast Nich Stahl because the two were good friends on an earlier movie. Studios need to stop this crap.
I agree wholeheartedly on the Superman Returns front. Boy were the supporting cast awful.
I love Frank Langella but he was lifeless as Perry White. James Marsden’s character I just couldn’t understand, and when I was in the theatre I just heard groans from the audience as soon as they saw he was “the other guy”.
Sam Huntington was a joke as Jimmy Olsen.
Parker Posey I quite liked as Kitty though.
Time to move on Bryan.. If Superman Returns ends up being your last comic book movie ever, I won’t be displeased.
Personally, I thought Parker Posey was going to be Lois Lane, she certainly would have been a HELL of a lot better choice than that girl who was cast. She was worse than Katie Holmes in Batman Begins.