Updates on IRON MAN & SUPERMAN
Some updates on Iron Man and Superman: The Man of Steel…
CONFIRMED: Bryan Singer IS back for Superman: The Man of Steel. That was true. He said this to Empire…
“I’m just getting back with writers after the strike. We’re just in the development phase. I’m starting to develop a sequel…with the intention of directing it.”
Ok that’s cool. I do think Singer has a knock out Superman film in him and after what the guy did with X-Men 2, we know he is capable of making a much more epic and assured second film in a franchise…
“The first one was a romantic film and a nostalgic film,” he says. “I’ll be the first person to own up to that without making any apologies for it. I knew it was going to be that from the outset. And now that the characters are established, there’s really an opportunity to up the threat levels…Clearly there’ll be a body count [laughs]. From frame one, it will be unrelenting terror! All those teenage girls who found the movie and mooned over James Marsden or Brandon? Well, I’m going to wake them up!”
Unrelenting terror? Presuming that is a joke but comments like that do hint at a real villain for Supes to face this time around.
NOT TRUE: CHUD are claiming yesterday’s studio sources from IESB are incorrect. Transformers and Star Trek scribes Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman ARE NOT writing The Man Of Steel. It would seem that they are busy hammering out the script for the Transformers sequel for Michael Bay.
Warner Bros. are now looking for writers for the new Superman movie. What a great opportunity for writers out there to work on the iconic character. You know what I would like to see?
Get a writer like Jeph Loeb or Brian Azzarello who has worked on some great Superman comic tales and hire them to write the script. It worked with David Goyer on Batman Begins. Although Goyer wasn’t a comic book writer, he was very much a Bat fan and shaped much of the mythology of the picture.
NOT TRUE: Coming Soon have it confirmed that Iron Man will open on May 2nd, not as early as April 30th as some sources claimed yesterday.
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I wish Singer would fuck off and leave Supes Well alone! I’m sick of hearing about him., I dont even think he’s really into this at all.
Comment by The Glove | March 12, 2008
Great news! Keep Orci and Kurtzman as far from Superman –and HOLLYWOOD!– as possible.
Comment by JaySmack | March 12, 2008
I’m sick of Singer and sick of 1970’s Superman. I loved it during its time, but that time has come and gone. Two entire generations have been born since then. We’ve entered a new millennium since then. Why are we still stuck with 1970’s interpretation of these characters? They existed for 40 years before then and 30 years after the movie. It’s bizarre that all of Superman mythos has been reduced that one movie. Comical Clark Kent, harridan Lois Lane, campy petty crook Lex Luthor, all belong left in the 1970’s. They haven’t existed in the comic books, the tv series, the animations, or any other form since then. It’s time for the movies to catch up with the rest of us.
Comment by Hellen | March 12, 2008
I used to watch “superman” the 90’s tv series and it made it obvious that, THERE ARE MORE VILLIANS THAN JUST LEX LUTHOR!!!!!. i’M SICK OF HIM, he’s a main character in smallville and in all the movies! minus the 3 from krypton.
All we ever see him do is lift heavy objects and beat up regular human beings. Can’t we get Grundy, Doomsday, Bizarro, darkseid, mongul,Muhammad Ali, a villain with some intesity and agression. And we get it already, KRYPTONITE IS BAD!!!, quit using that as superman’s downfall. Frankly I wanna see him get knocked through a building and get his finely combed hair a little roughed up! Let’s See The Man Of Steel put his name to the test, maybe and actual fight, no?
Comment by Madhatt3r | March 12, 2008
I liked “Returns” alot-more than most-and liked Singer’s approach and homage to the Donner film-and also thought Brandon was fantastic and that Kevin Spacey’s Luthor was spot-on-that being said,let’s see Singer take it somewhere else now-like into outer space w/ an alien invasion led by Braniac-or Bizarro-light on romance,heavy on action-I think he can do it-still wished he hadn’t bailed on X-3,though.
Comment by shane420SF | March 13, 2008