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July
25 Daily Planet Sold to Lex Luthor

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Posted: Sat, July 25, 2009, 12:07 PM | Comments ( 0 ) | TrackBack ( 0 )

April
29 Kevin Smith Talks Superman

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For those of you who missed this chestnut---it was posted on YouTube in 2006--Kevin Smith spent twenty minutes on one of his lecture tours explaining what really happened back in 1996/1997 when Warner Bros. and producer Jon Peters (always entertaining fodder) hired him to write Superman. As long as the Superman franchise seems to be betwixt and between, why not take a gander at what Smith had in mind? At any rate, Smith is nothing if not an engaging storyteller, and he's got this one down.

[Hat Tip: The Daily Rumpus]

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Posted: Wed, April 29, 2009, 1:04 PM | Comments ( 0 ) | TrackBack ( 0 )

December
19 Valkyrie Premiere: Cruise, Singer, Superman

ValkyriecruisenaziValkyrie played well at the DGA Premiere Thursday night. Seeing it the second time, I was struck by how meticulously made the movie is. They spared no expense, though. It went way over budget on location in Berlin and cost some $100 million. The studio is claiming $75 million---and praying the movie scores overseas. It has to. (Here's my review.)

Tom Cruise was there with his two older kids (talking on his cell to Katie Holmes) and taking congrats from the likes of producers Kathy Kennedy and Frank Marshall and director J.J. Abrams, who directed the last Mission Impossible movie. Going forward at UA without long-time partner Paula Wagner, Cruise said he is working with the team at MGM led by prexy Mary Parent and taking it slow on picking the right projects.

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I talked to Bryan Singer, Superman writer Dan Harris and Warners exec Polly Cohen at the after-party. Singer has been so obsessed with getting Valkyrie out the door--and he still has to promote it next year when Fox opens it overseas--that he won't even start to think about Superman again until after he takes a holiday vacation. He has absolutely no commitment to any project, including Superman, Singer said. Everywhere he goes to talk about Valkyrie, everyone asks him about Superman. He hasn't considered any writers' pitches. No Warners meeting on the film is planned at this time. Solving the next one is all about the villains, the trio agreed.

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Posted: Fri, December 19, 2008, 9:12 AM | Comments ( 16 ) | TrackBack ( 0 )

October
10 Superman Update

Supermanrouth7972Latinoreview cornered a DC Comics exec and tried to advance the status of the next Superman installment, but we still don't know where Bryan Singer and Brandon Routh and the writers are...

Meanwhile, how are Brandon Routh/Superman fans going to feel about their boy's role in Kevin Smith's potty-mouthed Zack and Miri make A Porno as a one-time high school jock star returning to his high school reunion with his gay porn star boyfriend Justin Long?



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September
18 Debating Superman

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Brett Ratner is talking to everybody these days. He speculates about what his and J.J. Abrams Superman would have been. And he's working on the Eddie Murphy Beverly Hills Cop sequel.

Meanwhile, fans of Bryan Singer's Superman Returns starring Brandon Routh (wait until they see Zack and Miri Make a Porno) are up in arms over Warners' plans to take a different direction with the franchise. "Clark Kent" sent this memo to the media and Warners execs:

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This letter is being sent on behalf of the group of Superman fans who were appalled by the article on the Wall Street Journal (Aug.22,08) reporting that Warner Bros. was planning a new Superman film to 'reintroduce' the movie franchise, thus implying that there will not be a sequel to our beloved "Superman Returns", and possibly, the casting of another actor to replace Brandon Routh, who was widely approved and applauded by many fans and film critics across the world, regardless of their view on the film itself.

This news has caused a great many heated discussion among Superman fans all over the world, most typically on fan site forums and messageboards of various film-related media on the internet.

On August 26th of this year, a small group of Superman/Brandon Routh fans at Brandon Routh.com and BlueTights Network, one of the most renowned Superman sites in the world, started the campaign to express our dissatisfaction of WB's alleged 'new strategy' and to demand them to recast Brandon Routh as Superman in the future film again. Clairecheaux, one of the most respected members of the forum, has named this as the: "BRB! - Bring Routh Back!" campaign.

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Posted: Thu, September 18, 2008, 8:09 AM | Comments ( 69 ) | TrackBack ( 0 )

August
22 Robinov Reveals Warner Bros. Strategy and Superman Reboot

Supermanrfx021Clearly, Warner Bros. is abandoning the idea of sending Superman into a movie with other superheroes, like a Superman/Batman movie or Justice League, because as Warner prexy Jeff Robinov admits in this long interview with The Wall Street Journal about his studio's future strategy, right now Warners doesn't know who Superman is. Wanted: a new model Superman.

Figuring out how the iconic DC comic character will proceed is front and center for the studio, which was not entirely happy with Bryan Singer's Superman Returns. Neither were many fans, who objected to the love triangle with a married Lois Lane, as well as her child, fathered by Superman. They also want a mightier and more formidable villain than Lex Luthor, played by Kevin Spacey. Director Bryan Singer, who is currently attached to what was to be a Superman Returns sequel, had promised fanns at Comic-Con to go "Wrath of Khan" on it. If Singer, who has been preoccupied with his upcoming World War II Tom Cruise movie, Valkyrie, can't find a "reboot" that meets Warners' expectations, they'll move on.

Clearly, the fans care deeply about this superhero. Comments flood in whenever we touch on the subject. There's life in the venerable comic book character yet, if Warners can crack this challenge.

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Posted: Fri, August 22, 2008, 12:08 PM | Comments ( 34 ) | TrackBack ( 0 )

August
18 Superman Status Update

Supermanrouth7972The debate continues to rage about what Warner Bros. should do with Superman. The last movie, Bryan Singer's Superman Returns, paid homage to the Richard Donner Superman movies without completely updating the franchise the way Christopher Nolan did with Batman Begins.

Fans have been clamoring all over the web--and on this blog--for a complete reboot. And within the halls of Warner Bros. the same debate rages on. They too believe that the last movie didn't break the mold and wound up in some kind of middle limbo. Today I was told that it is a priority at the studio to find the right direction and if Bryan Singer is willing to do that, fine, but if he gets in the way, he may not stay on the project. There are no writers working on a Superman script now. The studio wants to figure it out. "It might be better to start from scratch," one exec admitted.

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Posted: Mon, August 18, 2008, 6:08 PM | Comments ( 229 ) | TrackBack ( 0 )

July
30 The Onion makes Superman relevant again

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Al Gore = Gore-Al = Jor-El?

This hits close to home because I may have married the only woman in the world, other than maybe Tipper, who thinks An Inconvenient Truth is a hot date. No pun intended.

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July
17 Watchmen's Snyder Reveals Secrets; Legendary's Tull Talks Superman

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I'm not going out on a limb to say that the most anticipated presentation at Comic-Con will be Zack Snyder's panel on Warner Bros.' The Watchmen. Remember, 300 exploded out of Comic-Con two years ago.

The trailer hit the Web this week, and the HD version is stunning. I love trailers where you don't know what the hell is going on. Of course afficionados of the Alan Moore comics can identify the origin story of Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup) and the shadowy bipolar Rorshact Rorschach, among others.

Snyder himself explains some of his secrets here. UPDATE: And here's EW's Snyder and Alan Moore interviews. And Comic-Con preview. Stay tuned to Variety's ongoing Comic-Con coverage.

Today I talked to someone who has seen the movie, Legendary Pictures producer Thomas Tull, who goes 50/50 with Warner Bros. on such films as Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, Superman Returns, 300 and The Lady in the Water (the only film he didn't actually produce). An old Watchmen comics fan, Tull wanted in on the film as soon as Snyder pitched it, even though many people have regarded the complex, layered sci-fi narrative about superheroes who are real as unfilmable. After Tull saw a cut of the movie he told Snyder, "You got it. You nailed it the spirit of it and made it come alive."

"It's a smart visually stunning movie," he told me. Of course he's vested.

He's also vested in making the next Superman installment, which is still years away, come to life. While Bryan Singer has been working on Valkyrie, Tull and the folks at Warners have been listening to various screenwriters pitch their solutions to how to make the next Superman work. "It's an iconic character," says Tull. "After everything that went into the first film, it's important to make sure that nothing is rushed and we come out with a fantastic second film." One thing they all agree on: Superman needs a powerful antagonist, a "worthy opponent," he says.

Coming sooner is Louis Leterrier's follow-up to Incredible Hulk, Clash of the Titans. And no, Leterrier is not being talked about to direct Superman. "He's laser-focused on Titans," says Tull.

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Posted: Thu, July 17, 2008, 6:07 PM | Comments ( 58 ) | TrackBack ( 0 )

July
11 Comics in Hollywood: DC vs. Marvel

Darkknight_lA key story of summer 2008 is the rise of Marvel Entertainment. Now in charge of its own destiny with Iron Man and Incredible Hulk, the company is actively developing its own characters for movies down the line. And execs are willing to defend Marvel's long-term interests, whether that means negotiating tough with Jon Favreau on directing the Iron Man sequel or telling Edward Norton that some of his favorite scenes in Incredible Hulk will have to wait for the DVD.

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At the Hellboy II premiere, Favreau told me he that while he was planning to do Iron Man 2 and wanted to do The Avengers as well, Marvel was unlikely to wait for him to do both. The "official" announcement will likely wait for Comic-Con.

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Now execs at DC Comics are taking note. Long more passive in their relationship to their films, there are signs of change, reports David Cohen. Still up in the air are such DC projects as the next Batman and Superman movies (how about those Louis Leterrier rumors?) and Justice League, not to mention the long-in-the-works Wonder Woman.

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March
17 Singer Developing Superman Sequel

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SupermancapeDirector Bryan Singer is back working on the screenplay for a Superman Returns sequel with Transformers writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, he tells Empire. Returns writers Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris opted out of penning Superman: Man of Steel, and the strike arrived just as other scribes were to pitch ideas. Internally, Warners has moved the release date from 2009 to 2010.

Here's my prior Superman reporting. And here.


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March
5 Chabon Loves Superman

Supermancomic080310_r17144a_p233The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay author Michael Chabon writes about Superman in The New Yorker.

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January
12 Will Singer Return to Superman?

Supermanrfx021I posted a wee blog item over the holidays that set folks at the big Internet movie sites speculating. It was fascinating to see how they spun the Superman: Man of Steel story--and elaborated on what I had reported. I fill in a few of the blanks here.

My take? Superman Returns was smartly reinvigorated, but it cost too much and needed another villain beside the too-familiar and earth-bound Lex Luthor (though Kevin Spacey was delicious) to allow Superman to test his mettle. I liked all the relationship stuff with Brandon Routh as Supe and James Marsden and Kate Bosworth. (They're all fine; the kid was a mistake.) But hey, I'm not the target audience for this film. And Singer can be a challenge to work with, as many gifted directors are.

Thanks to the UA writer agreement, Singer can now finish those pesky Valkyrie reshoots, called off because Cruise had to promote Lions for Lambs. The ending of the movie still needs to be retooled.

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