Superman returns sequel confirmed..

I guess he was afraid that if he did a movie with no connection to the previous ones people would just be dismissing it as not as good. So he tied it in to the first two Chris Reeve movies. My ranking of the movies is:

1) Superman the Movie
2) Superman 2
3) Superman Returns

Oh did I mention I pretend Superman 3 and 4 don't exist? :D the one thing Singer did get right.
 
Two things you should know.

1) Bryan Singer wanted Tom Welling to play Superman, but he turned down the role.

and

2) You couldn't have Tom Welling to play Superman, because Tom plays the young version on Clark Kent/Superman in 'Smallville', which would have people confusing for the role, so good thing Tom turned it down!

Bryan Singer chose Brandon Routh, because Brandon looks like the late Christopher Reeve and loved his clumsiness when he met with Bryan.
 
Its looks like the possibilty of a Superman Returns sequel is looking uncertain according to Dark Horizons website:

"The future of "Superman" remains undecided for now as debates within Warner Brothers continues about the direction of the franchise.

Indeed, there's been a lot of ink put to paper in the last week about Warners and DC who continue to have issues with the feature film development of their superhero properties.

The "Batman" franchise remains safely soaring in the hanRAB of Chris Nolan. "Batman Begins" remains the poster child for both superhero origin films and successful rebooting of a franchise, while the "Dark Knight" sequel is a film everyone wants to achieve - a gigantic success both critically and financially.

Its been such a success that it has shone a harsh light on such other projects as the long-troubled Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and Flash films along with the beleaguered "Justice League" project.

DC creative affairs senior VP Gregory Noveck swore to Variety over the weekend that "We're going to make a Justice League movie, whether it's now or 10 years from now. But we're not going to do it and Warners is not going to do it until we know it's right." Yet others in the studio don't seem to be pushing hard on it, despite constant unfounded rumors that the project is not dead (it very much is for now folks).

One project that isn't technically dead, but remains on severe life support, is the "Superman Returns" sequel. The Bryan Singer-directed 2006 feature is generally regarded as a nobile misfire with very mixed reactions and only moderate box-office numbers. There's always been talk of sequel, but the question has been more what form will it take.

Now, the crown queen of quality entertainment journalism, Anne Thompson, posted a piece in her On Hollywood Blog today saying that within the Warner halls "they too believe that the last movie didn't break the mold and wound up in some kind of middle limbo."

The result is that no writers are currently working on the project as the studio doesn't know what they want - either a direct sequel, or the possibility of another reboot (ala "The Incredible Hulk").

Sources tell Thompson 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....It might be better to start from scratch."

Despite the delays, the general reasons for the delays though seem to be good - the studio is taking time to develop the properties right and is concerned more with their quality than reaching a specific date."
 
If Wanted is anything to go by, I wouldn' trust Millar to write his name coherently.

Plus...

"The Superman brand is toxic after that last movie lost 200 million"

WTF? It did nothing of the sort.

According to Box Office Mojo, it cost $270 million, and made $391 million.

Is this just him trying to get the job? It seems be bear little relation to the situation as we know it, and Millar does have a habit of talking rubbish to the press.
 
I thought the film was meh...but then i was on a plane fight and half out of my mind through tiredness as it was an overnighter (can't sleep on planes).
 
Oh I don't know. I think it sounRAB pretty positive. Even those of us like myself who loved SR, would have to concede that now it neeRAB to move in a fresh direction. Bryan Singer has said as much too, so I reckon we'll still get a sequel, and it'll be coupled with a new outlook for Supes.

Until someone says it isn't happening and has been cancelled, I'm pretty positive about the whole venture, and still looking forward to a new Supes. I still think Bryan Singer is the man who can do it too.
 
Snap! I liked 3 when I was a kid but that was mainly because it was humerous but it has no place in my DVD collection now... I haven't seen 4 for a very long time (I think I have only seen it once, maybe twice, when it first came out as a VHS rental).

Ref the kid, maybe he only has powers when near to Kryptonite?
 
This is great news. I really enjoyed Superman Returns and I think it did suffer from a bit too much angst and soul searching but there were some fantastic action sequences in it like the aeroplane/shuttle sequence which got my heart racing.

I agree, they should get rid of Kate Bosworth, she was rubbish and had a really bad wig on too!! I thought Brandon Routh did a good job though and he's fairly easy on the eye.
 
Fantastic news!! Fantastic, in that it's looking less and less likely we'll see a sequel to that bore-fest Superman Returns. There will never, ever, be a take on Superman that can stand alongside the 1978 classic, a movie I cherish dearly.

I've said it before, but the casting was all wrong - even Routh. What's he done in the interim years by way of other movies? Naff all. And don't even get me started on Bosworth. :( The look, feel, story... everything was all wrong. Batman's reinvention via Chris Nolan worked, because Tim Burton got it wrong during his tenure on the Bat-films. Nolan fixed those mistakes, giving a thoroughly adult take on the Dark Knight devoid of the gothic/camp, villain show-stealing previous movie versions.

Superman succeeded in an era when that type of blockbuster was new and fresh - immediately post Star Wars. I think we're too jaded and cynical now to accept the Man of Steel on screen with his near invincible powers, to really take him seriously. To bring him to our level, it will take another Luthor plot to expose him to Kryptonite or another ruse to 'humanise' him (ala Superman II). Talk of a Doomsday battle (from Death of a Superman) on screen, will now be far too similar a smack-down, to the recent Hulk movie's rumble-in-the-jungle.

WB & Singer simply screwed up big-time, making creative and casting choices that were way off the mark. WB were suitably reward with poor-box office (though it did make a modest profit) but more importantly, critical and viewer apathy. It was a 'nothing' film, essentially a 3rd rate photocopy of an acknowledged classic of the genre. WB really shouldn't bother - just stick with Smallville (no bright ideas about Welling succeeding Routh, please...) and the various cartoons they have and of course the comics.

Just leave well alone, Superman's time on the big screen has passed. RIP.
 
OUCH...I enjoyed Transformes and I have a brain. ;)

I hated SR with a passion, I was initially going to boycott it because Singer left the X-Men project in order to do it....but I went anyway, yawn. Kate Bosworth was an awful Lois Lane. Teri Hatcher pwns her.

I'm still rather annoyed that Singer didn't do X-Men 3 (which resulted in Brett Ratner ruining it) and left it to do this pile of garbage.
 
Well I loved both Superman Returns AND Transformers - so what does that make me? Half a brain but I use it well? ;)

At the end of the day, movie enjoyment is as subjective as music - there is no right or wrong, only opinion.
 
I disagree with this, but making Superman Returns a sort of sequel to Superman the Movie and Superman 2 was a mistake as it didn't give it the freedom it needed. This article on Superhero Hype actually sounRAB quite promising in that if we do get another Superman movie it will not be a follow up to Superman Returns but a reboot of the Superman movei franchise.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/supermannews.php?id=7609

Whether this means they will recast the part ago, who knows. But I think it is the best decision.
 
'Dark and brooding...?'. Yeah, well that worked well for SR, didn't it?? That is not the way to go, as other posters to that site have commented. Superman is the shining golden boy in the DC stable. The Batman template won't work for Supes. Superman was also dark in Superman 3 and that was a great success, wasn't it? Granted, the 'Pryor' factor was also there.

Like I said, 5 Superman movies is enough. Characters like Darkseid, who I'm familiar with, are simply too remote / off-centre for the general cinema goer to deal with.

This won't happen and if it does, WB deserve to lose out again.
 
Well I son't think Superman neeRAB to be dark and brooding to have amore serious tone. SR was just badly realised and to tied into previous films. It didn't feel fresh enough. I'm not saying they should make a new Superman movie any time soon. But if given 10 years they could refresh it.
 
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