Five Directors Considered for "Superman" Reboot

Duncan Jones please

Moon was f*cking fantastic

what?no Joe Johnston?

How about Christopher Nolan, you do it, or talk Richard Donner back into doing it again

Hell yeah i hope jones takes the job. although i feel reeves would be good as well. Hell no to liebesman and scott though.

REEVES!!!!!!

Reeves, Jones, Snyder, any of them and i'll be happy.

How about considering a good script first ?

Oh, and no kid in this one.

but Max we gotta have the kid he was the best part. lol

I'd want Matt Reeves, most proven and has the best resume out of that group.

Really, though, with Jonathan Liebesman and Tony Scott? Jesus, I hope not.

Duncan Jones lacks the experience. Moon was great but we didn't see his true potential. Give the film to Snyder, the guy really knows how to adapt a comic book.

Gotta say jones!

Duncan Jones would be my pick.

Duncan Jone would be my choice, I don't think he lacks experience, he's done plenty adverts and Moon was good plus same could be said of many great film makers that they hadn't made many movies before. I think Jones will do well.

1. Snyder (PLEASE!?!?!)
2. Reeves (Only if Snyder wont)
3. Jones (meh, if the other two can't/wont.. Moon was good, so i wont mind)

at least David S. Goyer isn't on there.
are they actually serious about; Liebesman and Scott?... i f*cking hope not

Max is right (as usual)... SCRIPT/STORY FIRST!!!

And in a month when they announce, they'll 'likely know'?! WTF DC... get the pickle outta yer ass AND DO SOMETHING WITH THIS AL-f*ckING-READY!!!

And there's another 'Reeves'?!

George Reeve.
Christopher Reeves.
Matt Reeves.

May as well go with Matt... his name fits... lol.

Drop the Lois angle.
LOSE that f*cking kid!!!
GET SERIOUS with this... BATMAN serious! NOLAN SERIOUS!!!

f*ck!!!

And solve the f*cking costume issue. I know that his costume is iconic and sh*t, but it just doesn't work. Either he come clean about who he is or put in some effort in disguising yourself.

I have faith that Nolan has half a brain, so Snyder won't have a shot.

They're not changing the look of Superman because YOU can't suspend disbelief. It's been working for 70+ years, they're not changing it now.

@Freudian - I like the costume. I think if they spent more time of Supes being Supes and a lost less time wasting his time being Clark Kent, it could be out and about doing a lot more Super stuff. Lose Clark altogether as far as I'm concerned. Make us believe he is an alien that has taken it upon himself to protect our planet and area of space. That 'humanizing' side they keep burying us with sucks (IMO).

Go Supes or Go Home!

@Ranger: That would be perfect if they can do that, it would actually be the best solution.

And either a major fight to the death (planet wide... solar system wide) with Solomon Grundy (for a 1 movie storyline), or what appears to be that trilogy story floating around about he being the last survivor on Earth.

But they REALLY need to take the greatest super hero ever a LOT MORE seriously.

All Supes movies have done their bit to get us there.

George Reeves brought Supes from comics to TV.
Christopher Reeves introduced comics to movies.
Routh/Singer (I liked a lot of things they did, technically) - did a better job then they're given credit for.

NOW... bring in alien Kal-El to do his mountain-moving sh*t in big time!

no, Reeves seem too have bad luck after working on Superman. George... mysterious death, Christopher... Steven Hawkingized, Matt...? lets not leave it to destiny and just keep him off this one.

I think they should use one more Reeves on a Supes project just to confirm a curse vs. a fluke.

Whats with the Tony Scott hate?

Top Gun... Days of Thunder... f*cking True Romance...

He'd be the best choice... mix it up..

Don't forget The Last Boy Scout, Crimson Tide, Enemy Of The State and Man on Fire.

The guy always makes a soild action/thriller IMO, not sure how he would do with Superman maybe he would have him using guns with both hands flying in slow mo .....

I have no hate for Tony Scott. True Romance is one of my favorite films. but his style as of late does seem like it would fit in the superman universe. just my opinion anyway.

I don't see Scott's style fitting well in a Superman movie tbh, and Snyder abuses slow-motion too much, maybe Nolan could tell him to stop that sh*t (some slow-motion is ok, but not for half of a f*cking movie). I liked some things in "Watchmen" and hated some others, so I don't know if he would be good for a Supes film...

About Jones, "Moon" was good, but it was just his first movie and not exactly a big budget movie with lots of (very expensive) fx like this, but maybe with Nolan's support it could work fine (and with Clint Mansell's score it could be even better, he is going to make the music for Duncan's second film too after having composed the score for his first one, this could be a long collaboration like the one he has with Aronofsky). And the same could be said about Reeves, I guess.

*doesnt

When you have a character like Superman, who can do damned near anything with ease, who prances around like a gay a Green Lantern instead, that tells me that whoever writes the cinematic story lines simply does not understand Superman at all.

Get Grant Morrison and Jeph Loeb to write the story. Get Goyer and Nolan to write the screenplay. Shoot Singer through the skull. Get Nolan to direct. End of problems.

And no more gay looking Superman characters. I simply cannot see Brandon Routh getting all fired up, muscles bulging in righteous rage, like Superman does in the graphic novels.

Routh looks like a boy-toy model, not a brawny super-alien here to save us from the universe's most evil villains. He's way too small and way too effeminate looking. He looks like he'd want Lois Lane to change his underroos and have her bake him some cookies. He's not masculine looking enough. Superheroes are supposed to look...super, and Superman is supposed to look the most super of all.

WB only used Routh because they didn't have the balls or legal justification to move away from the Reeves movie memorial material. They had to get a guy that could emulate Reeves.

That's over with! Time to look fresh and new, this isn't the f*cking 70's anymore. Find a guy that has the steel jawed look and who can act. Have him work with a fitness trainer. Get uber-buff. Do it right!

"Get Grant Morrison and Jeph Loeb to write the story."

f*ck NO. I don't want Superdog or Superpony on this movie, and Loeb already had his chance with "Smallville". Those 2 guys have made some great comics, but their vision of Superman is too pre-crisis for my tastes and for Nolan's, just take a look at his Batman, he doesn't want Robin on his films, can you imagine Bat-Mite in "Batman 3"?... XD

And like someone else said somewhere else where this news were posted too, Snyder should direct "The Flash", his constant slow-motion style would fit perfectly. XD

@Mink - good post. I'd give up Routh for the reasons you stated alone. re: Memorial 'stuff' with Singer's/Routh's version... exactly!

I think we'd all benefit were they to 'balls-up!' and make Supes more the alien he is. Tough Kryptonian heart... he wins some, loses some (he can't be everywhere at once), he takes a bit of heat for some of the decisions he makes, etc. Flies through the sun to clean his costume. Sits on the moon, looking back at Earth pondering. The way they have limited him to (mainly) Metropolis sucks balls! WHO THE f*ck would commit a crime in SUPERMAN'S HOME TOWN?!?!?!?

@Trig - a better movie would have been True Romance f*cking! (be honest... yes?).

minkowski writes:
on September 24th, 2010 at 6:08:02 PM

When you have a character like Superman, who can do damned near anything with ease, who prances around like a gay a Green Lantern instead, that tells me that whoever writes the cinematic story lines simply does not understand Superman at all.

Get Grant Morrison and Jeph Loeb to write the story. Get Goyer and Nolan to write the screenplay. Shoot Singer through the skull. Get Nolan to direct. End of problems.

And no more gay looking Superman characters. I simply cannot see Brandon Routh getting all fired up, muscles bulging in righteous rage, like Superman does in the graphic novels.

Routh looks like a boy-toy model, not a brawny super-alien here to save us from the universe's most evil villains. He's way too small and way too effeminate looking. He looks like he'd want Lois Lane to change his underroos and have her bake him some cookies. He's not masculine looking enough. Superheroes are supposed to look...super, and Superman is supposed to look the most super of all.

WB only used Routh because they didn't have the balls or legal justification to move away from the Reeves movie memorial material. They had to get a guy that could emulate Reeves.

That's over with! Time to look fresh and new, this isn't the f*cking 70's anymore. Find a guy that has the steel jawed look and who can act. Have him work with a fitness trainer. Get uber-buff. Do it right!


@mink

I agree with you on Morrison. But you'd have a better chance of him adapting The Invisibles for a major movie picture than seeing DC approve of his penmanship on the script.



*****

seperate issue :

Did you see D(epth) P(erception) review Wall Street Deux : Michael Never Died ?

I didn't know he could review movies after his bedtime.

CCBlev writes:
on September 24th, 2010 at 7:55:14 AM

but Max we gotta have the kid he was the best part. lol


It's the Banksy paradox :

What ? No kryptonite condom ?

Like Minkowski, I have some problems with this whole Superman revamp :

a. Superman is based on the time it he was created. Updating him is not going to work. He is almost a pulp novel character, in regards to being more associated with the time period, ever before Captain America. Albiet the very crude sfx that was the first Superman, Donner kept the story's essence based on the original theme and time (in regards to the innocence, but also the unmeant campiness, especially Hackman's Luthor).

b. Superman III, IV and Superman Returns never should have happened. Especially Superman III, if not the other two. Richard Pryor's character was designed strictly for humourous purposes and the Atari tie in (the Superman III video game where you would shoot missles at Superman) was bullsh*t.

c. The Costume. Brian Singer tried to make the suit look more like the same (or better) as Batman's (in Batman Begins),but everyone who loves the suit hates the suit because it looks like he's wearing laundry stained underoos outside his longjohns.

d. Kevin Spacey .... if I wanted kitchy-camp in Lex Luthor, I'd hire Nathan " boa wearer " Lane. He lather so much camp on Luthor, I had to take two showers to wash it off.

e. Superman CAN'T GO DARK. THEY f*ckING TRIED TO DO THAT sh*t IN THE COMIC " ELECTRIC SUPERMAN BOOGALOO, ANYONE ?? " and it doesn't last very long, because of the moralistic material he is derived from. Batman ? Absof*ckinglutely. Diana Troy ? Perhaps. Amazonian warriors can go cold to get the job done. Green Lantern ? Parralax anyone ? Green Arrow ? Those years in prison can make one mean sumabitch (to quote the only Reynolds worth listening to right now : Burt) ... but Superman ? Nope. He's got to be the Boy Scout (and not in the ousting gay troopers way).

IF THEY DON'T HAVE A SCRIPT GOOD ENOUGH TO HELP TRUERED&BLUE FANS OF SUPERMAN FORGIVE (IF NOT FORGET) SUPERMAN III, SUPERMAN IV AND THE STAR TREK V OF THE SUPERMAN TITLES, SUPERMAN RETURNS, THEN IT DOESN'T MATTER IF f*ckING ORSON WELLES CAME OUT OF THE TOMB, DIRECTED IT AND DID IT WITH TOP SHELF ILM EFFECTS, IT STILL BE A WEAK PILE OF sh*t AND SHOULD BE CALLED : SUPERMAN : The Nail (in the Coffin).

Routh looks like a boy-toy model, not a brawny super-alien here to save us from the universe's most evil villains. He's way too small and way too effeminate looking. He looks like he'd want Lois Lane to change his underroos and have her bake him some cookies. He's not masculine looking enough. Superheroes are supposed to look...super, and Superman is supposed to look the most super of all.

WB only used Routh because they didn't have the balls or legal justification to move away from the Reeves movie memorial material. They had to get a guy that could emulate Reeves.



I'm surprised at the way that WP had such a f*cking attitude with the founders who created Superman that they didn't have Routh ride a wheelchair and talk through a tube throughout the whole movie (ESPECIALLY WHEN HE WORE THE SUIT).

I heard that without M Douglas and J Brolin (and even S LaDouche's acting, which is actually good) that WS 2 : Moviegoers Never Get To sh*t ... that the movie sucks.

Even with C Sheen's botox moment.

one of the nolans

jigsaw23 writes:
on September 24th, 2010 at 8:36:29 PM

one of the nolans


Exactly.

Jonathan Nolan; Andrew Kevin Walker; John Milus (if he hasn't retired and moved to Fiji); David S Goyer ... but I'm afraid they're gonna get some third-tier rewrite since this isn't BATMAN and you'll get Superman VI : The Snuff Film with Jimmy Olsen.

... if they bring Doomsday out to kill off Superman, I'll be f*cking pissed and tell 'em they f*cked up majorly.

@jigsaw23 Which one? Coleen? I'm in the mood for dancing...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWdDSQh3yak

I would like to see the Spierig brother have a shot at this.

come on jones!! cant wait for this reboot!

Last night's Smallville premiere got me pretty excited about seeing this reboot. I hope WB is considering all their options on this one. They lose the rights to film Superman in 2013, and the only legal way they could keep it going past then is to make it an extension of the Smallville show.
I know the idea of bringing welling to the screen might normally seem farfetched, but in this case it may be the only good option they have, since all of its films rights are legally grandfathered in, and sequels could be made from it.