However the new Superman movie turns out, you have David Goyer to thank for it. While he and Christopher Nolan were breaking the story of Batman 3, they hit a wall. While trying to clear their headspace, Goyer pitched a take on the Man of Steel.
“He basically told me, ‘I have this thought about how you would approach Superman,’” Nolan told the LA Times.
“I immediately got it, loved it and thought: That is a way of
approaching the story I’ve never seen before that makes it
incredibly exciting. I wanted to get Emma and I involved in shepherding
the project right away and getting it to the studio and getting it
going in an exciting way.”
What
is that take? Nobody’s telling! Goyer is writing the script right now,
and he doesn’t even know who might direct it, despite rumors that
Jonathan Nolan would be taking the reins.
One
thing that Nolan does say is that he wants to keep Superman on his own,
as he has done with Batman. No cross-overs for his Man of Steel, which
seems weird as Warner Bros must be looking at Marvel Studio’s success
with a shared universe of characters leading to The Avengers.
Nolan’s
not spending too much time thinking about Superman, though, as he views
the film as a 2011 or 2012 production. So settle down out there, folks.
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yes!
Fine, keep Batman on his own, and introduce an unrelated Batman into the DC film universe after your precious trilogy is over if necessary. But keeping Superman isolated makes no sense.
Keeping Superman on his own just works better for the character. Superman is less special when there's a bunch of other guys flying around with superpowers.
I would think that having other super powered characters around would make Superman even more special because he is the one, the example by which all other beings are measured and seeing the Justice League (sans Batman) would be great with Superman at the lead.
This is the third article you have written based off of one LA Times article. Did you just skim it the first time and miss, like, the words that were written on the page and stuff? Like, OMG?!!??!
Four Oranges, it's called "hit-whoring"… welcome to the internet.
keeping Bats and Supes in their own universe = wise choice.
1) No Luthor. And no Doomsday either.
2) No retelling of the origin story for the millionth fucking time.
3) Just forget the Donner movies. And yes, that means lose the John Williams score. This movie needs to stand on its own.
Whiting for hits, I see. Well I never! How's that high horse?
Too late. Superman Returns tied into Batman during a brief news broadcast via the tele at Daily Planet. It referenced Gotham City.
Emma and ME, you HALFWIT. GOD. I understand how this kind of idiocy spreads like a disease in the internet moron culture, but what's Nolan's excuse? He's BRITISH for God's sake.
My guess is that it's not told from Supe's point of view.
I'm the biggest superman fan. I loved the reeve films, read his comics when I was a kid, and then when I hit puberty read supergirl because she had some super tits. I like "parts" of brian singer's version. I wish he'd have gotten off donner's dick a little, otherwise he gets the mystique of the character. He's a bright shiny message of hope, love, and peace to humanity and that's all the film needed to capture, which it did. So why the f are they giving him to the current helmer of batman who's superman's opposite prettymuch. Oh well, *prepares for another superman war* oh and give routh another chance I say…
I liked Routh as Superman! And if he bulked up more then he's perfect, I feel. That said, you just can't have that face associated to the brand new start, it's already attached to the "disaster" of 'Returns'. They wanna tell a good story, but they RREEALLLLLLYY wanna make money, so they start fresh. I think the idea of a completely CG'd Supes is pretty cool… Half the time Routh was in costume it was a computer, anyway. That way, Clark Kents are continuously interchangeable. "ok… soooo… you're a good lookin guy with blue eyes and black hair. You can apologise a lot and stumble over practically any word. Son, you're our Clark!" and that'll happen for the rest of time. Thanks James Cameron for deciding people are completely unnecessary in cinema now that we have the all mighty technology!! 😀 Nolan also either completely shut down or told us to look left while everything moves to the right, because he's quoted as saying "they (batman and superman) have nothing to do with each other". Character wise, thats true enough. But in practice, Batman is ultimately Superman's complete opposite, except they both are on the side of good. While they may not have much in common, they compliment each other. Like, the Odd Couple, but in DC. Now THERE'S a movie I'd pay the extra bucks to see in 3D! …. I just don't feel like this is a proper comment without stating in someway that Devin sucks and is inferior to all, bbbuuttt, I both enjoy Devin's write-ups aaanndd I don't have my own well respected, much acknowledged movie site of my own to compare with. SO! With that, I say, keep up the good work Devin! (and if you wanna make 19 entries on your own damn site from the same damn source, I damn well say you do it, damn it!)
Make Luthor an action-villain. Give him kryptonite battle armor so he can kick Supes around a little, instead of an off-stage mustache twirler, tying Lois to the train tracks. Also Supes should have his squeaky clean image exploited by powers that be who then turns against.
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