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Superman Headed For Reboot?

By Rafe Telsch: 2008-08-20 17:47:07
Superman Headed For Reboot? It seems every week we get a new tidbit on Warner Brothers’ plans for various DC super heroes. One week JLA will be separate from existing Batman/Superman entities. The next week it’ll be the same. One week Wonder Woman is getting her own movie. The next week she’s out of production.

This week the focus is on Superman and Warners’ plans for the Man of Steel. Regardless of what you thought about the movie, you have to admit the film took it’s time becoming anything close to a commercial success, which has the studio a bit concerned about making another one along the same lines. Variety’s Thompson on Hollywood says the studio is debating a reboot of the franchise instead of an extension, although it’s an ongoing debate.

The big concern in play here is Bryan Singer. Some people didn’t care for the homage he created with Superman Returns and there’s a desire to reboot things a la Batman Begins, to the point that people think Singer may be expendable if he’s not willing to put aside his desire to carry on his tribute to Richard Donner’s flick.

When the movie was in theaters, I wished Singer hadn’t paid so much tribute to Donner in the movie, but I think getting rid of the director would be a bigger mistake. Superman just isn’t Batman. You can’t go too much darker with the big blue Boy Scout. If Singer is willing to holster some of his need to pay homage to Donner’s classic take on the character, I still think he’s the best pick for handling another Superman picture. Hopefully Warners can settle this debate without getting rid of Singer. Then again, this is the studio that almost let Supes fight against a giant spider, so who knows what sort of sense may win the day.


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    Charles
    August 22, 2008 at 18:47
    Superman could be darker with a period piece or a least drawing on the 30's take on Superman. who wasn't afraid to beat up the bad guys, or let them die as a result of their own badness.
    The character could evolve and become more powerful over time - which is what happened in the first few years of the comics, and happened again after the 80's reboot - because that's the Superman who is best liked by most people, despite vocal noises from an unimaginative minority who complain about him being, well, just too super.

    Darker may just mean a more adult film. which is good.

    Whatever Warners do, the last thing I want to see is Lex Luthor again as the main villain - even as a billionaire anti-batman, ie a smart, rich, guy, with lots of toys.
    A human villain isn't a convincing threat to Superman. Current real world Human technology is not a threat to Superman. So we're back to Lex and Kryptonite or Kryptonians or kyrptonian technology. ALL that is OLD, and has been done before.
    I'm bored with the only good thing to come from Krypton being Superman, and everything besides being a threat or bad news.

    What hasn't been done is the rest of universe, come on - there has to be a interesting and challenging threat out there - darksied, mongul, another big scary alien warlord terrorist type - some great space armada, big guns, stuff that only Superman can save us from.
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    Jayson
    August 21, 2008 at 18:59
    Totally agree with you Frank. Superman Returns was an amazing new start for the franchise, even if it didn't make as much money as WB wanted it to. Batman Begins didn't dominate the box office either, yet it's sequel is the 2nd biggest movie of all time. Let Singer do his thing.
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    James Van Hise
    August 21, 2008 at 18:57
    What really held back Superman Returns was the retro version of Lex Luthor. The modern version of Lex Luthor (originated by Marv Wolfman in the 1980s) is of a corporate giant, the ultimate businessman who has enough money to accomplish whatever he wants, with Superman his only real obstacle. Imagine if Superman had returned to Earth after five years and found that Lex Luthor had reformed his reputation and had great financial and corporate power, making him more dangerous than ever. Instead we got the Lex Luthor who was still trying to come up with real estate scams. . .
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    frank
    August 21, 2008 at 01:16
    Superman Returns wasn't perfect but it's only crime is it's character development overshadowing its action scenes in a time when audiences where putting quite frankly insubstantial movies like pirates 2 and X-men 3 in top box office grosses. I agree Singer has to pump up the action for a second movie to work but kicking out the director of Usual Suspects and the good X-men movies is kind of retarded. Viva Superman
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