In a follow-up to last week’s item on director Bryan Singer and the fate of the Superman sequel, Variety reports that Warner Bros. has moved the film’s release from 2009 to 2010 because of the writers strike.
Superman Returns scribes Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris opted out of the sequel, titled Superman: Man of Steel, in late October, leaving little time for the studio to accept pitches before the strike began on Nov. 5.
Last week Variety’s Anne Thompson wrote that it’s “highly unlikely” Singer will return to helm Man of Steel. However, in today’s article she quotes a representative for the director as saying, “Superman is moving forward with Bryan Singer attached.”
Despite that assertion, Thompson notes that “nothing is happening” with the movie.
January 11th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
I guess we’re going to see more and more of these postponement announcements.
January 12th, 2008 at 1:04 am
When Superman comes back in 2010, he’s totally going to lift the crap out of more stuff.
January 12th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
haha! Zing! Do you think that this time he might actually punch something?
January 12th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
I don’t care if he punches something, I just hope he drops the whole weepy, Jesus analogue w/bastard child.
January 12th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
I don’t think the Jesus stuff was intentional. There was one moment when he was falling and his arms fell a certain way that I thought of it, but that was all I noticed and that was no big deal.
The stalker stuff bugged me, though. Hovering outside Lois’ house using his X-ray vision is pretty much the same thing as sitting on a rooftop with high powered binoculars. Either way he was spying on her and her family inside her home.
January 14th, 2008 at 8:29 am
“I don’t think the Jesus stuff was intentional.”
LOL, good god, you are kidding, right?
January 15th, 2008 at 1:27 am
Nope, serious.
Superman left Earth and then came back. So you could say that he was the Prodigal Son.
Lex Luthor was going to sacrifice most of the people of the world. So you could say that he was playing the part of Cain.
Lois Lane lost the most important person in her life (Superman) but then gained a new spouse. You could draw parallels to the story of Job.
If I look really hard I can find bible stories all over the movie. And if I look really hard I can find bible stories all over ‘Dude, Where’s My Car.’ But for the most part I don’t see much of a comparison to Jesus in Superman unless I look for it. I think a lot fewer people would have noticed anything if the media hadn’t suggested it to them.
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:23 am
make the fight with doomsday aka the deah of superman
January 27th, 2008 at 10:35 am
I hope they bring back General Zod for the sequel. I think Superman will face Zod again.