Director Bryan Singer is finally spilling some details, to Empire magazine, regarding the long-whispered-about Superman Returns sequel (Superman Returns Returns?). While Singer grumbles at talk that his 2006 reboot was a failure — if a movie that grosses nearly $400 million is a flop, he suggests, then we’ve set the bar awfully high) — he does acknowledge that many viewers were disappointed that there was so much nostalgia and romance and so little action. He’s not apologizing for that either (it was necessary, he suggests, in order to reestablish the characters after their long absence from the screen), but he does promise that the next installment will have less mush, more rush. "From frame one, it will be unrelenting terror!" he promises. He says he will be directing it, he implies that Brandon Routh will return as the Man of Steel (sorry, all you Superfans who wanted to toss him overboard), and he notes that the script is in development. (No confirmation of the rumor that Transformers‘ Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman will be writing it.)
So it sounds like the story is not carved in stone yet. Now’s your chance, PopWatchers, to tell Singer what you’d like to see in Part Deux, who the villain(s) should be, and what other plot contrivances Superman should leap in a single bound.
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Brandon Routh was a beautiful Superman. He’d BETTER be in the next one!!
I would like to see a really big supervillian. Someone like brainiac, Metallo or Darkside. Darkside or Doomsday would really bring out the action in the movie.
i liked Brandon Routh- it was kate bosworth who was god awful as lois lane. so kick her out a la katie holmes batman begins, replace her with someone with some actual chutzpah and call the movie “the man of steel”… and yes, more action please
No Kate Bosworth. That would be my one request about the movie.
Also, can you not show the absolute coolest scenes in the movie in the commercials? The eye-stopping-the-bullet thing was cool, but made no impact on me in the actual movie because I’d seen it a dozen times already.
DUMP KATE BOSWORTH, she was the worst thing in the movie. Parker posey was the best thing in the movie (and would have been a GREAT Lois Lane!!!)
Get away from trying to emulate the 1970s and ’80s Christopher Reeve movies. Those are done. Do something original with the character. I’d rather see a reboot and recast — Routh was fine trying to imitate Reeve, but he’s a little skinny for Superman to my tastes. (And I didn’t like Bosworth at all or the whole Lois-is-a-married-mommy-with-superkid subplot.) Personally I liked John Byrne’s take on Superman, which influenced the ’90s TV series. Or what about the Godlike, Force-of-Nature version of Superman we see in Kingdom Come and Frank Miller’s Dark Knight comics? And PLEASE lose Lex Luthor. It’s just embarrassing. He comes off so small-time and his real-estate scheme in the last film made no sense whatsoever. If you have to do Lex, why not make him President? Or scrap the villain and have Superman battle with internal struggles with his status apart from humanity?
Bryan, here’s some honest advice…take a moment to remind yourself that you were the director of one of the best films of the ’90s, THE USUAL SUSPECTS, and don’t allow yourself to fall any further into the soul-selling trap of Hollywood franchise garbage! Unless your sole purpose and a film maker and a storyteller is the almighty dollar ($$$), then get out of that trap now while you still have some director’s dignity left and put something new and original on the screen!
Get rid of the non-acting skeletor, Kate Bosworth.
Let’s “ditto” all the cries to lose Kate Bosworth. Honestly, other than Kate, the only problems I had with the first one lay in trying to recreate the Reeve franchise instead of starting anew. No one can compare to Chris. And poor Gene Hackman was given the wrong direction for Lex Luthor. Just redo and it’ll all be much, much better.
Dump Lex Luthor. The movies always portray him in some stupid real estate scheme while comics alternated between mad scientist and corporate evil-doer. How about bringing Brainiac (and only) onto the big screen? Focus on one villian and don’t try to squeeze in a whole bunch for the sake of merchandising. For a good (and incredibly chilling) take on Brainiac, try reading Alex Ross’s “Justice.”
lose kate bosworth…horrible lois lane!!!
I thought the whole Superman’s baby subplot brought down the whole movie. Overall, I enjoyed it, but to saddle a reboot with that in the first (of several, I hope) movies, really ties things down and opens the door to precocious kids in the sequels. Parker Posey WOULD have been a great Lois! Good call on that.
I agree with getting rid of Kate Bosworth (even though I like her) and the whole Superman-has-a-kid plot. Bring in a kick-a** supervillian, keep Parker Posey (I love her) and have more action.
If all of these things happen, perhaps I’ll actually go see the movie in theaters and not wait for it on Netflix!
Hear hear! Parker Posey would’ve been perfect as Lois Lane! Maybe we can have Chris Rock as the next villain, sort of a Richard Pryor Superman III redo. Or if you want to go in a new direction (please!!) then Brainiac is the answer. Look at Smallville for some inspiration – could have Bizarro or something similar.
Death of Superman would be perfect though – should be able to get Doomsday right and then you’ve got a badass supervillain to bring back a few years down the road.