Superman: Man of Steel (June 14, 2013)

[Omniyoji]

I'm surprised that they were even looking at her, unless they are looking for an actress that can bite her lip really well.

lol exactly, wth can she do for LL?

Our goal is to shoot as much in IMAX as we can. We're going to put in on the screen, and put it on the screen big. And I really encourage everyone to see it in IMAX if they can because we're really going for it this time. In terms of the action, we are all scratching our heads right now trying to figure out how we're going to do it; how we're going to do it in the amount of time we're going to do it in. The opening scene of the movie will blow your mind."

Yes moar IMAX!

Words can't describe how happy this makes me. Joseph Gordon Levitt is easily one of the best young talents working today and elevates everything he does. Even if the role he plays ends up being a bum on a Gotham street corner it will somehow make the movie better. Let's just hope that this isn't another rumor.

http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Josep...ses-22944.html

lol

July 2012 needs to come sooner.

[6souls]

http://geektyrant.com/storage/alice-...e-superman.jpg

Alice Eve, Diane Kruger and Rosamund Pike have moved to the top of the Warner Bros. list to star opposite Henry Cavill in Zack Snyder‘s Superman. These are three new names, so previous shortlist stories are most likely incorrect.

The news does not end there, because the role the studio is looking to cast a difference character than Lois Lane. According to Variety, the studio is does not want a well-known actress to overshadow Superman. I can understand that reasoning, but it conflicts with the current story.

Kruger starred in the National Treasure films and Inglorious Basterds, which in my mind contradicts Warner's idea. Alice Eve was in consideration for roles in X-Men: First Class and Captain America. Pike started her career as a Bond girl, but as of late has veered towards roles in indie films.

To meet WB's criteria of not overshadowing Cavill then they would likely choose Alice Eve. I would love to see Diane Kruger the most out of the three.

If they are not casting for Lois Lane, then what role are these actresses up for? It's speculated that ti may be for Lana Lang, but it could easily be someone else. Variety doesn’t completely rule out Lois Lane.

http://geektyrant.com/news/2011/2/3/...rman-role.html
http://www.slashfilm.com/alice-eve-d...ashfilm+(/Film)
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...goryid=13&cs=1

[Sunrider]

http://geektyrant.com/news/2011/2/3/...rman-role.html
http://www.slashfilm.com/alice-eve-d...ashfilm+(/Film)
http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...goryid=13&cs=1

They could easily be up for the role of Cat Grant, Lane's sort-of rival.

[Souj]

We should separate the batman and the superman.
Cause superman is lame.

[Sunrider]

Superman is great, he's just bloody difficulty to present properly.

[ronin sparthos]

Superman is great, he's just bloody difficulty to present properly.

Superman suffers from comic writers giving him far too many powers to the point where Superman (and some of his adversaries) just come off as the gamesharked characters of the comic book world. Superman defines the generic superhero so it's no surprise that he winds up having a difficult transition to the big screen.

As much as I love the old Superman flicks, the first two at least - it's going to be hard making a flick that doesn't either seem campy like the Reeve flicks or generic "Superman vs Kryptonite wielding enemy #XX".

At least it cant be worse than Superman IV. Nothing can approach that level of failure.

[Cichy]

I think someone already posted in this thread or some other one where Nolan was talking about Superman and he fully understands how difficult it is to make a Superman flick. He was saying how audience alot of the times cant relate to Superman because other than Kryptonite nothing can really hurt him.
That's why I was thinking death of superman would be something people would like to see. Doomsday vs Superman was a great brawl.

[Omniyoji]

I think someone already posted in this thread or some other one where Nolan was talking about Superman and he fully understands how difficult it is to make a Superman flick. He was saying how audience alot of the times cant relate to Superman because other than Kryptonite nothing can really hurt him.
That's why I was thinking death of superman would be something people would like to see. Doomsday vs Superman was a great brawl.

Exactly the Superman movie I'm waiting to see:

Spoiler: show

[Cichy]

I love the LOL on Jimmy, you win sir.

[Sunrider]

I think someone already posted in this thread or some other one where Nolan was talking about Superman and he fully understands how difficult it is to make a Superman flick. He was saying how audience alot of the times cant relate to Superman because other than Kryptonite nothing can really hurt him.
That's why I was thinking death of superman would be something people would like to see. Doomsday vs Superman was a great brawl.

I suppose the death of Superman wouldn't be bad, so long as it wasn't at all like the animated movie that was released. A movie setting up Doomsday (or some equally Superman-caliber threat), another movie for the showdown and death... with maybe a third for the resurrection.


Though as far as Superman-killing threats go, what could you offer that doesn't come off as cheesy to the audience? Doomsday is great in comics/animation, but I felt he was to visually over-the-top for film, a feeling reinforced with his Smallville appearance. On the other hand, Superman's death at the hands of anyone other than Doomsday just wouldn't seem right. Though, if anyone can pull it off visually, Zack Snyder can.

I've said it before, but a good Superman flick tackles not necessarily the character himself, but focuses on issues he struggles with. Something accentuating his humanity (or quest in understanding of it), like Alex Ross's Superman: Peace on Earth, or the ideal of justice and the example he tries to set, such as Action Comics 775, where he faces the elite.

Humble Superman--give him a problem his powers can't conquer, give him something that he has to feel like the rest of us... and you've got the start of a genuinely good Superman flick.

[quannum]

doomsday -> 4 supermen -> superman reraise

or a superdickery style superman

[Cichy]

doomsday -> 4 supermen -> superman reraise

or a superdickery style superman

That's enough for atleast 3 movies which is most one director/actor seem to do.

[quannum]

That's enough for atleast 3 movies which is most one director/actor seem to do.

... yea that's what i was going for.

my post is "superman films i'd like to see"; a trilogy w/o boring ol kryponite and a superman comedy starring andy samberg based on those wacky 70s comics

also, implicitly agreeing with "superman is boring"

[Sunrider]

Nah, fuck the four Supermen. That's getting into a whole bunch of back story for each one not even the entire trilogy has time for, and the last thing a Superman flick needs is more X-Men Origins: Wolverine type shit. If you're gonna go that far, may as well toss Mongul, Green Lantern, and the old Justice League in there for some cheesy over-the-top fan tribute.

Just condense it down to the basic elements. Ages old planetary threat uncovered/is created, perhaps tie it to Kryptonian technology (since Doomsday technically is the first Kryptonian), Superman discovering it and fighting it, both dying at the end.

Maybe some shit involving sending his body into the Sun as a funeral rite, some ambiguous scene hinting his revival at the end. The crowd would go nuts.

[quannum]

Nah, fuck the four Supermen. ...X-Men Origins: Wolverine type shit.

don't confuse bad concept with bad writing.
no need to go into detail that no one but nerds would care about. a clone, an iron man, a living weapon from krypton and the villain cyborg. of course i know this isn't how hollywood movies work, didn't you just read me say andy samberg as superman would be cool with me?
death -> 4 -> rebirth was a cool story in the books, i think itd be cool as a trilogy

If you're gonna go that far, may as well toss Mongul, Green Lantern, and the old Justice League in there for some cheesy over-the-top fan tribute.

not a bad idea, there's already a green lantern movie, justice league has got to be in the works ... its not a problem.

[Sunrider]

don't confuse bad concept with bad writing.
no need to go into detail that no one but nerds would care about. a clone, an iron man, a living weapon from krypton and the villain cyborg. of course i know this isn't how hollywood movies work, didn't you just read me say andy samberg as superman would be cool with me?
death -> 4 -> rebirth was a cool story in the books, i think itd be cool as a trilogy

I didn't confuse shit. It's a good concept that translates terribly.

If you want to spend five films establishing the Supermen before going in for the kill, then that's fine. But, if you just throw them in the second or third part of a trilogy with little or no explanation, you've just lost the audience (the ones that don't know who the characters are, and there will be a lot of them), to a "WTF is this shit?" moment. You could maybe get away with side-featurettes, a la The Final Flight of the Osiris, but each character has such involved backgrounds that a featurette probably wouldn't cut it.

The Eradicator could probably slide. Being a piece of Kryptonian tech, you could probably add him in with little fuss. But a Superman/Lex Luthor clone, a cyborg nemesis hell-bent on sullying Superman's legacy, and a random black genius engineer that just decides to take up the mantle? Come on, shit'd get laughed straight to video. It'd be X-Men: The Last Stand all over again.

not a bad idea, there's already a green lantern movie, justice league has got to be in the works ... its not a problem.

I better not see a Superman/Lantern cross over before Superman/Batman.

[Souj]

I better not see a Superman/Lantern cross over before Superman/Batman.

Lets just kill 2 birds with 1 stone and make the Superman's antagonist in the movie Batman.

[quannum]

I didn't confuse shit. It's a good concept that translates terribly.

thats your assumption, that's all. also missing the point of what i wrote, on purpose it seems.

If you want to spend five films

who's talking about 5 films?

establishing the Supermen before going in for the kill, then that's fine. But, if you just throw them in the second or third part of a trilogy with little or no explanation, you've just lost the audience (the ones that don't know who the characters are, and there will be a lot of them), to a "WTF is this shit?" moment. You could maybe get away with side-featurettes, a la The Final Flight of the Osiris, but each character has such involved backgrounds that a featurette probably wouldn't cut it.

yea that sounds like a shitty movie you've just strawmanned. are you going anywhere with this?

The Eradicator could probably slide. Being a piece of Kryptonian tech, you could probably add him in with little fuss. But a Superman/Lex Luthor clone, a cyborg nemesis hell-bent on sullying Superman's legacy, and a random black genius engineer that just decides to take up the mantle? Come on, shit'd get laughed straight to video. It'd be X-Men: The Last Stand all over again.

you're basically saying that people won't accept comic book movies here ... or that you don't know how to write one.

the point is, if done right A.K.A. not by Sunrider, it'd be a cool superman trilogy without the "lets just find some kryptonite lawlz" .. but you're going to glaze right over that for whatever reason.

[Cichy]

Look at the Lord of the Rings movies, they managed to put plenty characters/stories in there. It can be done, just need a good director.

[Cichy]

Yes, all we need is another Luthor gets his hands on Kryptonite movie. I cant wait, probably gonna make for a good viewing with empty theaters.