Superman Man Of Steel

[Happy29]

With Nolan overseeing the project news comes today that it has it's director. Zack Snyder is directing and the script is said to like Superman Returns, have a Donner connection. This time with General Zod. Does that mean Routh will be back to reprise the role as The Man Of Steel? Let the talks begin....

http://heatvision.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/10/superman-zack-snyder.html

[JayBee74]

Re: Superman Reboot

Don't know how I feel about Routh, because I hated Superman Returns so much in general.

I say they find someone else, just to remove the reboot as far away from Superman Returns as possible.

[Fresh Tendrils]

Re: Superman Reboot

Its been too long since Superman Returns, so I think they would recast that spot. John Hamm should be Supes.

Not really sure how I feel about Zack Snyder directing a Superman movie, doesn't really seem to match up.

[marshallfever]

Re: Superman Reboot

Sort of disappointed with the villain, i could careless for Zod. Having Snyder with Nolan overlooking sounds freaking awesome but sort of keeping that Returns connection is a waste. I like Routh, but i would of liked a brand new guy to accommodate a reboot.

But Nolan knows what to do, everyone at first thought The joker was a joke but he made the movie, lets see how they handle Zod.

[Beantown]

Re: Superman Reboot

everyone at first thought The joker was a joke but he made the movie.

Who thought the Joker would be a joke?

[Fresh Tendrils]

Re: Superman Reboot

I know people were skeptical of Nolan casting Heath Ledger as The Joker, but I don't remember anybody saying they would not want The Joker in the movie regardless.

[BlueNGold]

Re: Superman Reboot

I hate Superman but this is sounding interesting. Can't wait to see how the movie looks. Zack Snyder always has awesome looking movies.

[dossier]

Re: Superman Reboot

I always saw zack as more of a cinematographer (and a great one at that) then a director.

I fully expect this to be over the top and not in a good way. This is the supe's I wanna see:

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[marshallfever]

Re: Superman Reboot

I know people were skeptical of Nolan casting Heath Ledger as The Joker, but I don't remember anybody saying they would not want The Joker in the movie regardless.

I meant the look he gave Heath, not necessarily the actual character of the Joker.

[Happy29]

Re: Superman Reboot

John Hamm will not play Superman he's too old even said so himself. I think if Routh was given another shot he could do it. It wasn't his fault that the Returns story wasn't great.

[DickDalewood]

Re: Superman Reboot

I'm all for Routh... he was a GREAT Superman.

I also think Snyder could do something VERY awesome and different with this franchise.

[dossier]

Re: Superman Reboot

My problem with superman movies in general, and I realize the christopher Reeves era was limited to his technology(he was superman), but they need to make superman be a complete and udder badass. I want this guy to be impossible to beat by physical combat.

They need to go from regular star wars to force unleashed, yeah I like that analogy, but yeah just like that.

[SPTO]

Re: Superman Reboot

I like Routh as he really captured the essence of Superman AND Clark Kent quite well. It's good to hear that they're keeping the same tone of Superman Returns as well....Just hope the "Kid of Supes" subplot is killed though.

General Zod could be a very good villain in this if they really play up the military aspect of the character that's been shown at various times in his comics iteration. Maybe have him wanting to turn Earth into a New Krpton?

[Happy29]

Re: Superman Reboot

I like Routh as he really captured the essence of Superman AND Clark Kent quite well. It's good to hear that they're keeping the same tone of Superman Returns as well....Just hope the "Kid of Supes" subplot is killed though.

General Zod could be a very good villain in this if they really play up the military aspect of the character that's been shown at various times in his comics iteration. Maybe have him wanting to turn Earth into a New Krpton?

I think it will be different. The way it sounded to me it will be a play off Returns and the original Donner movie. So it will not be a sequel to Returns and have no direct connection. This will probably be a new trilogy of it's own. But have that Donner feel, probably with John Williams music at least I hope that music just screams Superman and fits that franchise like his music to Star Wars. And I think Routh is the guy for Superman. He seperates the 2 entities well and is the perfect age still to do a 2 or 3 movie deal.

[aukevin]

Re: Superman Reboot

I thought the cast of Superman Returns was very good with the exception of Lois. The problem for me in the movie was the super-kid story (the jet scene is one of my top movie moments), but Routh was spot-on if they were trying to continue on from the Reeve movies.