Man Of Steel

[Sir Jig-A-Lot]

Millar Has Director & Producer for Superman Revamp?
Source: Superhero Hype!
July 2, 2008
Back in October of 2007, Mark Millar (Wanted) said he was going to pitch Warner Bros. Pictures his vision of the "Superman" franchise. Now, just a few days ago, he told the Daily Record he is taking it a step further:

But Mark's big dream is making a Superman movie.

He said: "Since I was a kid I've always wanted to reinvent Superman for the 21st century.

"I've been planning this my entire life. I've got my director and producer set up, and it'll be 2011. This is how far ahead you have to think.

"The Superman brand is toxic after that last movie lost $200 million, but in 2011 we're hoping to restart it.

"Sadly I can't say who the director is, but we may make it official by Christmas.

"But fingers crossed it could work out, that would be my lifetime's dream."
Millar later claried on his message boards:

That Superman news is interesting, isn't it? In the interests of clarity (because I'm sure this will be picked up somewhere) a very well known American action director heard about my love of Superman, approached my and asked me to team up with he and his producer to make a pitch for this. We've been talking for several weeks now and, if this is going to happen, we'll know by Christmas. He has huge pull at WB so fingers crossed. But this is nothing more than a huge US name pulling me into his fold and making me part of a package."

Back in March, Bryan Singer said he was still developing the sequel and in April, Legendary Pictures' Thomas Tull described a sequel in which we'd see "Superman as more of an angry god." We'll have to wait and see how this all turns out.

[AYHJA]

:hypno: :hypno: :hypno:

[darklighter1]

AAAARRRRGGGHHHH!!! My eyes!!! I be blind! I see yellow spots everywhere! Yellow script not pleasing to colorblind people! So anyway what I could take from that I think is Singer isn't with the story anymore and we're getting ANOTHER re-do? Siiiiiiigh....

[Sir Jig-A-Lot]

No,Darkie.Nothing confirmed there.Millar & Co are just bidding/pitching A Story Concept to Warners.Millar has said in the past that the script he has written for a Supes movie could fit in with what Singer & Donner have already done w/out a reboot.

[darklighter1]

Ahh ok. They better get on it. Taking too long between sequels is grating. Just hope he has someone to fight on his level. Tired of Luthor always in the movies.

[Sir Jig-A-Lot]

Well Singer's sequel treatment is floating out there in internetland. Luthor is still around but the main baddie is Doomsday (though he said it might've been interchangable with Brainiac) who kills the kid during his rampage of Metrpolis withon the first half an hour. sounds like good news to me.

[darklighter1]

Yeah I think DD is too grand to go with a second movie. Would rather see Brainiac, and for him to be similar to the Superman Animated Series version from a few years back and not like the guy from Buffy/Smallville.

[Sir Jig-A-Lot]

Well the version mentioned was the Terminatorish lookin' superstrength havin' Gray Brainiac pre-Crisis On Infinite Earths.

[darklighter1]

Oh no. The Brainiac wearing the speedo and the red shirt and sporting the Lex buzz cut? That SUUUUUUUUCKS! :( Maybe the Buffy Brainiac isn't so bad afterall.

[Sir Jig-A-Lot]

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