Orci & Kurtzman Tackle Man of Steel – Slice of SciFi
Bryan Singer is in talks with writers for the next Superman movie, “The Man of Steel”. Unfortunately, we have to wait until after the Justice League of America makes its box-office run, but I’m excited to see the Superman Returns crew back at it. Singer has stuck to his previous promise of upping the action in this outing.
“The first one was a romantic film and a nostalgic film,” continued Singer. “I’ll be the first person to own up to that without making any apologies for it. I knew it was going to be that from the outset. And now that the characters are established, there’s really an opportunity to up the threat levels. … Clearly there’ll be a body count [laughs]. From frame one, it will be unrelenting terror! All those teenage girls who found the movie and mooned over James Marsden or Brandon [Routh]? Well, I’m going to wake them up!”
The writers are responsible for Transformers. Hmm… not sure if I’m liking that. Transformers was not what I would call a well-written movie. Lots of nice pretty fights, certainly, and I’m all for that, but character work was not what I hoped for, and the plot itself was kinda…. eh. That said, they were also involved in the TV show Alias, which by all reports was excellent (still haven’t caught much of it myself). They’ve also been entrusted with the new Star Trek movie, but that hasn’t been released, obviously, so who knows how that’ll turn out. They’ve certainly got the big-budget credentials, though…
So who’s gonna be the villain? No one knows. I’ve heard calls to give Lex Luthor a break. I understand that sentiment. On the other hand, I liked Kevin Spacey’s Luthor. I really want some mega-villain to show up, too. Darkseid would be great (that’s a big character to handle in a 2-hour movie though… he comes with a lot of other characters). It would need to be somebody who could take a super-punch. Just not Lobo… please.
Anyway… woo hoo!
[tags]Superman, Brandon Routh, Kevin Spacey, Lex Luthor[/tags]
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Oh man Lobo! Good call, the reason why Lobo doesn’t feature heavily in the DC universe right now is that he is no Wolverine. No one cares to read about him so why would we want to see him on the big screen.
I’m going to suggest Doomsday, although that turns into a slugfest. Maybe Braniac? Darkseid is a hard character to get non superman fans across like you said in two hours.
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Awww crap maybe I’ve misjudged Lobo:
“He fights Aquaman when a traveling space dolphin visiting Earth is killed by Japanese fishermen. He relents in his violence when he learns Aquaman also loves dolphins; he feels he cannot hurt a fellow dolphin lover.” from Wikipedia.
That’s gold, absolute gold!!!
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bah ha ha ha!
I actually read the entire “52″ storyline, and Lobo was unfortunately a major player in a bunch of them. There was something about a Space Fish God in that, too. I think it was a dolphin, so maybe it’s a spinoff…
I like Brainiac as an alternative. Not a bad choice. Doomsday… I think there’d be too much baggage there – he’d have to kill Supes or something.
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