Superman Movie News

Ready for a darker, more tormented Superman? Apparently WarnerBros is revamping the Superman franchise. Somehow 'disappointed' with the results of Superman Returns (it did within $10 million of that other 'disappointment' Batman Begins; the studio is looking at a darker tone for any future film.

Poor Superman. His last movie was a disappointment, and now his DC Comics stablemate Batman is getting all the box office glory. But Warner Bros. has a plan, according to the Wall Street Journal, to reboot the Superman franchise, and its DC superhero properties in general. That plan, in a nutshell: Do what Marvel does.
The two prongs of the plan: First, make a bunch of related movies about individual DC heroes (including Green Arrow, Green Lantern, the Flash, and Wonder Woman), then tie them together with a group tale (the planned Justice League film.)
Second, make the characters all psychologically darker.

Sound familiar? This obviously worked well with Batman, a dark hero if there ever was one, but Superman? His persona is a complete opposite of the Dark Knight. Superman represents the best potential of what humanity can be while Batman represents our darker nature. I'm not saying there isn't room for a more serious film, but Warner is misguided if they think Superman is appropriate to be a 'psychologically dark' character. If they really want to go down this path, they should make a Batman/Superman film and have the two characters play off each other.

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Superman Screenwriters Not Returning For Sequel

This does not bode well for any follow up movie to Superman Returns. According to Variety, Superman Returns screenwriters Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris have opted not to come back and write a sequel. Warner Bros is now taking story pitches for Man of Steel. Industry chatter claimed the studio would start fresh with a new take on the Man of Steel, as if the previous pic never happened. This would almost certainly mean Bryan Singer is out of any next film to be produced. Crap.

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Comic Book Covers That Revealed Superman's Identity

A compilation of 20 comic book covers on which Superman's identity (Clark Kent) is supposedly found out by some enemy/ friend/by-stander. They seem to have done this kind of thing quite often decades ago. Stilted, overly dramatic word balloons with preposterous or imaginary situations were common on comic covers until about the mid 70s.

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