From syfyportal, "It looks like a sequel to "Superman Returns" isn't as automatic as many people might think.Rumors are afloat that Warner Bros. -- which took more than a decade to put together its most recent installment of the franchise -- could be delaying, or even worse, shelving a followup to its 2006 film, Moviehole reported.
The original project had a number of directors and stars until Warner Bros. effectively lured away Bryan Singer from Marvel's X-Men movie franchise to direct. The film ended up costing some $270 million to make, but grossed just over $200 million at the North American box office, according to Internet Movie Database.
Chatter about at least a delay in a sequel picked up in recent weeks when Singer announced his next project would not be Superman but instead films such as "You Want Me To Kill Him?" and "The Mayor of Castro Street." That in of itself isn't very surprising, because those are films expected to be released in the next couple of years while a Superman sequel wasn't expected to hit theaters again until 2009.
Other reports have Warner Bros. simply moving Superman into a proposed Justice League movie, but there is a lot of skepticism that such a project would even get off the ground judging by the logistics of it. However, supporters of that project say a Justice League movie could be bigger than the X-Men franchise.
Don't start losing sleep over whether a Superman sequel is threatened just yet, however. Trade publication Variety reported on Monday that it was "unlikely" Warner Bros. would scrap such a project.
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It's the damn casting. He's awful.
Somebody on a Battlestar Galactica chatboard said that the guy who plays Sam Anders on Galactica (Caprica insurgent; romance with Starbuck etc.) should have played Superman. I agree! Or maybe not him but somebody like him.
You know...a heterosexual. Or at least an actor who can convincingly portray one.
Bosworth sucked too. And Cyclops...what the hell was he doing in there? (There are rumors of a Singer/Marsden "casting couch" relationship.)
I thought he played the Clark part well, almost like he was channeling Reeve. I agree that Bosworth sucked - and why make her character so bitchy?
They should have made it more like the comic book! The bad guy should've been Mr. Mxyzptlk, and Superman should've saved the day by making a giant ice cream scoop, then scooping ice out of the rings of Saturn to make a giant sno-cone.
Okay, somebody's in too good a mood about something to post coherently...
(The frequency of octo's "extremely silly suggestion" posts has quadrupled in the last week or so, as I'm sure everyone has noticed.)
Yeah Octo, come to think of it you have been rather silly!
We can't gripe all the time. Well, you guys can...
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