Superman looking for Director

Looks like there is going to be a new Superman Movie and the hunt for a director is on. So who would you like to see do the movie?

I think Zach Snyder just might do a good job. I liked what he had done for the Watchmen and 300, and have a feeling he would be sensitive to the fans concerns. Just my opinion.

http://www.superherohype.com/news/ar...s-for-director

Me: because otherwise it might be Uwe Boll.

I vote for me as well.

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I vote for Durakken... >.> and Durakken votes for Durakken... so Durakken wins...

What?

Having several personas is not always a bad thing ^.^

But seriously,

Brad Bird

Christopher Nolan could give us a believable, engaging Superman.

I want a director that knows they should be doing a reboot and not a retconned sequal.

I want a director that knows they can do Superman's origin within the opening credits. From arriving to earth as a baby, being found by the Kents, to getting a job at Daily Planet, to showing already becoming a well known hero.

I want a director who looks at Superman Returns and realizes Superman saving the shuttle and plane, flying through the city saving the everyone, lifting a massive boat, were all great!

I want a director who knows we need some superpowered enemies for Superman!

I want a director who knows you copy word for word Superman's line to Darkseid, right before he kicked his butt, in the third movie of the trilogy! And yes, it will be a trilogy! Whether it's to Darkseid or not, doesn't matter. What matters is it's a villain who can take it and we see it happen!

As a sidenote, I'd like to see Brandon Routh given another shot at the mantle, because I thought he made a great Superman and Clark Kent!

I want a director who knows to make Jimmy Olsen younger, but street savy, like in the Timmverse, and not the geeky one we saw in Superman Returns (though I admit I liked it when he told Perry "I think those are coordinates" after finding out from Clark and Perry's nephew).

I want a director who doesn't want to make an obviously comical silly comic book adaption. Not that there can't be comedy in it. I think that point makes sense.

I don't care if the director is a big name or not, I want one who can deliver this and make his cast deliver!

That's the director I want!

Would it make me a total ***** if I went through my take on Superman again?

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I personally think the first episode of the animated series would be a great movie! Superman comes to town but is kind of a myth. Lex holds display of new Mech power suit weapon. (Cool scene of Lexosuit fighting battalion of tanks as a demo of it's capabilities). Suit is "stolen" by terrorists.
Superman gives chase in Ariel pursuit but during which he dodges a missile only to have it clip a 747! Classic superman catching a jumbo jet scene which let's the baddies get away and also thrusts him into the public eye. terrorists nab lois when she is snooping around. Superman comes to the rescue and ends up having to do battle with the super suit. After a lengthy battle and untold property damage Supes wins. Everyone is happy, later that night this scene (love it)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2AEf...elated#t=7m40s

Credits roll and then we see the clip of the aliens finding braniac setting up the sequel! In the series even the terrorist who pilots the suit when superman beats it, ends up becoming Metallo (part 3!)


EDIT: Yes I realize Superman was powered down for the animated series but it made for some great "uh oh, now he's mad" moments where unleashes full fury on some poor villain (usually darksied)

To the best of my knowledge, Christopher Nolan is on board for a new Superman movie, but only as a producer. Now, that being said, I think he's the sort of creative mind that looks to the source material more often than not. I don't think anyone who reads these boards could dispute that his Batman movies have probably been the most faithful and accurate depictions of that character possibly ever.

But a director for Superman....hmm....I really think it has to be someone with a passion for superheroes, like Richard Donner did in the very first movie, because it literally shines with passion and great care for the character. So I'd look to the more successful Harry Potter directors first, because they're showing a knowledge and a handling of those stories to bring as much of that detail out. So Alfonso Cuaron (Prisoner of Azkaban) would be good.

Alternatively, the producer and someone who I think learned a lot from Spielberg in Chris Columbus could take a run at it. He has a strong visual style and knows how to treat characters also.

Beyond that...maybe Doug Liman of the Bourne Trilogy? Definitely someone who knows how to tell a tight story and handle strong characters.


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All that is required is that the writers and directors watch some JL and Superman on Boomerang. That will get them in the right direction. The baddies and the heroes there are pretty much, overall, acceptably on target, especially Superman.

But no, they gotta "go their own way." Frack that. Go the way it's SUPPOSED TO GO. Warner/DC needs to step on some throats and make that be the key.

Superman 1978 got it right. Period. But you can't do that again unless you're rebooting.

Superman II did good, as Lex wanted to rule, and was conniving with the bad boys to do it. Superman made a choice for himself, proving that selfishness is unwise, even for love, and had to make a choice to go back. Good morality stuff.

Superman III? Lame, although the idea of him fighting himself was good, but it just turned... hokey. Badly so. Lois was right not to be in that one.

Superman IV had it right, but was further badly done. Lex as the arms dealer after supes gets rid of the nukes? That sounds about right, although Lex now looks like a money grubber. Not megalomaniacal. But Lenny... ugh. And that whole Underdog/Shoeshine boy thing with the two ladies. Please.

Superman V...er, Returns wasn't... terrible. I actually think this Lex, performed deliciously by Kevin Spacey, was the best one of the films. Super ego, super villianous, plotting, conniving, and INSANELY MAD at Superman, to the point of actually figuring out a way to kill him outright himself with a kryptonite shiv... nearly. Not with some jewelry. Stuck it in Superman, and then BROKE IT OFF. Hardcore. Perfect. I really liked him.

Supes wasn't all that, but passable. Lois was... bad, and worse written... and also had a kid? Killed the whole deal. Seriously. Oh, and the drab suit didn't help.

Anyway, they just need to watch the right stuff on Boomerang, and they should be ok.

/And that goes for Wonder Woman too: JL is good stuff.

No love for my Brad Bird suggestion? >.>

I agree the whole origin thing needs to be done during the opening credits .

And can we skip the whole disquise thing ? If Lois and Clark are to be a couple , she should know he's Superman already .

Give him a villian he can go toe to toe with but save Brainiac until part 2 at least

Nolan could direct ( if he wanted ) and it would not be dark etc like a few people have mentioned . Dark is for Batman , yes we get that but he NEVER said he'd handle Supes the same way . Where people are getting this from is beyond me !!!

Routh was good enough , but we need a more mature looking Supes i.e James Caviezel and for Lois , Carla Gugino . Spacey as Luthor i guess , he did ok with what he had to work with

Man, seeing how much my take on Superman was in line what people want to see makes me a sad panda.