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I enjoyed Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns but can see why it received a thorough critical kicking on its release, and now there’s a little more of Singer’s Supes to enjoy/hate. For all it did right, and I hold to the opinion that it did quite a lot of things right, it disappointed a lot of [...]
Watching the Superman anthology on Blu-ray last week gave me a new appreciation for Marlon Brando’s stunt casting in the Richard Donner films. He was naturally very good as Jor-El, the Kryptionian scientist who cassandra’d his way into the mythology of Superman by predicting the imminent destruction of his home planet, and placing his gravitas [...]
There are few characters as iconic and resistant to cultural change than Shuster and Siegel’s Man of Steel. At once instantly redolent of the 1930s comic book boom, the power and appeal of Superman is seemingly timeless and in this new Blu-ray Anthology you get to see the latest cinematic incarnations of arguably DC Comic’s [...]
Opinion seems to be sharply divided on Superman Returns. Personally, I enjoyed it a great deal and thought that Brandon Routh managed to portray a geeky Clark and a conflicted but powerful Supes with real conviction. Sadly, its somewhat underwhelming box-office performance was always going to make it hard for Bryan Singer to remain at [...]
The world of Superman has been busy of late and the news of Christopher Nolan bringing David Goyer to the table to write the next film, which he is shepherding to the screen, is a good sign of things to come. We recently ran an article positing if we would see a Mark Millar scripted [...]
Back in 2007, the future writer of Kick Ass, Mark Miller spoke to Warner Brothers about possibly making a Superman film, stating on a forum that he would even write it for free as he was such a big fan. Mark Millar had previously written the excellent Elseworlds title Superman: Red Son in 2003 and [...]
Given the analogous fortunes of Bryan Singer and the X Men franchise it may come as no surprise to learn that Singer has just signed a deal to get involved with X Men: First Class Origins. Speaking on the blue carpet of the L.A. premiere of James Cameron’s Avatar Singer told MySpace (via Dark Horizons) [...]
