Christopher Nolan Talks Superman

I hope to god that a cross over is being worked on, maybe we'll get a surprise in San Diego next month. GL superman cameo!

i hope he makes a good superman film...

YAY! Im excited. Nolan will do a fantastic job.

I have high hopes for the Superman film. We need a good modern superman film. :D OH and might as well:

Kind of stating the obvious haha :)

I'm still anticipating the announcement of a director. Nolan's going to be too caught up in everything Batman 3 to be heavily involved in Man of Steel, so he won't be able to hold the director's hand the entire time, so the director needs to be able to create a good Superman film by himself.

Star: Doomsday sucks :)

If he does get to do the next Superman film, he better put in an amazing villian so we can see some Epic fight scenes (My pick: Brainiac).
@Starsapphire- Cool clips. :)

Oh that's just Great, another one influenced by Donner. Singer was influenced by Donner too and look what at what kind of a movie we got. And Singer totally focused on the story too. Got a feelin this is going to get screwed too.

Tyler- No way..superman's death would make BILLIONS!
It would tug on the OL' Heart strings..An epic
FIGHT SCENE at the climax of the movie..
It would be a MASTERPIECE. That would be the
perfect way to REBOOT the movie..Also
Superman WOULD be resurected by the END of the movie.

pete: It would be stupid. The point of the reboot is to reintroduce the audience to Superman. Killing him off in the first half hour would not bring any emotional weight because we would barely have seen him to actually care about what happens to him. Like I said recently in regards to killing Barry Allen off in the first Flash film, you need to let Superman grow and develop over the course of several films if you want to do justice to his death and if you want to have any emotion. It just makes no sense to make a huge deal about reintroducing Superman and then killing him in the first 30 minutes. Why should we care if Lois is heartbroken at his death if we have barely gotten to know her and her relationship with Supes? How can we care if Jimmy is heartbroken? How can we understand the significance of his death if we haven't seen what he actually means to the other characters (including the Leaguers) and the rest of the world? Plus, didn't Superman "die" but get resurrected at the end of Returns? You say that you don't want another Returns, but killing Superman off when the audience has hardly connected to him would be exactly doing something that Returns did.

Also, in case anyone missed it, Doomsday sucks.

Bum bum baaaaaaa badda ba badda baaaaaa!!!! (my attempt at singing the superman theme haha)

EDITED:

Tyler- No no no, you miss understand me..Superman would
die..at the END ..like 30 minutes BEFORE the ENDING
that way we get 2 hours to get to know superman..Also
there has been 5 (?) movies about superman I think
(even general audiences) KNOW superman and
all ready attached emotionally to the
character..and his
back story..by the time we get to superman's death
(buy YOU'RE timeline)..It will be another DECADE,
JUST to get a trilogy finished if not
LONGER..Superman is STILL
3 years away..2 years?..if they even make it work.
WB is SO slow at making movies..
Even if the "man of steel" movie comes out on time..
It will be another 3 years before a sequal.


I say the NEW movie should be "Death of Superman".

I am not really sure about superman dying in RETURNS
I only saw it once..I'll never see it again.

pete: But even if you kill him that late inthe film, is that REALLY doing justice to the decades of stories preceding DOS? It still wouldn't work. And yes, they do need to reconnect the audience to Superman. It's a new actor and they are going for a different characterization than the other films, so the audience WILL need to establish a connection to this Superman. And yes, Superman did die at the end of Returns, and then was resurrected 10 minutes later just like you say the reboot should do...and it was ineffective. It would be the same deal if they did a Doomsday movie at this point in time.

I'd much rather wait years for a DOS movie than have one come out now and negate it's own story purpose. It just doesn't make sense for them to do it.

PS Brainiac FTW.

While I agree that the next superman movie needs a villian that can give Superman a real fight, I don't want this movie to become a special effect fest, it needs a deep story some epic, well crafted and excellently woved.

Whoever is scripting this movie; Goyer most likely and maybe the Nolan's, like in BB and TDK, they really need to do some documentation, something like Azzarelo/Lee for tomorrow, Morrison/Quitely DC all stars Superman, Moore/Swan whatever happened to the man of tomorrow and some others.

TYLER- I see what you're saying, Brainiac is an ALL around
villian, to challenge supe's mind and strength, and
let's face it, his willpower. and If done right
(like you suggest) It would make for a great movie..

But here is what I think Doomsday, could bring to the
table..Since Doomsday is Kryptonian, Doomsday was the
one who destroyed Krypton, created by Zod or to even
makes things even more dramatic..Jor-el himself..
Doomsday was an experiment that went WAY wrong..So
just before krypton was destroyed and doomsday
was mysteriously defeted and shot in to space..
(and then land on earth..to do the same to earth,
Doomsday is an UNSTOPABLE force..who can destroy
cities in mere minutes. I will say he is not
smart and could not pose a threat mentally..other
than the fact of the mystery as to who defeted
doomsday BEFORE and How can he do the same..

Bottom line..I just don't want another snooze fest
return's was (IMO)

I want to see the superman, I know and love, from
comics and cartoons..and in that world superman is
NOT a father (LOL) and he ACTUALLY fights!

EDIT: by the way thats just my own crazy scenario..I'm
sure the writes could make it sound MUCH better!

EDIT#2: Have you read the daeth of superman graphic
novel? Superman fights Doomsday in the course
of 5 comics! Other stuff is going on..Drama
and great sub-stories..In between all of the
extreamly harsh fight scenes..what a story!

pete: Fair enough. Good ideas, but I think it comes down to which stories we each like better, I personally have my own ideal storyline from a reboot with Brainiac to a Justice League with a Darkseid who is connected to Brainiac, and I personally like those ideas the best, no matter how douchey that just sounded :)

But I do agree that it is time we got an ass kicking Superman film that has action, intelligence, humor, and drama all rolled into one that combines the best elements of the previous films (you won't agree on that one ;P), cartoons, and comics.

EDIT: Yes, I have read it, but it was a bit of a while ago :)

i do hope that they do a cameo in green lantern it would be an epic after credit scene
some thing small like perry white talking about news of the green lantern and then saying "Kent, I want you out there faster then a speeding bullet" pan back and show clark with a sly grin on his face .end scene. corny yes but people would cream their pants if this happened

I think they should have the first film be a braniac one, with a background luther pulling strings. but, not the bullcrap lex from the donner films. he's more of a joke than a threat to superman. lex luthor is not now and never has been comic relief in the superman universe.
then the 2nd film be a doomsday fight, and leave him dead at the end of it. have the final shots be exactly like the final shots in the graphic novel. he has to stay dead at the end of the film for there to be any credibility and emotional pull to the death.
then have the 3rd and final film be the return of superman with the 4 different supermans and the real one returning in the end to fight the cyborg imposter.

Tyler I love the idea of having a brainiac that leads into a Justice league with a Darkseid connection but I can also see Doomsday leading into a possible Darkseid Justice league movie as well. Just when Superman thinks rising back from the dead and totally kicking Doomsdays butt is the worst he will encounter, Darkseid and his whole flood of apokolyps comes in and he sees that he will need help. Thus the Justice league comes into being!
And Darthstern I totally dig your ending for the Green Lantern movie. I know that would make me all tingly inside. lol