Mark Millar Exasperates About Superman Franchise

Wasnt there a post on CBM recently stating clear as day that Singer had already signed on for a sequel??

DOOM just a hint to who ever gets to do this superman if another movie is made.. the only time i cared about superman or paid attention is when he died i got the comic when he got that ass kicked and i brought the animated dvd when he got his ass kicked and i loved it.

NO REBOOT!!!!!! I MEAN IT

Definitely would be bad ass, but only if they use the four imposters and not the animated movie version. I liked the animated movie, but was very disappointed. Superman cannot be cloned. They messed that up bad. Plus, they didn't tell anything about Doomsday, what happened to him or what not. I would do it like the comics. Superman saving day, Doomsday, Superman Dead, Four Supermen show up right at the end, that's it for movie #1. Four Supermen save day, Cyborg shows his true colors, bad crap happens, maybe a cameo by GL, real Superman shows up at the end. That's movie #2. Movie #3 is an all out action movie, but kicking all over the place, Superman returns, then at the end, a new menace shows up, maybe Braniac, or General Zod (a kickass one, not some dude inhabited by him), or the Eradicator shows his original true colors.

They should do it like marvel is doing. Do the single movies first and have them all link together for the JLA movie.

A reinvention of the superman story is like a reboot of Jesus H. Christ. If you change any two things, he becomes a different character. Just do it right! Jeez

enough of the reboot! put him in a full black leather costume. Give him light saber eyes and a dark brooding disposition.

No doomsday he more overrated then Batman right now

The only way to do Superman right is throw Animations not these gayass live action movie

I've said it before and I'll say it again. NO REBOOT!! Returns did not kill the frachise. Shit...episode 1and2 of Star Wars sucked, but if you if watch them in a row with episode 3 its good stuff. Just make the next superman movie 10 times better. Have Bizzaro and Braniac kill the kid and Lois's fiance and bad ass fight with Supes. That would be a helluva movie. Wasnt Mark Millar the guy would wanted to have Superman the last person on earth and then die? If he is then thank god they didnt pick him. That was the dumbest Fn thing I ever heard.

Reboot or not I dont care as long as its good and we see some real action and if they do reboot I still think they should keep Routh.

I would say have Millar write one of the following,

Put Supes up against Brainiac -I think the most effective way for Brainiac is a hybrid between the Animated series version and the T-1000esque metal morphing brainiac of Smallville- and a comic-based downright evil scum of humanity Lex Luthor. (if they're going to do that then why not use Kevin Smith's Superman Lives script and get rid of all the Jon Peters' Bullshit he had put into the script....cough cough....GIANT SPIDER.....cough cough. And I know what you're thinking, don't judge Smitty based on his comedy history, it was a great read and I was very impressed. I highly recommend it and you can find it on Google)

OR...

Put him against Doomsday, and bring Supes back with the help of CADMUS and John Henry Irons, while Doomy automatically regenerates elsewhere.

If the evil greedy studios don't like either of those choices, then I present le creme de la creme....

Then put Supes against DARKSEID and SUPES LOSES!!! BIG TIME!!! ..."People of Earth, here is your Savior, Cowed and Broken..." then Supes meets Orion and the other New Gods and next time Superman goes up against Darkseid, Big Blue fights Darkseid to a standstill.

With either of those last two options, they-the studio- shows that Supes is not the demigod that everyone thinks he is.

In any of those choices show Superman's human side. Talk about how he is a God, but chooses to live among and as Men not unlike Jesus Christ. (Not being blasphemous just juxtaposing)


But what they really should do with Darkseid is bring in Jack Kirby's Fourth World. All of it. W/ Superman as a Supporting character. Turn that into a trilogy and at the end have it end they way Kirby wanted it to. Seriously, if they did it right they could knock the first Star Wars off its pedestal. (Sorry Kirby fan ranting here....My Bad.)

KINGDOM COME!!!! YES

i dont no y everyone is saying superman cant be dark. he is pushed to the edge by villians like darkseid and his last choice is to kill them.Butmhe fights his conscience and does the right thing. i thought brandon routh sucked as superman. WHY DOES EVERYONE THINK SUPER IS KINDA SKINNY!! i heard people want peter from heroes.STUPID IDEA. i like TOM WELLING, CHRIS PINE, JOSH DUHAMEL, OR MAYBE THOMAS JANE IF U WANT A OLDER MORE MATURE SUPERMAN!!! plz consider sumone built like Tom Welling. (it doesnt have to be him)

No reboot plz. Superman:Doomsday.

Minotauro
i am truly a marvel fan
but i stick by my reboot comment
if a comic book movie fails
they will not make a sequel
but if the character is strong
they will want to reuse the character
so we can either have a reboot
or nothing at all
because no studio/execs are going to make a sequel to Returns
its a simple fact

and lex has been used to death
not comparing him to anyone but simply stating the fact that why use him over, and over, and over

fantastic four wasnt good for many reasons that if you cant see then thats your issue
it was entertaining for sure
but for someone who has read the comic since i could start reading it was pretty dissapointing
but again, we can either have a reboot or nothing at all
so i will call for the reboot
becuase noone is going to make a third in that series
and i would love to see FF on the big screen as many times as I can

d0n't fix, what ain't broken

Get Lobo in dis movie!!!

I wasn't all too crazy about Routh, actually. I want Superman to look a little older, and he has to be bigger too. For me it doesnt matter who directs but if its singer he better not dish out another piece of shit like that last one. Not that it was wholly bad, it just didnt hold my interest, didnt entrance me to the edge of my seat. I was just like, eh.

Honoring past movies are great, because the old ones were good in their own way, but we need a superman for our generation. don't turn him badass or anything, that's just dumb, but at least use the action potential that comes with the Man of Steel! I wanna see Superman throw an enemy/ or be thrown into buildings, beating to a pulp, something with higher stakes. that's why i want a reboot, but a faithful reboot. I don't know who to want as villain, i feel that darkseid or doomsday may not work for the first movie. But i like the idea of a three part story, and i like the idea of millar writing it, he is faitful to the source and will only change minor things but which will make it way cool. Sigh, I don't know...

I think we are all in agreeance that we do not want to see Luthor...YET AGAIN!...but I dont want to see no damn mutiple villians just to try to invoke nerdgasms, if the story aint right and dont flow. Doomsday is not going 2 work, unless U let him kill Supes,..and the time alotted for most movies will not do that thing justice. I think.

Action pack does not equal dark. We have seen it in Iron Man and Hulk,...while these movies did have their darker and violent moments...the overall feel of the movie was not steeped in grit and they delivered the money shots when it counted.

I seem to notice someone saying that Routh's Kent was not nerdy enuff. Um,...good. While I loved Chris Reeve as Supes when I was a kid,...I hated his Kent. So let me see if I can get this,...the only way he can keep anyone from not thinking that he is Superman is to be a complete idiot? RRRRIIIGGGHHHTTT! That interpretation of Kent is not consistent with what we have seen in the animated versions as well as the books for the past 20+ years. While he is definitely not ubercool and such, he does come across as a competent and intelligent person that one can believe could hold a job at a top tier newspaper. I can do without the perpertual b!#%h a$$ness and 3 stooge act that everyone seems to gravitate to.

And finally for the ladies on here that constantly complain that Routh's muscles werent big enuff....get over it. Supes is not really a huge bulky figure. Yes we have some artists whose interpretations make him a bit bulkier and such, like Mike Turner(r.i.p) and others, but I have seen other portrayls like in the Superman and Legion of Superheroes story when they battle Earthman, where Supes had a simpler, yet muscler build. I think the movie will have 2 find a medium ground thats sensible and believable,....and for the record, especially if U watched the behind the scenes on Superman Returns...I dont know what U girls saw, but Routh is not a small kid. His Superman was a decent build and size, in my opinion.

I'm so, so sick of some of the attitudes going on twards this.

I'm sick of everyone thinking Millar's ideas sound so great, and of everyone bashing the most idiotic things to bash about Superman Returns. Honestly saying they kept "Superman in bed for the third act" is riduculous. It's called a falling act, and there was nothing wrong with it. The movieh ad it's beig climax, and that was the falling action.
People just look for random things to complain about in that movie. Get over it, for crying out loud?

Rebooting the franchise with a different actor is equally ridiculous. If you must ignore SR, at least use the same actors and sets and call it a prequel, or whatver. That way, everybody's happy!

And, for the life of me, I can't understand why anyone would like Millar's approach. Showing Superman hundreds of years in the future, all alone on Earth? Who the hell want that kind of downer story in their Superman movie? Haven't we all been badmouthing WB for trying to say they want a darker Superman? That's ridiculous. Just have him saving folk in Metropolis, and beating the hell out of Brainiac.

If you didn't like SR for the lack of a physical villain, Brainiac would be GREAT in the new film. But for crying out loud, make it set in contemporary Metropolis. These new ideas of himbeing all alone on a desolate Earth are just stupid!