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Singer soars from LOGAN'S RUN remake for rest, relaxation and possibly SUPERMAN RETURNS AGAIN!
Hey folks, Harry here... When I talked with Bryan Singer for my PENTHOUSE interview back a month or so ago, I asked him about LOGAN'S RUN and it was like touching a sore spot. For one, Bryan was exhausted sounding. Two - he sincerely seemed to be genuinely confused as to what he wanted to do. He told me some days he wakes up rearing to go wanting to march straight into it. Other days he wants to disappear and take a break. And still other times - he just wants to take that time and concentrate on his television shows, development of other film projects and shooting commercials which he still enjoys to do from time to time.
Well, today - Variety officially made it public that Singer MAY not direct the remake of LOGAN'S RUN. According to Variety - if SUPERMAN RETURNS succeeds at the Box Office, those at Warners would like to be shooting in 2nd half of 2007 with Singer directing. As for LOGAN'S RUN - Variety floats the idea that V FOR VENDETTA director - James McTeigue could step in to helm it. There ya go...
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We'll see how Superman Returns does first. FIRST ALSO!!!
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first?
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Didn't they recently remake Logan's run? I think it was called 'The Island'.
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just bored...oh well....
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what's the latest on Ghost rider?
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Close as I'll ever get to first
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what does that mean?
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That Singer should make Superman Returns as a sequel to a good first and second movie and ignore the bad third movie. Maybe after Superman 4 he can make X-Men 3.
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...so I cannot say that I would be all togather disappointed if that was the way it went down ... assuming that would give us more Singer/Supes goodness ... assuming the first Singer/Supes is goodness ... which is where I'm putting my odds.
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I love that Supes has to be a lock to get a sequel. At this point; Smallville seems more than likely to be the next Superman movie. Not this cheese factoury that cost 425 million after all is said and done. Singer had a rough time on Supes. You have a rough time, then you start to have people questioning giving you more money for a rather expensive SCI-FI EPIC UPGRADE. Give it to McTiegue, let the W's write the script, and get another realitively inexpensive quality looking film from that creative team. Apparently the big money does not work that well with Singer. Giving the cash to someone that has been around that sort of cash before due to his Matrix involvement. A more realistic investment at this time for Logan's Run.
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May 16, 2006 3:27:19 AM CDT
Good news for Singer but Supes probably won't be huge
by spectrebeeyatch
I just can't see it being a 300 million dollar movie. So that means will have to wait another couple years for another version of Superman.
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there is no way over a quarter of a BILLION DOLLARS should EVER be spent on making a freakin movie. that is simply PATHETIC.
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*sigh* Even though I liked the first two hours or so of M:I III, I got a baaad feelin' about J.J.
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There ya go Harry, I thought the fact that you're writing for Penthouse wasn't getting enough exposure on the site recently........... "My god. The sarcasm detector..... It's gonna blow!!!!"
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McTeigue really surprised me with V for Vendetta. I don't think the Wachowskis nursed him through the production and I remember people stating that they only did the domino scene which was one of the more contrived parts of the film.
I hope they bring out more of the chilling aspects of the Sandman characters. I'm interested in the isolating elements of such an elite unit. -
It's more like 425 due to all the starts and stops the production had before Singer even showed up. After PA, worldwide, the price could easily be HALF A BILLION. HALF A BILLION dollars for a film that easily could have been made for much less. To think that Smallville has captured Supes better, and the ENTIRE SERIES barely cost an EIGHTH of the budget for this film. Singer will get another shot at Supes, and he should be grateful. Not often, does one flame out, finish a film, then get a chance to helm a rather expensive sequel.
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May 16, 2006 4:33:08 AM CDT
We *know* Harry has a column in Penthouse's US edition.
by salvatoregravano
But this reminder still keeps appearing as the opening in every recent news item. Not that it's a bad thing - amusing, though. It will pass, I suppose; I too was initially excited to be a regular in a big local rag a while ago, and then it just got tedious.
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May 16, 2006 4:34:38 AM CDT
Oh, and were there any questions about Routh's acting..
by salvatoregravano
...and his dialogue delivery? That's been a sizzling topic recently...
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GET IT???? REAR??!! LIKE ASS! SINGERS GAY!!!!!
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...an intentional comedy, I'll go see it.
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"The Island" was a remake of "Parts: The Clonus Horror".
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OK. It's just that large parts of the film seemed 'pay homage' to Logan's run. Much of the way the film played out and especially the final scene where all the clones walk out into the real world. That so reminded me of the final scene in Logan's run. Mind you, it also ripped off several other, better films as well.
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Is pronounced 'rare-ing'. The phrase means 'keen to get started'.>>>>Why did the film cost so much money? I mean, King Kong cost that much, but you could tell why - all those big-arse effects were up on screen. But how could a Superman film possibly cost nearly half a billion dollars?
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Just imagine it.
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Singers has been pushing for Logan's run.... now he might not do it so another director will be 'brought' on? THIS is why these remakes are trash. Get some film makers to put together their own films and we might actually start getting some quality. hey?
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yes, im talking to you. dickface.
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He is a great guy and a great director.
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cos he doesn't really direct most his films anyway
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You do realise that there are some HUGE effects sequences in Superman Returns. That's where a lot of the money has gone.
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...and Logan's Run seems like a similar film to V in that it could be a very "smart" character film with political and cultural overtones with some sci-fi element.
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You people amaze me. You call Superman Returns "a piece of shit" and THE FUCKING FILM ISN'T EVEN OUT YET. Are you retarded or what? Once the film is released and YOU'VE SEEN IT, you have every right to say whatever you want about it. You'd still be a whiney, giant DOUCHE BAG, but at least you'd have some credibility. But, to rag on a film like this when you haven't even seen it is beyond retarded. Idiots.
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Lots of good people in here.
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May 16, 2006 8:56:18 AM CDT
homewrecker? Is that really you? You're making sense.
by regicidal_maniac
I always suspected you weren't really crazy.
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that a lot of you have seen superman returns?! where can i see it? i mean you all know that it sucks, its no good and 'smallville did superman better' so i demand to know how you saw the film!!
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As I understand it, and as McKellan says, Singer's quite an internalised, intense director and agonises over everything (in the way party-man Ratner doesn't - guess who's going to live longer and make more dull direct-to-DVD movies!) so this kind of adds up. I'd like to see Superman before dissing it ideally, although I have to say the idea of remaking Richard Donner rather than creating a film Superman that the '78 original only really got about 60% right seems a little bankrupt to me. We'll see. Spacey looks good value but will Singer have the nerve to exapnd this idea outside of Donner-world? Is Doomsday gonna show up? And if Harry is writing for Penthouse does this mean he's getting laid more often than I am? That hurts.
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his girlfriend was born ten years before this site was.
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I think Singer was the very best choice to make the film. I would LOVE to see him turn around and make ANOTHER Superman film immediately. Logan's run was a lousy movie the first time; re-making it at best will be putting a shine on a steaming turd. And does anybody even still waste time with Penthouse?
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Part of the budget was for Singer getting PAAAAYYYYYED more like a big movie star than a director after making Warners and Fox play chicken, and the strange occurrence of the budget swelling by the same 50 odd million that was supposedly spent on the previous attempts that supposedly wouldn't affect this version. And the MASSIVE effects sequence that was thrown in at the last second. Can I support this with hard evidence? Well SURE I can!!!
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films up their sleeve.
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on their Superman movie before a single frame of film was ever shot, and long before Singer was signed. That was just because of total incompetence and disregard for the source material. Nicolas Cage alone walked away with $10 million for this movie. Thank God he DID walk away. What a fiasco THAT would have been.
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"when I was doing my PENTHOUSE interview..." insert into all articles. We *know* dude... Still I'd be going on about it if I worked for Penthouse. I'd prefer the 'makeup' job to add glisten to the up-close pussy shots though ;-)
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...But after watching V For Vendetta I tend to think that James McTeigue is better suited to that story. I'd much rather have him work on it than a tired Singer. Though either way I'm sure we'll get something interesting out of it...
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why-e-i-e-ie yahhh, is superman dead. i dont like the fact that ther is no super villan in this one. if there going to do a second one, singer better grow some balls and put doomsday in it and kill the over rated superman. that would make for some ballzy entertaining shit.
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Not because I'm a Singer hate. But because I like Logan's Runa dn just don't see the need for a remake. Or a re-imaginging. Or a re-telling. Or whatever the studio wants to brand the "new" version.
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Thats odd. Wouldn't he be more comfortable next to the limp dicks in Playgirl? If Superman Returns bombs, maybe Warner Bros can make the Smallville movie that should have been made in the first place.
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Send his butt to Carousel. If he can't hack it, then he has no business directing movies in Hollywood. If he runs, send in the Sandmen.
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And make a kick ass Logan's Run with some of the Usual Suspects' style storytelling. A Superman sequel can wait. It will give them time to think of something NEW. Something NOT Luthor.
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I think it would be a pity if Bryan passes on the chance to re-make a rather tacky looking Sci-Fi movie from the 70's. Oh well, guess We'll have to wait and see the way things go over the summer eh?
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Brainiac, Parasite, Metallo, Kryptonite Man, Zod, Doomsday,ANYTHING but Luthor. Please. Ok, no Nuclear Man, either. Ugh.
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Zod was supposed to be in Superman Returns but he wanted Jude Law to play the part and he was not available, so they wrote Zod out of the script. They will bring him back for the sequel. Singer is a huge fan of the original Superman 1 and 2 so you know he will. I would love to see a modern update on Zod w/out sequins.
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Spacey said so himself.
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If they shoot mid '07, will this mean a '08 release?
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like I haven't read that 20 times already -- we get it -- you can stop pimping now, Harry
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there goes another great film chance then, i mean James McTeigue sucks. Fantastic four was a better comic adaptation!!!! He'd be better suited for doing some of his own films instead of a just add water big budget (but no added talent) director.
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The reason we'll never see a SMALLVILLE feature on the big screen is due to the antagonistically-competitive Warner Bros. corporate structure -- unlike the other major studios (20th Century Fox, Universal, et al), Jack Warner set up the various arms of his studio *in competition* with one another, attempting to foster a sort of corporate Darwinism that the studio would emerge all the stronger from. 80 years later, it's now retrospectively considered a massively fucking stupid idea, and one that has seriously hurt the studio a number of times over the years. Also, WB Pictures (the feature film arm) largely wants *nothing* to do with WB Television (the arm that produces SMALLVILLE), considering TV "beneath" it...which is also why a BABYLON 5 movie has never been able to get made there, and why WB Pictures demanded JMS totally recast the film with "movie stars" a couple years back, or no deal. SMALLVILLE is -- to them -- utterly small potatoes, and is why Tom Welling never landed the movie gig. Wrongheaded, perhaps, but that's the way they're set up.***************FLY HIGH, DULUTH!!!
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...McTeigue would make a very interesting choice as helmer, either for SUPES 2 or for LOGAN'S RUN. His work on V shocked me with its quality, and I came away with a newfound respect. The guy's clearly has the chops as an "actor's director."
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...FLY HIGH, DULUTH!!!
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I wanted to see his Logans Run, and even though I'm excited to see his Superman I think I'd rather see what someone else does with it for the sequel...
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...if they stick close to the source material, eg: the characters don't get to live beyond 21 and Logan has to go on the run through a world of cities beneath the sea, frozen artic prison colonies, great hollowed-out mountains, adandoned cities etc.... then it could be really cool.
The book featured the exploits of Logan, a sandman who worked in one of the many cities in the future. There were no domed cities, though many elements of the book wound themselves into the movie in one way or another. In the book Logan and Jessica are far more developed characters than they are on the screen (either bog or small) following a underground railroad of mazecars and shady characters on a quest to get to Sanctuary, which ends up in a rocket ride from Florida.
I must admit I loved the book when I first stumbled across, and thought it infinitely better than the film and tv series. If you can just think somewhere between the original logan's run and Mad Max 2 then you'd be closer to the authors' vision. I hope Superman Return's doesn't suck the life out of this movies cos it really deserves to be remade correctly. The Island was a poor rip-off of a much better idea with overtones of The Clonus Horror... I just hope Bay never gets to make a movie I want to see ever again!! By that I mean I hope he doesn't get I Am Legend or a Bond movie! -
Brett Ratner is frustrated by his image as a party animal, and fears he won't be taken seriously as a film-maker because of it. The Rush Hour director makes more headlines because of his A-list pals and rumored romances than the movies he makes. But Ratner - who has been linked with Serena Williams and Lindsay Lohan, and counts Sean 'Diddy' Combs and among his pals - insists work comes first and he only parties to wind down afterwards. He says, "I'm a serious film-maker and the people I work with know that so whatever is in the tabloids you can't take that seriously. I think, eat, sleep and dream film so that's what my focus is. That's the real me. I love women and I appreciate women but my focus is my work. You got to celebrate. That's the way to blow off steam. It's a hard grueling process and you want people to know that you really appreciate their hard work so I like to throw a few little soiree."
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a quarter bill...what i always thought would cost a TON of money (and this would never happen) would be if they made a live action version of the incredibles. it'd be a HUGE movie, but it would never happen. it'd cost a shitload thats for sure
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Is that what the guns are like in the book? I hope he sued the shit out of Judge Dredd cos that's *exactly* what the Judge's guns are like...
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Somebody above already took my Playgirl joke. Bada-bing!
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I saw M:I:3 on Saturday (What? I didn't pay for it) and when the Supes trailer came up the theater was buzzing with excitement. Some 40 year old soccer mom sitting down the row actually turned to her kids and said, "Wow, we've got to see that!" and her kids agreed. People that have no connection with the character other than the movies or the cartoons will see it, because to them, the trailer looks good. And hell, the trailer looked pretty good to me on the big screen too. It will make its money back. Meanwhile, there's no possibilty of getting Singer back to the X-films under any circumstances. Ffffft.
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It's like all the so called sci-fi flicks nowadays. High concept, followed by an extended chase scene.
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/16/pentagon.video/index.html
Finally, CNN has the video that shows the PLANE hitting the Pentagon. Conspiracy? I think not. But then again, you guys will never be convinced because you don't allow for coincidences and anomolies, which are a fact of life. They happen every day. Just because I happened to run into an old high school friend in the middle of the moutnains does not mean he's following me:)
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Man that sounded just like some Studio Plant. Soccer mom/ Do real people actually call a mom with kids soccer mom? MrBoinfoint You speak in Demographic research speak.
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LOGAN'S RUN done properly by someone - SUPERMAN bores me to tears, except when ZOD is around...
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I feel so honored.
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I hate Bush. Terrible president. Shameful. But let's face it, not everything is a conspiracy. I suppose the moon landing never happened in your book. And the funniest thing about your comment, "Hundreds of witnesses saw no plane..." funny as hell. Do you realise how much of a non-statement that is? Besides, use that mush in your head... most people wouldn't have seen a plane coming that was traveling hundreds of miles per hour. EVERYONE would have to be looking at the same spot at the same time. Think Homewrecker, think... good dog, ruff.
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Despite homewrecker's rally cry of "one IP per username!", he has never -- despite being pointed in the right direction -- never ONCE attempted to verify that I'm his "gay jew zionist multi-username plant" boogeyman by contacting the mods on AICN. As much as the idea of someone that insane appeals to my sense of humor, I regret to say that he's merely a Scorched Planet troll with a stale act.
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If you actually believe that I am all of those people, you WOULD have tried. I don't have to be an AICN staff member to know that you would never make such an attempt at verification, for primarily two reasons: 1) if you had actually been insane, you wouldn't attempt it because it would collapse your entire world view or if supplied with a negative result, you would blame the whole site for the conspiracy, and 2) if you're a troll, you would have no INTEREST in verifying something which you don't believe in to begin with.
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...how would you explain the fact that all members of the Zone are only entitled to one IP number, yet -- oddly -- many of the identities you attribute to me are registered there -- each with individual IP numbers? You sad phony.
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That the Warner folk, in their wisdom, vitoed the JJ Abrams UPDATED script (with all the crap trimmed) based largely on the fact that it was going to cost the studio 240+ million to make??... Now they're letting Bryan Singers mob take a crack at superman lore with an assload more cash than JJ's would have cost.. Dont get me wrong.. I love Superman 1 & 2... but I would have liked to have seen an update of the origin story (ala batman begins) as opposed to a rehash (Singer calls it a homage... homage obviously being gaylish for rehash).. Routh is ok, for a Superman he makes a good Chris Reeve, and Spacey looks like Hackman but that's where the similarities end. I'm also not saying GET TOM WELLING... he'd look great in the suit and I'd get a bit of Smallville love on the big screen, but the guy can't really act.. I don't think Warners dropped the ball, they'll make their money back and then some (if Narnia can make a squillion dollars worldwide then a Superman movie will shit that in.. especially in the DVD arena).. but it would have been interesting to see what the reaction would have been to JJ's Superman movie (sans Ratner or McG).. I mean you could use the Williams score (which still seems to be the best thing I've heard about this movie to date), but get someone with some talent with directing action to direct it, like Michael Bay, or Tony Scott or something, someone who can hammer home the action, the boldness, the grandure that a character like Superman deserves... wouldn't that be a fitting 'homage' Bryan?
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was the LOGANS RUN remake and he add nothing more to add to it
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Nice ignoring of my statements proving how obvious it is that you're just a troll. Time to change the shtick, chief. Nobody's buying it anymore.
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-ing Supes. That much IS true. Too bad he'd already done so much work on Logans.
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He could still make it a GOOD film, unlike Bay's version.
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That's just as believable as the other numbers that you retards think are true. Don't believe everything you read, retards.
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a shuttle and a plane>?
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I think if this movie does not do very well, they will try to stick Singer solely with the blame. At least $50 million of the cost of this flick was in wasted pre-production before Singer even came on board. I think the least we can expect is that Singer made an OK version that is faithful to the Superman mythos. To me, this is better than some of the bastardized ideas they had been kicking around for years. On the other hand, I do not think we are going to get much in the way of fresh and new. Singer's claim of "homage" means just that: faithful to the character, nothing to really rock the boat. In any case, I would prefer that to the script where Krytpon never exploded, Lex Luthor is a CIA agent, etc, etc.***** On another note, in the most recent trailer I saw, Spacey has a line of dialogue as Luthor. Was it me, or did he sort of sound like Michael Rosenbaum a bit? We all know from Spacey's hosting gigs on SNL that he is quite a good mimic. Wouldn't it be interesting if he based some of his performance of Lex Luthor on a sort of older Rosenbaum rather than doing a replay of Gene Hackman? Just a thought.**** Finally, I do think that the movie will do well enough worldwide to at least break even. Superman is a globally known iconic character. The high cost of this film is in part the $50 million upfront costs of years of wasted pre-production. This is part of why Warners must want a sequel already: it is a way of amortizing those old pre-production costs over two movies instead of just one. Another problem is the rising cost of FX. Anyway, I think the Superman character is well-known enough to draw big enough mainstream audiences along with the fanboys (present company included) to be at least a reasonable blockbuster worldwide. Add DVD sales, and the flick should do alright. A second picture probably makes sense, in that the studio will not waste any time or money going down the wrong street in development, but instead just use the same formula used to make this flick.
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Wow, thanks for contributing to the thread. Very insightful and high-brow. What's that? Oh yes, right, go fuck myself. Anything new? Come on, I know you've got some great pearls of wisdom to post.
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So far I'm impressed by what I've seen, it looks like Singer's done a non-campy, much more serious take on the material, and the trailer, while not blood-rushing as it really should be, does raise a few hairs on the back of the neck seeing big blue in action again. As long as the movie doesn't disappoint, then Singer deserves a shot at the sequel, and I'd rather him skip Logan's Run, concentrate on some of his other project or take a break, then jump right back in for Superman Leaves Again (or whatever). If it's disappointing (which will be hard for me to come to, as a lifelong Supes fan), get someone else. It'd be interesting to see what Raimi or Jackson could do with it, though I doubt either would want it.
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