Ok folks... This sounds like the biggest load of malarky I've seen in a long long time, but... And I'm going to say this once... The only backing I can give this is that it did appear in the Melbourne Sunday Herald Sun. Did they do their research? I don't know. This just sounds unlikely as hell, but I've had a good 40 folks from Melbourne send this one in to me, and I am familiar with some of them as supplying truthful reports. SO yes, I believe this was in the Sunday Herald Sun... But do I believe the story? Well, this is a case where... Wait and see what appears in the trades. Till then... hope that well... Given we really don't have enough information to form an opinion on whether or not we want this to be true or not... Just assume it's BS till proven fact.

G'day Harry!

Do you know this already?

Today's (June 6th) Sunday Herald Sun newspaper in Melbourne contains a report suggesting that a new Superman storyline is being considered by Warner.

Twenty-year-old Luke Leeson from Oxenford, south of Brisbane, was flown to LA after negotiations which resulted in "an offer rumoured to be more than $500,000." That's Aussie dollars, presumably.

More from the article:

"He had no previous experience in the movie industry, let alone written a big-budget movie storyline. A long-time comic book reader and Superman fan, he produced 42 hand-written scenes on about 20 pages and gave tham to a friend's cousin who had contacts in Hollywood."

"Mr Leeson, who was consulting entertainment lawyers, could not speak about the plot because of a confidentiality agreement. But he did reveal his story took Superman 'back to his roots'."

The article says Leeson wrote the storyline during a "two-week break."

That's all I got for ya. No Bothans died for this, 'cause I just pilfered it from the paper.

Oh, and if I hafta have one of those nicknames, call me ... Todd Anderson! (Which doesn't sound like a nickname at all, really!)