Christopher Nolan and David Goyer pen the script. Zack Snyder directs.
Henry Cavill as Clark Kent.
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Posted 30 January 2011 - 06:56 PM
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Posted 31 January 2011 - 10:15 AM
That Nolan is attached to this is good news. Other than that, I am neither overjoyed nor disheartened with Snyder's involvement.
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The one about the fucking hairdresser, the space hairdresser and the cowboy. The guy, he's got a tin foil pal and a pedal bin. His father's a robot and he's fucking fucked his sister. Lego! They're all made of fucking lego.
What film?
The one about the fucking hairdresser, the space hairdresser and the cowboy. The guy, he's got a tin foil pal and a pedal bin. His father's a robot and he's fucking fucked his sister. Lego! They're all made of fucking lego.
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Posted 31 January 2011 - 12:13 PM
Let's just hope Snyder's love of AWESOME VIOLENCE doesn't result in some macho bullshit like Superman burning off a guy's head or something.
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Posted 31 January 2011 - 12:54 PM
James, on 31 January 2011 - 12:13 PM, said:
Let's just hope Snyder's love of AWESOME VIOLENCE doesn't result in some macho bullshit like Superman burning off a guy's head or something.
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Posted 31 January 2011 - 01:10 PM
Husamuddin A, on 30 January 2011 - 06:56 PM, said:
Christopher Nolan and David Goyer pen the script.
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Henry Cavill as Clark Kent.
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Zack Snyder directs.
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"The Doctor remembers every Doctor Who story ever told. Every episode, Target book, comic strip and every game of companions and TARDISes that you played as a kid. The universe he lives in has no record of it, because paradoxes and divergent dimensions and the Time War have reset things... but the Doctor remembers and sometimes when he is sad it's because you've stopped being 8 years old and he can't run around the school playground with you anymore."
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Posted 01 February 2011 - 12:35 PM
What Mark said. Except the Cavill part since I have no clue who he is and cannot, therefore, be enthused (or discouraged) by his involvement.
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Posted 01 February 2011 - 12:42 PM
He's been very good in the handful of things I've seen him in, and he looks spot-on - physically a good match for the role, but without the sort of ersatz-Christopher-Reeve vibe which put me off Brandon Routh. Its easy to see why they thought of him - he's recognizably Superman-esque, but not in a way which directly echoes any of the previous screen versions, which gives me some confidence that they'll be looking to do their own thing with the character.
Or, you know, it would do if Zack Snyder had ever given any sign that "his own thing" would match up in any way to the sort of thing I'd want to see in a Superman movie. I'll be delighted if I'm proved wrong, though - after all, it's early days yet.
Or, you know, it would do if Zack Snyder had ever given any sign that "his own thing" would match up in any way to the sort of thing I'd want to see in a Superman movie. I'll be delighted if I'm proved wrong, though - after all, it's early days yet.
"As we journey through life, discarding baggage along the way, we should keep an iron grip, to the very end, on the capacity for silliness. It preserves the soul from dessication."
- Humphrey Lyttleton, 1921-2008
"The Doctor remembers every Doctor Who story ever told. Every episode, Target book, comic strip and every game of companions and TARDISes that you played as a kid. The universe he lives in has no record of it, because paradoxes and divergent dimensions and the Time War have reset things... but the Doctor remembers and sometimes when he is sad it's because you've stopped being 8 years old and he can't run around the school playground with you anymore."
- some wise soul on the internet somewhere, 2009
- Humphrey Lyttleton, 1921-2008
"The Doctor remembers every Doctor Who story ever told. Every episode, Target book, comic strip and every game of companions and TARDISes that you played as a kid. The universe he lives in has no record of it, because paradoxes and divergent dimensions and the Time War have reset things... but the Doctor remembers and sometimes when he is sad it's because you've stopped being 8 years old and he can't run around the school playground with you anymore."
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Posted 01 February 2011 - 10:55 PM
I fear you're right. You can't see Snyder having Cavill slap bad guys with an open palm because he'd take their head off if he hit them with a closed fist, can you?
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Posted 02 February 2011 - 04:05 AM
I still think they should have used Tom Welling. Smallville is nearly done and it would make a great way to transition. He has the ability and I think he knows the character a bit
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Posted 02 February 2011 - 09:10 AM
Husamuddin A, on 30 January 2011 - 06:56 PM, said:
Henry Cavill as Clark Kent.
Really easy to see why they cast him as Superman, though.
I didn't think Brandon Routh did a bad job. Was there really that much dissatisfaction with him?
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Posted 02 February 2011 - 09:24 AM
I don't think he was "bad", just very bland.
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Posted 02 February 2011 - 09:48 AM
I thought Routh did a perfectly decent job in a thankless role - he was massively hamstrung by having to live up to Singer's "if I close my eyes and pretend really hard then it'll be just like the '70s" approach to the character. He wasn't really being asked to play Superman, he was playing Christopher-Reeve-as-Superman, which would have been impossible to live up to even if the film around him had been less ill-conceived.
Under ideal circumstances I wouldn't have had a huge problem with Routh getting another shot at the part, but if the whole point of this new film is a clean break from the franchise's past, carrying over the actor from a previous, failed revival would probably be a mistake - for good or ill, he'd come with too much baggage attached.
Under ideal circumstances I wouldn't have had a huge problem with Routh getting another shot at the part, but if the whole point of this new film is a clean break from the franchise's past, carrying over the actor from a previous, failed revival would probably be a mistake - for good or ill, he'd come with too much baggage attached.
"As we journey through life, discarding baggage along the way, we should keep an iron grip, to the very end, on the capacity for silliness. It preserves the soul from dessication."
- Humphrey Lyttleton, 1921-2008
"The Doctor remembers every Doctor Who story ever told. Every episode, Target book, comic strip and every game of companions and TARDISes that you played as a kid. The universe he lives in has no record of it, because paradoxes and divergent dimensions and the Time War have reset things... but the Doctor remembers and sometimes when he is sad it's because you've stopped being 8 years old and he can't run around the school playground with you anymore."
- some wise soul on the internet somewhere, 2009
- Humphrey Lyttleton, 1921-2008
"The Doctor remembers every Doctor Who story ever told. Every episode, Target book, comic strip and every game of companions and TARDISes that you played as a kid. The universe he lives in has no record of it, because paradoxes and divergent dimensions and the Time War have reset things... but the Doctor remembers and sometimes when he is sad it's because you've stopped being 8 years old and he can't run around the school playground with you anymore."
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Posted 02 February 2011 - 05:25 PM
I still don't know why everyone hated Superman Returns, honestly. It's far from perfect but not the disaster that so many people seem to think it was.
I'm glad they poached Cavill away from the Bond franchise! Daniel Craig's my favourite incarnation of Bond and I hope they keep him around for a long time.
I'm glad they poached Cavill away from the Bond franchise! Daniel Craig's my favourite incarnation of Bond and I hope they keep him around for a long time.
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Posted 02 February 2011 - 05:34 PM
Abhimanyu, on 02 February 2011 - 05:25 PM, said:
I still don't know why everyone hated Superman Returns, honestly.
Three words: Dark. Brooding. Superman.
It was competently made (if far, far too long), but for me, at least, everything about the tone completely missed the point of the character - if there's any character who really shouldn't be portrayed through a muted colour palette and lots and lots of moody night sequences, it's Superman. Also, the deadbeat dad/stalker angle just felt wrong on such a fundamental level that the film was never going to recover from it. Add to that the way it tried to serve both as a sort-of sequel to/remake of a thirty-year-old movie (the plot follows Superman: The Movie virtually beat-for-beat, complete with completely unnecessary Smallville sequences at the start which delays the start of the story by about half an hour because, hey, we can't have a Superman film without a scene of young Clark running through a cornfield), and it just felt...unnecessary. Whatever else Snyder's film is going to be, I hope that it'll at least make a reasonable attempt to stand on its own merits, while Singer's reverence for the original film simply got in the way.
The shuttle/plane rescue was terrific, though, even if it did ultimately amount to nothing more than a visually-more-impressive version of the helicopter sequence from the original film.
"As we journey through life, discarding baggage along the way, we should keep an iron grip, to the very end, on the capacity for silliness. It preserves the soul from dessication."
- Humphrey Lyttleton, 1921-2008
"The Doctor remembers every Doctor Who story ever told. Every episode, Target book, comic strip and every game of companions and TARDISes that you played as a kid. The universe he lives in has no record of it, because paradoxes and divergent dimensions and the Time War have reset things... but the Doctor remembers and sometimes when he is sad it's because you've stopped being 8 years old and he can't run around the school playground with you anymore."
- some wise soul on the internet somewhere, 2009
- Humphrey Lyttleton, 1921-2008
"The Doctor remembers every Doctor Who story ever told. Every episode, Target book, comic strip and every game of companions and TARDISes that you played as a kid. The universe he lives in has no record of it, because paradoxes and divergent dimensions and the Time War have reset things... but the Doctor remembers and sometimes when he is sad it's because you've stopped being 8 years old and he can't run around the school playground with you anymore."
- some wise soul on the internet somewhere, 2009
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Posted 02 February 2011 - 10:53 PM
Abhimanyu, on 02 February 2011 - 05:25 PM, said:
I still don't know why everyone hated Superman Returns, honestly. It's far from perfect but not the disaster that so many people seem to think it was.
Abhimanyu, on 02 February 2011 - 05:25 PM, said:
I'm glad they poached Cavill away from the Bond franchise! Daniel Craig's my favourite incarnation of Bond and I hope they keep him around for a long time.
Henry Cavill was tipped to take over from Daniel Craig when Cavill was old enough to play Bond, not immediately.
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JasonT, on 02 February 2011 - 10:53 PM, said:
Well, it'll be a long time before they make the next Bond movie. ...
www.deadline.com/2011/01/javier-bardem-offered-big-bond-role...
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In stumbles a Kevin of the Costner variety to the role of not-Superman Sr. Coupled with Diane Lane is not-Superman Sr's wife and Superman's mom, Martha. What? While I love Diane Lane with a healthy enough lust for a woman of her advanced years, she's no Martha Kent. Maybe Lara, but Martha? Someone's been huffing at the paint, I think.
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Confirmed: Kevin Costner to Play Jonathan Kent in Zack Snyder’s SUPERMAN Reboot
by Adam Chitwood Posted:March 17th, 2011
A couple weeks ago, it was reported that Kevin Costner was being considered for a key role in Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot. Well now Warner Bros. has confirmed that the actor has closed a deal to play Jonathan Kent, Clark Kent’s adopted father. Henry Cavill is poised to play the Man of Steel, and Diane Lane recently joined the cast as Kent’s adopted mother, Martha.
by Adam Chitwood Posted:March 17th, 2011
A couple weeks ago, it was reported that Kevin Costner was being considered for a key role in Zack Snyder’s Superman reboot. Well now Warner Bros. has confirmed that the actor has closed a deal to play Jonathan Kent, Clark Kent’s adopted father. Henry Cavill is poised to play the Man of Steel, and Diane Lane recently joined the cast as Kent’s adopted mother, Martha.
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Zack Snyder:
Also, Tim Burton once was tapped to direct a film called "SUPERMAN LIVES" which was canceled. Check out some of these pre-production photos and breathe a heavy sigh of relief:
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“SUPERMAN IS A 'BROKEN CONCEPT' AND 'NEEDS TO BE FIXED.' He is the freaking […] biggest superhero on the planet. He’s the father of every superhero. [Deborah and I] were just talking about this – I’m like, really? Thor? Thor has a movie? [Laughter.] Really? I mean, come on. And there’s no Superman movie? This is, like, the world’s out of balance. It’s like, we’ve lost our minds here, people, come on.”
“When [Christopher and Emma] asked Deborah and I out to lunch [to tell us] what they wanted to do with [Man of Steel] – I’ve got to say, [beforehand] I was like, ‘I don’t know if I can [do Superman]. [Afterward], I was like, ‘This is right.’ […] I didn’t need to hear that much before I went, ‘Okay, that’s right, that’s the right way to do it.’ […] I’m a fan of the character. I want him to be awesome.”
“When [Christopher and Emma] asked Deborah and I out to lunch [to tell us] what they wanted to do with [Man of Steel] – I’ve got to say, [beforehand] I was like, ‘I don’t know if I can [do Superman]. [Afterward], I was like, ‘This is right.’ […] I didn’t need to hear that much before I went, ‘Okay, that’s right, that’s the right way to do it.’ […] I’m a fan of the character. I want him to be awesome.”
Also, Tim Burton once was tapped to direct a film called "SUPERMAN LIVES" which was canceled. Check out some of these pre-production photos and breathe a heavy sigh of relief:
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Classuic Superman would get his arse kicked in by Thors Hammer, because it is magic.
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Does Norse Mythology equal "Magic" or "Religion"?
Not that it matters, really, in my book; religion is just magic dressed up in a fancy frock, IMO.
Not that it matters, really, in my book; religion is just magic dressed up in a fancy frock, IMO.
What's that film that you love?
What film?
The one about the fucking hairdresser, the space hairdresser and the cowboy. The guy, he's got a tin foil pal and a pedal bin. His father's a robot and he's fucking fucked his sister. Lego! They're all made of fucking lego.
What film?
The one about the fucking hairdresser, the space hairdresser and the cowboy. The guy, he's got a tin foil pal and a pedal bin. His father's a robot and he's fucking fucked his sister. Lego! They're all made of fucking lego.
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