The Long Sordid Tale of the Superman Movie

[venk]

If you;re like me, you've been hearing rumors ona nd off for ten years about a new supoerman movie, Nick Cage as superman, Tim Burton directing, Jimmy Olson is gay, etc.

Well, here is the whole dang story that spans about 10 years of.....whatever you want to call it,

Note: This is LONG and i am too lazy to make cliffs (hell, the cliffs would be much longer than your typical atot yagt)

 

[Heisenberg]

I'm so not enough of a comic book movie geek to read that. Nice of you to post it though.

 

[InlineFive]

Cliffs:
1. Tim Burton "reimagines" Superman into Alien/Matrix/Shaolin movie.
2. WB descends into civilwar.
3. Casting and directors change several times. Nicholas Cage (originally supposed to be Superman) says the "reimaging" isn't true to the comic book and turns the role down.
4. A new director is found who decides to change the whole outline again.
5. Repeat 1-4 five times.
6. Done!

 

[ktehmok]

Why bother? The whole genre of comic book "Superheroes" has been played out for the past 15+ years. It died w/ the original Batman.

They'll dig up anything that has been drawn in a comic to make a movie now, and they all suck. Now they're reverting to video games & lame TV animation for movie fodder.

But since the movie industry has been on a rehash campaign for the last decade, I don' t forsee anything interesting coming soon.

On a side note, I received a gift card for AMC theaters for x-mas, I laughed & tossed it aside. My sister works for Harkins & I can see a free movie anytime I want...I haven't been to a theater in over a year.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: InlineFive
Cliffs:
1. Tim Burton "reimagines" Superman into Alien/Matrix/Shaolin movie.
2. WB descends into civilwar.
3. Casting and directors change several times. Nicholas Cage (originally supposed to be Superman) says the "reimaging" isn't true to the comic book and turns the role down.
4. A new director is found who decides to change the whole outline again.
5. Repeat 1-4 five times.
6. Done!

yeah it should be intersting to see how the movie actually turns out. considering they wanted to destroy superman.

 

[BRObedoza]

an episode of smallville will probably be better than the superman movie

 

[uhohs]

i just read all of that. lol. never been a big fan of superman. but if that story is accurate, hollywood is a giant piece of turd that needs to be stomped on.

 

[OdiN]

Cage is going to be Lex Luthor no?

 

[maddogchen]

I thought the movie was going to come out this year? I remember seeing a poster in a movie theatre last month.

 

[imported_Shivetya]

what it comes down to is that hollywood is more about driving their agenda than telling stories as they are. If you think this superman is bad you should have seen what was happening with Lost in Space. Some of the earlier drafts had penny as a lesbian and the whole family dysfunctional. There was even a Brady Bunch remake with characters that were gay, had drinking or drug problems.

They stopped telling stories and instead preach to us.


and they wonder why some movies fail miserably...

hell look at Brokeback mountain. The amount of advertising almost exceeds the cost to make the film with quotes of "smash hit" and such. Smash hits have more than $33m in sales. Its all about agenda now.

 

[CKDragon]

Originally posted by: ktehmok
Why bother? The whole genre of comic book "Superheroes" has been played out for the past 15+ years. It died w/ the original Batman.

They'll dig up anything that has been drawn in a comic to make a movie now, and they all suck. Now they're reverting to video games & lame TV animation for movie fodder.

But since the movie industry has been on a rehash campaign for the last decade, I don' t forsee anything interesting coming soon.

On a side note, I received a gift card for AMC theaters for x-mas, I laughed & tossed it aside. My sister works for Harkins & I can see a free movie anytime I want...I haven't been to a theater in over a year.

Stay Classy, Phoenix!

 

[Gravity]

Originally posted by: InlineFive
Cliffs:
1. Tim Burton "reimagines" Superman into Alien/Matrix/Shaolin movie.
2. WB descends into civilwar.
3. Casting and directors change several times. Nicholas Cage (originally supposed to be Superman) says the "reimaging" isn't true to the comic book and turns the role down.
4. A new director is found who decides to change the whole outline again.
5. Repeat 1-4 five times.
6. Done!

Them's good cliffs!!

 

[TheAdvocate]

Originally posted by: OdiN
Cage is going to be Lex Luthor no?

Think it's gonna be Kevin Spacey.

 

[rstrohkirch]

IIRC the new Superman topped over $320m to make, putting it in the #1 slot.
However, I'm too lazy to look it up.

 

[shortylickens]

I know that Hollywood cant possibly ever make enough money, but Superman was already done in one series of movies and done very well.

Cant we just stop the insanity and enjoy the legacy while its still pleasant?

 

[Malignantx]

ok that long post was back in october 5th, 2005.. it seems things have changed considerably.. anyone know what happened between oct and the superman returns movie.

 

[RossMAN]

Holy shiznit that's one long ass post.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: rstrohkirch
IIRC the new Superman topped over $320m to make, putting it in the #1 slot.
However, I'm too lazy to look it up.

yeap if you add up all the attempts to make it. hope it does well at the theatre.

I'm want to see it. but will wait until its been out so i can find out if they screwed it up.

 

[skace]

Originally posted by: ktehmok
Why bother? The whole genre of comic book "Superheroes" has been played out for the past 15+ years. It died w/ the original Batman.

I disagree. The movies may not be good but they will continue to come out and eventually they will become better at it. I would hope, at least, at some point they would become better at it. Batman Begins was an amazing movie though so apparently it's not dead yet.

Besides, if I was going to write down amazing comic book heroes, I wouldn't even include superman or batman. But that's a whole different discussion, there are so many comic books that havn't even been touched.

 

[DougK62]

Originally posted by: shortylickens
I know that Hollywood cant possibly ever make enough money, but Superman was already done in one series of movies and done very well.

Cant we just stop the insanity and enjoy the legacy while its still pleasant?

The Reeves Superman's were done "very well"? That gets a big LOL

 

[CKDragon]

Originally posted by: skace

Originally posted by: ktehmok
Why bother? The whole genre of comic book "Superheroes" has been played out for the past 15+ years. It died w/ the original Batman.

I disagree. The movies may not be good but they will continue to come out and eventually they will become better at it. I would hope, at least, at some point they would become better at it. Batman Begins was an amazing movie though so apparently it's not dead yet.

Besides, if I was going to write down amazing comic book heroes, I wouldn't even include superman or batman. But that's a whole different discussion, there are so many comic books that havn't even been touched.

Not only Batman Begins, but Spider-Man 1 & 2 along with X-Men 2 were very well reviewed in the last few years. I'm not a whore to critic's opinions, but I thoroughly enjoyed them as did most of the people I know who saw them, fans and non-fans of the comics included.

No genre is ever without it's stinkers, so of course we get Catwoman and Elektra.

The whole "Superheroes have been played out for 15 years" doesn't jive with my memory. Before the first X-Men was a hit in August of 2000, what other superhero movies were there in the 90's besides the abysmal first run of Batman movies? Most comic book fans, myself included, were clamoring for more of them for an entire decade but no one would touch the licenses after the last 3 Batmans (Returns/Forever/& Robin) turned the franchise and genre to unmarketable crap.

CK

 

[Don Vito Corleone]

Sweet merciful crap! It sounds like WB is run just slightly better than General Motors.

 

[J Heartless Slick]

"And this is where things got REALLY ugly. First off, Smith was taken aback when Peters asked him, in all sincerity, "?Kal-El?? Who?s this ?Kal-El? guy you keep mentioning in the script?"

LOL!

If they "reinvent" Superman in the next movie... well I guess I will have to miss that movie too.

 

[Encryptic]

Originally posted by: TheAdvocate

Originally posted by: OdiN
Cage is going to be Lex Luthor no?

Think it's gonna be Kevin Spacey.

It's definitely Kevin Spacey. I've seen quite a few on-set photos with him as Lex Luthor (bald head and all).

 

[jjones]

I grew up reading Superman comics, watching the old B/W Superman series on TV, and I love comic book based movies; but unless this movie gets rave reviews (seems unlikely), I won't be seeing it.