Movie News (9/3/2008): Although I am a day late on this one, I wanted to make sure my ToC readers got in on the juicy Superman rumors that are going around. According to Slashfilm, Mark Millar, the writer of the Wanted comic book, says, in an interview with G4TV, that his idea for a new Superman would be a “Lord of the Rings” type epic trilogy that would totally start from scratch…and he wants to start shooting next summer.
He said, “I’ve had this plan for like 10 years for a big three-picture Superman thing, like a big Lord of the Rings epic, starting over from scratch again with a seven-hour Superman story. And hopefully release them one year after another,” continued Millar.
“A director approached me about three months ago,” Millar said. “and he said ‘look, [Bryan Singer's] The Man Of Steel might not be happening. If that doesn’t happen, it has been spoken about the possibility of me coming in, would you like to write it?’ And I was like Yeah.”
Does that excite you? I am TOTALLY geeking out over this possibility.
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I am going to stop my excitement at more of a curiosity level right now. I feel that it’s a huge undertaking to make that type of movie series. Question is…will enough time have passed from the last Superman movie for people to feel that is series could be better?
I think so, and I also think because of the overall feeling that “Superman Returns” was a box office “bomb” (”bomb” meaning that it didn’t make more money than it took to make the movie) people will be looking for something new and exciting to sweep them off their feet.