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Superman Set To Fly
arock99 writes "After many years of battling various script rewrites, Superman is set to soar again.
Various sources (superman-v.com,
darkhorizons.com,
aintitcool.com)
report that Brandon Routh (of Gilmore Girls)
has been cast as Superman.
With production only a month away, Brian Singer is set to tackle yet another super-hero film after
previously having directed both X-Men and X2.
Had it not been for his recent passing, Christopher Reeve
would surely have been part of the production team in some capacity.
Superman should hit theaters around summer 2006."
Heres a picture of Brandon and a write up of him at Latino Review: http://www.latinoreview.com/scoops/brandon-superma n.html
Rubbish. The Superman project has been in development hell for something like 5 or 6 years now: it has gone through several incarnations and several directors. Nicholas Cage was rumoured to be in line to play the Big Blue Boy Scout, Wolfgang Petersen was going to direct Batman v Superman but dropped out to helm Troy instead, Brett Ratner was then attached to Superman for a long while (the Batman element was dropped when Chris "Memento" Nolan signed up to helm Batman Begins), Kevin "Clerks" Smith wrote a script which got ditched, then McG was mooted to take over after Ratner got dropped, before Singer signed up a couple of months ago. Not necessarily in this order. All this happened *before* Christopher Reeve's death.
Of course, it was just a publicity stunt; the guy died in the comic allright, complete with special editions and stuff, but killing Superman would be just like killing Daffy Duck. You can't make a comicbook character die and dissapear, even less one like Superman.
:)
IIRC, the Superman comics actually continued, but with a different storyline; something like "Son of Superman". Check this link:
"Naturally, this would not be the end of the Man of Steel; after a number of stories in which Superman's friends and family deal with their feelings, it's discovered that his body is missing from his mausoleum, driving speculation that he might still be alive. Adding to the mystery are four new characters who each claim to be a new incarnation of Superman: a young, cocky kid with Superman's powers; a steel-suited African-American construction worker; a cold and vengeful hero who had taken over Superman's Fortress of Solitude; and a cyborg who half-resembled Superman and half-resembled the robots from the Terminator movies. After months of stories in which all four new Supermen worked and fought with each other, the one true Superman returns to claim his rightful place in the DC pantheon."
Anyway, i bought the comic when it came out. It worked on me, the bastards