Sequels Er......what sequels?

[OzzMosiz]

wats up everybody, I was watching the news yesterday and they said that the studio has confirmed that there probably wont be a sequel due to failed expectations in the gross.

Fox news by any chance? I won't believe it until its picked up on the net by a trustworthy site.

 

[Jochimus]

SR will make its money back, if not domestically then from the worldwide take. However, I see it limping to the $200 million mark.

When Little Man and Dupree take out the Man of Steel, this is a sure sign that SR doesn't have a lot of staying power.

I liken the movie to The Phantom Menace. I sort of had the same dazed, unsatisfying feeling coming out of TPM too.

I think that's a very apt description.

When Christopher Reeve declared "I don't lie," or told Lois about the safety of flying, I believed him. Routh was just delivering lines.

I agree with that, also. And the only time I felt that that schtick REALLY worked was at the end, and even then it was thirty-year-old dialogue. I think Routh was just stuck between a rock and a hard place by Singer.

All that being said, there will be a sequel. I don't mind Singer as a director again, but I really like the idea of Paul Dini as screenwriter. He gets Superman, Singer doesn't.

 

[Lucidious]

I just read this:
http://www.moviehole.net/gossipmonkey/20060715_gossip_monkey_15706.html

So, “Superman Returns” was cool. (No gigantic mechanical spider in there though Jon? And Supes kept his suit too. You losing some power or you just accepted you were a little nuts at the time?) Ahem… but this **** about Warner holding out until it makes $200 million before greenlighting a sequel is just that - ****. pure bull****. They've already decided they're doing a sequel. I can assure you of that. "Superman Continues" or "Superman Strikes Back" - or whatever they end up calling it - will definitely be at cinemas within the next couple of years. (Brandon Routh's chasing a role in the "World of Warcraft" movie - -wonder if he'll do that first?)

 

[Jochimus]

(Brandon Routh's chasing a role in the "World of Warcraft" movie - -wonder if he'll do that first?)

Might be a wise decision on his part if he wants to keep working beyond Superman.

 

[griffolyon12]

Is SR making enough money? The question is, where does Superman go from here? Do you want Singer back for second run, or is it time for a complete restart? Warner Bros & oh no Jon Peters have some big decisions ahead. Peters may return to his old self & go the Black Costume Superman Lives/Reborn route. I'm really worried about who or what the Studio is going to blame for this lower than expected Box office. I sure hope its the Donner continuation factor that gets blaimed.

I loved SR,but I think any sequel would destroy how good this film is.I mean there aren't many routes you can take with the whole Superman's son thing.I like the kid and SR is tied with BB in my opinion,but a sequel would more than likely be a trainwreck.I think they should just leave Superman for now and return in about ten years(just like Batman did)with a complete restart of the franchise starting from scratch,and I mean retelling the origin and everything.Because I think that might be one of the major problems with this film's main audience teenagers,most teens haven't seen any of the Chris Reeves movies and don't know Superman's origins and their only source of his origin is Smallville and Smallville is different than the origin that SR was based off of.I loved SR and don't want to see it ruined by a bad sequel.But if they leave Superman alone for about a decade they can start over with a clean slate just like BB was able to do,and we all know how well that worked for Batman.

 

[Jochimus]

I loved SR,but I think any sequel would destroy how good this film is.I mean there aren't many routes you can take with the whole Superman's son thing.I like the kid and SR is tied with BB in my opinion,but a sequel would more than likely be a trainwreck.I think they should just leave Superman for now and return in about ten years(just like Batman did)with a complete restart of the franchise starting from scratch,and I mean retelling the origin and everything.Because I think that might be one of the major problems with this film's main audience teenagers,most teens haven't seen any of the Chris Reeves movies and don't know Superman's origins and their only source of his origin is Smallville and Smallville is different than the origin that SR was based off of.I loved SR and don't want to see it ruined by a bad sequel.But if they leave Superman alone for about a decade they can start over with a clean slate just like BB was able to do,and we all know how well that worked for Batman.

Um, O.K. Evidently you never heard of a little show called "Superman: The Animated Series".

We don't need Superman's origin told for the umpteenth time. It's been done already, over and over and over in every medium in which Superman stories have been told. They did it in the '50s show, they did it in the movie, they did it in the animated series, they're doing it right now on "Smallville"; they just don't have the suit. And it's the same basic setup every time, it just LOOKS different.

Batman's origin has NOT been addressed every time they've done a movie or TV show. Every movie serial or TV show or movie they did for the longest time just barely mentioned it, and really the only show up until "Batman Begins" that did that story any justice was B:TAS, and even then as references and memories of his father and never a direct re-telling.

I want to see a NEW STORY, more than anything else. I like the John Williams theme music and the flying opening credits and John Barry's Fortress of Solitude design, but I want to see a Superman movie that has a classic Superman villain that hasn't yet gotten their long-overdue screen time, a story that gets things rolling into new territory, and character development beyond simply forcing poor Brandon Routh to impersonate Christopher Reeve and sticking Lois Lane with a kid who in the hands of today's writers will probably amount to little more than a one-note plot device. I'm glad I didn't have insanely high expectations for "Superman Returns", otherwise I probably wouldn't have liked the movie as much as I do.

Come to think of it, if anyone wants to send a sign to Singer that he needs to get down off the Donner horse already, just send him one of those Christopher Reeve Foundation dog tags. The line on the tag says it all: GO FORWARD. That'll do it.