He was only under contract for a sequel though, right? I mean, if they reboot, or whatever one wants to call something that's not a sequel...then it's a completely new set of contracts et al, no?
It probably wouldn't have been a guaranteed deal, anyway. Seeing as he was coming in as a nobody he probably had zero leverage in the agreement and they had all the power, anyway.
Well, it also didn't help that Singer went and pulled a crafty move like completing a $10 million Return to Krypton sequence that ended up on the cutting room floor. Singer would probably still have the director's spot if he would have been fiscally responsible like he was on the X-men films instead of them giving him the keys to the family sedan with no curfew, so to speak.Seriously? It would be one thing if the movie destroyed the box office, ala Inception, but it didn't even double it's own production cost! The WB and Snyder, as much as you want to deny it, are doing the right thing by trying to distance itself from any previous take. Why in the world would they make another sequel to the Donnerverse when it failed the first time??
No logical person would drop that kind of money on such a risk...
Don't make too much of the alleged $10M cost of the cut scene. Scenes get cut all the time in movies, even big ones, and because of creative reasons, not price tag. The rest of the stuff that didn't make the final film, combined, could easily reach that amount...and in terms of percentage of overall budget, other movies can have have cut material which exceeds it. The cur RTK stuff only really matters to core fans who knew about it and wanted to see it.
If I were a businessman, I'd make plenty of it. Not just the cost, but the time and manpower that had to be mobilized, only for it to end up being completely for naught in the end. I've not a single doubt that the other stuff nixed from the final cut cost them time and money as well. Unnecessary dialogue sequences and stuff like that being trimmed are commonplace in any movie. Not saying that the RTK sequence was this all-important thing, but how many employers do you know of that would be thrilled to know you pissed ten million down the commode because you didn't have the foresight during the scripting phase to realize a scene of that magnitude was just plain unnecessary? That's all I'm saying, I guess.
If it was Kingdom Come, I could see Hamm in the role in a heartbeat. Gordon-Levitt doesn't have the presence to fill the shoes and for as pretty as Bomer is, he's just shy of Ewok height. Welling won't touch the role with a two-meter cattle prod for some reason and as much as it irks me, I think the ship has sailed where Routh is concerned. I'm hoping for another unknown, because the last time the WB cycled through name actors the results were gag-worthy, at best (I'm looking at you Mr. Walker).
That's why my vote for Mxy would be Dustin Hoffman.
Whats that movie then, i dont think ive seen that one??
