Superman Returns Questions you would ask Singer in an interview regarding anything SR or SR sequel

[buggs0268]

Stupid movie it may be , but that don't mean you need to twist the facts
Supes was wounded , but he did power up big time when he rose above the clouds and bathed into the sunlight. That's where his strength came to lift up the continent.

But he had a piece of Kryptonite in him. Even if it was small, Kryptonite has an instant effect of depowering him. So he would not have been able to do that.

 

[Alonsovich]

Stupid movie it may be , but that don't mean you need to twist the facts
Supes was wounded , but he did power up big time when he rose above the clouds and bathed into the sunlight. That's where his strength came to lift up the continent.

Considering how Kryptonite affected Supes up to that point and in the Donner continuity... there was no way in hell that he could've flown anywhere with Kryptonite near him... not to say inside him...

 

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ROFLMAO t:
Good one

Hey where did you get your racist sig from?

 

[C. Lee]

But he had a piece of Kryptonite in him. Even if it was small, Kryptonite has an instant effect of depowering him. So he would not have been able to do that.

I never thought of Kryptonite as "instant depowering"....but rather as "weakining" him and the amount and quickness of the weakening is subject to the size and closeness of the K.

 

[matrix_ghost]

I was also thinking the same thing.

The size and proximity of a kryptonite piece is what really affects his strength. I mean it's not like someone's a mile away , waving with kryptonite and supes instantly falls to the groud , powerless.
This is mebbe an overanalysation but :

Superman instantly down when he got stabbed with kryptonite. He still had the power to stand up and face Lex , after which he fell. Thatá a very very big piece of Kryptonite that was stuck into him as opposed what the doctors pulled out.

And you can also see that lifting NK wasn't what caused Superman soo much strenght. The fact that the Kryptonite came soo close as all the other rocks began to break away , is what began to weaken superman man.

 

[DogofKrypton]

First of all, Green Goblin couldn´t care less on what grounds he was establishing his partnership with Spidey. His basic proposal was "join me or I´ll kill you", so threatening the guy with his secret was far from below him.

It wasn´t the same method, since he was actually putting kryptonite INSIDE his body, making it much harder to remove and they were on a piece of land in the middle of nowhere and Superman, already horribly wounded, fell to the sea. At that point, from all he knew, Lois and Richard were dead. There was no one to rescue him. He had his vengeance by watching his henchmen beat the **** out of him and stabbing him with kryptonite.

Obviously you are wrong about GG's mind-state, as he DIDN'T unmask him. And I'll take your not referencing BB as conceding to my point.

And thank you also for validating my "Dr. Evil comparison". Why watch him die, when he can just "Assume it all went to plan"? "Hey Superman, you better watch your friggin' self!".

 

[Danger Mouse]

Okay, since we're no longer interested in discussing what to ask Singer in an interview, can someone please tell me how Superman knows how to spell 'Krypton' in Roman Alphabets?

"C-R-I.."
"It's actually K-R-Y-P-T-O-N."

 

[Showtime]

Okay, since we're no longer interested in discussing what to ask Singer in an interview, can someone please tell me how Superman knows how to spell 'Krypton' in Roman Alphabets?

"C-R-I.."
"It's actually K-R-Y-P-T-O-N."

That's an easy one, he was either taught while on his journey from a destroyed Krypton to Earth or on his 12 year sabitical to the FOS.

 

[Danger Mouse]

That's an easy one, he was either taught while on his journey from a destroyed Krypton to Earth or on his 12 year sabitical to the FOS.

And people on Krypton used the same set of alphabets we use?

 

[buggs0268]

And people on Krypton used the same set of alphabets we use?

I ahve no idea. I mean in Superman 2 one of the holograms recites the poem "trees" by Joyce Kilmer, but acoring to space travel and all, when Superman was shot off from Krypton, it was thopusands of years ago, according to the words of Jor El. So how was the hologram programed to know a poem that would not be written for thosands of years later?

And it is my understanding that even a small amount, especially in him. in the comics in the 90's Luthor had a kyptonite bullet made and hired a marksman to shoot Supes wiht a bullet the size of that shard and it instantly depowered and almost killed him.

 

[Retroman]

I'd like to ask, if he knows how many fans want to see the original extended cut of SR on dvd?

Was General Zod or Jude Law ever a topic of discussion in past 2 years?

Are their any particular characters from the Superman comics that he'd like to use in the SR sequel?

Some comic book writers and artists would have expressed an interest in working on a SR or SR 2.Would he be open to using their services?

I love the costume but would he and Louise Mingenbach consider a redesign of the Superman Returns costume?Not a major overhaul or anything but alterations here and there.

Which sets have been left intact for use on a possible sequel?

What are his and writers favorite villains from the superman comics?

Does he think an SR sequel will cost as much as SR?

 

[DogofKrypton]

And people on Krypton used the same set of alphabets we use?

Actually, this shouldn't be a conundrum. On his trip to Earth, you here Jor-El reference Einstein to baby Kal-El. In SII, one of the "Elders" recites a poem written on Earth. So they CLEARLY have knowledge of Earth, and Earth culture.

 

[Showtime]

Actually, this shouldn't be a conundrum. On his trip to Earth, you here Jor-El reference Einstein to baby Kal-El. In SII, one of the "Elders" recites a poem written on Earth. So they CLEARLY have knowledge of Earth, and Earth culture.

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[C. Lee]

Actually, this shouldn't be a conundrum. On his trip to Earth, you here Jor-El reference Einstein to baby Kal-El. In SII, one of the "Elders" recites a poem written on Earth. So they CLEARLY have knowledge of Earth, and Earth culture.

Which brings up another situation actually....

When Clark creates the FOS and first talks to Jor-El....Jor-El says "By now you have reached your 18th year....and I will have been dead for many thousands of your years.."

For Jor-El to have been dead for thousands of years...and yet have knowlege of Einstein and Kilmer.....the Kryptonians would have to have access to some sort of time machine.

 

[Showtime]

Which brings up another situation actually....

When Clark creates the FOS and first talks to Jor-El....Jor-El says "By now you have reached your 18th year....and I will have been dead for many thousands of your years.."

For Jor-El to have been dead for thousands of years...and yet have knowlege of Einstein and Kilmer.....the Kryptonians would have to have access to some sort of time machine.

They did, it was an 85 Delorean.

 

[nogster]

Which brings up another situation actually....

When Clark creates the FOS and first talks to Jor-El....Jor-El says "By now you have reached your 18th year....and I will have been dead for many thousands of your years.."

For Jor-El to have been dead for thousands of years...and yet have knowlege of Einstein and Kilmer.....the Kryptonians would have to have access to some sort of time machine.

yeah. i have never understood that quote.

 

[C. Lee]

yeah. i have never understood that quote.

I have said before.....I personally consider Reeve's first 2 Superman movies a couple of the best comic book movies made.....but I am able to acknowlege that they have many inconsistencies.

 

[KalMart]

yeah. i have never understood that quote.

Time dilation due to traveling near the speed of light. Kal-El's trip may have only took 2 to 3 years as experienced by Kal-El (traveling maybe 90% the speed of light), but to anyone on Krypton or Earth, thousands of years would have passed. That's the writers using Einsteinian physics as universal.

I had a fictional theory about Krypton's explosion actually being the star that guided the three kings in biblical myth...playing up the messianic angle of Superman even more.

 

[C. Lee]

Time dilation due to traveling near the speed of light. Kal-El's trip may have only took 2 to 3 years as experienced by Kal-El (traveling maybe 90% the speed of light), but to anyone on Krypton or Earth, thousands of years would have passed. That's the writers using Einsteinian physics as universal.

I understand the theory of time dilation...but that's not what's going on here.

(1) Krypton explodes, and Kal-El is sent towards Earth in a spaceship. It is around Earthdate of 2000 B.C. (4000 years ago)
(2) While traveling to Earth...Jor-El in his earliest training of Kal mentions the Earth scientist Einstein....from Kal"s amount of growth, we will specualte Earthtime at around 100 A.D. (1900 years ago)
(3) Einstein is born in Earthtime 1879
(4) Kal-El's ship arrives on Earth around Earthtime 1948 (going by the Christopher Reeve movie).

Thus...Jor-El talks about an Earth event almost 2000 years before it happens (but had to have known about it 4000 years prior to it happening so that it would be part of the lessen). Time dilation makes the 4000 year trip be approximately 2 1/2 years for Kal-El.....but Jor-El had to be able to actually see Earth events happen thousands of years in advance for them to be spoken of while Kal-El was enroute to Earth.

Oh...and the ship was travelling faster than the speed of light. Jor_El says on the trip that Kal will pass through 6 galaxies. The closest star to earth (not counting our sun) is Alpha Centuri...and it is about 2.5 light years away from us. The distant to just the edge of our own galaxy is millions of light years (or a lot more)...so to travel through the universe and traverse 6 galaxies before landing here on Earth...is a very long distance.

 

[KalMart]

I understand the theory of time dilation...but that's not what's going on here.

(1) Krypton explodes, and Kal-El is sent towards Earth in a spaceship. It is around Earthdate of 2000 B.C. (4000 years ago)
(2) While traveling to Earth...Jor-El in his earliest training of Kal mentions the Earth scientist Einstein....from Kal"s amount of growth, we will specualte Earthtime at around 100 A.D. (1900 years ago)
(3) Einstein is born in Earthtime 1879
(4) Kal-El's ship arrives on Earth around Earthtime 1948 (going by the Christopher Reeve movie).

Way too much thought into this.....

Thus...Jor-El talks about an Earth event almost 2000 years before it happens (but had to have known about it 4000 years prior to it happening so that it would be part of the lessen). Time dilation makes the 4000 year trip be approximately 2 1/2 years for Kal-El.....but Jor-El had to be able to actually see Earth events happen thousands of years in advance for them to be spoken of while Kal-El was enroute to Earth.

Oh...and the ship was travelling faster than the speed of light. Jor_El says on the trip that Kal will pass through 6 galaxies. The closest star to earth (not counting our sun) is Alpha Centuri...and it is about 2.5 light years away from us. The distant to just the edge of our own galaxy is millions of light years (or a lot more)...so to travel through the universe and traverse 6 galaxies before landing here on Earth...is a very long distance.

Wormhole, combined with the notion that most viewers would just accept the comic-book logic of Supes coming to Earth....which, as we all know, is the most powerful thing in the universe.

 

[C. Lee]

Way too much thought into this.....

I've had 28 years to think about it.t:

Wormhole, combined with the notion that most viewers would just accept the comic-book logic of Supes coming to Earth....which, as we all know, is the most powerful thing in the universe.

Oh, I admit there has to be some kind of sci-fi reasoning to it....Jor-El was a good scientist and father....to send his kid on a trip accross the universe to a planet in a distant galaxy....he would have to know that it would be there when he arrived...so, he had to have a way to observe it in his future. I was just saying that it is something that makes great speculation and theory discussions.

 

[KalMart]

I've had 28 years to think about it.t:

And now, you are revealed to the world!

Oh, I admit there has to be some kind of sci-fi reasoning to it....Jor-El was a good scientist and father....to send his kid on a trip accross the universe to a planet in a distant galaxy....he would have to know that it would be there when he arrived...so, he had to have a way to observe it in his future. I was just saying that it is something that makes great speculation and theory discussions.

Imagine if there was a world war during the kid's trip, followed by nuclear Winter...he'd be greeted by a bunch of glowing cockroaches.

I actually figured that, with time dilation, his trip to the defunct remnants of Krypton (which were obviously much closer to Earth than Krypton was originally) in SR actually only took a few days, but everyone on Earth experienced five years. Space travel sure is a pain.

 

[Danger Mouse]

Actually, this shouldn't be a conundrum. On his trip to Earth, you here Jor-El reference Einstein to baby Kal-El. In SII, one of the "Elders" recites a poem written on Earth. So they CLEARLY have knowledge of Earth, and Earth culture.

You're missing my point. I'm not questioning on how they come to know of our alphabets.

My question is that unless Kryptonians use the same set of alphabets we use, does it really matter how we spell Krypton? Wouldn't Cripton serve the same purpose?

Take your name, for example. Would it matter to you how it is properly spelt in Arabic alphabets or Chinese characters?

 

[Danger Mouse]

I understand the theory of time dilation...but that's not what's going on here.

(1) Krypton explodes, and Kal-El is sent towards Earth in a spaceship. It is around Earthdate of 2000 B.C. (4000 years ago)
(2) While traveling to Earth...Jor-El in his earliest training of Kal mentions the Earth scientist Einstein....from Kal"s amount of growth, we will specualte Earthtime at around 100 A.D. (1900 years ago)
(3) Einstein is born in Earthtime 1879
(4) Kal-El's ship arrives on Earth around Earthtime 1948 (going by the Christopher Reeve movie).

Thus...Jor-El talks about an Earth event almost 2000 years before it happens (but had to have known about it 4000 years prior to it happening so that it would be part of the lessen). Time dilation makes the 4000 year trip be approximately 2 1/2 years for Kal-El.....but Jor-El had to be able to actually see Earth events happen thousands of years in advance for them to be spoken of while Kal-El was enroute to Earth.

Oh...and the ship was travelling faster than the speed of light. Jor_El says on the trip that Kal will pass through 6 galaxies. The closest star to earth (not counting our sun) is Alpha Centuri...and it is about 2.5 light years away from us. The distant to just the edge of our own galaxy is millions of light years (or a lot more)...so to travel through the universe and traverse 6 galaxies before landing here on Earth...is a very long distance.

Whoa! They teach you all this throughout your years of employment with the water treatment facility???

I'M IMPRESSED!!

 

[The Kid]

I want to work at water treatment now...