Superman Returns The Official Bryan Singer Thread

[BestGirl]

Singer put his spin on how he views Superman, and it didnt sit well with the majority of fans.
Perhaps the next director will try to get some imput from fans about what they want in a Superman film, and maybe he'll actually use some of the best ideas. Yeah, wishful thinkin', I know.
It couldnt hurt to at least listen tho.

Didn't Favreau ask for fan input for IM on a website? There's hope.

 

[stargazer]

Didn't Favreau ask for fan input for IM on a website? There's hope.

I wasn't here then, but I understand that a lot of fans wanted the Donnerverse to continue before SR was made or was about to....

 

[GreenKToo]

Didn't Favreau ask for fan input for IM on a website? There's hope.

Yup, he indeed did.

 

[BestGirl]

I wasn't here then, but I understand that a lot of fans wanted the Donnerverse to continue before SR was made or was about to....

I'm not surprised since Superman fans are incredibly divided about what they want, but after SR I hope most of them can agree to let the Donnerverse go.

 

[Nightwing1977]

If Singer hadn't taken the helm of X-Men, we wouldn't have this string of superhero films right now. There would be no Spidey, no Daredevil, no Batman, and especially no Superman.

I wouldn't put Batman on the list, since it was already doing well before X-Men. That is until the awful "Batman & Robin" almost destroy the franchise. I do agree that X-Men helped Hollywood started making more Marvel films though. Especially when there been the "curse of Marvel movies" for years with how many were crap & few only went to videos, etc. While Blade help (if someone else play Blade like an unknown instead of Snipes, it might not been that successful), but X-Men did a lot more than that.

Let's face it, you can't please everyone. There has never been, and will never be, a perfect superhero movie.

Yep. That why it's hard to make a superhero films. Even if you make the film as close as to the comics, there are still going to be other who don't like it. We don't live in a perfect world.

 

[BATZARRO WWD]

If I may be so bold, having moved on from a 30 years ago continuity would have actually been the natural thing to do, and as much as many would have wanted more of the so called "Donnerverse", at this point in time I'm guessing they'd be over it by now.

In any case the movie's failiures aren't all accountable to being a continuation of the old movies. It's more to do with being a highly inconsistent continuation without enough action and some dubious plot points.

 

[Webhead2006]

Yea i said it before i do think its time to give the donner universe a rest. Hopefully one day we can see that happen.

 

[NeoRanger]

I wasn't here then, but I understand that a lot of fans wanted the Donnerverse to continue before SR was made or was about to....

Not really. People were looking at a full reboot then; if for no other reason, then just because everything WB did since Superman Lives was more or less along those lines. It wasn't until the first piece of info about SR following loosely after SII that suddenly people started loving the idea.

And I could say a lot of mean things concerning the mindset, but I guess that's best left alone. But, yeah, Bryan wasn't exactly receiving fan-input when he decided to pick up where Donner left off.

 

[sf2]

I wasn't here then, but I understand that a lot of fans wanted the Donnerverse to continue before SR was made or was about to....

don't blame donnerverse for SR failure! the idea is perfect to use donnerverse as the background and the spinboard to bring forward a new superman story.

the failure of SR is solely on bryan's rediculous ideas, instead of doing a story on superman, he is telling a story about himself; felt isolated, wanna find his parents & his original hometown, wanna have a son, wanna have a wet suit and wanna have the kick in his ass!

i think he has literally destroyed the superman franchise. and by doing so, it has affected his career too. he will be remembered as "the man destroying superman".

and again don't try to spin it and blame on the donnerverse ever again!!!

 

[Nixon]

1) Yup, the Donnerverse is still valid given that it's, more or less, Superman in the real world.

2) Thematically, everything in Superman Returns follows from the two Donner Superman movies. That Bryan Singer finds things in Superman that speak to him personally just explains why he has such an affinity for the character and the movies.

3) Bryan Singer hasn't ruined anything other than his chances of getting in the director's chair for another Superman movie. Neither his career nor the franchise is dead. He will keep making movies and Warner Bros. will keep on making Superman movies.

Besides, Superman is bigger than one underperforming movie. He's modern mythology.

 

[nintendo nerd]

don't blame donnerverse for SR failure! the idea is perfect to use donnerverse as the background and the spinboard to bring forward a new superman story.

the failure of SR is solely on bryan's rediculous ideas, instead of doing a story on superman, he is telling a story about himself; felt isolated, wanna find his parents & his original hometown, wanna have a son, wanna have a wet suit and wanna have the kick in his ass!

i think he has literally destroyed the superman franchise. and by doing so, it has affected his career too. he will be remembered as "the man destroying superman".

and again don't try to spin it and blame on the donnerverse ever again!!!

Who are you??? Her dad???

 

[El Payaso]

don't blame donnerverse for SR failure! the idea is perfect to use donnerverse as the background and the spinboard to bring forward a new superman story.

the failure of SR is solely on bryan's rediculous ideas, instead of doing a story on superman, he is telling a story about himself; felt isolated, wanna find his parents & his original hometown, wanna have a son, wanna have a wet suit and wanna have the kick in his ass!

i think he has literally destroyed the superman franchise. and by doing so, it has affected his career too. he will be remembered as "the man destroying superman".

and again don't try to spin it and blame on the donnerverse ever again!!!

Flashnews: She's not trying to blame anything on the Donnerverse. Good reader, good replier.

 

[DavidTyler]

On the subject of people wanting more 'Donnerverse' before SR was in production ....

I argued vehemently against the Donnerverse. I was championing a total reboot then and I don't recall being the only one.

 

[stargazer]

don't blame donnerverse for SR failure! the idea is perfect to use donnerverse as the background and the spinboard to bring forward a new superman story.

the failure of SR is solely on bryan's rediculous ideas, instead of doing a story on superman, he is telling a story about himself; felt isolated, wanna find his parents & his original hometown, wanna have a son, wanna have a wet suit and wanna have the kick in his ass!

i think he has literally destroyed the superman franchise. and by doing so, it has affected his career too. he will be remembered as "the man destroying superman".

and again don't try to spin it and blame on the donnerverse ever again!!!

I DON'T, at all. I love the Donner/Singeverses. And relax man. Why do you always have to overreact?? Please, go back and read my previous posts to learn about the purpose of that post.

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Who are you??? Her dad???

haha! t:

Flashnews: She's not trying to blame anything on the Donnerverse. Good reader, good replier.

yup

 

[El Payaso]

On the subject of people wanting more 'Donnerverse' before SR was in production ....

I argued vehemently against the Donnerverse. I was championing a total reboot then and I don't recall being the only one.

Which doesn't contradict at all the statement "a lot of fans wanted the Donnerverse to continue before SR was made or was about to....," right? Good reader... you know.

 

[Godman]

On the subject of people wanting more 'Donnerverse' before SR was in production ....

I argued vehemently against the Donnerverse. I was championing a total reboot then and I don't recall being the only one.

Should have learned from Nolan. REBOOT!!!! What worked in the seventies does not apply in this millennium and Nolan knows it. Though Batman actually came out in 89, Nolan took aspects that worked well with that rendition and started a fresh with what people remembered was actually GOOD about Burton's.

 

[hockeyboy89]

Should have learned from Nolan. REBOOT!!!! What worked in the seventies does not apply in this millennium and Nolan knows it. Though Batman actually came out in 89, Nolan took aspects that worked well with that rendition and started a fresh with what people remembered was actually GOOD about Burton's.

Ugh.......Batman makes me ZZZZZZ

 

[Godman]

Ugh.......Batman makes me ZZZZZZ

Then Superman Returns must have killed you while u zzzzzzzzz

 

[hockeyboy89]

Actually I liked it a thousand times more

 

[FilmNerdJamie]

Bryan Singer eyeing hot revenge thriller project starring Mark Wahlberg
by Christine Spines

After the success of Taken and Gran Torino, Hollywood has been on a vigilante kick. And right now, Bryan Singer (along with studio execs all over town) has been seriously considering getting his revenge on with The Prisoners, a much-sought-after thriller script to which Mark Wahlberg is attached to star as a Boston dad who takes the law into his own hands when his young daughter is kidnapped. The screenplay, which has been compared to The Silence of the Lambs and Seven, has been buzzed about as a calling card for its unknown writer, Aaron Guzikowski, and as a rare project targeted at adult audiences but with real commercial potential. When asked whether The Prisoners will be his next movie, Singer told EW: "I don't know yet. But I'm definitely intrigued. It's a great script. And I'd love to work with Mark."

http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2009/03/bryan-singer-ey.html

Not really a surprise in any way, shape or form.

 

[dark_b]

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=53927

i really dont want to sound like a hater. but is this guy jumping from comicbooks to comicbooks?

 

[El Payaso]

 

[dark_b]

enough is enough. i dont care if those are only rumors. he did Valkyrie. and it looks like a fantastic movies.

i dont want to hear comicbook movies mentioned with hes name again. he did 2 x-men movies and one superman movie. enough.

 

[Matt]

Bryan Singer is to comic book movies as Uwe Boll/Paul Anderson is to video game movies.

But seriously, I've never even heard of this one.

 

[FilmNerdJamie]

Among the projects in front of him, I'd say go with Prisoners.