The following may very well crush your dreams faster than a speeding bullet, so you might want to temper your excitement about "Man Of Steel 2" and George Miller‘s potential involvement, which was rumored last week. Just a few days later, a new wrinkle in the ongoing saga has emerged, and it’s not great news for fans of Last Son of Krypton.
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According to Den Of Geek, their sources confirm Miller is talking with Warner Bros. about what DC property to take, the studio would have to agree with his vision, schedules would need to be worked out… basically, it sounds like it’s very, very early days on whatever a possible comic book film from the "Mad Max: Fury Road" director would be. The site is also hearing that "Man Of Steel 2" might be on "permanent hold." But even the meaning of that phrase seems to be mysterious: are they stopping development entirely? Waiting for a better idea to come along? Focusing on Batman instead? Nobody really knows anything.
Essentially, the crux of all this is that you shouldn’t hold your breath at the moment for a "Man Of Steel" sequel, as it seems everything is in very early, fragile stages.
"There\’s only one way this ends, Kal: either you die, or I do."
The superhero with the best villains is the best. There are no better villain\’s than Spiderman\’s
who cares, superman is a shitty character anyway
@ALEX and RYAN While you\’re both right the issue really comes in on how to do a unique and interesting movie for Superman without rehashing old ideas or straying too far from the source material and incensing fans.
\’Man of Steel\’ was an attempt to take Superman through the same rebirth that Nolan did with \’Batman Begins\’. To me, it worked. It retold the story and visited the years missing from most of the theatrical retellings of the story of Kal-El, giving him a more relatable background and motivation for his overwhelming sense of good.
The biggest issue ever facing Superman movie writers and directors is how to be original while not being predictable.
Superman is the hardest story to write due to the fact that he has a very very limited amount of weaknesses, near omnipotent powers, and so on.
Writing that and making it engaging for audiences is difficult because almost everyone knows that at some point someone will pull out Kryptonite, a Kryptonian will be revealed as bad-guy, or some super-monster will be terrorizing the city.
Every now and then a director will attempt to use WMDs or Armageddon-level attacks but Superman always outwits those in a hurry due to his plethora of powers.
That’s the challenge: “How do I do this with an original story while staying true to the source material.”
Okay, first and fore most, you\’re saying that a character who is basically every Godmode character ever is simply the best character out there?
Wow… Please, allow me to give a short response to that. Superman, as a character, is pretty one dimensional. Sorry, but the big blue boyscout, even in the DCnU/New 52/aka DC dropping the ball, he\’s still a fairly single direction character.
His powers are constantly all over the place, why? Because, that\’s why. Superman\’s powers have gotten crazy over the years. Originally he was able to jump tall buildings, out run trains, and had super strength. That was basically it.
Each incarnation of the character has changed his power levels, and even now if they have a super omega, darkness spreading, amazon killing, and Green Lantern eating monster come into the DC universe guess what… Superman\’s going to suddenly get a powerup to beat said monster.
The one thing that makes Superman, as a character, interesting is Clark Kent. Clark Kent, who he truly is, has to deal with that the world wants of him, what he wants, and how he\’s got to handle it. It\’s a chance to tell a story of a man having the powers of a god and somehow remaining a decent human being.
That\’s interesting. Superman alone, he stopped being interesting years ago, Superman with Clark Kent, yeah that\’s fun.
Marvel rule and DC comics drool… Milton out.. Peace yaw
It\’d be nice if DC, excuse me…Warner
Brothers…, would take a step back and actually formulate a plan for all their movies instead of willy-nilly half-hearted money grabs. They have great characters and great fans, both of whom deserve better than what they\’ve been doing outside of the animation department
Thank goodness…… After the first one.
Good. Man of Steel was a bleak, obnoxious, loud movie that had less than nothing to do with "Superman" and more to do with "dangerous handsome space alien in red cape levels cities, kills millions in an extended Dragonball Z fight, even though he could\’ve flown Zod to the moon and battled there."
It doesn\’t surprise me since MOS made Superman an uncaring alien. I just want a Christopher Reeve type Superman again, but with Less Snyder.
I agree with Ryan and Alex. Since the Christopher Reeves films (the three they produced) WB just can\’t seem to do right by Supes. Whjy is indeed mystery. On the sdmall screen they ahve faired better with "Smallville" going a surprising 10 seasons and of course the George Reeves series running for a decade in the 1950\’s (not sure if they had the rights then as Columbia did the movie serials with Kirk Alyn in the 1940\’s). I think the problem is they over think the whole concept. They feel they have to make the movie bigger, better, more "super" than anything before it and in doing so make a big mess (Though "Man of Steel" was a good movie and very enjoyable). Just find a villain from the gallery of Superman villains and make the darn movie about him Vs them!! What\’s the issue??
If I recall correctly, when "Batman v. Superman" was in the early stages, the filmmakers said that it wasn\’t a Batman film but a sequel to "Man of Steel." From the trailer it does seem that the story kicks off with Superman being called on the carpet for all the destruction he helped cause at the end of "Man of Steel."
Damn Super & 007 all my all time favorites here Batman since Keaton played him has had SEVEN features while in that same time Superman only had 2 Returns & MOS, yeah we did have LOIS & CLARK & SMALLVILLE with no jammies
Batman v Superman is a direct continuation of Man of Steel. If that isn\’t a sequel, I don\’t know what is.
I think Patton Oswalt said this on Twitter, but for the love of God get George Miller on a Boba Feet Star Wars spinoff film, total creative freedom. That would be insanely good.
Man of Steel was the best Superman movie of all. And Henry Cavil was definitely the best looking of all the Superman actors! So why is it taking so long for part 2?
If you want a movie franchise on hold it should be anything with Afflek involved. He was the wrong choice for Batman. Cavill is the right choice for the Man of Steel. Chris Nolan has to be more involved with casting. I love the Dark Knight Movies. I will not pay to see Batfflek movies period.
Get your act together DC! Give us a Man of Steel sequel in 2019 you dumbasses! Argh! I apologize but this news pisses me off!
Superman is clearly NOT the GOAT in the category of superheroes. Batman is a character of depth and real (though shielded)emotion. Superman is born out of an almost manufactured trauma. The baby born of the stars is simply not a compelling story. He never witnessed the trauma that brought him to earth and any attempt to connect him to it forces an emotional response and invalidates any depth of the life he has with his adopted parents.
@ RYAN REBALKIN I completely agree with your comment, Superman is the greatest superhero of all time but when it comes to the big screen it just goes downhill its frustrating man of steel made 668 million in the box office thats hardly chump change yeah the reaction from critics and fans were mixed but with those healthy numbers you would think a sequel to man of steel would come sooner rather than later
@ RYAN REBALKIN I completely agree with your comment, Superman is the greatest comic book character of all time but when it comes to the big screen it just goes downhill its frustrating man of steel made 668 million in the box office thats hardly chump change yeah the reaction from critics and fans were mixed but with those healthy numbers you would think a sequel to man of steel would come sooner rather than later
It\’s not worth Miller\’s time. His projects take longer to develop and DC is time crunched to keep up with the Marvel machine. "Permanent hold" means little now because they just want to take advantage of Batman interest, but very soon, the wheels will spin for Superman. Miller should just continue to work on his new Mad Max trilogy.
why can\’t we just roll out the DC films like Marvel does…they are such awesome characters…and Superman is the king, how he has such a hard time on screen is beyond me.