Well it worked. That movie was of course Batman Begins, which eventually led to The Dark Knight, and I believe most people have heard how that worked out for the studio, lotsa money for everyone, pats on the shoulders all around.

About the same time they had started reworking the Batman series, repairing the damage from the Schumacher years, they remembered they had yet another property in the DC district of Superhero Land that had sat vacant for many years. So following the same MO, Bryan Singer, fresh off his stint with the X-Men, was brought in to fix up the Superman franchise; the House that Christopher Reeve built.

Well, that turned out kinda anemic. Not a lot of money, very few pats on the back.

But not being ones to give up on a franchise, no matter how old, Warner Bros. is having another go around with the Man of Steel. Their plan? Bring in a new talented director to inject some life into the series and hire the people who made Batman successful as producers/writers on the film to make sure he does it. The director in this case will be Mr. 300 himself, Zach Snyder, and he will be joined by The Dark Knight‘s director, Christopher Nolan as producer with David Goyer writing the script.

If any team should be able to resurrect a franchise, you would think this is it. Goyer’s great storytelling, Snyder’s visual style, and Nolan’s golden touch; cause let’s face it, he’s been on a roll with that whole batman and inception thing. The only thing I could see tripping the project up is the source material itself.

I’ve always kinda of thought of Superman a kind of a blah movie superhero. Or more precisely, I think maybe he’s a little too super. I mean he’s a nigh invulnerable superbeing who always seems to be reduced to battling Lex Luthor, Kryptonite or some combination of the two in his movies. It gets a little tiring.

I’m not necessarily advocating the next film be a Luther free movie, but a Luther-light film would definitely be nice. Maybe something in the vein of Superman II, Luther hanging around but giving one of Superman’s many villains from the comic book series a shot on the big screen.

So far Snyder has been quoted as saying:

“the film will focus on the early days of Superman, so there will be no links to the other movies. This is not a remake then. Similarly, although I still can not talk about the script, I can assure you that this new Superman will not be based on any particular comic book story.” [via]

It will be interesting to see who the major players will be in the story this time out and who will be playing them. There are a lot of rumors flying around out right now, but we’ll let you know as soon as we hear something.

The good thing is many of these girls can keep their costumes ready to enter the Rose Bowl parade.

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For us lazy and slow people, we’ll just find someone who has done the hard work and pat them on the back.

Good job!

For the record, Jack was great as the original movie Joker because he played himself. We really feel that Heath Ledger will rock this role as The Joker.

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