We know Nolan is producing Zack Snyder's Superman reboot, and David Goyer's writing it. But we didn't know what it was about - until now.
New York Magazine's Vulture took to the Fortress of Solitude and played a game of crazy Teleport Tag with Zod, Ursa and Non to get this logline: "...the story will follow Clark Kent, a journalist traveling the world 'trying to decide if he should, in fact, even become Superman.'"
Despite the idea's similarity to writer Mark Waid's
Superman: Birthright comic from 2003, this sounds like a potentially interesting take worthy of Nolan's attention, and an idea that could make for Snyder's best movie. How exactly Zod, the movie's villain, factors into all of this remains to be seen.
- WBHE
Kal-El's just gonna roam the earth, like Caine in Kung Fu.
Vulture also points out the particulars behind Snyder signing on, which revolve around the ticking clock on Warner Bros' rights to Superman and Snyder's ability to turn projects around quickly.
According to Vulture's sources, the reason Warners picked Snyder for
Superman is that David Goyer's rushed script needs serious work, and "Snyder is looked at as a man who can get the movie completed for 2012." If the studio doesn't get the movie into production by 2011, then they will lose the rights. And with Snyder in play, WB saves time on an extensive rewrite process that they could not afford with, say, a director like
The Wrestler's Darren Aronofsky in charge. (You see, Movie Fans, Aronofsky is known in Hollywood as a meticulous whose projects require a lot of development time.)
That news isn't as troubling as Vulture's report that Snyder wasn't exactly WB's top pick. According to their Deep Throat source: "Snyder was not really Warner's first choice to direct
Superman, but that a director needed to be hired imminently. Privately, even Snyder has confided to agency sources that the current Superman script needs work, but clearly Warner Bros. believes he can get it done faster than Aronofsky."
So all we get from this is that the stakeholders here seemingly wanted Aronofsky for the job, but time being a factor (more so than getting the story as perfect as possible), Nolan and company went with Mr. Sucker Punch.
You can see how this roll of the dice pays off when the new Superman movie opens during the 2012 holiday frame.
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