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EXCLUSIVE: Warner Brothers film execs are telling Deadline there will be major announcements involving DC characters coming in 4 weeks. But I can tell you now that Superman producers Chris Nolan and Emma Thomas are getting closer to resuscitating the Man of Steel. I’m told they have begun meeting with a short list of directors for the job of directing Superman, the picture which will be financed by Warner Bros and Legendary Pictures. On the list: Unstoppable‘s Tony Scott, Let Me In director Matt Reeves, Battle: Los Angeles helmer Jonathan Liebesman (who just got the Warner Bros/Legendary job of directing Clash of the Titans 2), Duncan Jones, who just directed Source Code, and Sucker Punch helmer Zack Snyder. 
As Deadline first revealed back in February (Chris Nolan Will Mentor Superman 3.0), Nolan came up with an idea that put the Batman director in a godfather position on Superman, which besides from the Batfranchise is the linchpin of DC Comics franchise characters. David Goyer wrote a script. Several of these directors have movie commitments like Liebesman, which make then unlikely. Nolan has already started meeting with candidates and will submit his choice to the studio within the next few weeks. Warner Bros and Legendary have to get the picture made by 2012, because the studio stands to lose certain rights to the iconic character in 2013 after a judge ruled favorably on behalf of the heirs of Superman creator Jerry Siegel. As I’ve reported previously, the studio at one point wanted Guillermo del Toro to resurrect Superman… Will tell you more when I hear it.
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Matt Reeves
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NOT Scott!
K-thnx
I agree not Tony Scott.
UNSTOPPABLE looks terrible!!
As far as M.Night Shyamalan, Michael Bay and Nora Ephron stay away from this,it won’t be a monstruosity.
Agree, Reeves would be the fresh choice. I’ve heard Duncan Jones’ movie is having problems and is not good.
The amazing script “Source Code” has been made into a bad movie? Where did you HEAR this?
I would like to know how do you know “Source code” is going bad
Mr. snyder all the way!!!!
Spike Lee…duh.
Spike Lee come one if thats not a joke if i havent heard one spike lee is overrated and he sucks
It would be awesome if Nolan did it himself
Just imagine that in 70 years a studio is rushing to remake Inception so they can keep some of the rights away from Nolan’s children and grandchildren. Nice.
Wow, so many interesting names. My own picks are Duncan Jones and Matt Reeves because they are the closest to Nolan’s style. Scott, as we all know, is his own wild self, while Snyder may not understand the spirit of The Man of Tomorrow just like he missed-out with Watchmen: substance with no heart.
Thanks for the scoop!
Watchmen had no heart?
Watchmen had no heart and no substance.
Watchmen, in its ultimate or directors cut, was an amazing movie.
Zack certainly succeeded at producing one of the most faithful superhero film adaptations ever made. And no one can claim Zack didn’t “get” the comic or that his heart wasn’t 100% in the right place. I think Superman would be in good hands with Zack, especially in a team-up with Nolan. We haven’t really seen a classic superhero film in recent years that was beautiful to look at and filled with visual wonderment and frames that were ready-made for posters, pictures and magazine covers. That alone would be worth something. But the combination of Zack’s visual sense with Nolan’s storytelling depth could really amount to something. They could make a potent mix like Lucas and Spielberg did in the 1980s. Or maybe even like Lucas and Irvin Kershner, with one man’s great visual imagination married to the other man’s intense focus on plot and character.
You are a delusional fool… If Watchmen had anything, it was heart… It might not be a fast paced entertainer you’d like it to be… but so what.. It was a good movie with something most movies lack.. Heart… It stayed with you after you left the theatre…
Agree I liked watchmen, not perfect, but I have watched twice with increasing enjoyment.
Wait– Watchmen had SUBSTANCE?!
I’m assuming you meant to write “style.”
Snyder is the obvious choice but i’m going to go with Matt Reeves. Let Me In looks really well done.
I thought Jonathan Nolan wrote the script and was potentially up for directing with his older brother mentoring him? These other directors seem pretty uninspired for such an important franchise.
I agree, give it to Jonathan
Making us wait to hear more about del Toro. You, sir, are evil.
Duncan Jones would be ideal.
Matt Reeves is kind of an interesting choice. I’d be interested to see what Paul Greengrass or Alfonso Cuaron would do with a Superman movie. Or Fincher! Could you imagine? Someone needs to give him a big action tentpole…
It’s happening. He’s doing 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea for Disney. Weird quotes have surfaced describing this as Fincher’s “Empire Strikes Back”, which make me strangely giddy.
Paul Greengrass? – Oh great we’d get a Superman movie where instead of a giant S on his suit he has a giant Obama O on it, his catchphrase would be ‘Yes, we can!’ as he flies around the country bitch slapping all who disagree with the redistribution of wealth.. all the while it looks like Greengrass gave all of his cameras to a class of recovering alcoholics
Yeah, that’s the type of Superman movie I wanna see
Bitter, much?
Fincher has stated in interviews that he has no interest in Comic book movies.
Cauron would be an interesting choice. Especially working with Nolan. He would be up for prob since he already has a Harry Potter film under his belt.
Haha, David Fincher already ruined the Alien tent pole, dummy!
That was David Fincher’s first movie man. He’s obviously done a lot of growing as a filmmaker in the past twenty years. I think he can handle a Superman movie if he wanted, but he would never take it. Plus the script to every Alien movie after James Cameron’s has been sh##$.
Uh…Fincher was brought on at the last moment. Plus, the script wasn’t even finish. Walter Hill and Dave Giler ruined Alien 3. Get it right.
Any word on who will wear the cape?
That was sigoirney weaver. David just came in last minute.
Snyder would produce the most visually interesting film. Can’t imagine Liebesman having time to do this film with his other projects.
1. Jones. 2. Tony Scott. 3. Reeves. All three of those guys could do a very exciting new take on Superman.
please let it be Fincher or an unknown. Everyone listed in the article has style that gets in the way of story.
Tony Scott is the biggest legend of all the Director’s on that list. He is even bigger than Christopher Nolan. Reminder, Nolan has only had recent hits and is a fairly new success story. While Tony Scott’s hits go all the way back to the 80′s when he helped create the modern blockbuster with Beverly Hills Cop 2 and Top Gun.
Since then, I think that Tony Scott has gotten to serious, in not wanting to much of the fun popcorn atmosphere coming from his movies. In any case it would be awesome to see him Direct a Superman since he’s so stylized.
Let’s hope that Lois Lane is finally hot on the big screen. Kidder had the sex appeal of a nun and that lady in Returns was Directed by a literal gay Director who didn’t care about her sex appeal.
I thought Jonathan Nolan was offered the directing job. Was he considered too inexperienced?
Matt Reeves would be a terrible choice!
Funny that the tool now in sr exec position at Legendary used to run Bryan Singer’s company and was instrumental in the shit-biscuit that baked a few years ago… you know, the GAY Supe film?
So while they most certainly aren’t going to retry that formula — and they may ha\ve even pay-or-played Singer to the biggest pickup-paycheck of his life just to keep him away, giving him that JOLLY GREEN GIANT MOVIE — they’ll find a way to muck it all up again… such a dated character anyways… if it could be great, Nolan would have taken that pot of gold himself…
Next is right… as in next spandex pile o’ crap.
Make MOVIES again, please?!
You say, “gay” like it’s a bad thing. You, sir, are a bigot.
No, sir, not a bigot… and FYI, I am gay myself. But never in all my imaginations did I want my SUPERMAN to exist in the toilet bowl that it did…
Hire the Coen Brothers to do a period piece Superman, set in the 50′s to start off the rebooted franchise.
Make it the ’40s and I’m sold.
Nolan was perfect to be the creative force behind the reboot of Batman but i strongly believe that he is unfit to handle the reboot of Superman.
The problem is that Superman in a basic level of characterization,is the opposite of Batman:
while Batman is pessimistic,anti-social and having lost his trust to the people,Superman on the other hand is optimistic,with hope and believing in people.
The one’s identity is compromised by personal trauma,the other’s identity is transformed by goodness.Thats why Batman was a perfect subject for Nolan,since his filmography focuses a lot in the identity of a person and the psychological damage that is hidden behind and also because his cold style of direction fits the cold personality of Batman.
But Superman is in the opposite side of the territory that Nolan loves so much to explore,and going to that opposite direction is what worries me most wit this reboot project.
Now Nolan has reassured the fans that he is going to do his best so that the movie will be as faithful as possible to Superman’s personality and his world.
He did a wise thing to hire Goyer to write the script of the movie,and i say wise because lets face it as comic-book style goes,BB was the more comic-ish movie.And Superman needs to be comic-ish since now we are leaving Batman’s territory of realism and grittiness.If nothing else,this choice reassured that Nolan truly “gets it”
But now Nolan suggests these directors for the movie to the studio (provided that these news are true) and with the exception of Snyder,the other guys,though talented,they dont ,lets say,inspire much confidence that they are suitable for this project.
1.Snyder
i like him and i think his Watchmen gets more trashing that it deserves.ofc
2.Tony Scott
he is Ridley Scott’s poor man.if you managed to watch his latest movies despite his motion-sickness shaky cam work,when was the last time that he focused more to the characters than the VFX?
3.Duncan Jones
i am almost sure that this is the guy that Nolan is going to support and promote until the studio makes its final decision.i say that because Jones has made a movie which also explores the subject of the identity crisis and his direction style seems a bit cold and sterile as Nolan’s
4.Matt Reeves
Clovefield was crap but his remake is getting good reviews.I havent seen it so i can make a complete judgment of his skill but regardless,i think he is the candidate with the least chance to get the job.maybe for the better.
5.Jonathan Liebesman
yeah that footage was cool,but shouldnt we wait to see the actual movie first? just saying…
anyway thats my opinion on the subject.i really hope that this reboot will end up having a better luck than Singer’s fiasco (which was a good movie but not the movie that the fans wanted) and not dissapoint.
As long as the suit isn’t made of lizard skin like the last one, get Ratner
Ratner? Why not Uwe Boll while we’re talking hacks.
Michael Mann
Alain Resnais
Jean-Luc Godard
Brad Bird
but seriously, I have no idea. While I certainly like the idea of Chris Nolan coaching this whole thing without quarterbacking, all the young names make me slightly specious, mainly as I haven’t seen anything really cerebral come from them. I dunno, maybe I’m wrong
Tom Strong, you’re the dummy! FOX ruined Alien 3 by rushing the film into production without a script. Fincher showed promise even with the disaster.
Perhaps I missed it, but does anyone know whether this new Superman movie is supposed to be a continuation of the 2006 Bryan Singer film, or a remake/reboot with new casting, story, etc?
I’m pretty sure it is a reboot. There is no attempt to extend Singer or Donner’s take on the character. Singer’s movie was an intent to extend Donner’s vision. In previous interviews Nolan discussed taking the character back to his roots.
That Superman (based on my memory) wasn’t yet the icon of “justice, truth, and the american way” that we were introduced to in the ’50′s. He was more of a prankster, trickster, and and oddly (to our memories) rebellious. I believe when this character is comical it isn’t along the lines that Christopher Reeve demonstrated.
I really can’t wait to see the movie should it stay on this narrative trajectory Nolan suggested.
Sounds like they could call it “Superman is a Dick.”
If you like 50’s Wonder bread Superman, more power to you and the other millions of people who agree with you. I always thought the original Superman was a bit of a bully myself but I don’t know what the script entails so I am willing to hold out for the film.
I think Nolan’s instincts have been pretty amazing. Of course it takes the right director to do the vision justice. I imagine this why there is so much anticipation.