New interview with Bryan Singer (7/03/2006)

[Gangbuster]

Singer Turns Directing Power on Superman (AP)

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Some excerpts:

"Though not a comic-book fan growing up in the 1970s, he fell in love with the Man of Steel through reruns of the 1950s TV show "Adventures of Superman," starring George Reeves. On opening night in 1978, Singer went with his mom to see Richard Donner's "Superman," with Christopher Reeve.

"The film picks up five years after Superman has trekked across the cosmos to see if anything remains of his destroyed home world, Krypton. Returning to Earth, Superman has to adjust to a planet that has learned to make do without him.

Starring newcomer Brandon Routh in the title role, "Superman Returns" joined Singer's "X-Men" and "X2" as an instant blockbuster, raking in an estimated $84 million in its first five days."

[Great Rao]

Commenting on the changes made to Superman's outfit,

The only thing I did is I raised the shield on the chest.

The reason I did that was because the decal, the silkscreen, felt very cheap. You could cast light onto the raised, etched shield in a cool way. It would take light in different ways, and I could tell different moments of the story with flat lighting and side lighting, depending on where he was at. Also, the hardness of it, the raised-ness of it, was kind of a nod to the Kryptonian technology, that the suit is part of a greater Kryptonian history and technology that is not of this Earth.

And I took the "S" off the back of the cape, but that was never part of the comic book, anyway.

[Klar Ken T5477]

And I took the "S" off the back of the cape, but that was never part of the comic book, anyway.
I was about to jump on that LAST line myself. I stopped reading it right then and there.

I think I have to stop paying attention to this if I want to keep blood pressure levels constant.

[MatterEaterLad]

Yeah, these things continue to add to my mixed emotions about the whole project...

[Uncle Mxy]

I thought the lack of "S" on the cape was to make it easier for the CGI cape (which was clearly CGI in some shots -- looked like something out of Spawn).

[MatterEaterLad]

Yeah, that's what I thought too, its probably Singer just making stuff up for interviews on the fly, its just annoying...