Brandon Routh talks “Superman: The Man of Steel” with IESB!
Just a few days after Mark Millar gives us more insight into his Superman pitch, telling us he has an 8-hour trilogy reboot and a high-profile action director ready to go. We hear from Brandon Routh and the still slated sequel to Superman Returns titled, Superman: The Man of Steel.
Recently IESB.net talked with star Brandon Routh. The actor had a few tidbits to offer about the highly anticipated followup of Superman Returns.
On the subject of the villain:
I think it would certainly be interesting, I think there are a lot of things you could do with Brainiac. He’s been given a lot of power and a lot of different abilities over the years in the comics, as far as I understand. I know that DC is working on a Brainiac storyline that they are excited about and I think combining the two and have that flow between the comics and the movie would be a nice thing. I honestly think there are a lot of interesting things you can do with Brainiac. Controlling people, controlling technology, a lot of cool things.
Routh also discussed the idea of the movie being darker compared to ‘Returns:
I don’t know, I don’t think the character necessarily has to be darker, I think he is kind of dark in a sense, emotional dark, in Superman Returns, and the movie as a whole was slightly dark, they could have had more prowess in it I suppose, and I think that’s one thing that can be done in the sequel, so I don’t know how much darker you want to make it necessarily. You make the stakes higher, you make the villain darker, I think that’s a way to do it. But I don’t think Superman himself needs to be darker. He definitely has to struggle, how does Superman be a part of the world? And does he have to make sacrifices to be a part of that world? To fit in and what purpose does he really play in the world? Those are all kind of dark places to explore. But, I don’t think Superman should ever be dark and brooding, that’s not is nature. And that’s now what people what to see. Like Brainiac or something like that, a situation when the villain is…
Here is where I am confused! (1.) Millar is Pitching a re-boot (2.) Last I heard Superman: The Man of Steel wasn’t happening and there was gonna be a re-boot (3.) But hold the phone - DC Comics Levitz then comes out saying there is re-boot called Superman: The Man of Steel and Routh would star (4.) Millar opens his mouth again saying it would be an 8-hour trilogy (5.) Routh comes out talking about Villain and that Superman: The Man of Steel is a sequel to Superman Returns!
I mean can somebody get this straight for all of us so that we Superman fans can sleep better knowing what the f*** is going on!!
The way I am speculating this right now is - Routh is Supes until Warner Brothers says otherwise, Superman: The Man of Steel is the current “Superman project” being developed, it is not a sequel but a re-boot, Lastly Mark Millar is an ass! and needs to go back making indie graphic novels for Universal to make into movies!
