Superman Reboot Planned

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Warner Brothers has finally made a big decision regarding the whole Man of Steel issue. They’re going to reboot the whole Superman franchise. Group President Jeff Robinov confirmed to The Wall Street Journal the whole deal.

Warner Bros. also put on hold plans for another movie starring multiple superheroes — known as “Batman vs. Superman” — after the $215 million “Superman Returns,” which had disappointing box-office returns, didn’t please executives. “‘Superman’ didn’t quite work as a film in the way that we wanted it to,” says Mr. Robinov. “It didn’t position the character the way he needed to be positioned.” “Had ‘Superman’ worked in 2006, we would have had a movie for Christmas of this year or 2009,” he adds. “But now the plan is just to reintroduce Superman without regard to a Batman and Superman movie at all.”

Looks like the plan is to take Superman the same direction as Batman and do something very similar to what Marvel is doing with all of their characters. Once they each have very strong solo films, then make a group film with them.

Like the recent Batman sequel — which has become the highest-grossing film of the year thus far — Mr. Robinov wants his next pack of superhero movies to be bathed in the same brooding tone as “The Dark Knight.” Creatively, he sees exploring the evil side to characters as the key to unlocking some of Warner Bros.’ DC properties. “We’re going to try to go dark to the extent that the characters allow it,” he says. That goes for the company’s Superman franchise as well.

The studio is set to announce its plans for future DC movies in the next month. For now, though, it is focused on releasing four comic-book films in the next three years, including a third Batman film, a new film reintroducing Superman, and two movies focusing on other DC Comics characters. Movies featuring Green Lantern, Flash, Green Arrow, and Wonder Woman are all in active development.

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This is pretty exciting new, but it’s really too bad that Superman Returns wasn’t a bigger hit. I thought it was a great movie that paid tribute to Christopher Reeve in so many ways.

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