

if all of my knowledge came from commercials for SMALLVILLE and vague memories of the Donner film, then maybe I’d look at this script and say, “Well, the scale of it is certainly amazing, and it’s an ambitious story. if I didn’t give a shit about any sort of history to the character. And, hey, if I never read a Superman comic in my life. They picked the one they felt would make money. They look at LORD OF THE RINGS or HARRY POTTER or the new STAR WARS films and they see how much revenue that creates for a studio over a decade or so, and they can’t help themselves. It was his pitch for the overall trilogy that some of the execs. One of the things discussed in that NEW YORK TIMES article is the idea that this is going to serve as the first film in a trilogy, and that it’s supposed to set up a grand story arc that JJ Abrams has plotted out. And now, as we mentioned in an article last week, a creative struggle between Alan Horn and Lorenzo Di Bonaventura has not only seen Lorenzo ousted from the studio, it’s also put JJ Abrams’s draft of the script in the lead as the film the studio wants to make. SUPERMAN that had casting rumors in overdrive and had fan speculation running high. There was the highly-publicized recent flirtation with BATMAN VS. The entire DEATH OF SUPERMAN debacle which has people like Kevin Smith and Tim Burton and Jon Peters and Nicolas Cage and Roger Avery all caught up in it. And the feature division has been an endless Escher-style square dance, looping in and swallowing itself, endlessly developing variations on the characters.
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We all watched the way Paul Dini and Alan Burnett were treated, these remarkable TV producers who helped create some of the most enduring film images of Batman and Superman to date. From what I hear though, there have been some remarkable near-misses on the show so far, creative battles that boggle the mind.

BIRDS OF PREY has a hell of a producer in place in the form of Laeta Kalogridis, who wrote a great draft of TOMB RAIDER and who wrote an excellent high-tech SF version of BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN.

They have no faith whatsoever in the people they hire, and it seems to be a problem at the executive level company-wide. seems determined to micro-manage every property to death. It doesn’t matter if it’s TV or if it’s features.
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I’m willing to trust that they know how to bring these characters to life. Marvel is earning the sort of corporate trust that Pixar has, where no matter what I hear about a film ahead of time, I’m willing to stay open-minded. All of this makes me trust Kevin Feige more and more. Michael Chabon on SPIDER-MAN 2, the excellent script for X-MEN 2 and the great things I’m hearing from the set. His FANTASTIC FOUR script remains one of the best superhero scripts never produced, and if he’s excited about what Ang Lee is doing with HULK, then I am, too. PETERSBURG TIMES, because I trust France’s judgement. I’m as open minded about HULK as I can be, and I’m greatly encouraged by what Michael France had to say about the film in an excellent recent interview by Steve Persall of the ST. SPIDER-MAN and the BLADE films work incredibly well, in my opinion, and DAREDEVIL looks to me like another home run. Support them with the right technical teams. Hire people who have a real passion for the source material. Avi Arad didn’t even start in the film business, but he’s got the right idea. Good god, I hope so, because right now, it’s a disaster of nearly epic proportions. I think that, based on what I hear from certain inside sources, what I read is still very much a document in transition. We went over the details of the thing, and I ran certain story points by them to see if I was crazy. I read the script twice, cover to cover, and then I started calling friends. I took the script with me to a screening and kept reading until the lights went down, then started reading again in the car on the way home. I know that when I opened the envelope that was on the doorstep of the Labs on Friday morning and I realized I was holding the JJ Abrams draft of the upcoming SUPERMAN film for Warner Bros, I was immediately forced to walk inside, sit down, and start reading. YOU’LL BELIEVE A FRANCHISE CAN SUCK!! I can understand your curiosity. I'm revising it a bit, though, to remove the other reviews from the column and to give them room to breathe on their own, and I'm also fixing the SUPERMAN story so it works again. I don't think we've ever had a story hit as hard as this one was. And I don't mean you were first to report it. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.
