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Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
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The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
The Superman movie franchise is being rebooted in 2012 and casting is already underway for the lead roles of Superman and his mild-mannered alter ego, Clark Kent.
According to a few entertainment industry publications, both John Cena and Dwayne ‘The Rock” Johnson are being considered for the lead role in Superman: Man Of Steel.
IMDB.com reports that the film is being executive produced by Christopher Nolan (“The Dark Knight”) and will be directed by Zach Snyder.
Aside from John Cena and The Rock, actor Joe Manganiello (“Spider Man 3,” “True Blood”) is also being considered for the part.
I’ll have to keep looking for the IMDB.com story. Haven’t done too vigorous of a job praying to the GooglGodz, so if you want to beat me to the punch in the comments with a nice link, have at it.
I don’t like the idea of rebooting such a prominent superhero again after six years, when it takes that long to turn out a single movie. Not sure why the 2006 entry gets such a bad rap. I’m overall pretty happy with it, mostly because it’s got lots of “Give-A-Damn” in it and in the final analysis, that’s what makes a movie good. It had a couple of loose ends that were supposed to be pursued, too, and I think abandoning those is a mistake. Which is not to say I like both of them. I only like the Kryptonite planet. Want to see what happens with that. The Jason White character and the “deadbeat dad” stuff I didn’t like.
Even there, though, I still appreciate what Bryan Singer was trying to do. It is a theme as old as Superman himself: The realization that his efforts to live a normal life, fall in love, live life to the fullest as an ordinary human, are ultimately doomed. Singer was just looking for a different way to tell that same story. He picked the wrong one, but that by itself doesn’t make a movie into a complete turkey. And I’d have liked to see a more involved and complicated story constructed around the primary threat — “Luthor conducts an experiment to kill the Man of Steel and it gets out of control” is something of a retread. But in the first movie after a reboot, that’s pretty much all that can happen. You have to grant that exemption to the Donner work, I don’t see why Singer’s product can’t benefit from it.
And we’ll have to grant it to the 2012 installment too, that’s why I don’t like the idea. We shouldn’t see this character rebooted until my grandchildren graduate from college. Krypton will be doomed, Jor-El’s baby will zip off into space just as the planet explodes, Ma and Pa Kent will adopt the baby, Pa Kent will die, Clark will find out who he is and then get a job as a reporter in Metropolis, Lex Luthor will figure out a way to kill him, the plan will get out of control and Superman will have to do something spectacular to save everyone. It will take nearly three hours to tell all this and there won’t be time for anything else…including, taking off in some wild crazy direction so that it’s bigger and better than what came before. It will have to be an “equal sequel”; those don’t work.
Besides, after thirty years I’m still trying to figure out what the deal is with Lois remembering that Clark Kent is really Superman. Does Superman have super-spit that induces amnesia and makes people forget things when he gives them a kiss? This issue needs to be pulled out of the murky, cloudy, “Is Rick Deckard a Replicant?” layer of movie legend.
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Ok, let me see if I have this straight:
Instead of writing and filming a sequel to the 2006 movie….they’re essentially going to remake the original 1978 film, albeit with more details about Krypton? And worse, a couple of pro-wrestlers are being considered for the lead role? Frankly I’d like to who told Johnson and Cena that they could act. Though I guess “wrestling” really is nothing more than a certain kind of acting, but I digress….
I was never quite clear on where, chronologically, the latest Superman movie fit-in with the original four starring Christopher Reeve, the ones from the late 70s/early 80s. Was “Superman Returns” set between Superman I and Superman II? Sometime after Superman IV? I still am not sure, not after seeing the movie three times.
I guess it was just a matter of time – I’m finally getting old enough where I finally remember the original when Hollywood decides to do a reboot/remake. Up until now, I’d always been asking, “What? There was a series in the 60s called that? Never heard of it.”
- cylarz | 11/15/2010 @ 01:46