Recently our friends at
IESB.net talked with
Superman: The Man of Steel star Brandon Routh. The actor had a few tidbits to offer about the highly anticipated followup to 2006's
Superman Returns.
On the subject of the villain in
Superman: The Man of Steel:
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 with
Superman 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...
Superman: The Man of Steel is slated for release on 2010 from Warner Bros.
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R.I.P. Christopher Reeve( The real Superman)
Man of Steel can't wait!
Thank You Very Much.
Superman is Dead.
i dont think this is going to be a follow-up to superman returns
its gonna be entirely seperate from the past films
He hasn't been in a movie since Returns, you dumb shit
If Routh does Superman, and not Christopher Reeves playing Superman, he would do fine. I'm tired of seeing the Richard Donner character, even though it was good, it's been around to long and I think we've seen all it has to offer.
Bring on the Millar 3-part-epic script.
Btw, get a new line. You say that line whenever you don't like an actor/actress.
I think Brainiac is a great villain for the first movie, while doomsday is in the second, where he "dies" and then the third, we have Zod, and Luthor ending it.