Saturday, 23 August 2008

Superman Reboot To Have Darker Tone, Thanks To Batman's Success





In o'er 70 old age of shared comic story they've existed mostly as reluctant friends, memorably orgasm to blows on several occasions. The bottom personal credit line is that Superman doesn't really like Batman at all, so it's charles Frederick Worth wondering how he'd feel now that he's been saved by him.


Flush with the success of "The Dark Knight," Warner Bros. has proclaimed an challenging slate of upcoming movies based on its DC Comics properties to be released inside the next three years � notably a third Batman pic and a Superman bring up, according to The Wall Street Journal.


Announcement of the reboot � a complete reimagining along the lines of this year's "The Incredible Hulk" � comes two long time after manager Bryan Singer failed to capture populace imagination with a conflicted take on the Big Blue Boy Scout, and nearly deuce months after the gamey, nihilistic "The Dark Knight" opened to record-breaking numbers.


So how will Warner Bros. turn Superman around? By making him even darker, Warner Bros. Pictures Group President Jeff Robinov told the newspaper.


" 'Superman' didn't quite work as a film in the way that we wanted it to," Robinov said of Singer's pic, which made just $215 million domestically. "It didn't position the character the way he needed to be positioned," he continued. "Had 'Superman' worked in 2006, we would have had a movie for Christmas of this year or 2009, but now the