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Look, Up in the Sky! The Amazing Story of Superman Page #13
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- 2006
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and TV and a multiple of series. . .
. . .that will exist long after I'm gone.
So at some point you have to
just choose the things. . .
. . .that meant something to you.
He came in with the way
he wanted to make the movie.
It was so unbelievably
reliant and perfect.
It was like,
''I've been wrong for 12 years. ''
This is the right way to go.
To shape the story
under the codename Red Sun...
...Singer worked closely
with X-Men screenwriters...
...Michael Dougherty
and Dan Harris.
We want to contemporize
the character, at the same time. . .
. . .there's a gee-whiz quality
about Clark and about Superman. . .
. . .that you've got to maintain.
We feet like Donner did something
really, really right in the first one.
He created, essentially,
And so I think it is a matter
of us trying to kind of put. . .
. . .the Superman franchise back on track
and bringing it back. . .
. . .you know, to a new generation.
But one important question remained:
Who would play Superman?
Superman has to feel, Look
and sound as though. . .
. . .he has stepped out of your coercive
consciousness of who that character is.
Just as Richard Donner had done
three decades before...
...Bryan Singer decided
to cast a relative unknown:
camera, action.
Taxi.
well, maybe, you know,
saying goodbye was hard. . .
. . .because he wasn't sure
whether he was going to be gone. . .
. . .for a Little while or forever.
And maybe he had to go
and he wanted to say goodbye. . .
. . .but he could find
the guts to do it. . .
. . .because if he saw you
even for one East time. . . .
if he saw you just once. . .
. . .he would never be able to go.
He had height and breadth.
Then we almost knocked
into each other going out the front door.
Then I thought, ''Okay,
he's got Clark. '' And then I said:
''Are you afraid of the Superman curse?''
And he said, ''well, it could be worse.
I could not get the role
something terrible could happen to me. ''
With the fact that I came
from the small town in the Midwest--
--makes a lot of difference
to my portrayal and who I am.
Bryan liked that I had Midwestern values,
you know, everybody has values. . .
. . .but the Midwest gets
a good rap for it.
And action.
He has to be able to embody
Clark Kent on the farm.
Clark Kent in the newsroom,
the bumbling Clark.
And then finally, Kal-El,
the last son the Krypton. . .
. . .with all the majesty and honesty and
virtue that you expect from Superman.
Brandon has those qualities
rather inherently.
It's great to wear the suit
when people bring their kids to set. . .
. . .and you just see, you know,
a kind of sparkle in their eye.
Not because of me,
but it's because it's Superman.
-Look in the sky, chief.
-It's a bird.
-It's a plane.
-No, Look it's--
You wanted to see me?
Joining Brandon Routh
would be an ensemble of actors...
... who seemed tailor-made
Kate Bosworth would be the new
Lois Lane, now a working mom...
and engagement to another man...
...are challenged by her love
for Superman.
I knew it was going to be
a tremendous chaining for me. . .
. . .because there's
a very fine balance. . .
. . .with playing somebody
who is a comic-book character.
You can either be much more
of a caricature. . .
. . .or you can be very, very realistic.
I wanted to stir have
that fun spunk that Lois Lane has.
But I also wanted to bring a heart to it
that everybody could relate to.
can I ask you something?
Have you ever met someone
and it's almost like. . .
. . .you were from totally different worlds,
but shared such a strong connection. . .
. . .you knew you were destined
to be with each other?
Then he just takes off, without explaining
why or without even saying goodbye.
Sounds cheesy, I know.
Taxi. Hey.
Thanks.
a new clarity...
... to the role of Daily planet
editor, Perry White.
I want to know it all, everything.
I want to see photos of him everywhere.
Does he still stand for truth? Justice?
All that stuff.
Sam Huntington would play
Jimmy is just a happy-go-lucky guy.
He wants to take a good picture
and do his job well.
Clark has been doing a Little
soul-searching. . .
. . .for the last coupe of years.
well, you know. Things change.
Kevin Spacey was cast as Superman's
diabolical arch nemesis Lex Luthor.
tell me everything.
for Superman:
The Movie...... the late Marlon Brando would return
as Superman's father, Jor-El.
Even though you've been raised as a
human being, you are not one of them.
They can be a great people, Kal-El.
They wish to be.
They only lack the Eight
to show the way.
In the film, Superman is forced
to find his place again...
...in a world that?
almost forgotten him.
It was a conflict
that resonated not only in the script...
...it also mirrored the many years
the caped superhero...
...had been out
of the pop-culture mainstream.
Superman has been off the Earth
for five years.
He returns and finds
that Lois Lane has moved on.
She has a fianc and they have a child.
And he's taken a bit off guard by this.
I see you've already met the munchkin.
Clark, Richard. Richard, Clark.
-Richard White.
-Hi.
well, it's great to finally meet you.
I've heard so much.
Oh, you have?
Yeah, Jimmy just won't
shut up about you.
The struggle of Superman is he wants
to have that semblance of real life. . .
. . .and of having Lois Lane,
of having a family, all those things.
They haven't seen each other
for five years. . .
. . .and she has moved on
with her Life.
She has everything you feel
when you have. . .
. . .a great love in your Life
come back. . .
. . .and everybody can relate to that.
-Were you in love with him?
-He was Superman.
Everyone was in love with him.
But were you?
Filmed at Fox Studios Australia...
. . .Superman Returns boasted a budget
of nearly $200 million...
...but for Bryan Singer,
more crucial than lavish sets or CGI...
... was making sure audiences...
...emotionally connected
with his characters.
that he's not a comic-book fan.
That it's not the universe he grew up in.
He didn't read comic books as a child.
But what I think he recognizes is that
they deal with issues and emotions. . .
. . .that resonate with people in sort
of a very highly entertaining fashion.
well, you're back, and everyone
seems to be pretty happy about it.
Not everyone.
You can no longer get away with
just great CGs or great special effects.
You really need to have story.
You really need to have character,
relationship, emotion.
And it was very, very exciting
for me. . .
. . .to feel like we're on to
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