After the release of 2013’s Man of Steel, we heard from a lot of people about what they thought of the latest iteration of Superman, but someone we didn’t hear from was Superman Returns director Bryan Singer. In a recent interview with Empire (Via CBM), Singer finally spoke about the film, which he called a tough subject.
“I am in awe of the world building and the scope of that picture. It’s tough for me. I’m not a critic and it starts to get into a weird thing where one director is talking about another director. I know how hard it is to make a movie, especially one of these movies and especially a Superman movie, and there was so much I was impressed with in that movie. There were things I might have done a little differently just because of the way I view the character. Don’t misinterpret that as me not liking something.”
The subject of star Henry Cavill also came up since the actor was also up for the role of Superman when Singer made “Returns.”
“I think Henry Cavill is great. I knew Henry. He and I were friends years ago. Oddly enough, the reason I didn’t cast him was because I was making a sequel to Christopher Reeve and I wanted somebody who embodied Reeve more.”
Singer also spoke about the reactions to Superman Returns all these years later, and in retrospect what he might have done differently.
“Half of that I understand and half of it I never will. It was a movie made for a certain kind of audience. Perhaps more of a female audience. It wasn’t what it needed to be, I guess. I think I could lop the first quarter off and start the movie a bit more aggressively and maybe find a way to start the movie with the jet disaster sequence or something. I could have grabbed the audience a little more quickly. I don’t know what would have helped. Probably nothing. If I could go again, I would do an origin. I would reboot it.”
In addition, he mentions that “Man of Steel” was the title he was thinking of using for his sequel to Superman Returns and says the film’s villain would have been Darkseid.
“That was the title. Actually, my buddy, one of my two best friends, came up with that…We did explore it a little. Just hammering out ideas. I think Darkseid was going to be the villain. It was pretty world-destroying, actually.”
Singer also added why this film never got made, saying, like many films, it just went away.
“I ended up having the opportunity to go and make Valkyrie, and I think the studio lost interest at that point. I can’t say it was all the studio’s fault and I can’t say it was all my fault. It just fizzled out.”
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