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Bryan Singer's next project seems to be...

JacksonArcher

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...The Prisoners, based on a spec script written by up and coming writer Aaron Guzikowski, starring Mark Walhberg and centered about a father who takes the law into his own hands after his daughter is kidnapped.

I'm posting this here and not in General TV & Media because of Singer's (past?) association with the fledging Superman franchise and rumors circulating whether or not he'll be involved (either as director or otherwise) with a new installment in the franchise.

Well, it seems that after Valkyrie, Singer is more interested in pursuing other projects, and now it appears the liklihood of him being attached to direct the next Superman film even slimmer. Or perhaps I'm thinking too much into this.

Regardless, I have a feeling the Superman franchise is going to lay dormant for a bit longer now, unless someone like J.J. Abrams comes along and chooses to revitalize the franchise. Which is funny, since Abrams was once involved in the franchise.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=53886
 
JacksonArcher said:
Regardless, I have a feeling the Superman franchise is going to lay dormant for a bit longer now, unless someone like J.J. Abrams comes along and chooses to revitalize the franchise. Which is funny, since Abrams was once involved in the franchise.
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Fine with me if that guy stays away from Superman. He'll be too busy with other film and TV projects, and I'm not sure his revisionist ideas for Superman would be welcome anyway.
 
Bad Bishop said:
JacksonArcher said:
Regardless, I have a feeling the Superman franchise is going to lay dormant for a bit longer now, unless someone like J.J. Abrams comes along and chooses to revitalize the franchise. Which is funny, since Abrams was once involved in the franchise.
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Fine with me if that guy stays away from Superman. He'll be too busy with other film and TV projects, and I'm not sure his revisionist ideas for Superman would be welcome anyway.
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I read his Superman script and it had some good ideas; the action was certainly fantastic, but after literally five sequences of the same thing (Superman fighting Kryptonians) it became laborious towards the end of the script. The awe & impact of the opening battle was gradually and painfully eviscerated.
 
This also made me think of Liam Neeson's Taken movie. I'm assuming that it must have something to elevate it from the norm, if a director of Singer's calibre is involved. It occurs to me also, that when I first heard of the plot of The Usual Suspects and its time-jumping chronology, I thought it sounded like a rip off of Reservoir Dogs. Of course, it turned out to be another classic movie, which took the same sort of idea as RD but went in a totally different direction to Tarantino's movie. So presumably this movie will do the same.
 
Captaindemotion said:
This also made me think of Liam Neeson's Taken movie. I'm assuming that it must have something to elevate it from the norm, if a director of Singer's calibre is involved. It occurs to me also, that when I first heard of the plot of The Usual Suspects and its time-jumping chronology, I thought it sounded like a rip off of Reservoir Dogs. Of course, it turned out to be another classic movie, which took the same sort of idea as RD but went in a totally different direction to Tarantino's movie. So presumably this movie will do the same.
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The script is gaining a lot of buzz in the industry, with a lot of high calibre directors circling the project. It's said to be a cross between The Silence of the Lambs and Se7en, and that distinction seems to distance itself from Taken right off the bat. Apparently according to those who have read the script, it has a very adult approach but with commercial sensibility, which is why the screenplay is gaining so much clout and attention.
 
^Cooooooooooooooooooooooooool! Though, I have to say, I prefer Wahlberg in supporting roles to leading ones. Three Kings, The Departed - brilliant. Shooter, Max Payne - not so much ...
 
JacksonArcher said:
Bad Bishop said:
JacksonArcher said:
Regardless, I have a feeling the Superman franchise is going to lay dormant for a bit longer now, unless someone like J.J. Abrams comes along and chooses to revitalize the franchise. Which is funny, since Abrams was once involved in the franchise.
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Fine with me if that guy stays away from Superman. He'll be too busy with other film and TV projects, and I'm not sure his revisionist ideas for Superman would be welcome anyway.
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I read his Superman script and it had some good ideas; the action was certainly fantastic, but after literally five sequences of the same thing (Superman fighting Kryptonians) it became laborious towards the end of the script. The awe & impact of the opening battle was gradually and painfully eviscerated.
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Hmm... I might be mistakenly assigning some of Tim Burton's weird Superman concepts to Abrams. Did J.J. Abrams stay faithful to Superman's origin or ignore it altogether?
 
The Abrams script wasn't quite as weird as some of the screwed up stuff Tim Burton came up with (which was really just Tim Burton being Tim Burton). Unlike Burton, Abrams seemed to get the general gist of Superman. However, his script did include some very controversial alterations. Primarily...
- Lex Luthor was a UFO obsessed FBI agent who, at the end, was revealed to be a Kryptonian.
- Krypton was not destroyed. Rather, it was conquered from within by an evil dictator named Ty-Zor (who may have been Jor-El's brother or something). Since Ty-Zor was a mortal enemy of Jor-El, that was why he sent Kal-El to Earth to protect him.
 
Thrall said:
Is it really that hard to make a faithful Superman adaptation that's good?
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It's hard to make a faithful Superman adaptation that doesn't feel like it's been done to death a hundred times on screen and in print, yes.
 
Today, the same website is suggesting another project for Singer is in the works:

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=53927

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New Regency has acquired "Freedom Formula: Ghost of the Wasteland," an adaptation of the Radical Publishing comic book series that will be developed as a potential directing vehicle for Bryan Singer, reports Variety. 20th Century Fox will distribute.

The comic book has a futuristic premise in which fighter jets have been replaced by pilots who battle in racing exo-suits. The protagonist is a genetically engineered racer who learns his bloodline has the power to change society.

Michael Finch has been hired to write the script.
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^Yeah, I think I'd rather see him do this movie. Just as long its not Robotech meets Speed Racer meets, I dunno Babylon AD.

Save that other movie for a David Fincher, or Jonathan Demme, or Michael Mann, etc.

I'd actually like to see Kaiser Soze, back in some form.
 
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