[Jerome Grate]

I have to admit the animated series did a real good job at promoting Lex as a Criminal mastermind so effective that those with super powers including Superman have trouble containing and dealing with him. For the sequel I would have to go with Brainiac, a lot can be done with that character, he can threaten the world with his ability to control computers can go a long way. Darkseid well, that might require two or three movies llike X-Men.

[DavidPla]

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Originally Posted by Inspector Hammer!

Just so the movie would do better at the BO?

Absolutely! I don't know who said this quote but
"If you can eat turkey sandwiches every day, Thanksgiving doesn't look like such a big deal."

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Originally Posted by Inspector Hammer!

Clark wasn't and isn't yet Superman on the show so ending it that early just for the sake of a movie would have blew.

Even though he isn't wearing the costume on the show doesn't negate the fact that it takes some of the magic out of seeing Superman return to the big screen.

[Adam Lenhardt]

I watched Superman Returns again, this time on DVD. The thing that stuck out at me was that the scenes that drag are the ones that only involve Lex. Lois is a complicated character, sometimes rather unlikeable, but she's always interesting because she ties in directly with our hero. To some extent this movie made the mistake of the original Batman movie: it focused more on the villain than the hero. Batman Begins got it right: Virtually everything was seen through Bruce/Batman's perspective. I don't think any of the scenes that didn't lasted more than a minute or two. Routh knows how to carry the screen. Let him do it.

[Adam Lenhardt]

Here's sort of what I'd like to see out of a sequel's opening:

Clark Kent's chasing down a story on the streets of metropolis. We are introduced to a storyline for CLARK that will carry through the movie. As he's going down the street, he sees a robbery in progress or some other more human level criminal act. We see him duck into an alleyway, rip open his shirt to reveal the "S" and soar up into the sky. The camera keeps launching into the sky until we ultimately reach outer space. "WARNER BROS. PICTURES PRESENTS..." explodes out into the screen in the style of S:TM and SR. As the credits finish, Brainaic's space vessel slides into the starscape and the camera follows its descent towards earth.

[Patrick Sun]

I disliked the opening with Lex getting the rich lady to sign over everything to him on her deathbed. That was not the way to start this sort of film. Simply start with Supes crashing into Martha's backyard, and go from there, cut to the deathbed scene, if you must, but it didn't even need to be shown, just alluded to with a few lines of dialogue between Lex and Kitty. But I digress...

As far as the sequel opening, I don't think we need the Clark angle first, just do the credits, and then let Braniac's starship fly into view in the starscape, and then offscreen, slip in a placard "a few years ago, Superman visited the remains of Krypton, and left thinking he was the sole survivor of his deceased planet. He was not." Then cut to the Return to Krypton footage and end with a pullback of Braniac watching Supes' starship flying back towards Earth, and him following Supes.

[Bryan Ri]

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Originally Posted by Patrick Sun

As far as the sequel opening, I don't think we need the Clark angle first, just do the credits, and then let Braniac's starship fly into view in the starscape, and then offscreen, slip in a placard "a few years ago, Superman visited the remains of Krypton, and left thinking he was the sole survivor of his deceased planet. He was not." Then cut to the Return to Krypton footage and end with a pullback of Braniac watching Supes' starship flying back towards Earth, and him following Supes.

Perfect, I'll take it.

[Tim Glover]

Sounds pretty cool Patrick.

[Norm]

No Zod in Superman Returns Sequel?

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=20493

[Brad M]

Sounds to me Brandon isn't too sure of much in that article. Does pre-production include writing a script? I get the feeling from that article that Mr. Routh has not seen one yet.

I just watched the film for the second time since seeing it in theaters. To me, it was much, much better the second time around. I hope it builds an audience from home viewings.

[BrettGallman]

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"I don’t know," laughs Routh. “I don’t know how much we want to reprise characters that have appeared in the series before, since we’ve reset and used the first film to pay homage to all that’s come before. Now I think Bryan (Singer) might want to go somewhere new with it, which I think will be exciting.”"

This sounds promising. As much as I liked the homages to the original Superman, I'm glad Singer is looking to put his own signature on the series (possibly).