Comments on: No Superman Sequel for Mark Millar http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/10/24/no-superman-sequel-for-mark-millar/ Blogging the Reel World Tue, 2 Dec 2008 21:04:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Nightwing43 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/10/24/no-superman-sequel-for-mark-millar/#comment-422004 Nightwing43 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:15:20 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/10/24/no-superman-sequel-for-mark-millar/#comment-422004 SUPERMAN RETURNS has the potential to ruin Superman. However, this is wishful thinking to say the least for Millar. Millar may know some director, but in order for anyone to get excited, THAT is who would have to be talking. @ goldfarb: you're probably right, but Warners can't be as excited about making ANY Superman film as they let on. It didn't even earn back its budget domestically. It did well in the foreign and DVD markets, but so have a lot of other films that either never got sequels or whose sequels were disappointments. @ Pat: Unless Millar has an EXCLUSIVE contract with Marvel (in which case, it'd be Marvel that prevents him from writing the film, not DC) he CAN do a DC film. Most of these writers and artists are freelance. B.S. himself was best known for a series of films about Marvel characters. SUPERMAN RETURNS has the potential to ruin Superman. However, this is wishful thinking to say the least for Millar. Millar may know some director, but in order for anyone to get excited, THAT is who would have to be talking.

@ goldfarb: you’re probably right, but Warners can’t be as excited about making ANY Superman film as they let on. It didn’t even earn back its budget domestically. It did well in the foreign and DVD markets, but so have a lot of other films that either never got sequels or whose sequels were disappointments.

@ Pat: Unless Millar has an EXCLUSIVE contract with Marvel (in which case, it’d be Marvel that prevents him from writing the film, not DC) he CAN do a DC film. Most of these writers and artists are freelance. B.S. himself was best known for a series of films about Marvel characters.

]]> By: Mark Millar Will Not Write The Man of Steel | Film School Rejects http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/10/24/no-superman-sequel-for-mark-millar/#comment-96995 Mark Millar Will Not Write The Man of Steel | Film School Rejects Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:49:58 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/10/24/no-superman-sequel-for-mark-millar/#comment-96995 [...] seasoned comic book scribe Mark Millar who, for a time, might have saved the day. Now /film has the story of why Millar, despite having dreamed up a three-flick epic for the man in the blue [...] [...] seasoned comic book scribe Mark Millar who, for a time, might have saved the day. Now /film has the story of why Millar, despite having dreamed up a three-flick epic for the man in the blue [...]

]]> By: Z. Irving http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/10/24/no-superman-sequel-for-mark-millar/#comment-96649 Z. Irving Sun, 28 Oct 2007 00:21:28 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/10/24/no-superman-sequel-for-mark-millar/#comment-96649 I'd like to have the deal that Bryan Singer has with Warner Bros. if they do not make the next Superman film with him. It is to Warner Bros. benefit if they do not have to act on this. I’d like to have the deal that Bryan Singer has with Warner Bros. if they do not make the next Superman film with him. It is to Warner Bros. benefit if they do not have to act on this.

]]> By: Pat http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/10/24/no-superman-sequel-for-mark-millar/#comment-94780 Pat Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:26:56 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/10/24/no-superman-sequel-for-mark-millar/#comment-94780 a lot of you guys are calling bullshit for something you've missed the facts on. It is 100% different with Singer and Goyer going from one to the other with the movies... It's the comic aspect that is causing the problem. Goyer hasn't written a comic in years so he has no affiliation and Singer has never written one. Millar is currently Marvel's top comic writer. He's so involved with their books and the major story lines currently in play or in the works. THAT'S why he can't go to DC. THAT'S what they mean when they say they can't hire the competition. It would be like Marvel hiring Geoff Johns from DC Comics to write the next Spiderman movie. Because they're involved in so much stuff, the top comic writers get so entrenched within their company they they can't skip around. The only movie example I can think of that would do this even a little justice would be, imagine StarWars and Star Trek both in-between sequals at the same time... then imagine George Lucas switching over to Star Trek to write their next movie (provided Lucas was only the writer of starwars) a lot of you guys are calling bullshit for something you’ve missed the facts on. It is 100% different with Singer and Goyer going from one to the other with the movies… It’s the comic aspect that is causing the problem. Goyer hasn’t written a comic in years so he has no affiliation and Singer has never written one. Millar is currently Marvel’s top comic writer. He’s so involved with their books and the major story lines currently in play or in the works. THAT’S why he can’t go to DC. THAT’S what they mean when they say they can’t hire the competition. It would be like Marvel hiring Geoff Johns from DC Comics to write the next Spiderman movie. Because they’re involved in so much stuff, the top comic writers get so entrenched within their company they they can’t skip around. The only movie example I can think of that would do this even a little justice would be, imagine StarWars and Star Trek both in-between sequals at the same time… then imagine George Lucas switching over to Star Trek to write their next movie (provided Lucas was only the writer of starwars)

]]> By: Jason http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/10/24/no-superman-sequel-for-mark-millar/#comment-94303 Jason Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:12:07 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/10/24/no-superman-sequel-for-mark-millar/#comment-94303 Maybe WB just isn't taking pitches from people who want to revamp the series like Millar obviously wanted to. Maybe WB just isn’t taking pitches from people who want to revamp the series like Millar obviously wanted to.

]]> By: Jason http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/10/24/no-superman-sequel-for-mark-millar/#comment-94301 Jason Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:07:21 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/10/24/no-superman-sequel-for-mark-millar/#comment-94301 "It’s against company policy to hire the competition." Sounds like bullshit to me too. Goldfarb you've got some great points. Bryan Singer went from X-Men to Superman. David Goyer went from Blade to Batman. Is WB looking for pitches in case Singer doesn't want to do the next one? Because I haven't heard where Singer has left the Superman franchise. “It’s against company policy to hire the competition.”

Sounds like bullshit to me too. Goldfarb you’ve got some great points. Bryan Singer went from X-Men to Superman. David Goyer went from Blade to Batman.

Is WB looking for pitches in case Singer doesn’t want to do the next one? Because I haven’t heard where Singer has left the Superman franchise.

]]> By: goldfarb http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/10/24/no-superman-sequel-for-mark-millar/#comment-94243 goldfarb Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:48:04 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/10/24/no-superman-sequel-for-mark-millar/#comment-94243 I call bullshit. WB hired Brian Singer...who is BEST KNOWN to the public as the guy who directed X-Men and X-Men 2...why would things be different for someone who is, after all, just a writer? and from a business point of view it's a called a 'coup'..."He writes your little comic books? that's nice...but he's writing our FEATURE FILM" oh and David Goyer anyone?... I call bullshit.
WB hired Brian Singer…who is BEST KNOWN to the public as the guy who directed X-Men and X-Men 2…why would things be different for someone who is, after all, just a writer? and from a business point of view it’s a called a ‘coup’…”He writes your little comic books? that’s nice…but he’s writing our FEATURE FILM”
oh and David Goyer anyone?…

]]> By: LAS HORAS PERDIDAS - CRITICAS Y NOTICIAS DE CINE http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/10/24/no-superman-sequel-for-mark-millar/#comment-94231 LAS HORAS PERDIDAS - CRITICAS Y NOTICIAS DE CINE Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:22:08 +0000 http://www.slashfilm.com/2007/10/24/no-superman-sequel-for-mark-millar/#comment-94231 [...] trabaja para Marvel. Al enemigo ni agua. Gracias a nuestros lectores por el toque de atención y a Slashfilm para leer el [...] [...] trabaja para Marvel. Al enemigo ni agua. Gracias a nuestros lectores por el toque de atención y a Slashfilm para leer el [...]

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