And Lisa…good thoughts. Good to see some female POV on subject matter as this..and have it be GOOD.

Problem is I saw this project as a way of starting anew, but without the chore of retelling the origin.

Bale… eh, I don’t know. He was pretty good, but if I had to sacrifice him to get a new Superman, I’d gladly do it. I don’t have any really strong feelings about the rest of your cast.

You hit the nail on the head with Singer-as-director. I mean, I guess it goes to show that you can’t just assume that if a director signs on to do some superhero film, it’s not just going to be his best film with the hero as the protagonist. As for my pic, well I’m not married to it, but I thought about Martin Campbell who directed both GOLDENEYE and CASINO ROYALE. I say him because he revived the world’s longest film series TWICE, and both times it was in a completely different direction. More importantly, you don’t mention his name expecting people to know who it is. I think for once, it’d be nice if the director of a major superhero movie could be just “some guy.”

One: The Story. Simply put. Darkseid plans to eradicate or enslave the planet…this way, we can justify having all the major players come together and have a worthy opponent as well. And Darkseid on the big screen is too cool to pass up.

Two: The script. Garth Ennis writes the hell out of everything JLA. Pay him to write the screenplay and make all the fanboys happy right off the bat.

Three: The cast.

Superman: I have no problem with Brandon Routh. He played the hell out of Supes/Clark. The kid ruined the whole thing for me, but that’s personal opinion.

Batman: Duh. Christian Bale. If it ain’t broke….

Wonder Woman: Here’s where it gets tricky. Being that she’s an extremely hot and powerful Greek woman, I’d have to tell the casting direction to go find me a relative unknown actress to fill her shoes to make her more accessible, but if the studio demanded a “brand name”, then I’m going with Morena Baccarin from Serenity. She’s the total package for a goddess as far as I’m concerned.

Flash: They called it right when they cast Ryan Reynolds. He’s quick-witted, slim, and a just the right amount of smart ass to bring Wally West alive in the cinema.

Green Lantern: Ben Browder from Farscape as Hal Jordan and have a cameo from John Stewart on there played by Erik King from Dexter..he has asshole ex-military down to a fine art.

Green Arrow: How would Bruce Boxlietner look with blonde hair and goatee?? I think he could make Ollie happen.

Black Canary: Gotta have at least 2 chicks in the film. My pick for the screamer would be Ashley Scott from Into the Blue.

Aquaman: here’s a tough choice…but you need the king of atlantis represented in all all-earth threat such as the kind Darkseid would impose, so I’m gonna go with David Boreanz….he’s name enough to attract attention, and good enough to make us believe he could be king.

Hawkman: who better than the dude who voiced him in the JLU animated series? James Remar is buff and gruff enough to pull that off without any doubt.

Vixen: I’m digging her in the comic and would have her on the cast if the budget allowed, and my Vixen would be Kerry Washington.

Four: the director.
We’re talking about a movie with live action with a shitload of apolcalytic explosions and tons of CGI, and multiple set pieces, a huge cast and a “superhero” movie to boot. Normally, I’d offer the job to Bryan Singer because I’m still impressed with how he handled the X-Men franchise, but I’m still pissed at him for fucking up Superman Returns…so, given the amount of horrible demonic creatures that would come pouring out of the Boom Tubes and flood into the world at large, who better the Guillermo del Toro for the role of orchestrator of epic movie???

Five: the budget…easily 175-200 million.

Six: the producer…Joel Silver. He has enough clout to get what and who he wants for the movie, respects the fans enough to make it as good or better than it can be.

I think this movie would be done right and just dominate all at the box office the year it premiered.

Warners needs to get Superman out of the continuity of SUPERMAN RETURNS. I mean, it just wasn’t in character. So many people think it’s such an interesting dilemma or something, but it wasn’t worth it. It’s something THIS CHARACTER wouldn’t have done in the first place. And for what? The glorification of some fake fan’s ego, that’s what.

I hope it’s not dead, I hope they just change a few things around. A lot of the cast looked all right, but I agree that they shouldn’t have cast Armie Hammer as Batman. Regardless, I’d take that over anything in the Singerverse of Superman.

Justice League movie, new version of origin, no more films… anything to get Superman out of this continuity.

finally some actual sense to the world!!!

cos, honestly, i think it sounded like the worst movie ever.

genuinely, you need to establish the characters before you do a big event movie. and, tbh, i think if they could get routh and bale to do this thing, it would be all the more better and credible.

to tell you the truth, i want a david s. goyer and zak penn collaboration with either michael bay or Bryan singer directing.

(this is still one happy day!)

…Man… Let me write the script! We can do an origin story later!

They need to reboot, recast, return to the original script and get it all done by 2013.

Joss Whedon should direct :)