Darren Aronofsky in the Running to Direct Superman
http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/107899-aronofsky-in-the-running-to-direct-superman
Originally posted by The Nuul
http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/107921-natalie-portman-up-for-lois-laneNat may be Lois!
What the...
She's already playing Jane Foster in THOR, and is signed for sequels.
This part of the perpetual pissing contest between DC and Marvel?
Or was this written by the same person who reported Cher would be Catwoman in the next Batman film? 😛
Originally posted by -Pr-
...I don't know how i feel about that. Worried. I feel worried.
We can only hope that Christopher Nolan will restrain Zack Snyder's worst excesses as a director. 😬
This will be new to him, having to direct a comic adaption where he's not lifting wholesale panels from a page and using famous lines. It will have a layer of realism (hopefully that Nolan's approach.)
I still don't think he's a fit.
Originally posted by The Nuul
Why though? you didnt like Watchmen?
I did like Watchmen.
Originally posted by roughrider
We can only hope that Christopher Nolan will restrain Zack Snyder's worst excesses as a director. 😬This will be new to him, having to direct a comic adaption where he's not lifting wholesale panels from a page and using famous lines. It will have a layer of realism (hopefully that Nolan's approach.)
I still don't think he's a fit.
It's Nolan more than Snyder that I'm worried about. At least with Snyder I know I'll get good action. I'm just curious as to how Snyder would approach something like Superman.
The realism is the problem imo. Nolan is a quality director, don't get me wrong, but trying to go down the super-real route with Superman isn't going to work. Yes, the character can be realistic, but it has to be balanced with that fantastical aspect as well. I'm not entirely sure Nolan can do that.
And i hope that the rumours about them using John Byrne's Superman as a template are the wrong way to go. Big time.
As i said he's a quality director though, so I'm not going to decide one way or another just yet. I just think i have reason to be worried.
Snyder's new CG animated film is the first time he's managed to do a PG rated film, and leave the ultraviolence behind for a change(but there has been some rumblings about violent owl fights in it.) This is a guy who turned down SWAT as his feature debut because "the script wasn't violent enough." And he's going to go balls-out crazy with the upcoming 'Sucker Punch.' So for him to make a film about a clean hero with religious subtext in his story, is a stretch.
The only thing in his defense, is I might have said the same thing in the mid 1970's about Richard Donner, who was just coming off a film about the child of the Devil murdering his human family (The Omen) - maybe I would have questioned his hiring at the time. But I would have been wrong to do that, as it turned out.