Scribe Dan Harris Talks 'Superman' Script

[Monday, December 6th, 2004]
Superman scribe Dan Harris says that the upcoming fifth Superman movie will improve on the previous movies. "We're not operating on the same playing field," Harris told Sci-Fi Wire. "We didn't each pitch our stories to the same person, you know? It's like, the Superman vision that's out there for our movie is a combination of me, [co-writer] Mike [Dougherty] and Bryan [Singer, the director]."

Harris spoke highly of director Bryan Singer. "Bryan's really the champion here," Harris said. "Bryan decided, 'This is the story that I want to tell, and I believe in this story totally.' So we'll take it out and see if we can move it forward. It's really a group effort."

Harris says that they're still making changes to the script. "We don't start until March, but we're on our third draft," Harris said. "Right now we've done the requisite first draft, and then we chopped off 10 to 15 pages, [because] it's too expensive. But it's being molded and shifted, and it's coming along really quickly. So any work that we're doing now, by the next chapter, it's going to turn into really minor tweaking and just getting in there and making scenes better."

Harris added that the script changes were less than the ones made for the X-Men movies. "On X-Men, we did about 28 drafts, and halfway through those 28 drafts we were still rewriting the whole movie every time," Harris said. "It was still major shifts in story. Not this time around. This time around it's pretty much there."

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