The Odyssey of ‘Superman’
– more than you want to know –
‘Superman V‘ or ‘Superman Returns‘ had been in development for about a decade. I first heard about it back in 1996, when I was teaching art school down in Georgia and one of my students was going on and on about Kevin Smith of ‘Clerks’ fame writing the screenplay for it.
Again, that was about 1996 and the development process seems to have gone through a number of writers and producers since that time, no fewer than 5 directors have come and gone – Tim Burton, Oliver Stone, McG, Brett Ratner and finally, landing the chair last fall, Bryan Singer — and then Singer only because Fox spun their wheels for too long after ‘X-Men 2′ had come out, and no one had bothered to guarantee his participation in X-3. [Read more →]
