James McTeigue has been rumoured to be heading up a Superman Reboot, with the Wachowskis to produce, and recently he shared a little about his vision with that.
“I think I would be interested in doing it if they let me do it the way I wanted to do it,” he started. “I would say that, if you take the Richard Donner Supermans and the last Superman [from Bryan Singer], I think that Superman is probably ripe for a bit of a change up.”
McTeigue continued: “I’m not saying you do the ubiquitous dark Superman, I’m just saying that I think there are some things that you could excise from the Superman mythology, if you took the world that he was in and changed that a bit, and maybe even project that into the future a bit.”
“I think you don’t really have to play into the origin story anymore. I think there’s a whole bunch of things you could do to make that film more alive and exciting again.”
Now the site claims this confirms his involvement, but then says immediately in his quote that he is “interested in doing it if they let me do it the way I wanted to” so this is hardly a confirmation.
But despite the knee jerk reaction that Superman would instantly become a mashup of Speed Racer and the Matrix, can you see this team taking on the Big Blue Boyscout?
I think it would be an interesting match. As he suggests you really have to do something different after there have been so many takes on the character already. Even DC itself, which has lost the rights to Supes origin story launched a new Superman Miniseries this week spelling out his origins.
I just hope that whoever does it, does it justice, and that Brandon Routh returns.
