Het is al een tijdje stil op het front van de nieuwe Superman film. Regisseur Bryan Singer is na Brett Ratner en McG al de derde regisseur die zich aan de vijfde film over de superheld waagt, en nog steeds is niet bekend wie de hoofdrol in de film zal gaan spelen.

Website AICN sprak met Singer.


[eng]Where do you stand right with casting Superman? Is it really going to be called Superman Returns?
"That's strictly a working title. But it is a return story. It puts the first films in a kind of vague history. So what it doesn't do is tread over the 1978 Richard Donner film, it doesn't tread over Smallville. It elaborates on the existence of Superman in the world in a history. He's out of the culture and then he returns."

Will you be using footage from the other films?
"It's possible. There's an introduction sequence that may or may not involve something like that, but not in the way you might be thinking."

Is there any truth to the reports that you have a deadline to lock in the main cast or Warner Bros. will step in a do it for you?
"No, that's absurd. I read that too and think it's just bizarre about James Caviezel, who's a wonderful actor. But, no, I'm committed to casting an unknown."[/eng]

Lees hier het hele interview.