Mark Millar has ideas. He’s not just the guy who created Wanted and Kick-Ass, he also sees similarities between Superman and a certain mafia kingpin. He’s ready to give the Man of Steel his own Michael Corleone style three picture epic. I’m kinda doubting this is going to happen, but here’s the details.
Millar was interviewed by Empire Online and outlined this vision for the next Superman movie(s) that he’s currently pitching. He wants it to be an eight hour epic, spread over three movies. Here is how Millar describes the general story, “I want to start on Krypton, a thousand years ago, and end with Superman alone on Planet Earth, the last being left on the planet, as the yellow sun turns red and starts to supernova, and he loses his powers." (oops, he just gave away the ending!) How does this fit in with Mickey C. and his family? According to Millar, “It’s gonna be like Michael Corleone in the Godfather films the entire story from beginning to end, you see where he starts, how he becomes who he becomes, and where that takes him.” Millar reportedly has a “big-Hollywood action director” ready to put Superman Coleone through the many paces required to get him from Krypton to the end of the world.
The three movies would be shot simultaneously (presumably) and released a year apart. Millar appreciates the Bryan Singer directed Superman Returns, but says “the problem with Superman Returns was like releasing Star Wars in ’77, The Empire Strikes Back in ’80 and then waiting 28 years to release Return of the Jedi, it wasn’t relevant. You’re losing me here, Mark. Are you comparing what was basically a remake (Superman Returns) with an actual third part of a story like Return of the Jedi? Superman Returns had some problems, but it wasn’t lack of “relevance,” whatever that means. Millar then states that he saw Singer’s movie as an homage to Richard Donner, but that he thinks, “you should pay homage by doing something completely different.” Huh? So, Breakin’ 2: Electric Bogaloo is an homage to Citizen Kane? They are “completely different.”
It’s not that this sounds like a bad idea, and Millar has Superman experience in the comics, so what the hell. I just don’t see it happening. Rebooting Superman again? That didn’t work so great with Hulk, The Incredible and I don’t think people want to keep having their heroes restarted every movie. Plus this just seems a little ambitious for a character with such a spotty track record.
