JUSTICE LEAGUE and MAN OF STEEL Updates
Important DC Comics guy you've never heard of give a progress report on Krypton's Last Son.
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Raise your hand if you've heard of Avi Arad. Now do the same if you know of Gregory Noveck. Thought as much. Noveck is Senior VP of Creative Affairs for DC Comics, a position somewhat similar to the one Arad held at Marvel. Noveck perhaps lacks the bluster and hubris of Arad because I rarely see or hear anything of him. Despite being so low-key, the website Voices From Krypton have managed to track Noveck down and get a very good interview out of him. According to Noveck, Bryan Singer's Man of Steel is still in the works, despite rumours stating it's on indefinite hold:- "Thats not true. The reason that Justice Leagueis powering forward first is because the script came in and it was phenomenal."He expands a little more on the Justice League/Man of Steel switcheroo:-
"It (the Justice League script) is , and that very rarely happens in Hollywood on a movie of this scale, and when it does you have no choice but to say, Wed better catch lightning in a bottle and go! All of a sudden, six months later, who knows whats going to happen? You want to hold on to those writers, youve got massive interest from directors, you land someone like George Miller, so you go. And in the middle of it all, youve got Bryan going off to make another movie, which was a passion project of his. When he comes back, well dive right in to Man of Steel. Were scripting and its going to happen. Were not going to make it until the script is great, but well get there one way or the other and its not going to take nine years."My excitement for Justice League has been dampened somewhat since the announcement of the "Teen Titans cast off", but the proof will be in the pudding. And we won't be able to sample that until 2009. I will say one thing in this movie's defence: it isn't being rushed anymore than recent DC movies if you look at their production timelines. The script for Batman Begins was commissioned in March 2003 for a summer 05 release; work began on Superman Returns' script in July 2004 for summer 06; and Justice League in February this year for a summer 09 bow. Noveck's faith in the script is encouraging. However I remember being absolutely pumped to see Troy and I'd heard various studio-types declare it the best script ever written... how wrong was that?! Justice League should be judged on its own merits, as a stand alone film, and not because it's getting made instead of a new Batman or Superman pic. Unfortunately I think fanboys who are really into Singer and Nolan's movies won't give it a fair shot. As for Man of Steel, even though Noveck is optimistic I'm not too sure it'll get made. I wasn't a fan of Superman Returns but Bryan Singer is an excellent filmmaker and I think he could make a Superman film that delivers on a level that the previous didn't. As a director, Singer is far from frugal (Valkyrie's budget is rumoured to be spiraling out of control) and the studio's desire to make a Superman sequel for much less could ultimately be the key factor that means he's shown the door. source - voices from krypton