2. The Big Blue Boy Scout's Overdue for a Makeover
It's been 6 years since Bryan Singer's Superman Returns. That movie, on the whole, was widely panned by critics as being too long in drama and too short on action. While the movie itself was intended to be a bookend to the first two Superman movies done by Richard Donner in the late 1970's, it never achieved the commercial success Warner Bros. had hoped for it. Singer succeeded in capping off the Donner films with a movie fitting of a final act, but not much more. And it was nearly 19 years from the time Superman was last seen on the silver screen in Superman IV: The Quest for Peace until Singer let loose with Returns: far too long for DC's grandest icon to be without his own deserving film. But even when it finally arrived in 2006, Returns underwhelmed most all of us. It's been 6 years since Superman Returns failed to get us all to look up in the sky all over again. While that's not nearly as long as his last hiatus, Superman has recently taken a back seat to other comic book properties, including Robert Downey Jr.'s highly successful IronMan franchise and Christopher Nolan's dark take on Batman with The Dark Knight Trilogy. The time is now for Warner Bros and DC to strike back with a new look at Superman. Batman's trilogy has concluded, and this summer Marvel's The Avengers was the most successful of all the comic book based films. The reintroduction of Superman is poised to relaunch The Man of Tomorrow and lay the groundwork for a Justice League movie to rival that of Earth's Mightiest Heroes.