CBR: Zack Snyder To Direct "Superman"

[Jordanstine]

http://www.deadline.com/2010/10/zack...ting-superman/

Same director of Watchmen.

Aka director known for his slow motion action sequences.

[Jake V]

http://www.deadline.com/2010/10/zack...ting-superman/

Same director of Watchmen.

Aka director known for always having slow motion action sequences.

Looking at the trailer for Sucker Punch, the guy knows how to do huge action sequences.

Here's hoping that we'll get a Superman movie where he actually punches something.

[Jordanstine]

http://www.deadline.com/2010/10/zack...ting-superman/

Director of Watchmen will be doing Superman.

Aka the director best known for always using slow motion action sequences.

[StoneGold]

Except he didn't in Dawn of the Dead.


And really, it would make sense in Superman, considering his action sequences should be so fast, you couldn't see them.

[CBR News]

Warner Bros. has tapped the director of "Watchmen" to helm its reboot of the Man of Steel's screen exploits.


Full article here.

[metawar]

wow, not sure about this, i loved all his other movies, but superman !?

didn't he say about turning down superman before that "He's a tricky one nowadays, isn't he? He's the king daddy of all comic-book heroes, but I'm just not sure how you sell that kind of earnestness to a sophisticated audience anymore."

[metawar]

there was no slow down in Dawn of the dead was there ?

[StoneGold]

Probably fits his sensibilities better than Watchmen. Which I actually kind of liked, just thought the story wasn't translatable to film.


Suddenly though, I want a period-piece Superman. Not gonna happen, but I want it.

[Jordanstine]

there was no slow down in Dawn of the dead was there ?

Don't know. But the movie was post-300.

I have that zombie movie actually... maybe I could rewatch it.

[Kiryu]

Wooooooow

Count me out.

[Mike O]

Snyder is a hack, so long as he doesn't try to do a story with any nuance(i.e. Superman punching stuff and flying around), we should be fine, but if he tries to do anything more than a simple action movie, it'll fail.

[alexforever]

Interesting. I think it will be interesting to watch just to see how successful it could be compared to the first two Superman movies. I'm not big on Super hero adaptions these days, but for some reason this one I would want to see how good this one could be.

[Vagabond]

Hopefully no unnecessary slow-mo during any fight scenes, it felt out of place in Watchmen, and I think it would be awkward with Superman. But hey, I think Snyder would give Supes something to actually fight.

[Comics_Addict]

Best of luck to Snyder, he has some very big shoes to fill with Donner (forget the rest except for maybe Singer). I hope that both him and Goyer can deliver a great movie. Would prefer for it to lean more towards sci-fi than the now cliche superhero troupes like Nolan did with Bats( for this case being detective genre). I am one hard to please fanboy.

[StoneGold]

Hopefully no unnecessary slow-mo during any fight scenes, it felt out of place in Watchmen, and I think it would be awkward with Superman.

You mean like the bullet time slow-mo bits in the last movie?

Given the whole faster than a speeding bullet thing, it makes more sense than not with Supes.