wierzbowski

April 14, 2016 4:49 am Just listened to this, and the Abrams comment stuck out to me. First time commenter here, so you have my apologies if this has been pointed out before, but JJ Abrams DID write a Superman script in the early 2000s. It was codenamed "Flyby" and it made changes to the Superman origin that would have been seismic. In his version, Krypton doesn't blow up, Jor-El and Lara are the king and queen of Krypton and are still alive, they send Superman to earth in order to fulfill "the prophecy" because he is the "chosen one", Superman's supersuit has a life of its own (and shoots out of a metal football) and he can't fly without it, Kryptonians fight with Matrix-like mid-air kung-fu, the main villain is Superman's cousin Ty-Zor, Superman drowns while saving Lois from a water tank at Cape Canaveral--only to be resurrected when Jor-El commits harakiri with a kryptonite katana--and Lex Luthor is a paranoid alien-hunting CIA agent who in the end turns out to be a Kryptonian. McG was going to direct the film in Australia, with Sydney as Metropolis, but WB cut him loose when he wanted to travel to Australia by boat because he was afraid of flying. Then WB hired Brett Ratner, but they couldn't agree on the casting of Superman. The Abrams version eventually gave way to Superman Returns.