Great Ceasar's Ghost!
We wouldn't bug you with a minor scheduling change, but word on the wire is that Zack Snyder's Superman: The Man of Steel film has been pushed six months from its planned December 2012 release to June of 2013. That's coal you've been processing all year for your Christmas socking has just been refined to pure Kryptonite!
There is no word on the reasons for the delay, but the production must have suffered some serious snags.
Thanks to DCWomenKickingAss for the tip.
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Not a good sign because I heard someone else had to come in to rewrite the script. Of course that’s a rumor so it’s not definitive either.
Maybe they want to delay it for a JLA movie?…..Which is so not going to happen, not sure why I typed that.
@TheNextChampion I forgot you know all thats going to happen in hollywood, how do you know the JLA movie isnt going to happen?
people said the same thing about the avengers movie, unless you have friends high up who know all
@TheNextChampion They have just hired a new writer, I saw an article the other day announcing that David Goyer’s moved on to other projects. Not encouraging.
someone got knocked up or had a scheduling conflict.
@4iiii –i think WB announced no JLA movie for the time being.
Maybe they just want to make sure the same thing that happened to Green Lantern, doesnt happen to Spider-Man. Also Nolan might want to take a more hands on approach to the movie which would mean he needs to finish Batman and then tackle Superman.
@ComicBookGuy37 I thought I heard that! Thanks for the clarification.
Why can’t Nolan just write the thing and get it over with?
So, they just need to be in production this year (which they obviously are) to keep the rights. Is there anything (besides money) to stop them from dagging this out as long as they want until they find a story they want?
But what about the end of the world?!?!?!? when will i see this?!?!?!?
goyer did the first draft, jonathan nolan then did a draft, now Kurt Johnstad is taking a shot at it. not unusual. Movies have a lot of hands in the script , moreso than ever get credit. i think this is a good sign not a bad one, theyd rather wait than rush it. the film had to be inproduction by the end of this year for legal reasons. that ahd to rush to start, but they dont have to rush to finish.
plus summer releases tend to make more money (trek moved from an xmas release to a summer relase and it worked well for that. same for the harry potter films) and probably not a good idea to have your superman movie in the same year with your batman movie, and a spiderman movie and an avengers movie.
@Spiffy
Considering how long Superman Returns was in production, no.
yeah, what @abstractgeek said. my guess is this is more about selling tickets in the summer.
They went to see Green Lantern and thought those effects look baaaad and they spent tons of money.
“We are screwed, the ol George Reeves jump into frame isnt going to work boys, we might wanna move that release date back just a touch.”
Awww man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Matthew
Check out this article:
http://shelf-life.ew.com/2011/07/19/dark-knight-scribe-david-s-goyer-on-comic-con-superman-and-his-new-novel-heavens-shadow/
In it, David Goyer says that the reason he is NOT at SDCC is because he has to work on the Man of Steel script. If he is still working on that script, maybe that has something to do with this delay.
🙁
@Spiffy
@Slockhart
They have to produce “in good faith”… the long production time of Returns was one of the issues in the licensing case.
A popular misconception is that this has anything to do with maintaining copyright ownership, it does not, it has to do with licensing… the heirs argue that DC- as co-owners of the copyright- “gave away” the movie license rights to Superman to the WB in a “sweetheart deal” denying the heirs fair licensing market value for their piece of the intellectual property; the court said… No, the value paid was fair provided the WB was obligated to actually exercise the license (so that the IP owners- DC and heirs jointly- could get generated profits). If the WB didn’t produce a film, the WB’s movie license- not DC’s character copyright- would be voidable (and not automatically void).
In any case, the production start date is short hand for a good faith use of the license, but it doesn’t immunize the WB from losing the license if they don’t actually make good faith efforts to release the film. If it dragged out like the lead up to Returns, the heirs would have the license voided.
I predicted this. When was the last non-summer superhero movie release?
Wouldn’t this go against DC’s agreement with the families of Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster b/c DC promised a Superman movie due by 2012 & now it seems that they might not be able to make it.
A long delay does not mean that the film will be better or worse. Just that it gives them longer to work out scheduling for everyone involved. Anything would be better than SUPERMAN RETURNS.
If the delays are to make a better movie…so be it. I’d rather see a better movie than a rushed one to meet a Christmas deadline.