Superman Returns begins

* Alex Ross art
Superman Returns is officially under way. For those fans that have been waiting a decade, such as myself, Bryan Singer has started principal photography.

It is taking place in Tamworth, Australia.

Thoughts on what you would like to see.

Here's the scoop. They will show early days of young Clark on the farm, it's only brief shots. This is not an origin story, just some origin in it. The learning experience from what I've seen, developing the powers, taking hold of what he has and using it in life later on. That's pretty cool.

Superman will make his way back into theatres June 30th. Funny, Superman comics started in June 1938. What a coincidence.

Also, let me know if you want me to stop writing about Superman Returns, because if you go to Bluetights.net you can actually see video blog from the director himself, Bryan Singer on what is going on with the film. If you want me to keep reporting, great, I don't mind. It's why I made this site.

The Flash

Hey Everyone.

You can say it is a rumor going around that Flash is on DC/WB minds. This is what is happening for that.

David Goyer-Blade Trinity/Batman Begins writer is writing up a script for THE FLASH. If Goyer gets the green light to actually make the movie, oh, he will direct, from sites I have read, he will get his star Ryan Reynolds, again rumor to play the part of THE FLASH.

How's that for info.

This will have a comment section

Also note, most superhero art, if not all art I put up here will be from Alex Ross's art web site. Good stuff.

Calling All Superhero Viewers

This is your time.

I decided to listen to the one or two people that actually come to this site.

I wanted your opinion.

Here's the topic: What do you want on this site? Meaning, what superheroes would you like to appear on this site.

I am doing both DC and Marvel, but you have to realize, I won't have information on here about Constantine or Ghost Rider, besides this area.

It's now on to you what superheroes, besides the ones I all ready have do you want me to add. I say this because more movies are coming out such as the FLASH and WONDER WOMAN.

Let the comments section be filled.

No stupid stuff either or it will be deleted by the me.

Batman Begins Game

Teaser Poster from Batman Begins web site. Warner Bros.

The mighty bat is back in an all new movie and video game.

Batman Begins video game will be released day of the movie: June 17, 2005. I have heard.

It's been a long while since I played a Batman game, going back to the eight bit Nintendo days. The original Batman game, where you had to defeat the Joker.

Now Batman is back and ready to take flight on Gotham's villians.

This will be a game based off the movie Batman Begins, starring Christian Bale as the Dark Knight.

Yup, this has a comments section.

I don't know what to expect honestly of this game. All I know is, the game uses the voices of the people in the movie. Well, I hope so anyway.

SUPERMAN RETURNS SE DVD

* Picture done by Alex Ross.

This was quick to come out. Not only is this movie coming out in 2006, but they all ready have it as a Special Edition coming out Christmas of 2006. The Christmas 2006 is still rumor.

Superman Returns has, from what I know, all ready got the green light for a SE DVD for Christmas.

Ludovico Technique have been announced as the group to help produce the SE of Superman Returns.

How come I haven't heard of any other superhero dvds for SE yet, for the ones coming out this year? That's just sad.

Good luck to the company on making a great SE for "Superman Returns" or whatever the name of it is going to be called.

EA GAMES

Okay,

People may be thinking, "You are talking about EA GAMES, what does EA GAMES have to do with superheroes?" or "EA GAMES is doing something superheroes, let them just stick with what they do best, sports."

Well, to answer both scenarios, yes EA GAMES is doing a superhero video game, it's SUPERMAN. Second, give them a chance, they are the same people that came up with Bond games. Some are good, some well, I won't dive into it.

If you go to their big daddy site Tiburon, you can check out information, along with job opportunities for helping SUPERMAN the game come to life.

Probably the biggest reason I wrote this was to get comments from John and other of my video game buddies. Especially on this.

Superman games have been lacking, seriously in the good games department, last time I played a good SUPERMAN game was when I had the new version of the Sega Genesis, with the Death and Life of Superman. I enjoyed it, but, I never got to finish because there was no save mechanism, that sucked. I was at the last level, and then I had to turn it off. Eight hours gone from my life.

I'm going to give EA a chance, what can it hurt. From what I know, it will be based off the movie. Does that mean we will have the actors doing the voices? I really really hope so. I mean, can you just see Kevin Spacey be all Lex Luthor and hear his voice. Or you see Kevin Spacey and get some campy voice, that would suck.

Now, a few things I would like to see with this game:

Number 1: It needs to be awesome. That just makes sense.

Number 2: It can't be campy, it needs to be detailed through out the whole game. Unique details of Metropolis, from the Daily Planet to Luthor Towers to street corners.

Number 3: If it's going to be like Spider-Man 2, cool, just watch it with the Spider-Man style. Let the dude fly, Spider-Man has to watch himself while falling, if Superman falls to the ground, he won't be hurt, there should be a big dent in the ground. That would be awesome. It's one of the few things I saw on Spider-Man 2, so that's what I remember.

Number 4: It's Superman, if someone shoots him, you better not lose energy.

Number 5: Make the characters look believable. Take the Bryan Singer (yes that's how it's spelled Bryan Singer) approach, "Get ready to believe, again." Make the characters as close to real as possible. It's EA, they do great stuff with character design, especially in their football games (MADDEN and NCAA). I hope Bryan Singer is doing that. It was in Donner's day, "Believe a Man can fly," or something cool like that.

Number 6: Learn from Atari's Superman: Man of Steel game. It was really easy, I beat in what guys, three or four days? Thanks for the game by the way.

Number 7: Learn from Atari's game: Once the game is beat, have the free roam part of the game, where you can fly around. Make the space of the town much much bigger than the Atari game. You could only fly so far. Give Superman all of Metropolis, game systems can handle this. Why I say this, and I know no one will read it from the company. Oh well.

Number 8: Learn from Atari's game: The graphics were cartoonish. Don't do that with this new game. It needs to be somewhere along the lines of Spider-Man and the new Batman Begins game coming out. Only difference, Metropolis is a lot brighter in color, because it's a happy, feel good town, not Gotham.

Number 9: Wow, talk about a lot of stuff. Make the buttons easy to use, especially for XBOX and PS2, I don't care about Gamecube, blah. My friends have XBOX and PS2. Don't make it so many buttons just to get a punch or to fly.

Number 10: Make the movies section, really really good, no stupid movies.

That's it.

John and other friends, post your thoughts.

Jor-El Casted for Superman Returns

Pure rumor at this point.

From what I know right now, from my favorite superhero sites, the casting of Jor-El, Clark Kent's biological father has all ready been cast.

Marlon Brando who portrayed Jor-El for the first two Superman movies has been cast for the new Superman Returns movie. What the rumor is saying is the old Superman film clips of him will be inserted into the new film, or at least, that's my take on the information that I read.

More info go to Latino Review.

Superheroes all by there lonesome.

No, the title isn't a bad thing. It's a good thing.

Just read about the Fantastic Four and the move to July 8th. Great move, why, here's the logic. June 29th, "War of the Worlds" makes it's debut, June 29th. It starts the holiday rush early. It will be in for six days. That's six days for people to see that movie. July 4th was the same time Fantastic Four was going to be shown. Pretty much a good battle, more over Spielberg would wind up winning. I think John would agree with me on that.

Now Fantastic Four moved to July 8th. A column reported that they will not have any competition for the beginning of that weekend. They will be the only new movie thus far for that time period. Meaning, everyone that wanted to see, will have the chance to see it, because all the other shows, including "War of the Worlds," will be at least a week old.

There's that tidbit, now the other. Another superhero movie will get to flap its wings by itself as well. Yeah, Batman Begins which is out June 17th, has no competition either. That means, it can be packed for a long time, specifically until June 29th, why, duh duh duh, "War of the Worlds." Who cares, not me, this is a superhero blog.

Kind of cool to know that Batman Begins and Fantastic Four get to fly solo when they debut on the big screen. Of course things change, anything can happen, but right now, they fly solo.

More on the Fantastic Four go here.

Superhero Composer

Superman V web site has an interview with John Ottman, who will be composing Superman Returns. Before we start, he has done other movies, most recent I know of is X-Men 2.

The site gets into how it may be seen, is John Williams score going to be in the movie and other interesting tid bits.

Why spoil everything, go check out the site. It's long. It's a good article.