Writer Dan Harris on 'Superman'

[Jack Aubrey]

From our friends at Dark Horizons

 

Writer Dan Harris, while out doing the promotional rounds for "Imaginary Heroes", talked a little about the preparations for "Superman" and revealed they're currently on their third draft with everything pretty much locked in place aside from some minor tweaking. He also said some cool stuff about the film's scale:

 

"I thought that X-Men was a big movie, but this scope is another step bigger, which is really cool. And they're building so much stuff too. I can tell you that they are building a portion of Metropolis, like a major backlot that's amazing. It's like three intersecting city blocks and everything is four stories tall. And it's a permanent backlot, it will be like a permanent New York City slash Metropolis".

[Sodoff Baldrick]

Haven't they been trying to make this movie for years now?

[Jack Aubrey]

Yes, I first heard of it in '97-'98.

 

[kazzman]

Yeah, they went through several directors, and quite a few scripts as well. At one point, Tim Burton was set to direct and Nick Cage was cast as Supes. Both eventually backed out of the project.