2014 Movie News Archives

February 1, 2014: Bryan Singer's Thoughts on "Superman Returns" and Henry Cavill

Superman In the latest issue of Empire magazine, which focuses on Bryan Singer's new X-Men movie "X-Men: Days of Future Past", the director was also asked about Superman, his thoughts on Henry Cavill, and what people thinking of "Superman Returns" all these years later...

When asked about the backlash against "Superman Returns" he said: "Half of that I understand and half of it I never will. It was a movie made for a certain kind of audience. Perhaps more of a female audience. It wasn't what it needed to be, I guess. I think I could lop the first quarter off and start the movie a bit more aggressively and maybe find a way to start the movie with the jet disaster sequence or something. I could have grabbed the audience a little more quickly. I don't know what would have helped. Probably nothing. If I could go again, I would do an origin. I would reboot it."

As for his thoughts on where he would have gone with a sequel to "Superman Returns", which would have actually been titled "Man of Steel", he said, "That was the title. Actually, my buddy, one of my two best friends, came up with that. We did explore it a little. Just hammering out ideas. I think Darkseid was going to be the villain. It was pretty world-destroying, actually."

Instead of focusing on Superman, Singer looked to make "Valkyrie". "I think the studio lost interest at that point," he said. "I can't say it was all the studio's fault and I can't say it was all my fault. It just fizzled out."

As for his thoughts on "Man of Steel" and Henry Cavill, he said, "Yeah. I saw it when it came out. I think Henry Cavill is great. I knew Henry. He and I were friends years ago. Oddly enough, the reason I didn't cast him was because I was making a sequel to Christopher Reeve and I wanted somebody who embodied Reeve more."

"I am in awe of the world building and the scope of that picture. It's tough for me. I'm not a critic and it starts to get into a weird thing where one director is talking about another director. I know how hard it is to make a movie, especially one of these movies and especially a Superman movie, and there was so much I was impressed with in that movie. There were things I might have done a little differently just because of the way I view the character. Don't misinterpret that as me not liking something. It's not 'Bryan Singer's review of Man of Steel'!"

Check out the latest edition of Empire magazine for the complete Bryan Singer interview.



2014 Movie News

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