Bryan Singer recently spoke to Total Film about Jack The Giant Slayer (look out for that in a future issue), and we found time to ask him about his feelings towards Superman.
Was he disappointed that he didn’t get the chance to carry on his own franchise with sequel Man Of Steel after his own reboot, Superman Returns ?
“If this was a few year ago, I might have [ felt disappointed ] - but so much time has passed. I’ve done two movies [ since Superman Returns ], I’ll be on my third movie now in the [ X-Men ] universe… so whilst it would have been nice then , now I’m actually genuinely looking forward to seeing Zack [ Snyder ]’s movie [ Man Of Steel ]. At my heart I’m a fan. I’ve always been a fan.
“The original Superman movie was the one that educated me - the first act of Donner’s Superman was what inspired me to take X-Men so seriously. Now I get to go see a Superman movie and I don’t have to fucking make it! [ laughs ] They’re not easy! He’s not an easy character!
“I got very nostalgic with my movie but even if you take it in another direction it’s very challenging… inherently he’s such a good guy… what’s easier about X-Men is that they’re all so conflicted. What’s going to be interesting in the next X-Men movie is that the characters are incredibly polarised.”
Not one to take it easy, super-busy Singer is currently developing a reboot of sci-fi TV classic, The Twilight Zone . On that venture, Singer told us:
“I’ve taken over The Twilight Zone . I’d love to direct one - at least the pilot. It’s really not easy to jumpstart an anthology show, particularly because it’s hard to pair them with other things. The production is complex too, because you don’t have scanning sets and you have a revolving cast. But I like the challenge.
“If we can get Twilight Zone to a place where A-list talent is participating, then it would emulate the experience of the Rod Serling show which had, you know, William Shatner, Agnes Moorehead, Burgess Meredith… all these terrific actors doing these really serious morality tales. If we achieve that it could be really something.”
Bryan Singer’s Jack The Giant Slayer opens in the UK on 22 March 2013. Man Of Steel opens on 14 June 2013.
For much more from Bryan Singer, keep ‘em peeled for a future issue of Total Film magazine .
