Wake Up Call

Director Bryan Singer (pictured) tells the gang at Empire Online that work has indeed begun in earnest on Superman: Man of Steel -the sequel to "Superman Returns".



"I’m just getting back with writers (?) after the strike. We’re just in the development phase. I’m starting to develop a sequel...with the intention of directing it" he says.

Singer also addresses those pesky story flaws of 'Returns'-taking full responsibility for the film-Standing by his choices:

"The first one was a romantic film and a nostalgic film. I’ll be the first person to own up to that without making any apologies for it. I knew it was going to be that from the outset. And now that the characters are established, there’s really an opportunity to up the threat levels...Clearly there’ll be a body count [laughs]. From frame one, it will be unrelenting terror! All those teenage girls who found the movie and mooned over James Marsden or Brandon? Well, I’m going to wake them up!"

Despite how SR turned out creatively...I'm glad Singer is getting another shot at the franchise.-A leaner script for MOS is a good place to start in order to avoid pitfalls of the past.