James McTeigue Talks Superman Reboot

The word from our spies has been that Warner Brothers was looking for a certain "type" of filmmaker to relaunch the Superman film franchise. Someone who was obviously talented and worked well with the material, but more importantly took orders from the studio like casting and what not. They've handed to the keys to Metropolis over to a number of "big-name" directors over the years in an attempt to get the franchise back up and running to mixed results.

Thus when reports hit a few weeks back that Wachowski alum James McTeigue was a candidate, it made a lot of sense. However, mum's been the word from the V For Vendetta director ever since the rumors first hit. He gave a non-answer to /film a week or so back. But he's surprisingly more forthcoming with MTV on the matter - albeit still in a "I won't confirm or deny" mode:

"I think if I was ever going to go near Superman, I would do a complete reboot—take it in a direction that you would absolutely not expect, actually. So, that would be my thinking on it, if I was ever going to go near Superman. I think it's good that they just had a court case where, basically, if you make another Superman movie, you can't touch Superman growing up—that's part of the story that you can't touch any more. That wouldn't be a bad thing. I think everybody's a bit sick of seeing the origin story."

Here's the thing though, folks. McTeigue wouldn't be so open about talking Superman if he was actually involved in the next film. "How so?" you ask. He's not officially (and to our knowledge "un-officially") on-board. If he was, then the studio themselves would want to make a big announcement of it first-hand and tell the director to keep his mouth shut towards all Supes-related questions.

Hell, we've still yet to hear a word from Martin Campbell on Green Lantern and he's been on that since the start of the year.

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[Phil Gee]

He's saying exactly what I'm saying. Hire him WB; he can get this thing done for you.