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[Forever Xena]

Superman Steals X-Man Singer

by Joal Ryan
Jul 19, 2004, 12:35 PM PT



Dear Superman,

I thought we were friends. Or at least professional colleagues with a healthy respect of each other's powers--and boundaries.


Imagine my shock then when I cracked opened the Hollywood trades Monday morning here at Xavier Mansion, and read that my director--my director--had become your director.

"Supe's on with 'X' Man," Variety said. "Singer Gives Superman 'X'-Ray Vision," the Hollywood Reporter countered.

So, you've stolen Bryan Singer. You know at least when Mystique tries to stab me in the back she jumps up in the air first and does a couple of fancy somersaults so I have time to prepare my claws.

But you--you conniving Kryptonian--you pretend you're all about truth, justice and the American way, when all you're really about is getting back on the big screen anyway, anyhow.

The papers say Singer inked the deal with Warner Bros. on Friday. Variety says he'll probably bring screenwriters Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris along, too.

(Oh, did I say "screenwriters"? I meant "my screenwriters." Mike and Dan helped write X2--maybe you caught that flick while you were busy not getting your stupid movie made.)

With Singer committing to you, the Reporter says his planned Logan's Run remake is now in "a gray zone"--big deal. And Variety says he probably won't have time for X-Men 3--very, very big deal, dude.

Fox has penciled in May 5, 2006, as the release date for X-Men 3. I know you're unfamiliar with the concept, but a release date is WHEN A MOVIE'S SUPPOSED TO COME OUT!

How is my movie supposed to come out without a director? Oh, sure, Fox'll find somebody else. But somebody else won't be Bryan Singer. The man who plotted out and directed our first two movies (combined domestic gross: $372.2 million). The man who recognized a hero with furry sideburns could too be a leading man. The man who knows who Keyser Soze is.

In a way, I don't know why I'm getting all worked up.

So, Bryan's hooking up with you. So, he claims his "interest in [you]dates back many, many years." So, he professes to love the original Richard Donner Superman movie. So, he says, "it is time for [you] to fly again."

So, what?

Superman, you are like the messed-up hot chick who can't keep a guy.

Sure, Bryan's enamored with you--now. At one time, so was McG. So was Brett Ratner. So was Tim Burton. Even Michael Bay was rumored to have given you a look.

Got quite a collection of ex-suitors there, don't you? (Say, do you keep their pictures on a wall in the Fortress of Solitude--maybe next to your Lois Lane shrine?--you nutball stalker.)

Oh, I know, poor Kal-Hell, it's not your fault. It's Warners'. It was the studio that pulled the plug on Burton. It was the studio that wouldn't okay Ratner's choice to play you (then soap star Matthew Bomer). And it was the studio that insisted on shooting in Australia when McG wanted to shoot in New York.

Boo-hoo. Somebody get me a Kleenex.

But what I'll really be bawling about is how people fall for your woe-is-me, I'm-a-cursed-superhero act.

I don't care if BatBale gets more press. I don't care if Halle Berry's Catwoman getup gets more downloads. I don't care if you don't have a locked-in producer, a locked-in star or a locked-in screenplay. We should all be cursed with a $200 million budget and a road-tested comic-book director.

I hear Warners is still going to try to get your tired buns of steel off the ground for a shoot late this year. Might want to renew your Crunch membership, friend. By my tally, you haven't been out of the Barcalounger in 17 years.

Gee, I realize now this letter may be sounding a tad bitter. Forgive me. I was going for really, really bitter.

Give my regards to Bryan. If you ever actually meet him.

[Expletive deleted] you,

Wolverine

P.S.: Superman III sucked.

P.P.S.: Superman IV sucked worse.

[Confined Earth]

Trevligt brev.

[Erika]

Hihi

[Mara Jade]

So, you've stolen Bryan Singer. You know at least when Mystique tries to stab me in the back she jumps up in the air first and does a couple of fancy somersaults so I have time to prepare my claws.

But you--you conniving Kryptonian--you pretend you're all about truth, justice and the American way, when all you're really about is getting back on the big screen anyway, anyhow.

Superman, you are like the messed-up hot chick who can't keep a guy.

Haha...underbart brev!!

Edited by Mara Jade, 20 July 2004 - 15:13.

[Kermit]

Fan, kör vi med dubbelposter på detta forum?
Finns samma brev under serier: spoilers.

[Confined Earth]

Alla följer inte den tråden så bra och angående på den tråden så är det bara länk. Känns bättre såhär, tycker jag.

[Forever Xena]

Finns samma brev under serier: spoilers

Oopppss , sorry såg inte det .

[Kermit]

Det var inte den tråden. Super85 startade en helt ny tråd angående det brevet.

[Confined Earth]

Det var inte den tråden. Super85 startade en helt ny tråd angående det brevet.

Helt ny? jag kan inte hitta den på Serier: spoilers... Skulle kunna slå ihop trådarna om jag såg den andra. Vad heter tråden om jag inte hittar den?

[Kermit]

Tydligen har någon tagit bort den tråden. Bra, då har vi iaf en.

[Confined Earth]

Var det några inlägg i förra tråden? Men gött att vi har kvar en ja.

[Kermit]

Jodå, det var fem-sex inlägg senast jag kollade faktiskt.

[Confined Earth]

Ah. De borde i så fall blivit flyttade hit. Undrade vem som tog bort tråden?

[Kermit]

Shit the same.

Jag skrev iaf att om jag hade sett det brevet tidigare hade forumet kunnat vara besparat från massor av tjat och gnäll från mig.

[Confined Earth]

Hehe.

Btw, först ett Hulk brev. sen Wolverine brev. Undrar hur Spider-Man skulle skriva? Eller intressantare, hur Superman skulle svara på Wolverines brev?

[Kermit]

Superman är väl alldeles för helylle eller något. Han kan väl inte tänka sig att någon som helst skulle ha något emot honom?

[Confined Earth]

Antagligen. Men så fel man kan ha. Undrar om det är meningen att Smallville Clark ska bli lika stel? Jag hoppas inte...

[Peak]

*kollat*... Inga topics har raderats i dag vad jag ser i moderatorloggarna, så länken finns där nånstans..

Edit: Hittat:

http://www.scifinytt...100

[Confined Earth]

*kollat*... Inga topics har raderats i dag vad jag ser i moderatorloggarna, så länken finns där nånstans..

Edit: Hittat:

http://www.scifinytt...100

Jag hittade det med. Men Kermit sa att det var separat/egen topic?

[Kermit]

Hmmm, mindes fel där då.

[Confined Earth]

Okey. Men sånt händer att man minns fel. jag blev lite förvirrad nyss dock.

[Robert Jonsson]

Pheww... Trodde folk skulle börja skylla på mig

[Confined Earth]

Pheww... Trodde folk skulle börja skylla på mig

Funderade faktist lite på dig och FX, men FX verkade inte trolig då hon inte visste om andra tråden.

[Forever Xena]

jag har inte heller den magt som behövs

[Robert Jonsson]

Så fort något går fel så tänker alla på mig *gråter hejdlöst*