David Goyer writing The Man Of Steel

David Goyer (Blade, The Dark Knight) recently turned his back on the TV show FlashForward he co-created, and has just landed a job writing the new Superman movie! This new project, working-titled The Man Of Steel, is being touted as a reboot of the movie franchise. Latino News' spies have heard it won't be another origin story, Brandon Routh won't return in the lead role, Bryan Singer won't be directing, the villains will be Lex Luthor and Brainiac, The Daily Planet will be shown struggling to compete with online journalism, it sets up a huge Kryptonian mythology, and Goyer's apparently going to approach things using comic-book writer John Bryne's take on the character...

If the latter is true, then that means Superman will assumedly be far less powerful (for added plausibility and to maintain a sense of concern over his safety that's often missing without the ol' kryptonite standby), Clark may be be more of an extrovert, both his adopted human parents will be alive, and the fact nobody ever recognizes the similarities between Superman and Clark Kent will be explained by the fact Supes vibrates his face at super-speed to ensure blurry photographs of his features. Well, let's hope Goyer doesn't use that last part of Byrne's work, because we're fine suspending our disbelief over the Clark/Superman resemblance, thank you.

Clearly, they want Goyer to inject Superman with some of the realism he bestowed on the Batman franchise, but I hope they don't try to turn Superman into a dark, moody piece. It should be more in the Spider-Man colour spectrum, if you ask me. Don't suck the fun and optimism out of the character, please.