slashfilm.com - 2/19/2009
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Remember that report that showed up on AICN last week claiming that The Wachowski Brothers had been offered a reboot of Superman ? Sorry to get you guys all excited but I have just gotten confirmation that the report was completely false. I don’t know if an interview with James ...
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aintitcool.com - 2/19/2009
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Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From
The Lab. You guys broke the story. And I...
don't mean you were first to report it... I mean you literally freakin' broke it. I don't think we've ever had a story hit as hard as this one was. I'm ...
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firstshowing.net - 2/19/2009
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Remember that rumor we ran the other day
about the Wachowski Brothers directing a Superman trilogy for...
Warner Brothers? It was both completely ridiculous and incredibly exciting at the same time, right? Well, sadly, it has been debunked . ...
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Wachowski Brothers Superman Rumor Debunked!
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Wachowski Brothers Superman Rumor Debunked!
FirstShowing.net —
... for Warner Brothers? It was both completely ridiculous and incredibly exciting at the same time, right? Well, sadly, it has been debunked. According to SlashFilm, it was all just a big hoax to begin with. "The Wachowski Brothers have definitely never had any talks with DC or Warner Bros to helm a Superman film. This is confirmed." While I had a gut feeling that it wasn't true to begin with, I was wishing that, by some stroke of luck, it might've ended up being true, just because I love the Wachowski Brothers movies! ...
Wachowski's not making Superman
Filmstalker —
... had... “...stated the Wachowski Brothers had been approached to re-boot the franchise as a trilogy and they are currently reviewing their options” They'd been approached, hold your horses, this could mean a lot of things, it doesn't necessarily mean that they have been offered the contract to direct. However that's a small point, the way it seems to be playing out is that everyone is being asked about the project. Still, that story comes from a “scooper” and now a story from /Film tells us that their “insiders” are saying that the story is rubbish. That the report was false, ...
Wachowski/’Superman’ Rumor Shot Down Before it Began
We Are Movie Geeks —
... it as if it were pure fact, we movie geeks wanted to hold out until something a little more solid came out. Well, that time is now.
“The Wachowski Brothers have definitely never had any talks with DC or Warner Bros to helm a Superman film. This is confirmed.”
That is the word that came in from SlashFilm.
While that combination might result in a pretty sweet ‘Superman’ movie, it looks like it is something we will never see.
Source: SlashFilm
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Newsbites: The comics and superheroes edition!
FilmChat —
... around, at least. -- New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly 3. Remember that recent rumour about the Wachowski brothers being asked to reboot the Superman series? It's been debunked. And the same website that debunked it is now reporting that a password-protected page at the Legendary Pictures website indicates the next Superman movie will be a sequel to Superman Returns (2006) called Superman Unleashed. -- SlashFilm (x2) 4. There will be not one, not two, but ...
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