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Title: Superman Returns
Production Year: 2006
Director: Bryan Singer
Writer/s: Michael Dougherty & Dan Harris
Character: Lois Lane
Main Cast: Brandon Routh, Kevin Spacey, James Marsden
Genre: Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Runtime: 154 min
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Release Date: June 28, 2006 (US)
After a five-year absence, looking for remnants of his home planet long gone his return finds Lois as a new mother and a new world that has become unrecognisable, his return could not be better timed. With the world once again at the mercy of a madman, it is up to Superman to once again safe us all. Can he too return the world around and defeat his evil adversary and the peril that hangs over us forever?
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| Trivia & Facts |
Actresses being considered for the role of Lois Lane when McG was to direct included Elisha Cuthbert, Claire Danes and Keri Russell.
Bryan Singer was still under a three-picture deal with Fox from X2 when he decided to jump ship to direct this movie. As the consequence, his deal was terminated and one of his under-development projects with Fox, Logan's Run was ultimately shelved and the third X-Men picture was under jeopardy. The vacant's director's role for the third X-Men would go to Brett Ratner who lost to Singer for the first X-Men movie.
Director Bryan Singer decided on using stock footage of Marlon Brando that was originally shot by Superman (1978) director Richard Donner for the Singer version. Brando and Christopher Reeve were once filmed interacting with one another to be used in Superman II (1980), but due to a lawsuit against the Salkinds for a percentage of the sequel, the scenes were deleted and re-shot with Susannah York as Kal-El's mother Lara.
Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth and Kevin Spacey signed on without having read the script.
It took ten years and three vastly different directors to finally get the project off the ground.
The movie was filmed in Sydney, Australia at Fox Studios. The Kent family home was filmed in Tamworth, Australia.
Mischa Barton and Keira Knightley were considered for the role of Lois Lane when McG was attached to the project.
The publish date of "Why the World Doesn't Need Superman" is 14 February 2006.
Promotional material was shipped to cinemas in the UK under the title "Red Sun".
The production of the film occupied seven sound stages and two workshops for eight months at Fox Studios, Sydney in 2005.
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| Quotes |
"How could you leave us like that? I moved on. So did the rest of us. That's why I wrote it. The world doesn't need a savior. And neither do I."
"Chief, I've done Superman... Covered him. You know what I mean."
"You're insane."
"Could you help mommy open this door?"
"He's Superman. Everyone was in love with him."
"Well, there was a museum robbery last night. Hmm? Even Superman missed that one... he was too busy saving this hooker."
"I love your boat. How'd you get it? Swindle some old widow out of her money?"
"Didn't you have a few more years to go on that DOUBLE life sentence?"
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"Kate Bosworth provides an altogether different take on Lois - a sexier, more modern view. She's prettier than Kidder, and there's more chemistry in her scenes with her co-star." - James Berardinelli, ReelViews
"Kate Bosworth, as Lois Lane, has a difficult role (torn between two lovers and also between two rather ridiculous headlines Lois has written, one of them implausibly a Pulitzer winner), but she more or less maintains her dignity and credibility." - Randall A Byrn, BlogCritics.org
"Bosworth and Routh, around which the picture revolves, have great chemistry. With a bittersweet script to propel their sad romance, the two melt effortlessly into their legendary roles." - Audrey Rock, Bulletin Movie Critic
"Kate Bosworth brings an eager intensity to the star reporter; even though she lacks the world-weary wryness of Margot Kidder, she fully evokes Lanes conflict and tough exterior." - Ian Nathan, Empire Online
"Ms. Bosworth's Lois Lane is a definite essential, and she's written and played that way. In Ms. Bosworth's strong performance, Lois has far transcended the vintage "girl reporter" stereotype. She's won a Pulitzer Prize for a stinging editorial, Why the World Doesn't Need Superman." - Philip Wuntch, Guide Live
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