Superman Returns Trailer

Lol, i like to consider my self a member of the religous right at times, but i dont see any problem with this and stuff like harry potter lol. Yea you probably are right though, there will be a few wacko protestors.

I WILL Have a problem if they modify the i'm here for "truth, justice and the American way"

Yea i just rewatched the trailer, i can definately see some religous types objecting to the "their capacity for good is limited, so i sent them you" bit.

I never realized Superman was Jesus!
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First Neo now Clark...can't wait for Hilliary.

"They spliced together voice clips from the original Superman 1 and 2 so Brando's voice would still be a part of the movie. Brando's voice over is misleading since part of the words were from both movies. The implied 'begotten son' is a trick of the current director. Very clever editing."

Not true. All of Brando's voice in the trailer is from the original 1978 film. The reference to "my only son" is not manipulated nor out of context from how it was used in the original film. Superman-as-Christ-figure is symbolic subtext that has been around since the character's origin and has little to do with any movie.

The silly idea of "protest" wont happen since there were no "protests" in 1978 either.

I think the protests is silly as well. Doubt many even noticed when the first film was released. I am curious to see how much Brando they used.

What's funny is that Brando was such an eccentric and cantankerous SOB, that he wouldn't allow his voice or likeness to be used beyond the original contract, or he would insist on being payed by Warner's for two films instead of one. That's why you didn't see or hear even one smidge of Brando (voice or likeness) in Superman II in 1981.

Of course, now that Brando is dead, all bets are off. IMO is all to the better, since Jor-El needs to be present in the film in some way. Wouldn't be the same without it.

I thought they used a small part in from S1 in the beginning of S2 at the trial of Zod? I can't remember. Its been a while since I saw the second one. But, I do remember that much of Superman's interaction in S2 was with his mother.

They did, but Brando isn't heard from. He didn't even allow them to use any extra dialogue he recorded for S1 for use in S2.

The first film is somewhat recapped in the second (opening credits), but that wasn't what Brando had his knickers in a twist over. Therefore, his mother Lara becomes the parental "presence" in S2.

"Look! Up in the sky. It's a bird! It's a plane..."

For millions of Americans and tens of millions of people throughout the world, those familiar words have one unmistakable meaning. They herald the arrival of the twentieth century's most dynamic champion... SUPERMAN!

Born in the Depression era, Superman exerted an instant, universal appeal which has spanned the decades undiminished. In an age painfully short of heroes and desperately in need of them, Superman continues to lay unchallenged claim to the triple crown as the world's most enduring, most profitable and most popular fictional superstar.

The legend of Superman is a fantastic phenomenon around the globe, where the ongoing saga is today published in eight separate comic magazines, available in more than thirty-eight nations and printed in fifteen different languages.

And one has only to visit a major store or shopping center in any of these countries to see the results of this sustained "Supermania" - in books, toys, T-shirts, watches, rings, records, decals, posters, paper products and party goods, socks, shoes, sweaters, sheets and towels. And the celebrated red-and-yellow Superman "S" can be seen emblazoned everywhere, even in the most unlikely places: from the backs of leather jackets to the backsides of jeans; from the rear door of a rock star's Rolls-Royce to the woven wicker of a rickshaw in Hong Kong; on surfboards, schoolbooks, airplanes and subway cars - even on men's briefs! The jokes, spoofs, take-offs and satires are almost endless. Most of us are familiar with the Superman references which have adorned recent magazine covers: cartoons of Super "Henry the K" (Kissinger) rocketing around the globe, Barbara Streisand clad only in a white T-shirt emblazoned with the famous logo, even U.S. Energy secretary James Schlesinger decked out in crimson cloak and tights (where was he when the lights went out in New York?) And like Peanuts, Superman has even been found to have theological and spiritual implications - a delicate area in which this author does not intend to intrude. (Though, it should be noted, the "Superman" story and the screenplay draw heavily on familiar religious elements, most obviously the discovery of the baby Kal-El, much like that of Moses, and the almost mystical bond between him and his father, Jor-El.)

The actual genesis of Superman took place in surroundings somewhat less exotic that Krypton: Cleveland, Ohio, in 1933... in the most painful phase of the Great Depression, the days of breadlines and Bonus Marchers and "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" It was a time when the world's morale was pitifully low and in need of something more than Arabian sheiks and knights in shining armor flashing across the silver screen, or posturing politicians promising that prosperity was just around the corner.

As it happened, a high-school student in Ohio did have an answer for that need. Jerry Siegel was a teenager of considerable creative powers, possessed of a fantastic imagination and a seemingly insatiable appetite for excitement, action and adventure. Oppressed by the grim reality everywhere around him, Siegel escaped into a world of fiction and fantasy, consuming a steady diet of short stories, science fiction, Saturday matinees - and, of course, the action serials in the multitude of pulp magazines that blossomed on the newsstands. As a reporter for the Glenville Torch, his high-school newspaper, young Siegel reviewed and recommended the very best of what he had seen and read, conveying his own enthusiasm to his peers. One of Siegel's favorites was the hard-hitting Doc Savage series, created by Lester Dent, under the pen name of Kenneth Robeson. Savage, officially known as "the Man of Bronze," was an amazingly dynamic hero, recognized for his almost super-human abilities - and was indeed often referred to as "a superman." In 1932 Philip Wylie's novel Gladiator appeared, featuring a central character who was yet another superhuman, but with attributes more spectacular and sharply defined than Savage's. He could bound "forty feet into the air," deflect a hail of bullets, race "at an abnormal pace." The idea of a man possessed of strengths and talents beyond those of other men made a considerable impression on young Siegel, voraciously reading every tale of adventure he could get his hands on - articles, short stories, novels - perhaps delving into Greek mythology (after all, he named the planet of his hero's origin Krypton, from the Greek word kryptos, referring to a hidden or secret place) with its tales of the superhuman Prometheus and Hercules, or works as recent as Nietzsche's philosophy, which first popularized the term "Superman."

Superman... superhuman... fantastic strength... incredible abilities... Slowly, inexorable, this imagined amalgalm of action and adventure, of fantasy and science fiction, began to coalesce in young Siegel's mind to come together as a single idea: a recognizable form, yet something altogether new and distinctly different. Something beyond what had already been done.

And, tossing in bed on a sultry summer evening, as Siegel recalled much later, "All of a sudden it hits me. I conceive a character like Samson, Hercules and all the strong men I ever heard of rolled into one. Only more so."

Only more so. That seemed to be the key: going a step further than anyone else had gone. Siegel's excitement was impossible to contain; early the next morning, he dashed over to the home of his friend, Joe Shuster, an enthusiastic and talented amateur illustrator. Shuster was immediately fired by Siegel's intense creative enthusiasm. Quickly, he endowed Siegel's idea with visual substance. In these initial sketches, some still familiar trademarks are clearly evident - the bold block letters curving ever so slightly, a muscular, athletic figure with a square-set jaw and jet black hair sporting a forelock. Soon the boys were deeply engrossed in plotting their first adventure. Superman had been born.

SUPERMAN Through the Ages: The Making of Superman

I am usually not fond of remakes, but this movie would seem to have the level of technology that was missing from the original.

Not a remake...takes place several years after 'Superman II', with the supposition that the third and fourth movies "never took place". Can't say as I blame them.

I just was searching old posts and saw yours.

Tron was going to have a sequel, but they couldn't afford to make it. They made the videogame, "Tron 2.0," instead using the original actors from the film.