Superman vs. Batman

This movie has been in development at Warner Bros. on and off for many years, and all the writers and producers who've come and gone working on the film have all had variation of the same idea. The story always involves Lex Luthor and The Joker hatching some plot to take over the world with Superman and Batman having to come save everyone from their mad scheme. YAY!...............just what we need, yet another plot from the films, TV shows, and comics that has been rehashed over a thousand times.

Warner Bros. managed to attach director Wolfgang Petersen for a period of time, and the movie at last was slated for a 2004 release. But problems arose, and Wolfgang Petersen opted to leave the film. Warner Bros. soon decided that it was best if Superman and Batman each returned in their own films.

But there was now a vacant slot for a 2004 release, so the movie Catwoman starring Halle Berry was slapped together, and flopped at the box office. In spite of this, Warner Bros. re-tooled the long delayed follow up to Batman and Robin, and was released in 2005 as Batman Begins starring Christian Bale, and was a box office hit.
The long delayed Superman Lives was then re-tooled as Superman Returns, and released in 2006 starring Brandon Routh, this film was also a hit at the box office.

Since Superman Returns and Batman Begins were both larger than life hits, the possibility of Superman vs. Batman is now once again an open door. However, I would suggest going back to the origins of both characters, and pulling out a much deeper story no one would've expected. How about a story where Bruce Wayne discovers that Joe Chill, the man who murdered his parents is in fact a distant relative of The Kents in Smallville? This would prompt Batman to go to Smallville, and hunt them down, since they're the last living link to Joe Chill. This way, Bruce Wayne's very reason for being Batman has just been vindicated while Clark Kent's very reason for being has just been threatened. The story should needs to be about these two characters and their no opposing walks of life. And there'd be no need for any villains or some gay sidekick named Robin.

I apologize for not blogging in the past couple of weeks, I've been writing a novel entitled The Truth About Murder, so I'll try to blog whenever I can.