Marlon Brando Blooper Footage and the “Superman Returns” DVD: “It’s definitely fascinating to look at. Like any movie, sometimes when you’re filming you get the words right, sometimes you don’t and then sometimes you talk about it. So, I don’t know what would be appropriate, and what would be inappropriate to put on a DVD. It would also come down to the rights issue, the estate rights of Marlon Brando. We have the rights to use elements and aspects of him as Jor-El, but whether you can use my favorite, I like, I don’t even know if I’m violating any rights by telling you the Brando bloopers. But when he’s on, he’s on. He’s Jor-El. It’s amazing.”
Bryan Singer on What He Hopes to Accomplish with “Superman Returns” That Wasn’t Accomplished with the Other “Superman” Movies: “I can’t think of anything. I think that’s a wonderful film so I wouldn’t think of anything. You know, it’s just bring him back. And things you couldn’t do back then with, now that we have rig removal and sophisticated visual effects we can do things technically that [Richard Donner] couldn’t do back then.
But I think for what he had back then, he did an amazing job. You know, you couldn’t paint out cables back then. You just had to move the camera in such a way, Chris Reeve had to act it, and you had to hide things – rigs and that sort of thing - so what they did was very challenging back then. We’re trying to meet the challenge of today with flying.”
The Setting of “Superman” and “Superman Returns:” “Richard Donner didn’t base it loosely on New York City - he made it New York City. He had the Statue of Liberty. I mean, it was New York City. We have a city that’s sort of a bit of and captures the look of - and the whole idea of the film – a 1940’s love story. So there’ll be a bit more deco, things like that. Thomas Hart Benton kind of stuff. But ultimately, we’ll be based on kind of something between today’s New York and the New York of 1938.”
Bryan Singer on Working with Marvel Comics Versus Working with DC Comics: “There’s no real difference. They’re both companies that…have passion about their universes and hold them dear, affording me a great amount of trust in the direction that I’m taking. But I’ve been afforded, as with ‘X-Men,’ tremendous control over the picture. It’s just all support. It’s all good stuff.
They’re doing a video game and I’m involved in that - with EA - and that’s spectacular. That’s going to be quite a video game. It’ll be for the next generation console, which will be amazing, and that will be different. It’ll have elements of the movie in it, but it will have elements that will make game play more exciting in terms of the construction of Metropolis and Superman’s powers and things like that.”
