Kevin Spacey Returns As Lex Luthor

dafloppyone · 11 Jul 2007 at 18:53

By Garth FranklinWednesday July 11th 2007 12:47am
Kevin Spacey will return as Lex Luthor in "Superman: Man of Steel" and appear in "Telstar," Nick Moran's film version of the darkly comic West End play about flamboyant '60s record mogul Joe Meek reports Variety.

Spacey hopes to shoot his Luthor role in a six-week block, as he did on Superman Returns," after he completes his run in David Mamet's "Speed the Plow" in April.

"Superman Returns" scripter Michael Dougherty is now writing the screenplay and Singer plans to begin production next year for a 2009 release.

"Telstar" started filming Monday in London. Con O'Neill reprises his stage role as Meek, the gay and tone deaf songwriter-producer. Spacey plays his financier, Major Banks.
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Secret_Window · 11 Jul 2007 at 19:06

I hope the sequel is better, I found Returns a little dissapointing.

Dano · 11 Jul 2007 at 19:28

They're making another? it was utter dross...

Frame352 · 11 Jul 2007 at 19:31

Spider-man 4 will have to be pretty good to make me interested in the series again. Spidey 3 was utter poo.

Tbh, I'm more interested in the new Hulk movie, which isn't a sequel, but rather someone else's take on the comic. Edward Norton to play Banner.

divine` · 11 Jul 2007 at 20:29

Green_Giant said:
Spider-man 4 will have to be pretty good to make me interested in the series again. Spidey 3 was utter poo.

Now you've got your dislike of Spiderman 3 off your chest, are you going to comment on the Superman franchise this thread is about?

R.O.S.S.I · 11 Jul 2007 at 20:45

divine_madness said:
Now you've got your dislike of Spiderman 3 off your chest, are you going to comment on the Superman franchise this thread is about?

lOl was thinkin the same

wedgie · 11 Jul 2007 at 21:34

Looking forward to this, Superman Returns was far better than I expected.

Grrrrr · 11 Jul 2007 at 22:04

^^ i dread to think how low your expectations were, smr was dreadful...

Frame352 · 11 Jul 2007 at 22:17

Well clearly, Superman has moved my post from "The Future of Some Major Franchises" thread, to here

McDaniel · 11 Jul 2007 at 22:35

i just think the superman films should pull away from Lex being the bad guy - they are good films, but lack the supervillians that will give it something different.

Spiderman has had big baddies, even Batman had some quality characters, and bar Zod n his generals in Superman II weve not seen anything epic for superman to fight... other then a bald criminal mastermind.

Bring on Doomsday or something, or even Mr Mixylpitlick or whatever his name is

wedgie · 11 Jul 2007 at 22:40

Grrrrr said:
^^ i dread to think how low your expectations were, smr was dreadful...

I was expecting it to be dreadful, it far exceeded that expectation for me.

Maybe I liked it more because I thought it would be bad, I really enjoyed it either way.

elevenseventysix · 12 Jul 2007 at 09:48

Got to say, loved the film, and loved Spacey's performance.

Really looking forward to the sequel!