After the failure that meant Superman Returns and the enormous success achieved with The Dark Knight, the executives of Warner decided to reboot the franchise of the most popular superhero of all time, trying to give him a treatment more adult, similar to the version he directed Cristopher Nolan.
For the rebirth of the man of steel, these days the names of the famous brothers creators of the science fiction saga sounded Matrix: the Wachowskis brothers.
And who anticipated such a scoop, was nothing more and nothing less, than a close collaborator of the brothers, John mcteigue. The man assured that the Warner took out the wachowskis of the work they had been doing for the Plastic Man adaptation, and overturned them squarely in front of the confirmed Superman reboot. Warner He did not comment on the matter, but he did announce that the new saga will cost three films.
The information was collected by an AICN columnist, who wrote that The Wachowskis are currently reviewing their options. McTeigue maintains that if he accepts the deal, he will surely be working once again alongside the brothers in this new adventure. "
Hopefully the wachowskis can achieve with Superman what Nolan got with batman on darkknight, not only because of the box office records achieved, but also because of the artistic quality it possesses TDK.
Source: The Curia