Superman: Man of Steel

by Alex Ford After Kevin Smith’s Superman Lives was dropped, Alex Ford wrote this script for Warner Brothers. He pitched it as the first of seven movies, which was intriguing, but Ford eventually split with Warners due to creative differences. This “Man of Steel” is independent from Man of Steel (the proposed sequel to Bryan Singer’s…

Superman Lives

by Kevin Smith Smith has been pretty vocal about the horrors of development. For all the hype, I’m not too keen on this script. It has some interesting elements: the death and rebirth of Superman, the presence of both Lex Luthor and Braniac. I liked the way the story just starts without explaining who Superman…