It's official: The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Watchmen and 300 director Zack Snyder will be at the helm of the Christopher Nolan-produced 'Superman' film, due out in the fall of 2012, the same year Nolan's third Batman film is set to hit theaters.
The announcement has raised a bit of an uproar in the comics-to-film community. That's understandable, considering Snyder's latest, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, and Watchmen didn't exactly meet with the same critical reception the book did.
Let's look at the bright side: 300 is a great, if slightly overrated and overquoted, movie. Watchmen was never supposed to be a film, but Warner Bros. made it anyway. Snyder did a good job considering the difficulty in adapting such tough source material. Watch the birth of Dr. Manhattan, and tell me that's not a thread of brilliance in an otherwise mediocre movie. Sucker Punch, Snyder's first original work, is due out in March of 2011, and it looks absolutely jaw-dropping.
I'm excited about the announcement. This is the team behind The Dark Knight, working together to save the Superman film franchise. Nolan is producing, David Goyer is writing. Snyder will have a wonderful team at hand to help him make this new Superman great.
Oh, and Zod is supposedly the villain. (!!!)
Now, the big question is, who to cast? I nominate Jon Hamm. I know he's older, but I don't care.
Read the L.A. Times story here.
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