Trevor

Is that the Ty Templeton that did Stig's Inferno back in the 80s? I loved that series!

Travis McClain

The one and the same! You should definitely check out his blog; the dude is hilarious.

RocShemp

I'm more of a Batman guy too.

mmconhea

supposedly to match this when finished...
http://picsdigger.com/image/28ba0422

RocShemp

No. I believe that concept art was from when Rattner was going to direct. That's the one that had the S symbol that would turn into a bladed weapon.

Sonic

In regards to Tim Burton version

Jor-El: "My son...you have great pow..e...wait a minute where the fuck you get that suit?"

UAIOE

So this would have been the Superman movie where we find out Sups is really a lonely outsider feared and shunned by "normal" people?

costanza

Superman? More like Stupidman! Why don't you go back to your own planet, Stupidman? Oh, that's right, because it blew up. Ha Ha. Stupid, Stupidman.
Ahhhhh, he's burning my flesh with his laser beam eyeballs!


That's the Superman movie I want to see.

BuddyRevell

The evil Superman scenes in part 3 is better than any scene in "Returns". If Singer would've left out that STUPID son element..I would have enjoyed it a bit more.

Boba Fett

The guy who updates Steve Johnson FX's Facebook page confirmed the pics were for the alien that was posing as Superman, with the intended effect to be lightning coursing through it. Makes a little more sense, but does prove Burton had no idea what he was doing story wise.

FRwL

Yep the evil Superman stuff alone actually makes it my favorite Supes movie, even though the main villain is so awful ("hey what can we do more unimaginitive than a re-tread of Lex again? How about someone like Lex but not Lex! high five") and Richard Pryor is shoehorned in there, although he's still funny in whatever he does even though it doesn't belong in there. They should've made the main badguy Brainiac.

TGM

is it too much to ask for Bizarro Superman?

Hokeyboy

Yes. Yes it is.

Geofferson

Evil Supes was great (I've tried to replicate the scene by flicking peanuts at bottles of liquor -- no such luck in breaking them).

As for that Burton costume:

fumanstan

Dr. DVD

FWIW, I have to recall reading (in one of many Superman based mags that came out at the time of his "death") that the Super Computer was going to be revealed as having been an incarnation of Brainiac if III had been more successful (aka not so reviled). Apparently the bit where it was supposed to shut down but didn't and started sucking the earth's energy was when the Brainiac system took over.

RocShemp

As Dr. DVD, it was meant to be Brainiac. However, the way I recall it was that in the script the computer was originally Brainiac and he fought Superman but that idea was shelved for budget reasons. SO we got a low-rent Brainiac of sorts instead.

Well that's certainly a new bit of information. There was no mention of said creature in the Kevin Smith script. So was thatr to be Tim Burton's idea of Bizarro?

Such a great scene and I love this shot of him as well:

Boba Fett

No idea, they just said the alien taking Superman's place after he died is from the comics. The guy posting said they were going to try and get Steve to answer some questions about the project, but nothing is confirmed.

People interested in SFX should definitely check out Steve's site and Facebook. He's done some documentaries on his work on Ghostbusters (He created Slimer) and The Abyss (He created the NTIs) and has been releasing some behind the scenes photos for a lot of stuff, including projects that never panned out. They are gonna show his attempt at making a live action Hulk puppet next.

gmanca

The guy who Burton hired to script-doctor Smith's draft was keeping the Brainiac angle, making him meld with Luthor and they were keeping the Eradicator so that costume is presumably it.

FRwL

So Brainiac was intended i see.

That moment he doesn't even look like Chris Reeve, amazing.

HN

costanza

Superman could at least afford Johnny Walker Black Label.

foofighters7

^ HAHAHHA I was getting ready to post- I always thought he would be a Jonny Walker Black kind of guy.

Seriously? Was this the only bottle they had laying around? Maybe they really wanted to show how low he got. I mean, drinking JW Red is just sad.

fumanstan

Video of the Tim Burton suit in action!

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Solid Snake

you beat me to it...