Some Thoughts on the Superman Film Franchise

There has been some concern rolling around the nerdier corners of the internet in the past two days after Nikki Finke revealed that Warner Brothers might be putting Christopher Nolan in charge of a new Superman film franchise in a "Godfather" position, which I suppose must be fancy talk for him essentially being the film's executive producer, with an exorbitant amount of control over who ends up directing the movie, and who will star, and who the villains might be...

While at first glance this seems like the best decision Warner Bros. could possibly make, seeing as Nolan is responsible for the most critically and financially successful superhero film of all time, there is reason for some concern... This decision seems to be following the line of thinking Warner Bros. exhibited in the early nineties, when they realized, "Hey, these Batman movies are pretty popular! Dark takes on Superheroes seem to be what everyone wants right now, and we happen to have another enormously recognizable superhero whose film franchise has been dead for over a decade! Let's put the Batman guy on Superman!"

This was the result: