WB and DC Have ‘No Plans’ for More Superman

Published by Jeff Leins on September 21, 2009

Warner Bros recently announced a restructuring of their DC Comics arm into DC Entertainment.  With all the rumors flying of a second Superman reboot and dwindling time left before the rights expire, you’d expect the studio to be working quickly on getting another Superman in theaters.

Not so, according to new DC Entertainment President Diane Nelson.  “We actually don’t have any current plans for Superman,” Nelson told MTV News when asked about the new superhero landscape in the works.

Warner Bros has already lost the rights to Superman’s Kryptonian origins, which reverted back to the Siegel estate in an August 2009 court ruling.  Any future releases wouldn’t include any references to his former planet, his parents, and his crash landing in Kansas after the destruction of Krypton.

In 2013, the entirety of Superman’s rights will return to the Siegel family who can then dish them out to the highest bidder.  A Warner Bros sequel or reboot would need to be released before the date and probably in production at least two years in advance.

I guess DC plans to let it go without trying another Man of Steel movie.  “We’ve obviously done a lot of great things behind the property in our history, and it’s a key part of the family, but we don’t have current plans behind Superman,” Nelson reiterated.

Maybe they’ll reconsider if the other DC Comic adaptations don’t perform as well as they hope.  There’s always that Wachowski brothers rumor floating around.  Though I’d rather see Kevin Smith’s version, sans the infamous giant spider.  WB should make a movie where Superman (played by Jon Hamm, because why not?) is killed by Doomsday just before the rights return to the Siegel estate.  That would be epic.