But will Mark Millar (Kick-Ass) ever be able to create this eight-hour, three-part Superman film series he’s been pitching?

Moriarty at AICN has an idea who should direct the next Superman movie. You might want to Burn your computer After Reading his suggestion. (kidding … it’s not such a bad idea, but I don’t see it happening)

Superman has been making headlines lately. Now USA Today has a great piece on Jerry Siegel’s possible motivation to create the Man of Steel — his father’s murder:

On the night of June 2, 1932 … Mitchell Siegel, a Jewish immigrant from Lithuania, was in his secondhand clothing store on the near East Side. According to a police report, three men entered. One asked to see a suit of clothes and walked out without paying for it. In the commotion of the robbery, Siegel, 60, fell to the ground and died. The police report mentions a gunshot being heard. But the coroner, the police and Siegel’s wife said Siegel died of a heart attack.

Past accounts suggest Siegel and (Joe) Shuster, both 17, awkward and unpopular in high school, invented the meek Clark Kent and his powerful alter-ego, Superman, to attract girls and rise above their humble Cleveland beginnings.

But now it appears that the origin might have been more profound — that it was the death of Jerry Siegel’s father that pushed the devastated teen to come up with the idea of a “Superman” to right all wrongs.

“In 50 years of interviews, Jerry Siegel never once mentioned that his father died in a robbery,” says Brad Meltzer, a best-selling author whose novel, The Book of Lies, due Sept. 2, links the Siegel murder to a biblical conspiracy plot. “But think about it,” Meltzer says. “Your father dies in a robbery, and you invent a bulletproof man who becomes the world’s greatest hero. I’m sorry, but there’s a story there.”

Perhaps even a basis for a rebooted Superman franchise.

So Bryan Singer’s Superman reboot wasn’t rebooty enough for fans, critics and (most importantly) Warner Bros.

A few days back, Anne Thompson reported in VARIETY:

(The studio) believes that the last movie didn’t break the mold and wound up in some kind of middle limbo. Today I was told that it is a priority at the studio to find the right direction and if Bryan Singer is willing to do that, fine, but if he gets in the way, he may not stay on the project. There are no writers working on a Superman script now. The studio wants to figure it out. “It might be better to start from scratch,” one exec admitted.

Limbo? Not exactly.

Warner Bros. Pictures Group President Jeff Robinov told The Wall Street Journal that the studio is going to be reintroducing Superman. Here is what the article says:

Warner Bros. also put on hold plans for another movie starring multiple superheroes — known as “Batman vs. Superman” — after the $215 million “Superman Returns,” which had disappointing box-office returns, didn’t please executives. “‘Superman’ didn’t quite work as a film in the way that we wanted it to,” says Mr. Robinov. “It didn’t position the character the way he needed to be positioned.” “Had ‘Superman’ worked in 2006, we would have had a movie for Christmas of this year or 2009,” he adds. “But now the plan is just to reintroduce Superman without regard to a Batman and Superman movie at all.”

The article also talks about Warner Bros. adapting other DC properties over the new few years. Check it out here. Who will do for the blue boy scout what Nolan did for The Dark Knight? Can DC match Marvel’s recent run of success (Spider-Man, Iron Man, et al). It will be fun to find out.