Welcome to the 29th installment of Page One Rewrite, where I examine genre screenplays that just couldn’t make it. This week, another one of Warner Bros.’ many, many attempts to kill Superman in the ’90s. And if you have any suggestions for the future, let me hear them. Just contact me on Twitter.Just as the sting of 1987 box office flop Superman IV: The Quest for Peace was fading, Warner Bros. saw incredible success and endless media coverage with the 1992 “Death of Superman” comics storyline, inspiring the studio to give the Man of Steel another try. The earliest attempts of this era featured veteran comics writer Cary Bates penning a farewell to Christopher Reeve as Superman, something that unfortunately didn’t happen due to a variety of factors.Only sixty pages of Lemkin’s Superman Reborn draft have surfaced over the years, but we do know the story involves two cosmic beings named Morpheus and Delia, some R-rated violence, a breakup between Lois and Clark, some f-bombs, Superman dying and his soul literally impregnating Lois, and a crotchety doctor named Harry Cadamus who orders his underground mutant followers to kidnap the baby. This script was rejected, reportedly because too many elements mirrored 1995’s Batman Forever. (It’d be amazing to think that was the issue with this script.)
Welcome to the 29th installment of Page One Rewrite, where I examine genre screenplays that just couldn’t make it. This week, another one of Warner Bros.’ many, many attempts to kill Superman in the ’90s. And if you have any suggestions for the future, let me hear them. Just contact me on Twitter.
Just as the sting of 1987 box office flop Superman IV: The Quest for Peace was fading, Warner Bros. saw incredible success and endless media coverage with the 1992 “Death of Superman” comics storyline, inspiring the studio to give the Man of Steel another try. The earliest attempts of this era featured veteran comics writer Cary Bates penning a farewell to Christopher Reeve as Superman, something that unfortunately didn’t happen due to a variety of factors.
Only sixty pages of Lemkin’s Superman Reborn draft have surfaced over the years, but we do know the story involves two cosmic beings named Morpheus and Delia, some R-rated violence, a breakup between Lois and Clark, some f-bombs, Superman dying and his soul literally impregnating Lois, and a crotchety doctor named Harry Cadamus who orders his underground mutant followers to kidnap the baby. This script was rejected, reportedly because too many elements mirrored 1995’s Batman Forever. (It’d be amazing to think that was the issue with this script.)
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