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MORE SUPERMAN COMINGS AND GOINGS Monday, July 19 2004 Directors, producers, writers and actors keep coming and going for the next Superman sequel, with Bryan Singer (The X-Men, X-2) coming on board to direct what Daily Variety today (Monday) today described as "the long-gestating new pic in Warner's star-crossed franchise." Last week director McG dropped out of the project, after insisting that the film be shot in the U.S. rather than in Australia, where Warner Bros. insists it must be produced in order to (more) MCG OUT AS DIRECTOR OF SUPERMAN SEQUEL Monday, July 12 2004 
McG
(née
Joseph
McGinty
Nicol)
has
bowed
out
as
director
of
Warner
Bros.'
upcoming
Superman
sequel,
citing
disagreement
with
the
studio
over
budgetary
roll-backs.
Initially,
plans
called
for
the
film
to
be
shot
in
New
York
City,
but
when
Warner
Bros.
accountants
determined
that
filming
in
Australia
could
cut
tens
of
millions
of
dollars
from
the
costs,
production
was
moved
to
Sydney.
In
a
statement
on
Saturday,
McG
said,
"As
a
filmmaker,
I
felt
it
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Brandon Routh, cast as the next Superman, and Eva Marie Saint, who will play the superhero's mother, have arrived in Tamworth, Australia, about 250 miles north of Sydney, to begin filming Superman Returns. Producer Chris Lee told the Tamworth Northern Daily Leader that about two weeks of filming would take place in the area, which doubles for the Kansas farmland where Clark Kent grew up, while the main production is set for Sydney's Fox Studio. Meanwhile, Warner Bros. on Thursday dismissed as simply "a Web-based rumor" reports that director Bryan Singer plans to use footage that the late Marlon Brando shot for Superman II, but which was never included in the film. Brando played the Man of Steel's father, Jor-El, in the original Superman movie and shot a handful of scenes for the sequel at the same time. In his autobiography, he wrote that when producers Alexander and Ilya Salkind asked to use the footage in the second film, "I asked for my usual percentage, but they refused, and so did I." Ironically, if a deal with Brando's estate is indeed concluded, the new film would, for the first time, bring Brando together again in a movie with Saint, with whom he starred in On the Waterfront more than 50 years ago. Both won Oscars for their performances.
