I Can't Wait!!

So I went to see the new Harry Potter movie with the wife Friday and was pleasantly surprised that actually contained characters being characters. This is not, however a post about that movie. Let's face it, there's tonnes of others out there who've already posted their take on it and you basically love these movies or hate them. What blew my mind was the coming attractions reel.

Among all the other coming features was one that made me sit up in my seat with awe. That's right folks, on June 30th in 2006 Superman Returns! While I expected a new Superman movie in the theatres eventually I was completely convinced they would make it a soap opera style flick like the Smallville TV series that is on the TV. The basic concept is that Superman has disappeared for a few years and the world has learned how to get by without him. Upon returning he finds that Lois Lane has moved on with her life and Lex Luthor is still after him, planning to strip him of his powers for good. It looks pretty slick in the trailer, but then again don't they all?

This one is directed by Bryan Singer though, so there is hope. For those that don't know who he is, this is the guy that brought the X-Men to life. While I don't know what Brandon Routh, who is to play Clark Kent, has done, I am looking forward to seeing Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor. The website has the teaser trailer that got my attention, and a bunch of other bits and pieces. The most attractive of which, to me the movie nerd, is a video journal of "making of" featurettes. It'll have to keep me distracted until the movie comes. I'll just have to be careful no to give myself one of Kev's patented "nerd-gasms". Let's face it folks, Christmas isn't even here yet and I can't wait till the summer. My poor wife will be as excited as I am about he movie's eventual arrival as I have regressed to a child-like state and am currently running around the house with a towel safety pinned around my neck, thinking I am Superman. I even tried to thwart a mugging the other day, but that only boosted the mugger's haul as he got my wallet and watch as well (I don't know where he got kryptonite, but I'll find that out too). My wife apparently has some too because she gave me right good thrashing when I told her about the mugger. I swear they're selling that stuff at the grocery store now!