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TUESDAY MAY 30 2006 10:15 AM

Legendary character actor James Karen (Return of the Living Dead, Apt Pupil), has let slip an intriguing piece of info about the upcoming Superman Returns while doing an interview for the DVD release of Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster.

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Daniel Robert Epstein: There is a picture of you and Eva Marie Saint in Superman Returns looking up in the air. I assume your characters are looking at Superman flying.

James Karen: No were looking up at Supermans room in the hospital at the end of the picture.

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James Karen is portraying Ben Hubbard, the man who takes care of Martha Kent played by Eva Marie Saint. The character was mentioned in Richard Donners Superman: The Movie but is actually going to be seen in this film.

What the heck is Superman doing in the hospital? Guess well have to wait to find out when Superman Returns is released on June 30th

Comments

solaris1622

Thousand Oaks, CA

March 2005

MAY 30, 2006 11:04 AM

I have an odd crush on Kevin Spacey...

pretty sure the movie will live or die on his performance.

Glad to hear he put Superman in the hospital, though...

AndersWolleck

Astoria, NY

February 2003

MAY 30, 2006 11:05 AM

solaris1622
Glad to hear he put Superman in the hospital, though...

OR DID HE

Bastardo

Boston, MA

January 2005

MAY 30, 2006 11:10 AM

I saw the trailer for this yesterday. Spacey looks pretty good as Luthor.

alansmithee55

Canyon Country, CA

December 2004

MAY 30, 2006 11:13 AM

Supes in a hospital? Say it ain't so.

I read some guys blog about three months ago, he claimed to have gotten the script for this coming movie. He was pissed because Lex Luthor was going to surprise the world by announcing he was from Krypton too!

I have to laugh with visions of Dustin Hoffman at the end of Tootsie in the best of uber-melodramatic soap style announcing he was really a man and so-and-so's brother.

If Lex is from Krypton I'll be thinking of that when I see the movie. And laugh out loud at how they fucked up the universe.

Oregano

Boston, MA

January 2006

MAY 30, 2006 11:13 AM

Ol_Dirty_Bastard said:
I saw the trailer for this yesterday. Spacey looks pretty good as Luthor.

Agreed. I am excited to see this one.

ought

USA

September 2004

MAY 30, 2006 11:15 AM

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

Jaklyn

Toronto, ON

January 2004

MAY 30, 2006 11:32 AM

haha

Eiron

Buffalo, NY

May 2006

MAY 30, 2006 11:59 AM

ought said:
He slipped in the shower.

Let us all recognize the folly of buying kryptonite bathroom fixtures.

jonasgrumby

Alexandria, VA

April 2004

MAY 30, 2006 01:07 PM

alansmithee55 said:
Supes in a hospital? Say it ain't so.

I read some guys blog about three months ago, he claimed to have gotten the script for this coming movie. He was pissed because Lex Luthor was going to surprise the world by announcing he was from Krypton too!

I have to laugh with visions of Dustin Hoffman at the end of Tootsie in the best of uber-melodramatic soap style announcing he was really a man and so-and-so's brother.

If Lex is from Krypton I'll be thinking of that when I see the movie. And laugh out loud at how they fucked up the universe.

I believe that plot development was part of a J.J. Abrams script that got tossed out before Bryan Singer took over the project...

jaggy

Austin, TX

October 2003

MAY 30, 2006 01:29 PM

yeah, i love spacey too. prolly the only reason to see the movie.

William_Miller

South Berwick, ME

January 2005

MAY 30, 2006 01:38 PM

Well, don't we see Luthor shank Superman in the trailer? Chances are, you get stabbed with a makeshift radioactive knife right in your back, you're not going to get back up without a little bit of help.

The amount of apathy people seem to have towards this film astounds and scares me.

And yeah, the "Luthor's from Krypton!" thing is from the JJ script. Which, appropriately, didn't blow up Krypton, made Superman's suit be a "living" outfit that would climb over him (think Venom), and would've involved wire-fu up the ass. Needless to say, that shit got tossed when Bryan Singer brought the two writers of the draft of X-Men 2 that ended up being the movie, Mike Dougherty and Dan Harris, into the production.

Although there is an annoying tiff of spoiler underneath the tag here...

SPOILERS! (Click to view)

[Edited on May 30, 2006 by William_Miller]