Superman Returns

Batman Begins came and went to great fanfare, and Warner Brothers needed someone to help them reboot the long-neglected Superman franchise. Who better than Bryan Singer, the man who made the well-received first two X-Men movies? It helped that he was a big fan of the original Superman films by Donner and Lester, so he would bring the right kind of attention to the film. Well, he made the interesting choice (later mimicked across other franchises like Halloween) to simply ignore the events of...