Fan CastingDavid Lynch’s Superman: For Truth and Justice (1991) / Brave New World (1993)

In the wake of the runaway success of Tim Burton’s Batman, Warner Bros., staying true to form, read all the wrong signs and woo with an unprecedented amount of creative control cult darling filmmaker David Lynch to try and revitalize the Superman franchise. The result is a duology of increasingly surreal films, polarizing to mainstream audiences but that nevertheless showed a deep understanding of the character’s core themes, which were then deftly deconstructed. read more