Originally posted by: greencaptI still have many MANY doubts about this film, but at least I can respect filmmakers who seem to honestly answer questions:
During interviews at this past weekend's WonderCon, "Superman Returns" director Bryan Singer has denied rumors that the film's budget has gone over $250 million or talk of extensive reshoots.
"There's some idiot [who] wrote somewhere that the movie was $250 million, which is the most absurd thing I've ever heard. I'll tell you exactly: The movie was budgeted at $184.5 million and will probably climb with visual effects and variables that occur in a movie of this magnitude, with 1,400 visual effects, etc., to somewhere still south of $200 million. Which is still a great deal of money, but it is by no means ... what was published in that" said the director.
As for the extensive reshoot talk? "There were none. We're probably going to do one day of pickup in Los Angeles, but there was none. What I did was I switched my schedule. I had shot for about 105 or 107 days. Originally, I was going to shoot for 128 days, 130 days, And instead, I stopped. I decided, because I was so exhausted and the process was so long, I was starting to lose my objectivity. So I shortened the schedule and stopped shooting after ... what I believe was 107 days. And then came back to Los Angeles for about three and a half weeks, and then went back and finished the schedule in Sydney".
from Dark HorizonsOf course my heart sank again when I read this morning that Singer will re-start work on his 'Logan's Run' remake as his next project... but that's a bitch for another thread!