Superman Returns?

Warner Bros. is set to revive the ‘Superman’ franchise again, despite the disappointing 2006 movie that starred Brandon Routh as the caped crusader.

Plans for two movies, ‘Batman vs Superman’ and ‘The Justice League,’ featuring the superhero have stalled with Warner Bros. Pictures Group President Jeff Robinov casting those ideas aside to start afresh.

“‘Superman’ didn’t quite work as a film in the way that we wanted it to,” Robinov tells the Wall Street Journal. “It didn’t position the character the way he needed to be positioned.”

He adds, “Had ‘Superman’ worked in 2006, we would have had a movie for Christmas of this year or 2009. But now the plan is just to reintroduce Superman without regard to a Batman and Superman movie at all.”

Hinting at the direction they’ll take the next installment Robinov says they’ll take Batman’s ‘The Dark Knight’ approach saying, “We’re going to try to go dark to the extent that the characters allow it.”