Kristen Stewart Will Not Be Lois Lane In Zack Snyder’s ‘Superman’

UPDATE: According to People.com, Stewart’s reps said: “There are a number of fabricated stories circulating. The fact is that she has not met on this film nor has she been approached for this film.” Our original story remains below.

Now that Zack Snyder has cast his Clark Kent, our attention has turned to the second lead in Metropolis, Lois Lane. The rumor mill is stirring over which actress will play the intrepid reporter in Snyder’s Superman reboot and seemingly every young woman in Hollywood has been floated as a possibility. One name on the list that raised a few eyebrows, however, was Kristen Stewart. Apparently not only does the Twilight star agree, she thinks one franchise is more than enough and has reportedly taken herself out of the running. Read the juicy details after the break.

According to the New York Daily News, Stewart met with Snyder and his producer/wife Deborah to discuss the role. Snyder didn’t formally offer the role to her, but had “definite interest.” Stewart, however “ultimately passed” indicating she was “caught off guard” by the success of Twilight and wanted to concentrate on “smaller, independent films.”

The best part is that the News reports Snyder felt “slighted” by the actress and that she “wasted his time.”

When contacting Stewart’s publicist, all they would say was that she “did not read for the role” which could easily mean she took a meeting. Snyder’s people didn’t comment.

Whether or not any of this actually happened is pretty insignificant. The fact of the matter is, Stewart will not be Lois Lane. Almost all the other actresses that have been rumored – Rachel McAdams, Mila Kunis, Jessica Biel, Dianna Agron, Malin Akerman, Olivia Wilde, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, and either Kristen Bell or Lake Bell – are definitely solid choices. If I had to rank them in my mind, it would be McAdams, Agron, Winstead, Wilde, Kunis, Bell (either), Akerman. But that’s just me.

Do you think Stewart could have pulled the role off? And how do you rank the actresses who are rumored to be up for this, obviously, coveted role?

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Zack Snyder Developing Video Games For Electronic Arts

Watchmen director Zack Snyder has become the latest filmmaker to break into the video-game business, signing a deal to develop three original games for Electronic Arts, the nation’s largest third-party publisher, Variety reported.

The deal is similar to one made by EA with Steven Spielberg in 2005. Their first collaboration, a puzzle game for the Nintendo Wii called Boom Blox, was released in the spring to rave reviews but modest sales. Read more

Zack Snyder In The Editing Room With Watchmen

Got this from Sci-Fi Wire this morning.  I hope this means that the DVD will be loaded with extras. – JR

Zack Snyder, director of the upcoming Watchmen, told SCI FI Wire that he is currently in the process of editing down the first director’s cut of the film, which currently runs about three hours long.

“It’s impossible,” Snyder said in an interview at the Saturn Awards in Universal City, Calif., on June 24, where he was honored as best director for his film 300.

Snyder added: “The balancing act for me is, you want the movie as tight as possible for, I don’t know why, I guess so people can enjoy it. But for me, the hardest part is just, when is it not Watchmen anymore? I don’t think that’s a danger, but it’s a thing that I am trying to be the gatekeeper of while other forces conspire to say, ‘No. Length, length, length. Playability.’ Whatever the hell that means.”

Based on the seminal graphic novel by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, Watchmen is a faithful film adaptation that reproduces many of the original panels in exacting detail. Snyder said that he has been going back and forth with the studio, Warner Brothers, about which scenes should be cut and which ones should remain.

“I’ve lost perspective on that now, because to me, the honest truth is I geek out on little stuff now as much as anybody,” Snyder said. “Like, people will go, ‘We’ve got to cut. You don’t need that shot of Hollis Mason’s garage sign.’ And I’m like, ‘What are you talking about? Of course you do. Are you crazy? How will people enjoy the movie without s–t like that in it?’ So it’s hard for me. I think it’s probably good, because I think we’re going to end up with that stuff in the movie.”

Snyder also said that he’s looking forward to showing the film to true comic-book fans at Comic-Con International in San Diego this July.

“Everyone who [made] the movie, loves the movie,” he said. “I’ve never been around so many people that just took the book [so seriously]. It’s like a yearbook. Like, on the set, at the end of the shoot, we all would sign each other’s Watchmen copies. And we had Dave Gibbons in there, too, and he would draw on our books, and it was just sick cool. And so then you come back from that experience, and you go to the studio, and the studio’s cool, don’t get me wrong, but they don’t love it like we do. Right? It’s like just a movie, like, ‘Oh, we have this movie, Watchmen, and it’s f–king long.’ Like, ‘What are these superheroes? They look crazy.’ So you have that experience. So for me, right now, I’m in the middle of that. So for me to go to Comic-Con is to get a chance to go back to people that love it.”

Watchmen is scheduled for release on March 6, 2009. –Cindy White

Source: Sci Fi Wire

Warner Brothers’ Army Of The Dead Gets A Director

Van Heijningen Helms Warner’s Dead

Warner Brothers has signed commercial director and visual artist Matthijs van Heijningen to make his feature-film directing debut on Army of the Dead, an action thriller that takes place in zombie-infested Las Vegas, Variety reported.

Warner will co-finance the movie with Village Roadshow Pictures. Zack Snyder and Deborah Snyder will produce under their Cruel & Unusual Films production company.

The script by Joby Harold (writer and director of Awake) focuses on a father who tries to save his daughter from certain death in a zombie-ridden Sin City.

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