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Bryan Singer, gay director of the upcoming "Superman Returns," is set to direct the Harvey Milk biopic "The Mayor of Castro Street," based on the 1982 biography of the pioneering politician by Randy Shilts. Milk was the first openly gay San Francisco supervisor. He and Mayor George Moscone were assa
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Bryan Singer (born September 17, 1965) is an American film director and film producer. Singer won critical acclaim for his work on The Usual Suspects, and is especially popular among fans of the sci-fi and comic book genres, for his work on the first two X-Men films and Superman Returns.
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Director Bryan Singer has wooed Tom Cruise into taking a role in an untitled thriller based on an attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler at the height of World War II.... The Devil Wears Prada's Emily Blunt will topline The Young Victoria, a biopic of the 19th-century monarch.... Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Martin Landau, Christopher Plummer, John C. Reilly and Elijah Wood will voice rag dolls from a parallel universe in the animated 9.... Emile Hirsch is in talks to star in the Wachowski siblings' Speed Racer, to film this summer and to be released next year.... New Line has acquired film rights to the hit video game Gears of War. read more
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Director, writer, and producer Bryan Singer hit the ground running. Age twenty-three when his first major release, Public Access, garnered the prestigious Sundance Grand Jury Prize, he went on to direct the hit The Usual Suspects in 1995 and Apt Pupil, adapted from a short story by Stephen King, in 1998. With his X-Men, released in 2000, he became a Hollywood regular, reworking the famed Marvel Comic for the big screen. His movies have explored "the darker facets of human nature," according to Marc Savlov writing in the Austin Chronicle. Public Access is the story of a mysterious man who comes to a small town and turns the populace against one another with his cable TV show. In The Usual Suspects, Singer flips the conventions of a crime thriller upside down in "a maze moviegoers will be happy to get lost in, a criminal roller coaster with twists so unsettling no choice exists but to hold on and go along for the ride," according to Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times.
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X-Men director Bryan Singer turned down directing X-Men 3 to direct Superman Returns. Because of his Academy Award-winning performance in Singer's film The Usual Suspects and friendship with the director, Kevin Spacey was immediately cast as Luthor.[4] He in turn suggested Kate Bosworth, who played his wife, Sandra Dee, in the film Beyond the Sea, for Lois Lane, and she was hired after Singer saw her screen-test.[5] Singer, unlike previous directors, stated his Superman, like Christopher Reeve, should be an unknown. After viewing hundreds of auditions and casting calls from directors previously attached to the project, he found a 24-year-old bartender from Iowa named Brandon Routh, whose frame and charisma suited the role of Superman; this actor's midwestern roots and meekness seemed to fit Clark Kent's mild-mannered and bumbling persona, as well. Routh got the part after a meeting with Singer, spilling a drink on the director in the process, which a panicked Routh believed to have cost him the part. Nevertheless, the misfortune, Singer admitted, is what helped him choose Routh because he visualized Clark's clumsiness in the young actor. In 2005, Brandon Routh was introduced for the first time to the media as the new Man of Steel.[6] Hugh Laurie was cast as Perry White, but had to quit due to his role in the series House, being replaced by Frank Langella.
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Cruise had not intended to star in the project... during subsequent meetings, the project’s director, Bryan Singer, became intrigued by the notion of Cruise as a central figure in the story and offered him the role. Cruise signed.
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