SUPERMAN RUMORS - QUICK SOMEONE FIND OUT

ThinkMcflyThink.com claim to have heard word that work on Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit" is taking longer than expected and may necessitate moving that project's first film's release date into 2013. This would leave Warner Bros. without a big Tentpole movie for the Christmas 2012 season... which was the original release date for "Man of Steel" before it was pushed back to June 2013.

We've been told that production is flying as fast as the Big Blue himself with shooting to wrap early February, and scenes already being edited and sent out to various post-production houses as I type this. Jeff Robinov, who currently wears the crown as “King of the WB,” has long thought the Last Son of Krypton could succeed while the film climate is about running into multiplexes for the heat instead of the AC and, if you’ll remember originally slated Henry Cavill’s freshman foray into fighting for truth, justice and the American way for December 2012 while the entire Hobbit production was up in the air before Jackson stepped in to save it.

If the above angle comes into play that would push The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey to December of 2013 and The Hobbit: There & Back Again to December 2014. In that case, WB gets their Superman epic out before the 2013 deadline where they’d have to pay up extra dough to the Siegel/Shuster estates (and for once, beat Marvel to the punch with putting a big superhero blockbuster out for the Holiday season instead of the standard operating procedure of summer with their November 2013 release of Thor 2) and Jackson gets an extra year to do his magic in Middle Earth again. It'd also be a great WB/DC one-two punch along with The Dark Knight Rises to help fans get the bad taste of Green Lantern out of their mouths quicker.

Remember, this is just one website's unconfirmed rumor. As far as we know, "Man of Steel" is still slated for a June 14, 2013 release until we hear otherwise from Warner Bros.


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