Mark Millar's Idea for a Godfather-like Superman Epic

In early September, comic book writer, Mark Millar, stated that he was working with a big time movie director to pitch his Superman idea to Warner Brothers. The idea consists of an 8-hour saga which will be split into 3 films and released a year apart from each other similar to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Millar stated, "It's gonna be like Michael Corleone in the Godfather films, the entire story from beginning to end, you see where he starts, how he becomes who he becomes, and where that takes him...I want to start on Krypton, a thousand years ago, and end with Superman alone on Planet Earth, the last being left on the planet, as the yellow sun turns red and starts to supernova, and he loses his powers."
There hasn't been any word on whether or not Warner Bros will accept the idea. Cerebronews will definitely keep you posted on this story. Until then, head over to firstshowing for more info on Mark Millar's epic idea.

Honestly, this idea sounds freakin amazing. If they can do the story right, and allow Superman to actually fight in the movie instead of having major action scenes centered around shoulder pressing a mountain of kryptonite (Superman Returns= ridiculous), this may indeed become the Godfather of superhero movies. Its going to be very hard to contend with a movie like The Dark Knight though. Lets hope that Warner Bros will accept the idea.