A lot of numbers have been thrown around over the last few months about how much it was costing to make Superman Returns. First the number $250 million was thrown out there… and then that was raised to $300+ million. By FAR the most expensive film ever made.
Well, director Bryan Singer has brought some sanity back to the table telling people at WonderCon that the film is actually going to come in at UNDER $200 million. The good folks at Dark Horizons give us the following:
“There’s some idiot [who] wrote somewhere that the movie was $250 million, which is the most absurd thing I’ve ever heard. I’ll tell you exactly: The movie was budgeted at $184.5 million and will probably climb with visual effects and variables that occur in a movie of this magnitude, with 1,400 visual effects, etc., to somewhere still south of $200 million. Which is still a great deal of money, but it is by no means … what was published in that” said the director.
Well that makes a lot more sense. Still, I was really fascinated to see what the hell they needed $300 million for. Still a massively expensive movie to make. I can’t wait for it!
