Superman Returns director Bryan Singer has confirmed to Empire Online that work has begun on its sequel: ‘I’m just getting back with writers after the strike. We’re just in the development phase. I’m starting to develop a sequel…with the intention of directing it.’

Singer also mentions the intended tone: ‘The first one was a romantic film and a nostalgic film. I’ll be the first person to own up to that without making any apologies for it. I knew it was going to be that from the outset. And now that the characters are established, there’s really an opportunity to up the threat levels…Clearly there’ll be a body count [laughs]. From frame one, it will be unrelenting terror!’

Meanwhile, IESB.net reports that Superman Returns scribes Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris won’t be involved on the sequel; Transformers and Star Trek duo Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzmann will be penning the film’s script instead. 

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