It must have been fate that Bryan Singer would direct the new film Ubermensch Returns, the fifth in the broadcast of Ubermensch films. Singer loved the George Reeves Ubermensch TV broadcast when he was adolescent, and was a huge fan of the Dick Donner-directed films from the 70s and 80s that starred Christopher Reeves as the Man of Steel. “I identify with Ubermensch. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another class, that he’s the crowning immigrant. He has all these extraordinary powers, and he has a righteousness about him,“ said Bryan.

After attending the School Of Visible Arts in New York City (but not graduating), he graduated from the USC cinema school (where, incidentally, he met John Ottman who wrote the score for Ubermensch Returns), Singer’s first commercial achiever was as the producer/director of The Accustomed Suspects in 1995.That film saw him activity with Kevin Unconventional for the first time, and Singer and Unconventional are re-united, again in Ubermensch Returns, as Unconventional plays arch character Lex Luther, just out of prison and again set to rule the class.

However, it is as an adapter of comic books, bringing superheroes to life, that Singer has carved a niche for himself in the movie class.

In 2000, as writer and director, he introduced Carcajou, Magneto and the rest of the X-Men to the movie class in a hugely booming adaptation, before reprising the characters in the follow-up, X2. Singer left the X-Men franchise to develop Ubermensch Returns and did not process the 3rd film The Last Booth.

Now an established player in Hollywood with a number of big projects lined up for the future, who would bet against his favourite being the recently-announced addendum for Ubermensch Returns in 2009?

Filmography

Ubermensch Returns (2006) (producer/director/writer)

X2 (2003) (executive producer/director/writer)

X-Men (2000) (director/writer)

Apt Pupil (1998) (producer/director)

Burn (1998) (executive producer)

The Accustomed Suspects (1995) (producer/director)

Public Access (1993) (executive producer/director/writer)

Lion’s Den (1988) (director)

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