In 2003, while promoting X2, Hugh Jackman mentioned in an interview on UK television morning talk show This Morning that he planned to make a biopic of Bill Bixby, that he had been drawn to the project by Bryan Singer and that it was a project he loved.

Director Bryan Singer stated at the 2006 Comic-Con that he favored the three-persona concept, stating that there was Clark Kent on the farm, the bumbling Metropolis Clark, and Superman, the Last Son of Krypton.

In 2006, Spacey played Lex Luthor in the Bryan Singer – directed superhero film, Superman Returns.

Director Bryan Singer has remarked that the X-Men franchise has served as a metaphor for acceptance of all people for their special and unique gifts.

* Bryan Singer ( born 1965 ), film director, for such films as Public Access, Apt Pupil, X-Men, X2, Superman Returns and Valkyrie.

Laurie's American accent was so convincing that executive producer Bryan Singer, who was unaware at the time that Laurie is British, pointed to him as an example of just the kind of compelling American actor he had been looking for.

Ratner was under consideration to direct X-Men ( 2000 ) and Superman Returns ( 2006 ), although both were eventually directed by Bryan Singer.

McQuarrie was born and raised in Princeton Junction, New Jersey, where he attended West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South with director Bryan Singer, actor Ethan Hawke and musician James Murphy.

The film stars Tom Cruise and is directed by Bryan Singer.

* Public Access ( with Bryan Singer and Michael Feit Dougan ) ( 1993 )

Since his death, many fellow musicians have commented on Gary Moore's talents including Ozzy Osbourne, Kirk Hammett, Eric Singer, Doug Aldrich, Tmi, Bob Geldof, Roger Taylor, Brian May, Brian Downey, Andy DiGelsomina, Ricky Warwick, Glenn Hughes, Bryan Adams, Henry Rollins, Scott Gorham, Ignacio Garay, and Mikael Åkerfeldt.

Director Bryan Singer allowed Stanford to portray the character without having to dye his hair blond ( like it appeared in the comics ).

A film directed by Bryan Singer is being developed by New Line Cinema, starring Nicholas Hoult as Jack.

In the case of Superman, it was Donner who insisted the subject of the comic book superhero should be treated " straight " rather than " camp ", an approach that strongly influenced later genre directors such as Tim Burton ( Batman, Batman Returns ), Bryan Singer ( X-Men, X2 ), and Christopher Nolan ( Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, The Dark Knight Rises ), who have made successful superhero films of their own.

According to executive producer Bryan Singer, Havok was not portrayed as Cyclops ' brother in the film, but " somehow related to him in a way that works for the film.

Although Bryan Singer was listed to direct and co-produce, the project stalled for some time before being reannounced in 2011 by Singer himself.

Only two other directors have won the award more than once: Peter Jackson ( three times ) and Bryan Singer ( two times ).

Having been rebuilt via a Kryptonian crystal during the One Year Later story arc, the current version of the Fortress of Solitude, which was also designed to essentially be visually identical to the Donner and Bryan Singer films, now contains an advanced interactive " recording " of Jor-El which, although visually dissimilar to Marlon Brando, is otherwise identical in function to that featured in Superman Returns.

English actor Kevin McNally portrayed Goerdeler in the 2008 Bryan Singer thriller Valkyrie.

Director Bryan Singer tried for a full day to get his desired shots of the cast of The Usual Suspects behaving sullenly in a police lineup, but the actors could not remain serious and kept spoiling the takes by laughing and making faces.

* When Bryan Singer was still slated to direct X-Men: The Last Stand, the role of Emma Frost was intended for Sigourney Weaver.

In 1997, he starred opposite Ian McKellen in Apt Pupil, directed by Bryan Singer.

Keyser Söze ( ) is a fictional character based upon Matt Kenyon in the 1995 film The Usual Suspects, written by Christopher McQuarrie and directed by Bryan Singer.

His tonalism had a profound effect on many American artists, including John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, and Willis Seaver Adams ( whom he befriended in Venice ).

Describing Morris as a teenager, Mark Singer wrote that he " read with a passion the forty-odd Oz books, watched a lot of television, and on a regular basis went with a doting but not quite right maiden aunt (" I guess you'd have to say that Aunt Roz was somewhat demented ") to Saturday matinées, where he saw such films as This Island Earth and Creature from the Black Lagoon — horror movies that, viewed again 30 years later, still seem scary to him.

Singer wrote: " My conclusion there is, and here I back Shklovsky, that if the satellite is indeed spiraling inward as deduced from astronomical observation, then there is little alternative to the hypothesis that it is hollow and therefore martian made.

Time magazine wrote in 1969 that Singer had had a lifelong fascination with Phobos and Mars's second moon, Deimos.

In October 1967, Singer wrote an article for The Washington Post from the perspective of 2007.

Singer wrote the " Leipzig Declaration on Global Climate Change in the U. S ." in 1995, updating it in 1997 to rebut the Kyoto Protocol.

In December 2009, after the release of thousands of e-mails from the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit — a controversy that came to be known as " Climategate "— Singer wrote an opinion piece for Reuters in which he said the scientists had misused peer review, pressured editors to prevent publication of alternative views, and smeared opponents.

Singer Brooke Fraser wrote the " C. S.

Michael Specter wrote that Singer is among the most influential of contemporary philosophers.

In 1985, Singer wrote a book with the physician Deanne Wells arguing that surrogate motherhood should be allowed and regulated by the state by establishing non-profit ' State Surrogacy Boards ', which would ensure fairness between surrogate mothers and surrogacy-seeking parents.

Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal wrote to organisers of a Swedish book fair to which Singer was invited that " A professor of morals ... who justifies the right to kill handicapped newborns ... is in my opinion unacceptable for representation at your level.

The term caught on ; Singer wrote that it was an awkward word but that he could not think of a better one.

Singer / songwriter Dave Cousins of Strawbs wrote Grace Darling ( on Ghosts ) in tribute and as a love song.

During this time she wrote her first autobiography, This for Remembrance: the Autobiography of Rosemary Clooney, an Irish-American Singer, written in collaboration with Raymond Strait and published by Playboy Press in 1977.

After retiring, he wrote The Singer and His Art ( Hamish Hamilton, 1971 ).

During the next two years an author, Miller from the town where Larry first performed this, wrote a book called " The Singer " and another book called " The Song.

* Singer Tom Russell wrote a song called Bergenfield, discussing the suicide via carbon monoxide of four teenagers in the borough in 1987.

* Singer / Songwriter Johnny Cash wrote a song titled " Belshazar ", based on the Biblical story.

Singer / songerwriter Beyoncé used an alter ego named Sasha Fierce when she wrote her album I Am ... Sasha Fierce.

* 1978: Isaac Bashevis Singer ( novelist, wrote in Yiddish )

* Singer / songwriter Josh Joplin wrote and recorded a song entitled Joseph Hillstrom 1879-1915 as a tribute to Joe Hill for the self-titled debut album of his band, Among The Oak & Ash.

Billings wrote the first version of the song for his 1770 songbook The New England Psalm Singer, and made improvements for the version in his The Singing Master's Assistant ( 1778 ).

Singer and whore with a heart of gold Ella Bly who knew Franky before he became Greyshirt, wrote a song called " The Ballad of Franky & Johnny ".

In 1978, Stone and Singer produced and wrote the show's first special, the " triumphant " Christmas Eve on Sesame Street, which included an O Henry-inspired storyline in which Bert and Ernie gave up their prized possessions — Ernie his rubber ducky and Bert his paper clip collection — to purchase each other Christmas gifts.

Singer / songwriter Ben Patton wrote and recorded a song named " Timon of Athens " in 2006 which is included on his album Because the Heart.