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Comic book writer Mark Millar has spoken about his idea for a three-part Superman story spread across a trilogy of new movies. While Millar still doesn't want to share the name of the A-list director that he says is part of his proposal to entice Warner Bros., the Scottish-born scribe did spill some details about what he envisions his Superman movies could be like.

"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," Millar told Empire magazine. "The Dark Knight showed you can take a comic book property and make a serious film, and I think the studios are ready to listen to bigger ideas now."

"The problem with Superman Returns was like releasing Star Wars in '77, The Empire Strikes Back in '80 and then waiting 28 years to release Return of the Jedi, it wasn't relevant. I understand what Bryan Singer was trying to do, to pay homage to Richard Donner's original vision, but I think you should pay homage by doing something completely different."

And then Millar shared a tease about where he wanted to take the last Kryptonian in his film: "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."