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Tom Houseman: My expectations are for it be awful, and for me to continue wishing a slow, painful death on Zack Snyder for continuing to make such terrible movies. If it manages to be worse than Superman Returns, I'll be impressed, but unsurprised. God, do I hate Zack Snyder.

Reagen Sulewski: I don't expect these names to have much of an effect overall, except indirectly in that Nolan might take away Snyder's slo-mo/speedup shots. Especially when it comes to superhero movies, audiences don't care who produces them and are largely indifferent to the director. Iron Man became a huge hit with hardly anyone knowing anything of Jon Favreau's work (side note: who saw Gutter from PCU becoming the biggest success out of that movie?). If they can deliver a great looking final product, people will come. Nothing short of that will work, especially for a twice damaged franchise.

Brett Beach: I caught up with Singer's Superman Returns three years after the fact and found at least half a good movie. It desperately wanted to bring back the earnestness of the first two Superman films and its lack of cynicism was refreshing, but it didn't solve the problem of the Man of Steel's near-invincibility and how to factor that in with making a film that is exciting and unpredictable. I think Nolan and Snyder are an intriguing creative pairing, but I ask myself how invested I want to be in a franchise that will apparently be rebooted until a formula for success is found again (too bad that $200 million domestic doesn't quite cut it anymore). That said, they have cast Amy Adams as Lois which falls under typecasting, but also guarantees that I will see this eventually.

Max Braden: Flying at Zack Snyder speeds, Superman will have no shot at reversing the rotation of the planet.

Edwin Davies: When Christopher Nolan announced back in December that he was scaling back his involvement with Superman in order to focus on The Dark Knight Rises, I thought that this meant that Snyder was going to have carte blanche to make it as slow moving as possible, with possibly an awful heavy rock rendition of John Williams' iconic theme for good measure, but this result makes me think that Warner Bros. might either a) try to cajole Nolan into being more hands on, or b) take a much firmer hand with Snyder in order to make sure that he doesn't have quite the same level of artistic freedom that he had on Sucker Punch. Either way, I think that the project has too much momentum now to stop so it will happen, but Sucker Punch's opening might subtly alter just what sort of film it ends up being. It'll still be terrible, but how terrible is the real question.

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