Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology Blu-ray Boxset Announced
Monday, March 14, 2011 at 4:50PM 
The TMT offices (if we had any) are almost certainly bugged. First, Shane Black gets hired to write and direct 'Iron Man 3' fresh off Jamie's recommendation and now Warner Home Video have announced that the Christopher Reeve Superman films (The Movie, II, III, & IV: The Quest For Peace) as well as the Bryan Singer directed 'Superman Returns' will finally be released on Blu-ray this summer in a box set which looks spookily similar to something I pitched last year right here.
I kid of course, it has nothing to do with me but it is a little surprising to see the series getting the box set treatment so far away from the release of the Zach Synder directed 'Superman: The Man of Steel' coming for December 2012. Just in case you are getting excited about this one, you may want to bear that in mind. This release may just be a stop-gap to some sort of 'be all, end all' set being released next year.
As per our good friends at 'The Digital Bits' here, all we know at the moment is that the box set will contain the five previous Superman films. There is no confirmation at all on what sort of new or old bonus material will be included, or even if both versions of 'Superman II' (the Richard Lester and Richard Donner cuts) will be available. At the very least, we could hope to finally see the infamous 'Return to Krypton' sequence from 'Superman Returns' as well as a dedicated documentary on the development of the Superman Lives project entitled 'What were they thinking?'
'Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology (1978-2006)' Blu-ray has a confirmed UK release date of 13th June. No US release date has been announced but the set will be region-free because WB don't believe in that bullshit called region coding.
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