The Superman story I believe should be along these lines if it to be successful and I also believe this is what David Goyer and Chris Nolan are planning at their round table meetings discussing our favourite super hero movies.
Superman Profile
I think that if Superman is to work, then he shouldn't know about Krypton, being named Kal-El, Jor-El or any of that. I think that when he was about 15, Jonathan and Martha decided to tell him he was an alien but didn't know where he came from. He already knew about his powers which gradually he began getting as he got older. He wouldn't be Superboy, but more like Clark from Smallville, helping those where he is but not looking to help people. The story should be more about Clark realising his potential to protect the world and creating Superman to protect his loved ones. After he gets the job at the Daily Planet, he could save somebody from a gangster working for Intergang who threatens to find him and his family. This could give Clark the idea of creating a seperate persona and discussing it with parents who go and get the Superman costume revealing that it was sent along with Clark in his ship as a baby as well as the red blanket. Clark decides to put the two together using the blanket as a cape. Clark would already be wearing glasses and has done since he was about 5 when his powers first started manifesting, to throw off suspicion of Clark being otherworldy. With Clark's super vision, the glasses don't impare his vision.
Lois Lane Profile
The right way to approch Lois is that she isn't the best reporter in the world and she can't get the right approach on soppier stories. She should also have a rivalry with Cat Grant with the 2 both graduating from Metropolis University at the same time. Cat has become the more successful with her gossup column writing but when Superman arrives, Lois gets the scoop and becomes the star reporter.
Villains
Lex Luthor and Brainiac is probably the best villain pairing in Superhero history in my view. The cunning and wit and Luthor and the cold, mechanical intelligence of Brainiac as well as his power is the perfect combination to defeat Superman. The Brainiac has to be the DCAU Brainiac, an android gone rogue who wishes to collect Information adn knowledge. Brainiac should derive from the Computer Hive planet of Colu and destroyed Krypton. He battled Kryptonian forces stealing their Crystal of Knowledge before igniting the planets core blowing it up. Now, in the film Brainiac should capture Superman aboard his Skull Ship and Superman finds a room full of artifacts one being teh Crystal of knowledge which telepathically speaks to Superman in Kryptonian which he immediately understands. Superman takes it with him before defeating Brainiac. He also takes the crystal to the arctic to create the Fortress of Solitude.
Lex should be the John Byrne Lex, a Billionaire suave businessman and owner of LexCorp, a rival arms company of Wayne Enterprises. He should have ties with Intergang, which is how he got his company so successful and at the beginning of the film, this is what Lois and Clark are reporting on until Superman is the new big story. Lex's hate of Superman is something that hasn't really been strong. In the Christopher Reeve movies, Lex began hating Superman because he was simply the opposite of the "worlds greatest criminal mastermind". This nees to be real world applied in which Superman has to really piss Lex off. This could happen when Lex is meeting with Intergang leader to seal a deal in which Lex is supplying advanced weapons to Intergang and Superman stops them, putting Lex's clean public image and his hopes of running for Mayor of Metropolis in tatters. Lex obviously makes bail and pays of the judge but now begins hating Superman and when Brainiac arrives on the planet, he sees this as an opportunity to get revenge on Superman using Brainiac to kill him.
So Basically this is the new Superman Reboot from how it should be in quick.
Clark Kent, 28 arrives at the Daily Planet.
He is teamed with Lois Lane who is his mentor for the first couple of days and they report on Lex Luthor's ties with the mob, Intergang.
Lois and Clark run into trouble investigating and Lois is taken captive. Clark defeats them using his super powers and frees Lois at super speed.
Lois and Clark write the story about the new hero and their new mission is to find out who he is.
Clark goes back to Smallville to visit Martha and Jonathan. He tells them that he needs a disguise to protect them and they show him the blue suit that came with him in his ship.
Lex Luthor meets with Bruno Manheim, head of Intergang at Metropolis Docks to discuss the shipment of weapons Luthor supplied him with. Superman hears the guns being fired when the police arrive and disarms the mob and ties them up along with Luthor and his security.
Luthor gets bail. Clark reports the story beating an annoyed Lois, who wonders how he got the scoop, when he was in Smallville.
Clark, Lois and Jimmy then team up to get a story and the first picture of Superman.
When Metropolis Bank is robbed and police give chase, Lois and Jimmy get a cab and follow forgetting Clark. Superman follows and stops the car, revealing himself to the world.
Brainiac arrives to earth in his Skull Ship and hovers above earth.
The US military are put on red alert and try to communicate with Brainiac sending a probe that Brainiac takes control of.
Brainiac scans earth and goes to Metropolis after deducing LexCorp as the most advanced technology.
Brainiac decends from his ship and forces his way to LexCorp defeating the army.
Clark, Lois and Jimmy are in the crowd watching and Superman arrives and duels Brainiac, destroying his body.
Brainiac sends his ship into orbit around the earth and sends the probe to LexCorp.
He connects to LexCorp computers and begins downloading earth's hsitory from the internet. He then orders Lex Luthor to build him a new body and offers him universal knowledge.
Lex orders his body be built by his designs. Brainiac tells Lex that they have a mutual enemy in Superman and propose to destroy him together.
Gen. Sam Lane who led the attack on Brainiac meets with Superman. Superman then flies into orbit with a nuclear bomb from the army and places it in Brainiac's ship. He then finds a kryptonian globe that speaks to him and takes it with him.
Brainiac's ship explodes.
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Simple. I really should work for DC Entertainment I would really kick their arses into gear.