Brandon Routh and Sam Huntington Talk Dylan Dog and Learning Not to Wait for Superman

What was the reason it took so long for the film to make its way into theaters?

SH: That's a good question. I think some movies just take a little longer to come out. It's a lot of stuff that we don't really concern ourselves with, to be honest.

BR: It's also, really, an independent film. It's a slightly larger budget -- it's not a small $1 to $2 million indie, but it's not a large budget movie. So when that happens, the film business is a tough market. You see how many movies with huge name actors go straight to DVD. Sometimes it's not because the movie's bad, even; it's because they couldn't get the business side together to get it sold.

And Dylan Dog is actually opening wide! Are you guys thinking about possible sequels already?

BR: I think we were thinking when we filmed it how fun it would be to explore the story, where it would go. And I think there's ample room for it to happen. I think it just always depends on box office -- as we both know extremely well from another movie that we did together!

SH: [Sighs] Abso-lutely!

[Sarcastically] Why, whatever could you be referring to?

SH: Oh, it's nothing. It was small...

BR: Because even when a movie makes $400 million worldwide, it still doesn't constitute a sequel.

SH: God, it's so bizarre.

When did that realization hit you both, that a Superman Returns sequel wasn't going to go after all? Was there a big phone call from Bryan Singer or anything?

BR: Nope. Never a phone call.

SH: No. It just kind of fizzled away.

BR: I found out like everyone else... on the internet.

SH: Yeah, my wife worked at Warner Bros. so she kind of kept her ear to the tracks a little bit.

BR: Right, it wasn't like we were ignorant to the murmurings that were going around.

SH: It's a bummer, because we poured our hearts into that movie. And it was a cool movie.

And it did make quite a bit of money, by any standard.

BR: It's one of those things, you know; we made that movie and we were really happy with it, and it did, in my estimation, pretty well. [Laughs] And you think, "Oh, we're gonna do a sequel," because you look at Spider-Man and its sequels, and all this kind of stuff. So we kind of just assumed that that was going to happen. I think with this [Dylan Dog], going forward, we understood the real world aspect of it, how it is. So we're very hesitant to the proposition.

SH: Right, right. Live and learn. But then again, if it does come out and make $100 million opening weekend, fuck it! It would be great, but it is what it is.

Sam, you've got a few writing projects in the works, correct?

SH: I do! I have one that used to be at DreamWorks and is now at Paramount, that we're kind of on our third first draft of. We're paired up with Red Hour, which is Ben Stiller's company, and actually I have a meeting next week to finalize this draft and turn it into the studio and see what they think. It'll actually be the first time that anyone at Paramount [sees it], because it's been a long time -- I've been unavailable and we've been working on this other draft, it's just been piecemeal. So now we've just finally finished it. We'll see what happens, but a lot of the time, you know, if the production company likes it it's not always the case that the studio will like it. But we'll see! Right now it's called Valley of the Valley. Very L.A.-centric.

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