Man of Steel....not in trouble?

Yesterday we posted about how the next Superman film may be hitting a snag due to the simple fact that the film Xerxes was not going to be directed by Zach Synder. (this is a sequel to his 300 film)

Suddenly there was talk of a troubled scipt and Warner Bros not happy with  Synder's Sucker Punch.

Well today some of these rumors are being cleared or sorted out.

Per EW,

"Guy Ritchie will not be directing Xerxes, the sequel to the 2007 surprise blockbuster 300, a Warner Bros. spokesperson tells EW. Reports that the Sherlock Holmes director had been formally offered the job are “an erroneous rumor,” according to the rep.

300 director Zack Snyder, meanwhile, is currently occupied working on the new Superman movie, which is due to start shooting this summer and hit theaters late next year, effectively preventing Snyder from taking the directing reigns of Xerxes until 2012. Whether Xerxes could hold until Snyder would be available is unclear: The project — based, like 300, on a Frank Miller graphic novel — remains in active development but has not yet been greenlit"

More to come as we get closer to the next Superman film.