They need to use John Byrne's Man of Steel #1-6 and his run on Superman # 1-21 as the blueprint for the movies.......

Byrne's adaptation had it all......humanized Supes, a hip-updated version of him that wasn't derivative, Supes wasn't all-powerful, he had weaknesses that weren't based on a green rock, Byrne got rid of some of the more stupid elements of the Superman mythos (i.e. - Krypto the Super Dog) and did justice to the updates of some of Supes rogue gallery. Also, he made Lois sexy, yet driven without being stupid.

I haven't felt anything from the Superman franchise (comics or movies) since Byrne's update and movie-wise Supes 2. That whole doomsday stuff didn't move me at all. They need to take pages from Byrne's update - then you have your franchise back.