McG is desperate to direct a Superman film - following his aborted attempt at resurrecting the franchise in 2002.
The director, who has just finished work on Terminator Salvation, was signed on to direct a Superman movie from a J.J. Abrams script. However, the deal fell through after McG's fear of flying meant he couldn't shoot the movie in Australia.
Bryan Singer came on board and decided to use a brand new story for his film Superman Returns.
However, the film wasn't the success that Warner expected - and McG admits he hasn't given up hope of revisiting the J.J Abrams script.
He said, "I talk to JJ [Abrams] a lot about that. Food for thought. I think it's a great character, I would want to make the character infinitely more dark and complicated, and get away from the big Blue Boy Scout a little bit and get into the alien among us. And how that could be lonely and interesting. It's not that I would make it depressing, I would just make it a little tougher... Which I suspect people would respond to.
"We have the glorious Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, which to me is an excellent example. I like the Schumacher pictures and everything Burton did but it needed to be reinvented to some degree and I think we're all better for it. We're all happy it went that way at least. I haven't thought about it clearly."