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Brandon Routh may return to Superman after all

Just read this as well, Latino Review is usually frighteningly accurate, so I'm willing to believe this. I'm happy with this, especially because I believe to play Superman you have to have certain qualities off screen as well, and I think Routh embodies those qualities.
 
Supervisor 194 said:
Good call on Hamm as Hal Jordan.
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I'd like to see Josh Hartnett in the part.


dragunzng said:
Just read this as well, Latino Review is usually frighteningly accurate, so I'm willing to believe this. I'm happy with this, especially because I believe to play Superman you have to have certain qualities off screen as well, and I think Routh embodies those qualities.
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Routh has always seemed likable to me, but I don't buy him as Superman (or even as Clark Kent). There's no hint of a commanding presence. Something is off about him physically, as well - something other than his unduly slim physique.

I might like to see (a somewhat more muscular) Tom Welling in the role. His performance in Smallville's 'Noir' indicated an unexpected ability to play the coolest, most confident, one-step-ahead-of-everyone-else guy in the room - and still seem like good guy doing it. With a haircut, a deeper tone and a more confident bearing, he could be an excellent Superman.
 
JacksonArcher said:
Cicero said:
Supervisor 194 said:
Good call on Hamm as Hal Jordan.
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I'd like to see Josh Hartnett in the part.
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And I'd like to be sexy. Some things just aren't made to be.
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Have you seen him in Lucky Number Sleven? He manages in it to portray the sort of cocky but likable charm that's essential to Hal Jordan (opposite Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Lucy Lui, and Bruce Willis, no less). His performance as an well-liked Army Air Forces pilot was also one of the few positives about Pearl Harbor.
 
Josh Hartnett has less facial expressions than Paul Walker. And that's saying something!
 
I'd rather not see Welling or Hartnett as Superman. That said, Smallville seems to have made strides in the right direction this season, and I've seen glimpses of good in Welling.
 
I loved Superman Returns. I enjoyed the story, and Routh's portrayal of Superman worked for me. I thought the movie's "weakest link" was the actress who played Lois Lane -- I don't remember her name.
 
I just hope that they keep Bryan Singer out of anymore super-hero franchises. Everything he touches there looks like it went through the Queer Eye For The Straight Guy treatment. Not that there is anything inherently wrong about being gay. But the guy had an obvious man-crush on Hugh Jackman, and he put the entire team into skin-tight black leather. That's the "openly gay" uniform. And his Lex Luthor had a spurned lover fixation on Superman and all but ignored Parker Posey for the entire film. Contrast that with the relationship of Donner's Luthor and Tessmacher, where she was obviously his live-in sex kitten, and you can see one of the problems with the Singer/Spacey version of the character.

The only good thing I can really say about SR is that we got to see "Cyclops"(Richard White) actually being a better hero than in all 3 of the X-Men films, as well as Superman himself.
 
You left out how Xavier and Magneto felt more like bitter ex-lovers than political rivals.

Magneto's "you're real name" to Pyro. Obviously, not his false heterosexual birth name, but his gay "true" name.

Beast's "I hear you're quite the animal" line to Wolverine...oh, wait that was Ratner. :lol:

Routh made a crumpulent Superman, but after HOLLYWOODLAND, I think Ben Affleck is the go-to gay....er...guy. :shifty:
 
If they let his Superman be a man, then I have no problem with Routh. But please, none of the mopey, pining for Lois, floating away like a butterfly Supes from SR.
 
A guy who beats up villains with a green ring and another go around with Christopher Reeve's stunt double hinge on Nolan's return to Batman? That thought almost makes me wish someone would throw a story treatment for The Prestige II on his desk.
 
Cicero said:
Routh has always seemed likable to me, but I don't buy him as Superman (or even as Clark Kent). There's no hint of a commanding presence. Something is off about him physically, as well - something other than his unduly slim physique.

I might like to see (a somewhat more muscular) Tom Welling in the role. His performance in Smallville's 'Noir' indicated an unexpected ability to play the coolest, most confident, one-step-ahead-of-everyone-else guy in the room - and still seem like good guy doing it. With a haircut, a deeper tone and a more confident bearing, he could be an excellent Superman.
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No thanks. A Superman reboot doesn't need the extra baggage of actors or other elements from Smallville.

Keeping Brandon Routh is a good idea. He was fine in SR and he can be even better next time.
 
/\ Well if they were going to go in that direction, I would cast my vote for Dean Cain. But that would just be too distracting, raise too many questions, and everybody would be expecting Lois And Clark The Movie; And they'd be right.
 
I have nothing against Routh. He was the one good thing about the movie. As much as I love Kevin Spacey even he couldn't salvage the trite shit that was written for his Lex.

Still, it'd be as if Marvel had rebooted Hulk and kept Bana or Connelly.
Reboot means total do over, hence why JJ Abrams Trek isn't technically one. You cant have Nimoy's Spock and it be a reboot as others had thought Abrams movie would be.
 
Captain Craig said:
I have nothing against Routh. He was the one good thing about the movie. As much as I love Kevin Spacey even he couldn't salvage the trite shit that was written for his Lex.

Still, it'd be as if Marvel had rebooted Hulk and kept Bana or Connelly.
Reboot means total do over...
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"A reboot means X, therefore they absolutely cannot do Y."

I hope Warner Bros. will not be constrained by such conventional thinking.
 
Donald Draper said:
Nolan's effect on Superman and Green Lantern seems to be only on Warner's release schedule. WB does not seem to want more than one DC film for each summer. So his estimate for a third Batman would certainly effect other DC films. Not that those films would be delayed until he is ready to return to Batman. Maybe those films could come sooner if a third Batman is many years away. Due to open summer slots. But that it just speculation.
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Now that makes sense.
 
I liked Routh as Superman. The problems I had with the SR - and in the end I did like the movie - had more to do with story decisions than anything to do with the actors.
 
Routh wasn't very impressive in SR, but I blame the movie. Superman was just a passive object in that movie, with little in the way of intelligence, wit, dialogue, or clear motivation.

Routh has always seemed likable to me, but I don't buy him as Superman (or even as Clark Kent). There's no hint of a commanding presence.
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This was a big problem. Another problem was that Superman was the the third wheel in the Lois-Richard relationship. Richard was totally likeable and not even a little competitive or jealous of Superman. Hell, Richard treats Clark & Superman better than Lois does. It's Superman who is the one trying to shoe-horn himself into another person's marriage. (Ok, after 5 years together, I don't care what the movie tries to say, Richard & Lois & the kid are a family.)

There is no way to have Supes and Lois together again in the next movie without Supes being a major asshole or Richard dying, both of which would suck. A reboot to get rid of the kid, and the goofy, easily defeated Lex would be nice.
 
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