Jonathan Kent is to be played by Pruitt Taylor-Vance. Well, nobody will lightly confuse him with kevin Costner, I suppose https://www.thewrap.com/superman-jo...-taylor-vince-james-gunn/?#lv2wvatjncsb03yoq9
DC Cinematic Universe ( The James Gunn era)
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I guess if Costner was redolent of John Schneider, PTV is maybe more like Eddie Jones in Lois and Clark.
Not familiar with this actor, but I liked Jones as Jonathan, so if Vince is in a similar mode it would work for me.
Of course, I liked Costner and Schneider too. Don't know that there's really been a Jonathan I've disliked.
I like Vince, so I'm down for this casting. Curious now as to who their Martha will be.
The guy who played him in Superman & Lois just never really brought the character to life for me.
Welp. Since Kurt Russells not Jonathan Kent I hope he's Jor-el
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Seems like typecasting after his Guardians of the Galaxy role.
I'm wondering what Jor-El is doing in the movie at all, since I thought it wasn't going to be another origin story. I guess they're probably doing the "AI ghost in the Fortress" thing that's been common since Marlon Brando. I'd prefer not to see that trope rehashed again, though. Well, maybe it's for a flashback instead.
Is there confirmation Jor-El's in the film? All I recall is fannish speculation like the Kurt Russell thing.
For that matter, since we're skipping the origin, the movie could easily have not included Jonathan and/or Martha either. But since Superman for All Seasons is apparently one of Gunn's touchstones for the project, I guess it's unsurprising they would appear.
Oh, I see, it was just speculation.
Ma & Pa certainly don't have to be limited to an origin story. I know it's become fashionable to revive the Golden Age/Richard Donner backstory of having Pa Kent die before Clark becomes Superman, but there have been plenty of versions where both parents are alive and well in Superman's present -- post-Crisis comics, Lois & Clark, Superman: TAS, Superman: Man of Tomorrow, My Adventures with Superman, etc.
Well, of course I realize that. I do have a little knowledge on the subject, you know.
My point was simply that it's not a given or a necessity to include the adoptive 'rents (even if they're living) in a Superman story once he's left Smallville. But I love Jonathan and Martha, so they're more than welcome.
Oh yeah? If you're so smart then, what was the name of Superman's home planet?
[Edited way, way, way later.] Hah. No answer. I knew it, poser.
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They're still alive in current continuity as well, following Rebirth.
Gunn shot the Russell rumours down some time ago https://www.supermanhomepage.com/ja...ay, via his Threads social,Jor-El in the film.
Good.
Part of the reason John Byrne had Ma & Pa alive in the post-Crisis continuity was that he realized it was more common in the '80s for adults to have both parents still living than it had been in the '30s or '40s, due to increasing life expectancy. So it's ironic that screen adaptations and comics reboots in the 21st century started reviving the 1940s-vintage premise of Jonathan dying early of a heart attack. Although they were presumably doing it out of nostalgia for the 1978 movie.
I suspect also that John Schneider was written out of Smallville as he had been badmouthing it to the press for some time beforehand.
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