If Superman and Lois had ever been portrayed well as a couple/partnership on the big screen then I might agree with you.
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If Superman and Lois had ever been portrayed well as a couple/partnership on the big screen then I might agree with you.
They were excellently portrayed as such in Snyder's movies. (And yes, I did just use "excellent" and "Snyder" in the same sentence.)
I liked Snyder's portrayal as well--in Man of Steel. As a couple in BvS and JL, their actual relationship was sidelined in favor of the overall story. In the longer versions of those two movies we got to see a better portrayal of them as a couple -- but that wasn't the big screen for most of us.
I'm a little surprised by the number of people saying they aren't familiar with Rachel Brosnahan. That being said, I fell in love with her in the role of Midge Maisel, and find her acting skills top notch. I think, much like Amy Adams (whom I also love), she has the right personality and gravitas to do Lois's character some justice.
She works steady but has never been a big star. Her break out was House of Cards and she was in a supporting role there for a little over a season, and that was a decade ago. Manhattan only got two years, and was (unfairly) dismissed as CW models pretending to be scientists, wasn't a hit, and, again, was nearly a decade ago. Maisel is beloved but not well known, with only about 3.2 million viewers.
I only saw a few episodes of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel but Rachel Brosnahan was fantastic in it otherwise I just know her from an arc she did on The Blacklist.
I’ve only seen Corenswet on an episode of Elementary but I don’t remember him in it. I saw that too long ago. He definitely looks the part.
I’ve only seen Corenswet on an episode of Elementary but I don’t remember him in it. I saw that too long ago. He definitely looks the part.
He looks like alot like Cavill
...and Cavill looks a lot like Welling, who resembles Reeve. I wonder what they all have in common? 
I still think he looks more like Matt Bomer, with a bit of Tom Welling thrown in.
I wonder if the reason they announced the cast so quickly is because of the possible actor's strike and WB needed to get them locked into their contracts.
So quickly? They've been casting for months. Brosnahan specifically has been the rumoured front runner since March.
If anything, they announced now to try and get The Flash bombing out of the news cycle and replace it with positive DCU news.
Move past it to what, exactly? Superman and a rotating crop of casual dalliances? He's not James Bond, you know.
The story of Superman is the story of his love for Lois Lane. All else is secondary. If you want that gone, you want some other character entirely.
I don't know. At least not a "romantic love" sense. For most of the time I was reading the comics (from the early 70s to the early 90s, including reprints of Silver and Golden Age stuff), the story of Superman was the story of all-powerful man who pretended to be someone weak, who loved his adopted world but still felt a little apart from it. Lois was definitely part of that story but it wasn't the whole thing or even the main thing. She was as much, if not more, a literally symbol for humanity as she was his "significant other."
While it suffered somewhat (especially in modern terms) in execution, there was a certain poignancy in the portrayal of the relationship in the Reeve movies, especially in S2 where he realized he had to let her go for his "job."
That being said, if one is going to do a Superman/Lois romance, my personal preference would be that it develop over the series, starting as more of the "Hey, Smallville" type thing, evolve in a Hepburn/Tracy "front page" relationship and finally, a mature love. Anyone who's watched "Mrs Maisel" knows Brosnahan could pull each phase of that off in her sleep (and may be exactly why they hired her).
I have to agree. Unlike so many comic book hereoes, Superman/Clark was designed to seek, then bond with that one woman--the love of his life. His childhood / adolescent relationship to Lana was important, but at the end of it all, Lana was not the woman meant to be the other half of his existence.
He looks like alot like Cavill
Kinda sorta--at least around the eyes. But the resemblance may just be this angle.
These are fair points. I do think Lois's position and importance has evolved and grown in more recent years, however, to the enormous benefit of Superman as a franchise and a character. In the comics, they've been married for decades (the relatively short-lived "New 52" aside). And there's a reason not one but two television series have put her name in the title, as well as a reason James Gunn treated her casting, and the announcement of same, as equal in importance to Clark's. Simply put, she's a great character in her own right, and the more attention, respect, and primacy she's given, the better any Superman story becomes (IMO).
Yeah because they can start filming immediately.. oh, wait.
They announced casting because they need to get some positive vuzz for guns version of the DCWU because The Flash certainly isn't doing it. The film's on track to have lower box office than Black Adam when it's run is done.
DCWU?
If they're going more fantastical, I'm thinking they'll probably go more futuristic than past era, for the feel of Metropolis. At least that seems to be how it's usually portryed.
I don't think you can, Lois is such a huge, iconic, core part of the whole Superman mythos that you really can't do a Superman story without her showing up at some point.
I take it you're not a fan of Rachel Brosnahan?