Sunday, October 17, 2004

The Man of Steel?

The story is pretty much everywhere that is interested in it on the net right now, but The Beat is where I saw it first.

Director of the in production Superman film Bryan Singer has been adamant in his desire to cast an unknown in the titular role, and the rumor is that the fellow to the right a mister Brandon Routh is all but locked to play Big Blue.

The Beat says the image to the right came from Routh's website (which as of this writing is down due to--wonder why--bandwidth excess), and is from a costume party. What strikes me about the picture is how damn much he looks like Christopher Reeve there, and if he is the choice it is a good one to invoke the ideas of those films.

Who is young Routh, you ask? He was Seth Anderson #1 on ABC Soap Opera One Life to Live, and was a guy on MTV's teen-sex soap opera Undressed. He's been in a few other tv shows, and just finished wrapping his first feature film.

I hope he can act, but if Singer has faith in him, I'm sure he can.

Harry at AICN thinks this is a very strong possibility, which adds some credence, so I'm betting it's just a short time till Warner Bros makes the announcement.

So, ladies and gentlemen, DC's two oldest icon characters are coming soon to a theater near you played by relatively untested actors based solely on their suitability for the roles! Has Warner Bros finally learned the dreadful lessons of Batman and Robin and Catwoman? Not a chance! They're just completely schizophrenic! But this time their schizophrenia is a boon and not a bust.

Latino Review broke the story.

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