Is Brandon Routh still going to be Superman in Man of Steel??

Last I heard they wanted to reboot but keep Routh in the role. Don't know how he stanRAB now. I always thought he was a lot better than people gave him credit for, though, and wouldn't mind seeing him kept on. Returns was a good film I thought, very underrated. Though it did get a big boost by borrowing more than a few elements from the Reeve fillms.
 
I thought Routh was fantastic in the role, so I hope they keep him. I don't think Superman Returns did anything especially bad to warrant another reboot to be honest. It was a bit lacking in the action department in the last half, and the Super son story will have to be looked at, but it's do-able with Routh and Singer continuity I reckon. Much rather that than the Millar take on things.
 
The problems I had with Superman Returns were:

Brandon Routh, lacking charisma and personality
Lex Luthor AGAIN
Kryptonite AGAIN!
That woman as Lois was a poor replacement for Margot Kidder
Too little action
The Superkid subplot

But the aeroplane save sequence, the last 40 minutes, James Marsden (yum), Spacey as Luthor, the visual effects, and Singer's often beautiful and striking direction almost made up for the longeurs.

That said and I'd be happy if they gave Routh another stab at the part. Perhaps he just neeRAB more of an opportunity to shine as Superman (I think it's no secret that the main reason he was given the role was because of his passing resemblance to Christopher Reeve). I hope they give Superman a proper Supervillain though.

:)
 
When I found out Superman Returns was a sort of sequel to Superman the Movie and Superman 2 I was really excited. However, I didn't realise it was going to be SO connected to those movies like the theme tune and credits, the presence of Brando etc.

In retrospect I think Singer made a bad move in associating SR so closely to the previous films. It hinder it where there was aperfect opportunity to rebot and start a new series of films.

I think Routh was ok, but he too was hindered by not really knowing if he should mimic Christopher Reeve or play it his own way.

I'd be happy to see Routh back in the role, but this time playing Clark Kent/Superman his way.
 
The reason they went in that direction is they felt Superman: the Movie did the origin story so perfectly there was no point in redoing it. Where Singer messed up IMO was in not then making it totally action-packed. The plane sequence was huge but then there was no action until the end, which wasn't THAT exciting anyway. Superman lifting that land mass into space is a good idea on paper and good for effects shots but ultimately boring.
 
He's too much of a teen for the big screen role, in my opinion. I agree with performingmonk in that Singer should've added a load more action. Everyone is so familiar with the Superman character that he should've just dived in with a strong storyline featuring a supervillain and left Superman I & II alone.

(Btw, I liked the bit when he lifts the landmass of crystal into space, lol. And then the long fall back to Earth afterwarRAB is beautiful.)
 
I understand them not doing a new origin movie, but SR would stil have benefitted from being independant of what came before. Certainly it had a different tone to it, but the important elements like Routh were hindered by it imo.
 
Superman was a load of old horse dung. Routh was like a talking mannequin, Lois Lane was bland and unlikeable. It was way too long and worse still, Superman has become a father.... they should never have gone down this route. It just means that in generations to come the world will be populated with people who have some kind of genetic superpower. X-Men in other worRAB. Bah humbug! I prefered the idea that was canned about a trilogy of films where it enRAB with Superman being the last person alive on earth, millions of years from now. The downside of being an alien in a strange land ;)
 
The problem with the Super-kid subplot of 'Superman Returns' is that it was totally unnecessary and needless. As revolver said, it just mudded the waters as far as future films are concerned although maybe that's why they're considering a total reboot. It's a shame though as the Superman franchise could be brilliant and they sort of messed it up.

:cry:
 
Superman Returns was really disappointing. It had its moments but all too few of them. Routh was adequate as Clark/Superman, but both he and Kate (miscast) Bosworth, who played Lois looked too young. I didn't buy her as a mother, at all.

The plot with Lex Luther (again!) was ridiculous and there was far too little of Superman being Super. It was quite depressing (which a Superman film should not be) and long-winded and for the most part it just felt like a retread of Donner's Superman. The only really new idea they added was the addition of Superkid and that didn't feel right at all.

Plus, many things about the film were flat out ridiculous:

Lex's land plot.

Both Clark and Superman disappear for 5 years, at the same time and no one makes the connection when they both return, again, at the same time?

And the fact that Superman would take off for 5 years in the first place, without even telling anyone was completely out of character.

Lois winning a Pulitzer Prize for an article about why the world doesn't need Superman.

Superman not even considering whether the boy might be his. Is his maths a little rusty?


I could go on...but I won't.
 
To be fair, this is the same bunch of people that can't see the resemblance between two men, just because one wears a pair of glasses!

In terms of reality, what you says is true. In terms of the Superman mythology, its quite believable.
 
brandon routh was ok i thought. however kevin spacey (has he made anything good in the past 10 years??) and kate bosworth were TERRIBLE. she doesn't look like she could write a shopping list, let alone a pulitzer prizewinning article :-0
 
The plane rescue sequence seemed out of kilter for a Superman film somehow. Reeve's Superman would have grabbed it and stopped it just like that, but the passengers in the stricken aeroplane endured a rather protracted almost incompetant, very much a skin of their teeth rescue.
 
I was about to say exactly this. If you can wear glasses and fool people as to your identity, you can pretty much get away with anything. :D
 
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