WHO should be cast as the new SUPERMAN

[JRL]

Given a feature film budget I have no doubt that Tom and Erica and Rosenbaum could pull it off extremely well.

I have faith in Erica and Rosenbaum, Welling still dont know........ he has to be Superman and Clark i havent seen him act diferently in the show except when he is hooked with Red Kryptonite, so the acting point is the main problem for me......

 

[KneelBeforrSmallville]

Tom Welling has deffinitly amped his game up this season. in The Premiere "savior" you could deffintly see it. I think his best performace was season 5 Splinter, He had to act all paranoid, it was cool cause clark is so cool and calm and starightfoward. I think it all depends on the writing, tom is deffintly up for the acting challenge.

Has DC ent confirmed the Nolan/Goyer involvment, it puzzles me that they would announce this dc dreamteam(Lee, Geoff Johns ect) and not have them involved with the new superman at all, but its very eary to tell anything at this point.

 

[JRL]

Has DC ent confirmed the Nolan/Goyer involvment, it puzzles me that they would announce this dc dreamteam(Lee, Geoff Johns ect) and not have them involved with the new superman at all, but its very eary to tell anything at this point.

https://latimesblogs.latimes.com/he...ith-superman-we-have-a-fantastic-story-1.html

 

[KneelBeforrSmallville]

^^^^ Well i know that i read the whole article..i ment did People from DC, specificly say that this is true? if it says it in the article i must have missed it

 

[NASEDO]

I Love the cast of Smallville. Rosenbaum as Lex was awesome. And Welling will have no problem in the Big Screen. He was the only reason I bought and liked the film The Fog.

 

[twistedfreak]

I like Welling. He has the look, and 10 years of Smallville under his belt. He deserves it.

 

[KneelBeforrSmallville]

Sounds Good to me!

 

[TheObsoleteMan]

Sounds Good to me!

I've already mentioned that I think Welling is a bit of a stiff, but there's no denying he has the look.

 

[aussieinnyc]

Bomer has done screen testing for Superman before. I think he was the runner-up for casting in Superman Returns.

He went to high school with my wife ... only reason I know any of this stuff. I saw him on that USA show for a minute or two.

SnakeDoc

Matt Bomer would be a long-shot for Superman, IMO. Definitely looks the part and talented as well, but unfortunately I think the rumours about his private life would be a sticking point for WB/DC.

 

[JRL]

What Rumors??

 

[DarthNeil]

What Rumors??

His sexuality... I believe it's rumoured that he's gay.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

 

[Batfreak]

yeah i really dont get what ppl hated about routh. ok so he was no chris reeves, but did anyone seriously think they were going to find someone who really was going to be on par with reeves as superman?? i didnt. and SR was pretty good, spacey was a perfect lex luthor, great casting right there. frank langela wasnt too bad either. the only person really worth recasting was bosworth as lois lane. UGH, she sucked. but still, the movie wasnt bad or a disaster as the stuido seems to think it was. ok so it wasnt as successful as batman begins was, doesnt mean the movie did badly though. i dont really get the hate for it. my only problem was it was just sorta meh, not bad, but not great, or, not as good as it could have been. personally, i dont expect a superman film to ever be as good as the original. EVER.

and please....no gay actor playing superman. that would start making supes into a gay icon, and thats not very hard to do in todays day and age, unfortunatly. keep superman manly.

 

[Darklord Dave]

I don't think anyone hated Routh in the role. Even people who were disappointed in the film (myself included) felt that Routh was well cast.

By the way - there were lots of rumors that Routh was gay when he was cast. But it makes about as much difference as Captain America being played by an American - in other words, no difference at all. That's why it's called "ACTING."

 

[DarthNeil]

I don't think anyone hated Routh in the role. Even people who were disappointed in the film (myself included) felt that Routh was well cast.

By the way - there were lots of rumors that Routh was gay when he was cast. But it makes about as much difference as Captain America being played by an American - in other words, no difference at all. That's why it's called "ACTING."

Actually for an audience it's called "willing suspension of disbelief"... For example, NPH has got it and an audience completely separates the real guy from his character Barney on HIMYM-- not all actors/actresses have that quality (acting chops) which allows an audience to accept them solely for the role they're currently playing. The closet is pretty big in tinsletown for that reason.

 

[aussieinnyc]

Unfortunately, though, there are those who will not willingly suspend disbelief, or who actually think the actor playing the role somehow matters to the role itself (the gay icon/keep Superman manly (whatever the hell that is meant to mean) comment above for example) and even if they're in the minority, they tend to be a rather vocal minority that can make studios very nervous. From what I know, Bomer's sexuality is basically an "open secret" in the industry, which would be harder to deal with than the Routh rumours, which appear to be just that - rumours.

 

[TheObsoleteMan]

If Routh had been given his own Superman movie, I think things might've gone a lot better for him. The problem is they made Returns a pseudo Donner film and instead of Routh being cast as his own Superman he was cast to play Christopher Reeve playing Superman.

 

[JRL]

The problem with Supes Returns was:

- The Director (Brian is a good director but sometimes you dont get it right)
- Making a movie like the first one from 1978, how imature is that??
- Kate is a great actress! to yung for the part and the main problem was the script.
- Spacey good actor, bad script, Luthor had to be like the byrne era (the one that smallville is currently portrayng)
- Langela (Perry White) boring again, because of the script.
- Sam H. (Jimmy Olsen) good casting - bad script
- Brandon Routh, looked very young for the part, he is not a good actor, he did an acceptable Supes but again the script hurt his performance.
- And i remembered the first time saw the suit it was like the world was ending for me but in the end i accepted it, but right now i feel like the first time i saw it so i hope that in the next movie they stay true to the basics (lite colors)

If they want to cast a young actor they should go with Henry Cavil, but thinking of it whn they (if the do) a JL movie the guy will look to young to be the main man there, if i was directing it i would probably cast someone that looks very close to Chris Reeve.

My point of view

 

[KneelBeforrSmallville]

Im Stickin to my guns on this one lol

 

[hunnipot85]

I think Henry Cavill would be a good choice

 

[The Mike]

Give him a bit more hair, shave his face and you've got your Clark/Superman right here.