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Superman Set To Fly
arock99 writes "After many years of battling various script rewrites, Superman is set to soar again.
Various sources (superman-v.com,
darkhorizons.com,
aintitcool.com)
report that Brandon Routh (of Gilmore Girls)
has been cast as Superman.
With production only a month away, Brian Singer is set to tackle yet another super-hero film after
previously having directed both X-Men and X2.
Had it not been for his recent passing, Christopher Reeve
would surely have been part of the production team in some capacity.
Superman should hit theaters around summer 2006."
Somehow I don't think this guy can do it:
Birthday: October 9, 1979
Birth Place: Des Moines, IA, USA
Birth Name: Brandon James Routh
Also credited as:
B.J. Routh
Brandon 'B.J.' Routh
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Notes
Born in Des Moines, Iowa and grew up in nearby Norwalk.
Attended the University of Iowa, and starred in many productions at the Norwalk Theater of Performing Arts.
Appeared in Christina Aguilera's "What A Girl Wants" video.
Enjoys playing basketball, biking, soccer and swimming.
His sister Sara is a singer/songwriter and a radio D.J.
News
October 17, 2004
Has Bryan Singer Found His Superman?
Brandon Routh is The Man Of Steel. We think. Probably.
More Info
Crew Credits
Acting Appearances
Starring Roles
Undressed (1999) - Wade (Season 3)
One Life to Live (1968) - Seth Anderson (#1) (05/23/2001-04/17/2002)
Guest Starring Roles
Will & Grace - Sebastian - A Gay/December Romance (2004)
Cold Case - Henry Phillips ('64 - A Time to Hate (2003)
Gilmore Girls - Jess [as B.J. Routh] - Concert Interruptus (2001)
Odd Man Out - Connor [as B.J. Routh] - You've Got Female (1999)
Co Starring Roles
Oliver Beene - Brian - Dibs (2004)
Movie/Mini-Series/Special Roles
Deadly -
Quick rundown:
His name is "BJ"
He was a regular on a soap opera
He was a gay guy on "Will and Grace"
He was a dancer in a Christina Aguilera video
How do you go from the above to Superman?
Someone please tell me cuz I've got a lot more under my belt than he does. I wanna be superman too!!!!
Heres a picture of Brandon and a write up of him at Latino Review: http://www.latinoreview.com/scoops/brandon-superma n.html
Thats not Brandon, thats (KAMAR REYES) this is Brandon http://www.geocities.com/televisioncity/9779/pubga l/br2.jpg
Rubbish. The Superman project has been in development hell for something like 5 or 6 years now: it has gone through several incarnations and several directors. Nicholas Cage was rumoured to be in line to play the Big Blue Boy Scout, Wolfgang Petersen was going to direct Batman v Superman but dropped out to helm Troy instead, Brett Ratner was then attached to Superman for a long while (the Batman element was dropped when Chris "Memento" Nolan signed up to helm Batman Begins), Kevin "Clerks" Smith wrote a script which got ditched, then McG was mooted to take over after Ratner got dropped, before Singer signed up a couple of months ago. Not necessarily in this order. All this happened *before* Christopher Reeve's death.
Brian Singer has said all along he wanted an "unknown" to play Superman. Rumor is Kevin Spacey will be the bad guy.
Of course, it was just a publicity stunt; the guy died in the comic allright, complete with special editions and stuff, but killing Superman would be just like killing Daffy Duck. You can't make a comicbook character die and dissapear, even less one like Superman.
:)
IIRC, the Superman comics actually continued, but with a different storyline; something like "Son of Superman". Check this link:
"Naturally, this would not be the end of the Man of Steel; after a number of stories in which Superman's friends and family deal with their feelings, it's discovered that his body is missing from his mausoleum, driving speculation that he might still be alive. Adding to the mystery are four new characters who each claim to be a new incarnation of Superman: a young, cocky kid with Superman's powers; a steel-suited African-American construction worker; a cold and vengeful hero who had taken over Superman's Fortress of Solitude; and a cyborg who half-resembled Superman and half-resembled the robots from the Terminator movies. After months of stories in which all four new Supermen worked and fought with each other, the one true Superman returns to claim his rightful place in the DC pantheon."
Anyway, i bought the comic when it came out. It worked on me, the bastards
Lois Lane in "Smallville", you be the judge.
They approached the actor from Smallville, but he didn't want to do it.
Full body-covering armour. Couldn't see his face. Still, he was a massive black guy from Seattle so everyone could tell that he was black inside (he sounded like it). Basically people considered him a "spiritual successor". Then they had Shaq make an awful movie of the character ("STEEL").
Other replacements from the "reign" of the supermen: a very confused electrokinetic android, a sinister cyborg, and a teenaged "clone" who was actually just a very complicated genetic-engineering program designed to make a *human* that was as similar to superman as possible. Also, a drunken bartender named Bibbo, as comic releif. And eventually, an unpowered gunwielding hero who just happened to be the real thing, slowly recovering from his "death".
IIRC, the story resulted in the annihilation of Coast City, which is what eventually caused the Green Lantern to go insane and wipe out the entire Green Lantern army.
Which TV series are you talking about? The Adventures of Superman stared George Reeves (how's that for old) long before Christopher Reeve had the role. I am just old enough to remember a time before the last 'crop' of Superman movies (look up Superman on IMDB, hell, I didn't know there were so many titles), when the old 50's show was in heavy syndication. I saw the Lois and Clark (and for that matter smallville) as fair and worthy tellings of the Superman story. George Reeve was my 'first superman', I quess that since he was long dead by the time I saw the show, I am more open to other 'flavors' of the story.
The force that blew the Big Bang continues to accelerate.