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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."
Who the heck is this guy? Gillmore Girls? C'mon now, why not use the guy from smallville or something. I mean how many supermen can we have? Not that anyone can top Christopher Reeve, may he rest in peace.
Not that they are making another Superman series, but that they are doing this with the full knowledge of the Superman curse.
I don't know who this latest guy is, he doesn't even warrant a picture in IMDB, but we'll soon be seeing him hiding in some bushes or thrown from a moving train or some other strange and inexplicable circumstance.
On top of that, the real Superman, Clark W. Kent, died in the comic books years ago. So did Bruce Wayne, the original Batman. Can't we just let these heroes among us pass in peace? Do we have to drag their dead carcasses out of the grave to squeeze just one more penny out of the franchise?
A: Christopher Reeve still had some feeling left
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
View Biography
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
Some of the replies to this article are amoungst the most tasteless and uninformed that I've seen on Slashdot. Come on guys, take 10 seconds to research the new actor and refrain from saying mean things about Mr. Reeve for now. But... yeah... Gilmore Girls... Until I looked him up I was confuzled.
Thats not Brandon, thats (KAMAR REYES) this is Brandon http://www.geocities.com/televisioncity/9779/pubga l/br2.jpg
There's a better pic at superman-v.com . The pic at that geocities site makes it look like Superman was outsourced to India.
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
Think this is kind of weird timing after Christopher's death?? Kind of like the HHGTTG movie timing. They had to wait for Douglas to die before they could go forward with what production wanted, (ie a money making movie, not a GOOD movie). Anybody else think Mr Reeve maybe had some say that the production didn't like, and now that he's gone it gives them the chance to go forward?? Just my 2 cents.
We heard about every actor for Superman: Nicola Cage or Travolta, Fraser, or MacLachlan .
I guess we need to wait more few years that Hollywood decides who will wears the Superman suit.
Also will it be the old blue and red or the new white suit as it is in the latest update in the Comics ?
I need a Sino-Logic 16. Sogo-7 data-gloves, a GPL stealth module...
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.
I'd rather see a good "Tripods" Movie...
that story has potential...
Crivens! I kicked meself in me own heid!
But Teri Hatcher's breasts were the best Lois Lane breasts ever.
Boffoonery - downloadable Comedy Benefit for Bletchley Park
modern rounded or "vintage" pointy variety.
;)
I like the classic pointy ones
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Wow, the fact that someone would do a google search and post the first thing that pops up as evidence of someone they've never seen really surprises me. Actually it doesn't. Here are some other photographs of him.
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http://www.geocities.com/televisioncity/9779/pubg
http://www.superman-v.com/news/images/brandonrout
http://soaphunks.net/routhb01.jpg
http://soaphunks.net/routhb02.jpg
Maybe Slashdot needs to leave the movie news to the movie sites?
freeminimacs, just becau
Wow, you must really have a photographic memory, since I've watched every episode of Gilmore Girls and he's in it for literally 5 minutes as a bit part in the first season.....and that's all.
Dean Cain fans!
and they're spec-tacular!
- The White Mountains
- The City of Gold and Lead
- The Pool of Fire
- When The Tripods Came (A prequel added later to the original trilogy)
There have been adaptations of this story to other media, of which the BBC production is probably the most famous. There is a website that talks about these stories including a page on the Touchstone pictures movie attempt a few years ago.While these are good stories on their own, I'm not sure they'd make good Hollywood plots for movies. The teenage boys would need love interests. The technology could be easily shown with special effects of today, but its likely to be reworked as a special effects extravaganza (which the stories were not). I can also see the stories being called derivative of V and sense that movie makers would have to make changes to distinguish themselves from that story. All in all, it sounds like the Tripod stories are better off if they aren't soiled by Hollywood to me.
I can't help but feel like this is a cash-in on the recent Spider-Man movie franchise's popularity. Both Spider-Man and Spider-Man 2 have done really well, and it seems to me like they are just trying to milk the superhero thing for everything they've got.
Of course, I'm willing to be proven wrong. Give me a good old-fashioned B - Popcorn movie with decent Special FX, and an interesting Trailer for the film, and I'll certainly be in line.
- Yolego
Cyclops is a complete dick? check.
Storm a shapely black woman that looks good in white hair? check.
Prof. X? Spot on.
Magneto? Maybe he could have found someone who didn't look as old/frail, but his acting was spot-on.
Jean Grey is all but carbon-copied from the X-Men comics I used to own.
The only casting choice I'd disagree with would be Rogue...
Actually, Lex originally had red hair - later on in the comics they brought that back when he cloned himself to fake his own death. Wouldn't mind a readheaded Lex.
And as for Lex - good to hear they're getting a solid actor. For some reason that role tends to attract the most spectacular performers (the Movie Lex and the L&C Lex were both excellent).
Well for one, I like the Smallville story. They present us a vulnerable, guy with problems like everybody else, who wants to hear about caped princes on their stallions to "fight for justice"? Way outdated. (Not that we don't need an idealist hero in this screwed up time, but we need a REAL one)
:)
But if they make a batman based on "Batman of the Future", yeah cool.
I remember reading the history of comics on a TV documentary.
(related history of comics link).
Comics are always made by people based on the time's moral standards and public expectations.
Like for example, the wonder woman was so popular in the time where women were seen as inferior. One day the guy decided to take away her powers, and the story sucked. Lotsa women protested against that.
And Flash Gordon. Always rescuing the girl. Because in that time, i don't know about you, but IMHO women just acted stupid and submissive.
Another example? Captain America. It was made in WW2. Everybody wanted to see Hitler smashed by capn's shield. Good ol' times when America was the REAL Iron fist of democracy. Is it a coincidence that the "Golden Age" of comics was from 1938 to 1945, just as the WWII?
So, in those days, superheroes were seen as Role models. "What I want my child to be". But now they're the escape of teenagers who can't find their own place. Look at the latest comic movies. Do they focus on the superpowers, or more on the personal problems and conflicts of the heroes (Spiderman, Daredevil)? And they're a hit.
So yeah, the script guys BETTER give us a good movie adapted to our current times, or we'll smash the reels on their faces.
[From "The Incredibles" trailer:]
Lucius Best: Honey? Where's my super suit?
Woman: What?
Lucius Best: Where - is - my - super - suit?
Woman: Why - do - you - need - to - know?
Lucius Best: [helicopter explodes outside] You tell me where my suit is, woman!
I'm very, very grateful that this film won't involve the services of McG. I saw the second Charlie's Angels film, which appeared to be the end product of a cinematic laxative. Afterward I had a good cry and kicked my dog.
If McG had ended up with the film, I probably would taken violent steps to Helen Kellerize myself, ensuring I'd never see Superman ruined.
Why did the original poster list him as "of Gilmore Girls"? If he had bothered to read the profile at IMDB that he linked (instead of just looking for a picture?), he would have seen that he was only on one episode of "Gilmore Girls", yet he was on the soap opera "One Life to Live" for two years and MTV's "Undressed" for another year. Unforunately, it seems most of you fell for this and are were immediately biased based on his one appearance on a WB show.
Don't know about you guys, but to me Reeve was a very big man not only being the best Superman there could ever be but also for the strength and incredible courage he showed when almost everything was taken away from him in that accident.
I checked in then and several times of the next few days, over and over again, to see any mention of it and a thread regarding his life and his fight for pushing technologies and research in the spinal areas, but alas no mention at all. It would not be an understatement to say that I did get quite emotional thinking about how he would not live to witness the fruits of all that will be discovered in the next 10 years.
So I guess I've finally found the thread to oust my disappointment with the editors.... Just to think that only the _new superman_ warrants mention when a _great one_ passed away. Bloody good one, mates.
ISO certified == THX certified
And we all remember how bulging spandesticles look, right? Right? ... I still have flashbacks, and my friends don't trust random things I IM them any more...
--grendel drago
Laws do not persuade just because they threaten. --Seneca
Personally, I think how Lex portrayed in Smallville is awesome. Rosenbaum does an excellent job.
At this point in Smallville, Lex hasn't gone completely Dark-Side yet. But he's still portrayed as dark and suave. Meanwhile, Lyonel Luthor is as evil as they come.
I'm from Norwalk, IA, and I've known Brandon since he was born. My mom called me with the news when she was in the room with his parents as they got the word from him. At first I couldn't believe it. There's no stinkin' way I know Superman! I babysat Superman! (I'm adding it to my resume). I went to church with Superman!
I can see why he got cast, given his small town roots and the director's desire for an "unknown". He's very humble and unassuming, yet he can step up and play stronger roles. In his early 20's, he did more slacker stuff (obviously), but I think it will work. Time will tell, I guess.
His sister is a "DJ" on an internet radio station.
I look forward to seeing him in this big-time role, in spite of the fact it's a "summer blockbuster" and those usually suck. He's a really good guy, and he's planning to never ride a horse ever again.
I'm Peggy.
For once, I'd like an OLD superman, who'd rather put his feet up and watch bowling.
And maybe for Lois Lane, we could have Courtney Love with a dye job. Or Margot Kidder. What's the difference, anyway?