Brandon Routh and Christian Bale.

[Julio Alejandro]

Routh and Bale need to be in it or else it'll be majorly pooped on.

 

[Texas Zombie]

personally I don't like brandon routh. he's not the best actor.

 

[Julio Alejandro]

He does a decent Reeve imitation though.

 

[Texas Zombie]

True, but reeve didn't have much to go with on his performance soooo. IDK. He should make his own superman. Should have been a new one from the start.

 

[Julio Alejandro]

Superman Returns was meant to be part of the old franchise though.

 

[Texas Zombie]

Yeah I know but they should have just restarted it.

 

[Julio Alejandro]

No argument from me.

 

[Texas Zombie]

I like the concept superman costume and godfall. They should try godfall.

 

[Julio Alejandro]

What is that?

 

[Texas Zombie]

google it. with some different coloring it could work.

 

[Julio Alejandro]

How about just make the emblem bigger like the original movie, and to hell with making it pop out.

 

[BATZARRO WWD]

I still don't think shoehorning two very different franchises into one altogether bigger franchise is a hard concept to sell. But I'd go in with an open mind, I guess.

 

[Texas Zombie]

They should stop it till BB,TDK,and B3 are out of the picture if they are going to have batman in it.

 

[GreenKToo]

maybe without brandon routh. well he kinda sucks. I don't like superman he is like a god. someone who is faster or who can stop time should just stab him in the heart with a kryponite knife. He's getting more and more strong and less and less weak to kryptonite, but someone should kill him during an eclipse maybe. like a normal person. P.S. would he be normal during an eclipse?

No. He's like a battery. He is constantly being recharged by the sun. He doesn't get weak at nite does he.

 

[Texas Zombie]

but at night the suns rays are reflected by the moon what if there are no sun rays?

 

[GreenKToo]

He has a charge from already being in the sun. Not sure how long it would last if he were separated from it. Days? weeks? not sure.

 

[Texas Zombie]

He sometimes become weak very fast other time he does not become weak at all. Maybe it is random because he is out in the sun for a random amount of time.

What does kryptonite do exactly. Does it absorb sun radiation and prevent it from helping superman? or what?

 

[GreenKToo]

From wiki.

Superman's cells absorb electromagnetic radiation from stars (like Earth's sun). Kryptonite's radioactivity interferes with this semi-photosynthetic process, driving the energy out of his cells in a painful fashion.

 

[Kevin Smith]

Only if A - Routh was older and B - both Bale and Routh were playing completely different versions of their respective characters, as in not the Singer and Nolan versions.

Guys, it just would not, could not, should not, and does not make any damned sense. Let's start with the obvious:

Routh is nearly 6 years younger than Bale and looks it. Batman and Superman are supposed to be the same age! If anything, Superman should be a couple months older, but a 30 something Batman with a 20 something Superman is complete ********. If there were different actors who were being cast like that, people would be flipping out! Bad casting.

Nolan's Batman does not work with the more sci fi and fantasy oriented JLA universe. Picture yourself watching The Dark Knight and then suddenly Superman or GL shows up. You'd be like "WTF?!". The JLA Batman needs to be one that's conducive to the rest of the DC Universe, now that doesn't mean "jokey" or "campy" as some *******s would put it, but he needs to be the DC Comics Batman, not the "Punisher" Batman of the Nolan films. Not only that but Nolan's Batman hasn't really been Batman that long, I'd say he's been Batman for 16 months maximum, while Singer's Superman must have been at the Superman career for at least 6 years, yet Singer's Superman is played by an actor who is nearly 6 years younger than the actor playing Nolan's Batman. Face the facts, folks, it just don't make sense. So even waiting till the Nolan series is finished, as some naive people have suggested, does not solve this problem.


Perhaps Routh's Superman and a different Batman would work, but even that still seems unlikely to me.

And, again, the Nolan Universe and the Singer Universe were not set up in conjunction with each other from the start, this isn't Iron Man and the Hulk here, people. You're trying to apply the Marvel Movie Method's casting to films that weren't meant to be intertwined in the first place. Had DC/WB been smarter about things, they could have had a game plan with the Batman and Superman franchises (along with the other DC heroes) set up in the same universe from the very start leading into a JLA film (Marvel Movie Method), but since they didn't set them up that way there is no way in hell that Nolan's Batman and Singer's Superman would fit into a JLA film. You guys have got the pieces from the Marvel puzzle trying to fit into the DC puzzle; they don't belong. Instead, DC/WB should work with what they've niavley set up and do a JLA film with a completely seperate Superman and Batman. Look, it's not like the lesser well known Iron Man, this isn't the first time an audience has been exposed to the characters, this is Superman and Batman - the first 2 superheroes ever, they're extremely iconic and recognizable, everybody and their grandparents is familiar with them in some form, they've been played by numerous actors hardly years apart since the forties, as long as they're good choices, nobody will care that they're recasted except for impetuous, small minded fanboys trolling the internet, who will piss and moan until they see the trailers.

So since you asked, recasting with GOOD choices is the logical, reasonable, and wise thing to do, dealing with how the folks at WB/DC decided to do their films in the first place.

 

[GreenKToo]

I've never minded a recasting of the two main roles myself. I know some here are dead set against it though. Especially the Batfans.

 

[04nbod]

He does a decent Reeve imitation though.

i'd rather he did a decent superman imitation myself

 

[smsvmos]

I would only Support Tom for Superman and Christian For Batman those realities fit better

 

[Julio Alejandro]

I agree Tom Welling is a better actor and I know he plays Clark on Smallville, but can you really picture him being Superman?

 

[GreenKToo]

It doesnt matter now. Like Showy said, I think TDK has changed EVERYTHING that was planned before. I once thought TDK's success would inspire W.B. to make more C.B. films but now, I doubt it.

Maybe W.B.'s satisfied with TDK and don't really feel the need to make more C.B. films at this time. Who knows. I do know that Marvel was all over their other film announcements after I.M.'s success. That's one thing about Marvel, they sure don't leave their fans hanging like W.B.

 

[Texas Zombie]

Maybe he could play supes. When is he gonna get an outfit.