Superman Returns Man of Steel: The Official Brandon Routh Thread

[Man of Tomorrow]

The mods didn't tell me to leave, I can post there whenever I chose. In fact, I just did

I just stopped posting there because I made my point.

While there's absolutely no evidence to support the Welling thing, Routh is regularly brought up in media interviews with Snyder, has the support of the older WB brass, there's the rumor that Thomas Tull from Legendary wants him in Superman shape soon (AICN, Moviehole). Just now Moviehole posted an interview with Mike Dougherty (SR) and he says it's logical there will be studio discussions with Routh at some point, whether it works out or not.

For the time being, BR is relevant to this project, whether he will be involved or not. That's why this thread is here.

 

[Superark]

Here's the bit from Clint's interview with Michael Dougherty about Routh. Credit to www.Moviehole.net

Despite the disappointment in regards to the film, Dougherty has kind words for Brandon Routh, his film’s Superman, and believes there’s a possibility we mightn’t have seen the last of his Man of Steel. Regarding rumours that Routh may get another shot at playing the character in Zack Snyder’s “Man of Steel” (due 2012), Dougherty says “I’m sure they’ll talk.. at least I’d like to think so”.

 

[Lighthouse]

I'm surprised how little development went into an SR2 sequel. They didn't even have a general story figured out.

 

[DaneShobe]

^ Routh was the only superman in live action since 1987 yes he is seen as superman

Dean Cain and Tom Welling disagree.

 

[sf2]

I'm surprised how little development went into an SR2 sequel. They didn't even have a general story figured out.

exactly. and they were as clueless as us on how to deal with the 2 new elements; the superkid and lois's super goodguy fiance.

i'm a little pissed off reading his interview.

 

[SatEL]

Dean Cain and Tom Welling disagree.

Wait but but he is only playing Clark Kent , in truth this generations Superman is Welling. That's the person people acknowledge as Supes, not trying to stir up anything here folks just merely going by what I have seen.

 

[nintendo nerd]

Wait but but he is only playing Clark Kent , in truth this generations Superman is Welling. That's the person people acknowledge as Supes, not trying to stir up anything here folks just merely going by what I have seen.

Go back to your Smallville forums. Welling Fanboy.

 

[LastSunrise1981]

I'd love to see Routh get another chance. It wasn't his fault that SR was a disappointment and that he didn't have much to work with. Hopefully Nolan and Snyder do look into it.

 

[C. Lee]

Wait but but he is only playing Clark Kent , in truth this generations Superman is Welling. That's the person people acknowledge as Supes, not trying to stir up anything here folks just merely going by what I have seen.

Go back to your Smallville forums. Welling Fanboy.

Congratulations...you both now have two months probation for your Routh/Welling feud continuation.


Amyone else want to continue this nonsense?

 

[Micromind]

IS Nolan still involved in casting process ? He talked about how he admired Donner's casting a relatively unknown actor and surrounding him with big name cast in Superman The Movie, and he said something like He will try to do same for MOS.

Personally I don't think that WB will give Snyder absolute freedom in all aspects of the movie making process, They will want someone to guide him and that someone is most likely Nolan.

 

[echostation]

What's interesting is to see how Nolan exerts his more grounded or more real approach towards Superman... I really do wonder what they've been meaning by this?

 

[daywalker2007]

im afraid WB should give up. they simply aren't good enough to make even a barely passable Superman movie. Superman as a movie series is frankly, in my opinion DEAD, and has been since 1987.

The fact that WB were not happy with Superman Returns, even though it made them a profit, shows that have no business making movies about this character.

And in any instance, are we actually missing out on anything special by not having a new Superman movie?

To be honest, in today's crappy generation of film directors and producers, only a handful stand out, and even then, they are overrated.

I like Nolan and Goyer's writing. But have zero faith in Zack Snyder to deliver a Superman movie that will appeal to mass audiences.

It will almost definitely fail, and when it does, Superman is finished as a movie series for good.

They should just stick to the small screen, it works better.

 

[daywalker2007]

or maybe wait another 20 years when the superhero fad had died down a little.

 

[Daybreak_st]

im afraid WB should give up. they simply aren't good enough to make even a barely passable Superman movie. Superman as a movie series is frankly, in my opinion DEAD, and has been since 1987.

The fact that WB were not happy with Superman Returns, even though it made them a profit, shows that have no business making movies about this character.

And in any instance, are we actually missing out on anything special by not having a new Superman movie?

To be honest, in today's crappy generation of film directors and producers, only a handful stand out, and even then, they are overrated.

I like Nolan and Goyer's writing. But have zero faith in Zack Snyder to deliver a Superman movie that will appeal to mass audiences.

It will almost definitely fail, and when it does, Superman is finished as a movie series for good.

They should just stick to the small screen, it works better.

Even if it fails it won't be finished for good. It's Superman, he existed long before the Christopher Reeve films and he'll exist long after the Nolan reboot.

The characters and interpersonal relationships work better on the small screen because they have more time to develop organically but the big action sequences suffer as illustrated by smallville. If given a big enough budget though i wonder if you could do a really solid TV series. Like the budge for V for example. They do a solid job with the alien tech and whatnot so a TV with that budget may work well. I just think people wan to see him do things on an epic scale and i'm wondering if a tv budget could handle that on a weekly basis. The best bet is an animated TV series but that won't satisfy everyone.

 

[Antonello Blueberry]

im afraid WB should give up. they simply aren't good enough to make even a barely passable Superman movie. Superman as a movie series is frankly, in my opinion DEAD, and has been since 1987.

The fact that WB were not happy with Superman Returns, even though it made them a profit, shows that have no business making movies about this character.

And in any instance, are we actually missing out on anything special by not having a new Superman movie?

To be honest, in today's crappy generation of film directors and producers, only a handful stand out, and even then, they are overrated.

I like Nolan and Goyer's writing. But have zero faith in Zack Snyder to deliver a Superman movie that will appeal to mass audiences.

It will almost definitely fail, and when it does, Superman is finished as a movie series for good.

They should just stick to the small screen, it works better.

Well, they're shooting a sequel to Wolverine, a cool character, fresh from a successful run in the X-Men movie series, whose solo movie made less than Superman Returns.
Superman is a character who's been around for 70 years, changing with the world but still remaning the first and most meaningful superhero.
There are still hundreds of stories to be told; hopefully they'll choose one to your liking too.

 

[stargazer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inaavTw2Spw&feature=related

I still think Mary would make a really good Lois for Brandon's Superman on the big screen.

It's amazing how much Brandon resembles Superman. Best Superman/Clark next to Reeve for me.

 

[MechaOrga]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inaavTw2Spw&feature=related

I still think Mary would make a really good Lois for Brandon's Superman on the big screen.

It's amazing how much Brandon resembles Superman. Best Superman/Clark next to Reeve for me.

she is super cute but looks too young to play an established Lois but thats just IMO

i do think SR failed brandon in direction and script, but in all fairness, to take a chance on him again may be doing the character a disservice when lets be realistic,there exists far better actors out there than him.

it IS a shame that he looks more like superman now than he ever did in SR!!

 

[stargazer]

she is super cute but looks too young to play an established Lois but thats just IMO

i do think SR failed brandon in direction and script, but in all fairness, to take a chance on him again may be doing the character a disservice when lets be realistic,there exists far better actors out there than him.

it IS a shame that he looks more like superman now than he ever did in SR!!

I think Mary looks mature enough for an actor of Brandon's age and look.

And to me Brandon has the acting chops to do the character justice, so let's agree to disagree.

 

[MechaOrga]

im afraid WB should give up. they simply aren't good enough to make even a barely passable Superman movie. Superman as a movie series is frankly, in my opinion DEAD, and has been since 1987.

The fact that WB were not happy with Superman Returns, even though it made them a profit, shows that have no business making movies about this character.

And in any instance, are we actually missing out on anything special by not having a new Superman movie?

To be honest, in today's crappy generation of film directors and producers, only a handful stand out, and even then, they are overrated.

I like Nolan and Goyer's writing. But have zero faith in Zack Snyder to deliver a Superman movie that will appeal to mass audiences.

It will almost definitely fail, and when it does, Superman is finished as a movie series for good.

They should just stick to the small screen, it works better.

I sure many feel like you but i have some faith in this new film...

Look hiring Snyder is hiring someone who likes to put candy on screen aka like Bay...people, especially young boys love candy (wow that sounds creepy)

but what Bay doesn't have is a (hopefully) a cool story and great script (transformers 2 was racist IMO) like snyder does and a force of cinematic nature like Nolan in his corner (yes transformer)

i think we are gping to get a cool superman film.

Will it be the end all be all?

no.

but it will be cool.

 

[Micromind]

I would be happy if Routh is cast as Superman once again.

Only thing that most of the people who have seen SR remember now is the lead actor that played Superman, and some of them don't care who is Supes as long as he looks and acts like ther character, so to them it would not matter if he movie is a new begining or a reboot.

After Burton's Batman, the next Batman Returns was a movie that was independent story and not a sequel or continuation from the previous Batman movie as it was a stand alone story, no body was bothered then after that Val Kilmer played Batman and the director Joel Shumaker's take on the character was completely different than Tim Burton's again none protested back then.

So Routh retutrning to reprise the role will not be a big issue as some posters here are making that out, at least not to the general viewers.

 

[B]

While there's absolutely no evidence to support the Welling thing, Routh is regularly brought up in media interviews with Snyder, has the support of the older WB brass, there's the rumor that Thomas Tull from Legendary wants him in Superman shape soon (AICN, Moviehole). Just now Moviehole posted an interview with Mike Dougherty (SR) and he says it's logical there will be studio discussions with Routh at some point, whether it works out or not.

Without getting into a Welling/Routh debate with you, in a quote from a British tabloid of Snyder, he was asked about Routh specifically & he gave an answer indicating a couple of actors are purely under consideration for the part due to them having a good deal of internet suppport from fans.. Routh included.

Now this might mean Welling could be included in said list.. then again it might not as there are several popular actors amongst fans Hamm, Cavill, Hammer, Bomer etc. But given that his following is just as large if not slightly bigger than Routh's, given Snyder's answer & the fact he'd at least consider Routh, an actor from another incarnation, would it really be hard to believe that Welling could be amongst those few names?

My feeling/opinion is Snyder has either has a few actors already in mind for the part or that, at least Routh anyway, didn't originally fit the bill for what he is looking for in his Superman given the fact that I believe just after he was announced as director he kinda quickly distanced himself from the possibility of casting Routh.. either that or he wants to distance himself instantly from Singer's film.

Fan support might actually get an actor an audition, an invition for one or just a phone call it seems.. but will the support actually swing the directors opinion/preconception made beforehand regarding the casting of said actor(s)? Very doubtful..

 

[Man of Tomorrow]

Without getting into a Welling/Routh debate with you, in a quote from a British tabloid of Snyder, he was asked about Routh specifically & he gave an answer indicating a couple of actors are purely under consideration for the part due to them having a good deal of internet suppport from fans.. Routh included.

Why quote the British tabloid? As I stated before (and confirmed in the recent ZS interview) the tabloid was 100% false as expected. ZS never made a statement about any actors under consideration.

ZS' public stance right now is 'it's too early.' Brandon is continually brought up to him in interviews and he makes statements to that effect; that he's not thinking about casting right now. Whether that's true or false, only WB knows, but that's his public statement right now.

My feeling/opinion is Snyder has either has a few actors already in mind for the part or that, at least Routh anyway, didn't originally fit the bill for what he is looking for in his Superman given the fact that I believe just after he was announced as director he kinda quickly distanced himself from the possibility of casting Routh.. either that or he wants to distance himself instantly from Singer's film.

He definitely wants to distance himself from the films that have come before it in the film's story, that is what the Goyer/Nolan script requires as it is Nolan's specific vision/reinvention of Superman.

Casting is a different matter though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L302K1gDcQ

Brandon is bound to continue to be brought up in interviews with ZS and crew, I'm anxious where this goes in a few months.

 

[elgaz]

It will almost definitely fail, and when it does, Superman is finished as a movie series for good.

Are you a Superman fan at all? Sorry I have to ask, it's just that you're incredibly pessimistic about this film succeeding in any way that one would almost assume you don't even want to see a Superman film.

Most of us have every faith that the winning combination of Snyder (great visuals and movie experience) and Nolan (great filmmaking skills and storylines) will make for a memorable Superman movie experience

And even if it does fail - it's a bit of an exaggeration to say that Superman will be finished as a movie series for good.

Batman & Robin was about as woeful, cringeworthy, embarassing and lame a Batman movie as you could possibly make ............ but that didn't stop Batman Begins from appearing 8 years later.

 

[I Am The Knight]

I just saw Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. Pretty cool flick, and Routh was solid in it. It was cool seeing a super-powered Routh kick Cera's arse.

 

[BH/HHH]

I just saw Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World. Pretty cool flick, and Routh was solid in it. It was cool seeing a super-powered Routh kick Cera's arse.

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