Superman Returns Well, look at that....

[Kevin Roegele]

From AICN:

"Frank Langella got the role of Perry White due to Bryan's friendship with Gary Goddard, the director of the MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE MOVIE, which is where he first saw Langella."

 

[Silver Lad]

So?

 

[retconned]

If it's any count, Kate Bosworth got the role of Lois Lane because Kevin Spacey suggested her and due to his friendship with Bryan she got the part.

Just so everyone knows, Kate was the only girl to test for Bryan. So anyone who has a problem with Kate as Lois, there ya go.

 

[ROBOCOP CPU001]

i would have loved to see what DR house would have been like..

hugh laurie that is.

 

[retconned]

^Same Here

 

[skruloos]

If it's any count, Kate Bosworth got the role of Lois Lane because Kevin Spacey suggested her and due to his friendship with Bryan she got the part.

Just so everyone knows, Kate was the only girl to test for Bryan. So anyone who has a problem with Kate as Lois, there ya go.

Yes. But don't forget the facts that Bryan did view casting tapes for Lois from his own casting as well as from the previous failed iterations. It's not like Kate was the only contender ever.

 

[Spare-Flair]

This either proves that Bryan is narrowminded and prone to favors or favoring only his aquaintances or people he knows...

OR

THAT HE FRIGGING LOVES HE-MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE MOST POWERFUL MAN IN THE UNIVERSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Superfreak]

So?

so???

Langella played one of the greatest villains EVER in that movie. And he played it well. His skeletor (although the movie itself sucked donkey nuts) is probably one of the best live action heavily makeuped villains ever. I would even go so far as to say that his skeletor rivals vader for a quality villain of megalomaniac proportions.

 

[skruloos]

This either proves that Bryan is narrowminded and prone to favors or favoring only his aquaintances or people he knows...

I always find stuff like this funny. A lot of directors use the same crew or cast the same people but they hardly get flack for it. Scorsese and De Niro? Kevin Smith, Jason Lee, and Ben Affleck? James Cameron and Michael Biehn and Bill Paxton? Directors get comfortable with people who they know they can trust and they reward them by bringing them in again.

Also, let's not forget that while Singer was friends and worked with Spacey and Marsden, let us not forget that he previously did not know Routh, Huntington, or Posey.

 

[Steelsheen]

i would have loved to see what DR house would have been like..

hugh laurie that is.

yeah, i would've really wanted to see Laurie's version of Perry. i think he may have been a bit more effective than Langela given that Perry had little screentime, so when he's onscsreen the actor who plays him must give a stronger presence, like what Huntington was able to do with the Jimmy role.

 

[Mentok]

Lets not forget that he had to recast Perry.

 

[ROBOCOP CPU001]

Lets not forget that he had to recast Perry.

Nevah..

already mentioned it my friend.

 

[retconned]

Yes. But don't forget the facts that Bryan did view casting tapes for Lois from his own casting as well as from the previous failed iterations. It's not like Kate was the only contender ever.

I know that he viewed casting tapes, not only for Lois, but for Superman as well.

But the thing with the Lois Lane casting tapes is they consisted of women such as Keri Russell, Claire Danes, and Beyonce Knowles, and none of those girls really strike me as Lois Lane either. I just would have thought Singer would have brought in his own choices for the part outside of Spacey's suggestion of Kate Bosworth.

 

[Garzo]

Langella was awsomw as Dracula in probably one of the sexiest incarnations of the count ever to be put on screen. Langella's Dracula hit theaters in 1979, a year after Superman. John Williams scored both pics.

Langella's Dracula blows away most Dracula films, modern and classic.

 

[DA Harvey Dent]

Langella wasn't bad, but Bosworth was badly miscast. Look at the chemistry b/w Reeve and Kidder now compare that with Routh and Bosworth.

 

[Silver Lad]

Thats because Reeve/Kidder had screwball comedy and Routh and Bosworth didnt.

Routh and Bosworth were serious with each other all the time as Superman and Lois, due to the nature of the story. Maybe the nature of their relationship with change in the sequel.

 

[skruloos]

Thats because Reeve/Kidder had screwball comedy and Routh and Bosworth didnt.

Routh and Bosworth were serious with each other all the time as Superman and Lois, due to the nature of the story. Maybe the nature of their relationship with change in the sequel.

True. The characters were supposed to be at odds with each other and putting up false fronts. I thought that it showed pretty well in the film.