Henry Cavill Cast As Superman

I didn’t like Superman Returns, but I did like Routh. A lot. I wish they would have given him serious consideration for this.

Have no idea who this guy is. But I’m not a Snyder fan so the whole enterprise is worrying. After the last one, one more failure could mean the end of Superman movies for quite a while, which now that I think of it, might be a good thing.

Tall. Check.
Wide chest. Check.
Black hair, blue eyes. Check.

In terms of look Superman is actually about as generic as it gets so I’m fine. Less specific than a Peter Parker or Captain America, in my opinion. I don’t watch the Tudors so I wouldn’t know how he ranks acting wise but he fits the bill as did Tom Welling (whereas Routh didn’t in my opinion).

I’m much more interested in the story/concept.

Plus he seems to be rocking the chin.

Cool, they actually cast someone who isn’t on a crappy WB show. Finally Warners shows some brains. And no upcoming teenybopper piece of shit like Andrew Garfield either.

I agree with you on most things but not the Wide chest part. I’m a former artist and one thing you learn about is proportions. Look at his head to chest ratio and you’ll see that he is quite narrow. This is not uncommon in hollywood and is in fact the norm but it can be overcome if he take the same approach as Chris Hemsworth then this can work because Chris has an average frame. Superman is listed as 6,3 240 in the comics. Both Routh and Reeves came in around 215 – 225. Both at 6, 2 – 6, 4 so this guy better hit the gym.

Physically, Joe Manganiello is much more apt for the role. As to his acting, I suspect we would have gotten a close variant of Alcide in True Blood. Save for the pseudo-southern accent.

Henry Cavill has the acting chops, but not the physique. He’d literally need to live at the gym with a mobile Testosterone IV (eye-vee) and HGH following him to every exercise station.

I don’t know… maybe I can be persuaded if they write several nude scenes for him…

I found Superman Returns to be pretty unbearable. The whole… having an illegitimate child with Lois Lane thing was absurd. And impossible by current continuity standards since Kryptonians and humans can’t breed. And how the heck was that script intelligent? It was mediocre at best. The plot was poor and generic. Lex Luthor is back again. Lex Luthor has Kryptonite. It’s the typical fall back for when people can’t figure out how to make Superman seem threatened.

Seems like a fine choice. He can act, which is the most important thing, as most fan casting comments tend to place too much emphasis on the physique, IMO.

Clark wasn’t Kryptonian when he and Lois slept together, so that has no bearing on it.

As for the child being illegitimate, he couldn’t have known that she was pregnant when he left Earth, not unless he used his X-Ray vision on her womb to see the egg split or the fetus develop (as much as it could have within days or weeks of conception).

People whine because Superman looked in on Lois, Jason, and Richard, yet they expect him to expose Lois’ womb to X-rays just to make sure he didn’t knock her up?

Before all the fanboys start whining about British actors playing “American” roles keep in mind Christian Bale is a Brit. Also if you nerds wanna get techinical about it Superman isn’t American, he is an illegal alien from another planet.

to bulk up he should talk to christian bale who went from the machinist to batman begins. he was practically 2d in the machinist and massive in batman begins. i’m just glad they cast someone with wavey hair, brandon routh’s straight hair and random spit curl really distracted me.

i’m a bit concerned with him being english (i’m english btw), but then robert downy jr was okay as sherlock holmes who is quintessentially english and hugh laurie does a pretty good american accent if you consider what he was like in blackadder or a bit of fry and laurie.

i shall reserve judgement until some low res, leaked images of stunt costumes hit the net.

I was just musing to my self how those actors from across the Atlantic are so good at sounding American.

If he wasn’t kryptonian, why did the kid have powers?

How tremendously racist of you!

It is a fact that he wasn’t Kryptonian at the time. Whether you saw the original version of Superman II in which Lara warned him that he would become human or the Donner cut in which it was Jor-El that did it, Superman became 100% human when he stepped into the crystal chamber that removed his powers.

That point is undebatable. It is one of the most important plot points of the entire movie.

Therefore, when he and Lois slept together, he was as human as she was.

As to why the kid had powers, who knows. That’s something that may never be revealed. I remember reading that Singer wanted to explore Jason White in more depth in the sequel, but that’s not going to happen now.

If anything, when Superman exposed Zod, Ursa, and Non to the radiation from the chamber and removed their powers, that should have guaranteed that the child Lois was carrying wouldn’t be born with super powers (it could be argued that it was what guaranteed that he didn’t kill her while he was inside her… think about it. Superman had powers the moment he arrived on Earth, and in Superman IV we saw a crib he broke apart when he kicked it, yet Lois was able to carry Jason to term), but he was in fact born with Kryptonian powers.

I think it’s possible that Singer was using aspects of the Byrne reboot (I’ve long considered that Richard White was Singer’s version of Byrne’s Clark Kent), so it’s possible that Jason devleoped his powers slowly, like the Post Crisis Clark did, through long-term exposure to the yellow sun instead of instantenously, like Pre Crisis/Pre Man of Steel Kryptonians did.

I find it funny that comic movies are suffering from the same things that drive me crazy sometimes about comic books: constant reboots, inconsistent characterization, etc.

So what would you prefer: either don’t make the movies at all (which is a legitimate response) or just want them to continue with the same actors and stories even though some of those stories (like Superman) are 20+ years old OR the actor/writer/director might not want to be involved anymore or the last movie just SUCKED…

Do you really see this guy playing the spineless version of Clark Kent from Birthright or Secret Origin? Both of them were derivative of the 60s, and one important thing Nolan has said about Goyer’s idea is that it’s something he hadn’t seen before.

Does anyone really think that Nolan never saw Donner’s movie? I think we can safely conclude, based on Nolan’s own statement, that if it’s something he already saw, then that something (and whatever may be derivative of that) played no part in Goyer’s idea.

In a lot of ways, Earth One was like Byrne’s Man of Steel, so those two versions would be a good source of material for the movie.

I’m pleasantly surprised. I’m not familiar with his work as an actor, I’ve seen him in a few things…i think?…I dunno but physically/overall looks certainly make him well suited for the part because he LOOKS like Superman/Clark Kent.

So far so good.

Superman losing his powers doesn’t make him any less Kryptonian. It just makes him a depowered Kryptonian who is still genetically incompatible with humans.

I really wasn’t that fond of secret origin. But in Birthright, Kent was anything but spineless. He was aggressive in his conflicts with the assassin in Africa and with Luthor. More in line with his current comic persona.

But I think you’re right in your assumption about Nolan’s statement. Which would be fantastic.

I think Routh did fine; I don’t blame him for Superman Returns.

There were a ton of things wrong with that movie, but I don’t think he was responsible for them.

All the best to Cavill. I would have pushed for Armie Hammer. After seeing him play two fairly different personalities who looked almost exactly alike in “The Social Network,” I have no doubt that he would have been a fine Clark Kent / Superman. A little shoe polish on the hair (like Reeve) and he would have been great in the part.

I’m okay with a Brit playing Superman, provided he can do a good American accent (which I’m sure Cavill can). I’d be more upset (and unaccepting) of an American playing James Bond, which would just be too much, and I’m American.

Hardly anyone even knew/knows who Andrew Garfield is, but now he’s teenybopper piece of shit?

And the WB doesn’t exist anymore, and hasn’t for years now, by the way.

What a fantastic choice! But couldn’t you have found a more flattering photo? This guy is H-O-T.