It’s A Bird, It’s A Plane…
…It’s…who the shit is Brandon Routh?
Well he is the Superman/Clark Kent character for the next Superman movie called Superman Returns, scheduled to be released in 2006 (which is good, since 2005 will probably be the year of Batman Begins, based on Frank Miller’s amazing Batman: Year One. More on Frank Miller some other day).
So where have we heard of Brandon Routh? I can’t believe you don’t know, he’s only been on freaking One Life To Live! Geez, thats my favorite soap opera (right after Passions).
I’m not too worried, not much anyway. I prefer the idea of a having a not-real-famous actor (Nick Cage & Tom Cruise wanted to be Supe, I’d rather not have them), especially since Routh was chosen by Bryan Singer himself. Why do I like Bryan Singer? This guy actually loves and respects comic books, thats tough to find. He did X-Men and X2, they went over pretty well with the comic book geekdom, hollywood-ized movies, but true in most respects to the original vision of the characters.
Another plus? The writers of Superman Returns, Michael Dougherty & Dan Harris, wrote X2, which also was well written (I preferred X-Men a little more personally, X2 was a little bit of “Wolverine + Rest of the X-Men” movie). As an aside, they’re writing the script for an Ender’s Game movie and a re-make of Logan’s Run. I really really must buy and read Ender’s Game soon, before the movie comes out definitely. Logan’s Run was a good sci-fi movie, for it’s time anyway.
The best plus? Superman Returns is set after the first TWO Superman movies. Yes people, part III & IV are being tossed into Hollywood history. Richard Pryor is now longer part of the Superman univerise, thank you Jor-El! Neither is Great-Wall-Of-China-Vision from Superman IV: Quest For Peace. Honestly, Great-Wall-Of-China-Vision, what the hell were they thinking?
The best-est plus? Routh was born in 1979…like me. So after I walk out of the theatre (notice the British spelling), I can imagine I’m from Krypton and scored with a hot Lois Lane type character. Of course I’m neither white, good looking, or from Krypton, but I don’t care jerk! Who says all Kryptonians are white, their planet revolves around a red sun, I’m sure they’ve got a nice tan.
Can’t wait to see General Zod again, I’m creaming my pants here people.
I just realized that a red sun means the star is getting closer to its end…so Kryptonians are probably pale as hell.
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Actually, don’t stars burn hotter as they near the end? Geez, so Kryptonians are probably quite tan.
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