Superman Set To Fly

arock99 writes "After many years of battling various script rewrites, Superman is set to soar again. Various sources (superman-v.com, darkhorizons.com, aintitcool.com) report that Brandon Routh (of Gilmore Girls) has been cast as Superman. With production only a month away, Brian Singer is set to tackle yet another super-hero film after previously having directed both X-Men and X2. Had it not been for his recent passing, Christopher Reeve would surely have been part of the production team in some capacity. Superman should hit theaters around summer 2006."

Brandon Routh Bio

[sofakingon]

Somehow I don't think this guy can do it:

Birthday: October 9, 1979
Birth Place: Des Moines, IA, USA
Birth Name: Brandon James Routh

Also credited as:
B.J. Routh
Brandon 'B.J.' Routh

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Notes

Born in Des Moines, Iowa and grew up in nearby Norwalk.
Attended the University of Iowa, and starred in many productions at the Norwalk Theater of Performing Arts.
Appeared in Christina Aguilera's "What A Girl Wants" video.
Enjoys playing basketball, biking, soccer and swimming.
His sister Sara is a singer/songwriter and a radio D.J.

News

October 17, 2004
Has Bryan Singer Found His Superman?
Brandon Routh is The Man Of Steel. We think. Probably.
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Crew Credits

Acting Appearances

Starring Roles
Undressed (1999) - Wade (Season 3)
One Life to Live (1968) - Seth Anderson (#1) (05/23/2001-04/17/2002)

Guest Starring Roles

Will & Grace - Sebastian - A Gay/December Romance (2004)
Cold Case - Henry Phillips ('64 - A Time to Hate (2003)
Gilmore Girls - Jess [as B.J. Routh] - Concert Interruptus (2001)
Odd Man Out - Connor [as B.J. Routh] - You've Got Female (1999)

Co Starring Roles

Oliver Beene - Brian - Dibs (2004)

Movie/Mini-Series/Special Roles

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Quick rundown:

His name is "BJ"
He was a regular on a soap opera
He was a gay guy on "Will and Grace"
He was a dancer in a Christina Aguilera video

How do you go from the above to Superman?
Someone please tell me cuz I've got a lot more under my belt than he does. I wanna be superman too!!!!

Picture of Brandon Routh

[CheesyPeteza]

Heres a picture of Brandon and a write up of him at Latino Review: http://www.latinoreview.com/scoops/brandon-superma n.html [latinoreview.com]

Re:Aince there is no pic at imdb

[Anonymous Coward]

Thats not Brandon, thats (KAMAR REYES) this is Brandon http://www.geocities.com/televisioncity/9779/pubga l/br2.jpg [geocities.com]

Re:Let's not be hypocrites

[Anonymous Coward]

Rubbish. The Superman project has been in development hell for something like 5 or 6 years now: it has gone through several incarnations and several directors. Nicholas Cage was rumoured to be in line to play the Big Blue Boy Scout, Wolfgang Petersen was going to direct Batman v Superman but dropped out to helm Troy instead, Brett Ratner was then attached to Superman for a long while (the Batman element was dropped when Chris "Memento" Nolan signed up to helm Batman Begins), Kevin "Clerks" Smith wrote a script which got ditched, then McG was mooted to take over after Ratner got dropped, before Singer signed up a couple of months ago. Not necessarily in this order. All this happened *before* Christopher Reeve's death.

Re:Brandon Routh?

[(SM) Spacemonkey]

Brian Singer has said all along he wanted an "unknown" to play Superman. Rumor is Kevin Spacey will be the bad guy.

Who the heck is this guy?

[Anonymous Coward]

"Who the heck is this guy?"

Funny. Thats pretty much what people said about Christopher Reeve back when they revealed him as Superman.

Re:Aince there is no pic at imdb

[wondermog]

Wow, the fact that someone would do a google search and post the first thing that pops up as evidence of someone they've never seen really surprises me. Actually it doesn't. Here are some other photographs of him.

http://www.geocities.com/televisioncity/9779/pubga l/pubgal2.html
http://www.superman-v.com/news/images/brandonrouth .jpg
http://soaphunks.net/routhb01.jpg
http://soaphunks.net/routhb02.jpg

Maybe Slashdot needs to leave the movie news to the movie sites?

Re:Bad taste

[Lisandro]

Of course, it was just a publicity stunt; the guy died in the comic allright, complete with special editions and stuff, but killing Superman would be just like killing Daffy Duck. You can't make a comicbook character die and dissapear, even less one like Superman.

IIRC, the Superman comics actually continued, but with a different storyline; something like "Son of Superman". Check this link [geocities.com]:

"Naturally, this would not be the end of the Man of Steel; after a number of stories in which Superman's friends and family deal with their feelings, it's discovered that his body is missing from his mausoleum, driving speculation that he might still be alive. Adding to the mystery are four new characters who each claim to be a new incarnation of Superman: a young, cocky kid with Superman's powers; a steel-suited African-American construction worker; a cold and vengeful hero who had taken over Superman's Fortress of Solitude; and a cyborg who half-resembled Superman and half-resembled the robots from the Terminator movies. After months of stories in which all four new Supermen worked and fought with each other, the one true Superman returns to claim his rightful place in the DC pantheon."

Anyway, i bought the comic when it came out. It worked on me, the bastards :)

Tripods?

[buckhead_buddy]

Just for clarification, are you referring to the series of Samuel Youd [wikipedia.org] childrens' books (writing under pen name of John Christopher) about alien invaders who ride in tripods and the young teenagers who still have free will (no pun intended)?

• The White Mountains
• The City of Gold and Lead
• The Pool of Fire
• When The Tripods Came (A prequel added later to the original trilogy)

There have been adaptations of this story to other media, of which the BBC production [bbc.co.uk] is probably the most famous. There is a website that talks about these stories including a page on the Touchstone pictures [demon.co.uk] movie attempt a few years ago.

While these are good stories on their own, I'm not sure they'd make good Hollywood plots for movies. The teenage boys would need love interests. The technology could be easily shown with special effects of today, but its likely to be reworked as a special effects extravaganza (which the stories were not). I can also see the stories being called derivative of V and sense that movie makers would have to make changes to distinguish themselves from that story. All in all, it sounds like the Tripod stories are better off if they aren't soiled by Hollywood to me.

Re:Don't know about that

[schpmock]

Lois Lane in "Smallville" [kryptonsite.com], you be the judge.

Re:Brandon Routh?

[danger_boy_13]

They approached the actor from Smallville, but he didn't want to do it.

Re:Kevin Spacey? Wouldn't that mean...

[Pxtl]

Actually, Lex originally had red hair - later on in the comics they brought that back when he cloned himself to fake his own death. Wouldn't mind a readheaded Lex.

And as for Lex - good to hear they're getting a solid actor. For some reason that role tends to attract the most spectacular performers (the Movie Lex and the L&C Lex were both excellent).

Re:Bad taste

[Pxtl]

Full body-covering armour. Couldn't see his face. Still, he was a massive black guy from Seattle so everyone could tell that he was black inside (he sounded like it). Basically people considered him a "spiritual successor". Then they had Shaq make an awful movie of the character ("STEEL").

Other replacements from the "reign" of the supermen: a very confused electrokinetic android, a sinister cyborg, and a teenaged "clone" who was actually just a very complicated genetic-engineering program designed to make a *human* that was as similar to superman as possible. Also, a drunken bartender named Bibbo, as comic releif. And eventually, an unpowered gunwielding hero who just happened to be the real thing, slowly recovering from his "death".

IIRC, the story resulted in the annihilation of Coast City, which is what eventually caused the Green Lantern to go insane and wipe out the entire Green Lantern army.

Re:Brandon Routh?

[Big Sean O]

To the _real_ old folks (like me), it's not Christopher Reeve, it's my man George [imdb.com].

Now that guy was Superman! He was an excellently wooden Clark, a sufficiently boy-scout Supes. Not too powerful but still the man.

Oh, and the 1950s series had the best Jimmy Olson and Chief as well. I'll give you Terri Hatcher as Lois Lane though, although I like the 40s Cartoon Lois [wikipedia.org] better.

Re:Brandon Routh?

[rednip]

Which TV series are you talking about? The Adventures of Superman [imdb.com] stared George Reeves (how's that for old) long before Christopher Reeve had the role. I am just old enough to remember a time before the last 'crop' of Superman movies (look up Superman on IMDB, hell, I didn't know there were so many titles), when the old 50's show was in heavy syndication. I saw the Lois and Clark (and for that matter smallville) as fair and worthy tellings of the Superman story. George Reeve was my 'first superman', I quess that since he was long dead by the time I saw the show, I am more open to other 'flavors' of the story.

Re:Brandon Routh?

[PalmKiller]

Brandon Routh

Acting Appearances

Starring Roles
Undressed (1999) - Wade (Season 3)
One Life to Live (1968) - Seth Anderson (#1) (05/23/2001-04/17/2002)

Guest Starring Roles

Will & Grace - Sebastian - A Gay/December Romance (2004)
Cold Case - Henry Phillips ('64 - A Time to Hate (2003)
Gilmore Girls - Jess [as B.J. Routh] - Concert Interruptus (2001)
Odd Man Out - Connor [as B.J. Routh] - You've Got Female (1999)

Co Starring Roles

Oliver Beene - Brian - Dibs (2004)

Movie/Mini-Series/Special Roles

Deadly -